Work 2.0 Conference Day 2

HAPPINESS AND POSITIVITY: A CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Amal Almutawa
09:30

Keynote panel: Corporate happiness: views and reviews from the experts

  • Exploring the benefits of workplace: happier workforces, productive teams and healthier business
  • Sustaining happiness and wellness through interactive programmes
  • Reviewing strategies and assessing the outcomes
  • Adopting agile processes towards happiness, wellness and culture
  • Uniting workplace communities through structured happiness programmes
  • Creating working environments where employees freely express themselves bringing high levels of creativity and energy
  • Aligning workforce happiness with the UAE's 'Year of Giving' and the global One Million Acts of Kindness missions
10:30

Networking break

10:40

Morning tea

11:20 Streams begin: attendees can visit any of the conferences below

FUTURE OF WORK

LEARNING@WORK

CO-WORKING

TOMORROW’S LEADERS

11:20

Organisational redesign in the GCC

  • Deciphering what organisational redesign truly is
  • Highlighting the difference between OD and OD
  • Examining the external and internal triggers
  • Exploring design models and framework: a case study
11:20

Panel: Remaining attractive as the war on talent prevails

  • Examining the evolving employer/employee contract
  • Attracting top global talent – looking the companies who are getting it right
  • Finding future employees via digital methods
Moderator: Dr Ahmad El Zein, Program Director MSC, International Hospitality and Tourism Management, Modern University for Business and Science
Mohamed Salem, Head of Talent, Culture & Communication, NAHDI Medical Company (NMC)
11:40

Organisational alignment and bottom line profits

  • Creating and managing a company culture in line with business goals
  • Making culture a priority for senior leaders   
  • Establishing core employee competencies designed to embrace and promote company culture
  • Integrating collaboration, empowerment and driving cultural change
11:40

Identifying and developing exceptional leaders

  • Using data evidence to identify potential leaders 
  • Developing an inclusive and wide-ranging leadership system
  • Considering culture and investment as priorities 
  • Nurturing the strengths, enthusiasm and potential of millennial leaders
12:00

Providing customised perks and benefits for the 2017 workforce and beyond

  • Applying emotional intelligence to create a company culture that attracts and retains talent
  • Offering compensation for all age groups, genders and ethnicities
  • Harnessing desirable employee benefits: unlimited holiday, flexible working hours, education, health insurance, exercise classes and healthy snacks
12:00

Refocussing leadership: transactional to transformational

  • Examining key leadership capabilities: collaboration, recognising the need for new skills and solutions, motivation, distinguishing succession qualities
  • Understanding the drawbacks: large investment, availability of leadership positions, retention
  • Evaluating the coach vs supervisor management models
12:20

Roundtables

Using diversity and inclusion to foster innovation and creativity

Identifying and retaining internal leadership talent

Benefits and rewards: what will attract and entice the next generation of workers

13:00

Networking lunch

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY LEARNING STRATEGY

14:20

Panel: The reimagined learning department

  • Ensuring increased learner engagement through mobilised learning opportunities and creative, innovative content
  • Remaining competitive as well as producing a stronger workforce
  • Promoting a culture of learning
  • Exploring integrated, practical and long term learning ideas 
  • Supporting your human capital needs
Ameya Ghanekar, Corporate Head – Learning and Development, Meydan Group
14:40

The ‘always on’ culture – supporting an employee-centric work environment

  • Exploring the demands and expectations of the 2017 workforce
  • Supporting the ‘always on’ culture 
  • Managing work/life integration and nurturing continuous engagement
  • Creating a sense of passion and purpose with a cross-organisational approach
14:40

Case study: The continuous learning model

  • Escaping static learning approaches
  • Allowing employees to have access to the learning opportunities they desire when they desire
  • Highlighting the methods for doing so
  • Monitoring engagement, success and ROI
15:00

Design thinking: implementation and integration

  • What is design thinking? How does it work? And what does it mean for business goals?
  • Reinventing core business structures and processes to meet employee needs and demands 
  • Fostering an increasingly innovative, happy and valued workforce
15:00

Social networking and your L&D strategy: maximising engagement

  • Using social media and social networking platforms to engage employees in learning at work
  • Using these methods for global and localised organisations
  • Discussing what could be expected in the future

COLLABORATION, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

REWARDS AND RETENTION

15:20

Panel: HR is becoming ‘people science’

  •     Equipping companies for the exploitation of people science – employing a data scientist
  •     Capturing data for smarter decisions and shorter project cycles 
  •     Evaluating data to achieve business results
  •     Aligning people strategy with business needs 
15:20

A Reformed and remodelled workforce: enhancing the employee experience

  • Creating a platform of HR services to increase usability and interaction
  • Reviewing modern compensation strategy and exploring the demands of 21st century workers
  • Methodology for optimum employee engagement
 
15:40

Move to Conference Room 1 for the final presentations

16:00

Emiratisation and the national perspective of work and health

  • Evaluating how far governmental initiatives are affecting the workplace in the UAE
  • Determining what attracts the nation’s brightest talent
  • Debating the importance of building a multicultural workforce in the UAE
16:20

End of conference day two

16:30

Complimentary yoga and meditation class

last published: 17/Oct/17 11:35 GMT