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Corporate Learning is tailor-made for HR and business
professionals who are responsible for the training and
development of employees, the development of leaders,
succession planning and other organisational training
and development goals. Attend Corporate Learning and
enjoy full access to the 2-day Solutions Workshops
Register now: SG$799
Day One – 9 May ‘07
9:00am Opening Address
 9:15am
Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices
– Plenary Session
MR BOB TAN
Vice President, SNEF / Council Member, SBF
MDM HALIMAH YACOB
Assistant Secretary General, NTUC
The Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices
(TAFEP) was set up in May 2006 to encourage employers
to adopt fair and responsible employment practices.
HR Summit is honoured to welcome distinguished co-chairpersons
of the Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices,
Mr Bob Tan, Vice President, SNEF / Council Member,
SBF and Mdm Halimah Yacob, Assistant Secretary General,
NTUC to join in the panel session on Fair Employment
Practices. Together with other Alliance members,
this insightful session and panel forum will discuss
the key issues concerning fair employment practices-
why employers should adopt fair employment practices
and how they can improve their practices. |
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 10:00am
Team Building and Communication – Plenary
Session
EXPLOSIVE MINDS
HR Summit is delighted to be starting off with a
BANG – courtesy of the excellent Explosive
Minds! Prepare to be challenged and awakened in
this interactive session where HR issues will be
explored in a way you’ve never seen before.
Improve your company’s team-building and communications
whilst laughing until you cry as boundaries are
stretched and you are shown how to take corporate
communication to a whole new level. |
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| 10:45am
– Coffee Break |
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 11:15am
Resilient Leadership: How to Create High Performers
DAVID LIM
Chief Motivation Officer, Everest Motivation Team
A national study in the United States found that
less than half of employees surveyed felt they consistently
had enough energy to accomplish the tasks that were
important to them. Highly resilient employees experience
fewer of the physical and mental side effects of
stress: only 18% of employees with high resilience
reported feeling physically or mentally drained
at the end of the work day. These, and other studies
suggest that increasing resilience can help produce
high-performing teams, and leaders, whilst reducing
absenteeism and loss of enthusiasm at the workplace.
Join leadership coach, Everest mountaineer and author
David Lim in an entertaining and educational session
that will show you how to track resilience, and
raise employee effectiveness. |
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11:15am
Talent Management –Strategies That Succeed
JOHN F HANSEN
Director, Asia-Pacific HCM Consulting Solutions,
Oracle Corporation
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 12:00pm
How Coaching Can Support HR Development –
The Power of REN
EVA WONG
International Speaker
The focus of REN coaching is human. It does not
see people as limited and static. Instead, it sees
people as dynamic beings full of possibilities.
It focuses on developing human potential and is
dedicated to helping trainees see and move beyond
their self-imposed boundaries. REN coaching is also
a management skill that enables the realisation
of potential and helps improve performance through
the shifting of mental models. It can empower Human
Resources professionals with the capability to appreciate
one’s strengths and potential, thus enabling
the appropriate allocation of talent within the
organisation. With facilitating human potential
as the ultimate goal, REN Coaching enables HR professionals
to have a better understanding, and thus, the ability
to help in every aspect of an employees development. |
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12:00pm
How Incentive Programmes Can Attract, Motivate &
Retain Valued Employees
JANET TAN-COLLIS
Chief Executive Officer, East West Executive Travellers
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Solutions Workshops |
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 12:45pm
Succession Planning – Putting Processes Into
Practice
LYNDA LIAN
VP-HR, Singapore, China, Senai & Asia-Pacific,
Seagate Singapore International
In today’s fast growing market and rapidly
changing business climate, succession planning is
certainly a challenging issue faced by organisations.
As one of the veterans in the hard disc drive manufacturing
industry in Singapore and Asia, Lynda will be sharing
on the importance of finding a successor, implementation
of process and guides, how employee development
plays a crucial role in succession planning, as
well as tips companies can learn. Lynda has been
playing an instrumental role in the paradigm transformation
of Seagate’s HR operating model. Her experience
in sharing one of the important issues in HR will
definitely benefit those attending her session. |
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12:45pm
CHRO: Strategist & Steward – The Evolving
Role of The Chief HR Officer
JEFF SCHWARTZ
Principal, Global Organization & Change Leader
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| 1:30pm
Lunch |
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 2:45pm
Corporate Learning Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
ANDREW BRYANT
Director, Self Leadership International Pte Ltd
The ability of a company
to effectively learn is the only sustainable competitive
advantage. Human Resource professionals are faced
with the challenge of planning and providing effective
trainings for management and staff; unfortunately,
if corporate learning is measured by behaviour change,
then many interventions have little if any effect.
Andrew Bryant is known as a highly engaging coach
and trainer, and trainer of trainers and coaches.
He is a popular conference speaker because he can
make the serious humourous and the difficult easy
to understand. This interactive and informative
session will offer you a new mindset about learning
and its applications.
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2:45pm
Ensuring Business Success With the Right Human Resources
Processes and Technology
CECILE ALPER-LEROUX
Director, Global Human Capital Management Products,
Lawson Software Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
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 3:30pm
Talent Challenges for Libraries of the Future
DR N VARAPRASAD
CEO, National Library Board
Change is inevitable for all societies and organisations.
Librarians and other information professionals are
experiencing both excitement and trepidation as
sweeping societal changes impact their users and
institutions. Libraries all over the world are having
to transform their discipline and many are leading
by example by responding with adaptability, creativity,
flexibility and resolve. This inspiring presentation
by Dr N Varaprasad, Chief Executive of the National
Library Board will outline NLB’s own innovative
responses as well as the challenges in developing
the human capital necessary to effect these changes. |
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3:30pm
Talent and Recruitment Solutions
(Panel debate & discussion)
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Solutions Workshops |
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| 4:15pm
Coffee Break |
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 4:45pm
The War for Talent: Honeywell’s Differentiated
Strategy for Talent Retention and Development
SHRIKANT LONIKAR
Global Director – Organisation Development
& HR, Honeywell Technologies, India
Shrikant Lonikar will be sharing the strategies
that have been designed and executed in the areas
of attracting, retaining and developing talent.
His presentation will include numerous examples
that help Honeywell (one of India’s largest
employers) to get the best from the talent pool
and how it keeps them constantly motivated and engaged. |
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4:45pm
International Assignments on the Rise - How Does
This Trend Impact You
HELENA DU
Managing Director, Weichert Relocation Services
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Solutions Workshops |
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| 5:30pm
End |
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Two – 10 May ‘07 |
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9:00am
Opening Address
MR LEE KOK WAI
President STADA |
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 9:15am
One Billion HR Headaches: CHINA CEOs Share Strategies
for Recruiting and Retaining
LAURIE UNDERWOOD
Author of CHINA CEO
The single most-named challenge for China-based
CEOs from Airbus to Coca Cola to Unilever is:
recruiting and retaining professional staff. In
this high level session Laurie Underwood will
share her many insights regarding:
Recruitment Challenges:
• Shortage in white-collar
employees = #1 problem for international companies
• Impacts all industries
• Worsening problem
Business Results:
• Missed growth
targets
• High turnover (20 – 30%)
• Poaching (and paranoia)
• Unrealistic expectations for “fast-track”
careers
CEO Strategies:
• Training (if
you can avoid pitfalls)
• Fast-tracking while face-saving
• Pick your battles
• Over hire as a hedge
• Hire young, train up
• Slower is sometimes better
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9:15am
K C YAN
Regional HR Director, Freescale Semiconductor
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Solutions Workshops |
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Investing & Developing Human Capital in Singapore
Airlines
LOH MENG SEE
Senior Vice President - Human Resources, Singapore
Airlines
A unique inside view on the principles, philosophies,
methodologies and approaches to training and developing
the people in Singapore Airlines towards service
excellence. HR Summit is delighted to welcome a
rare and exclusive presentation from Loh Meng See,
Senior Vice President – Human Resources, Singapore
Airlines. |
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10:00am
Strategy Implementation is the Differentiation:
Where the HR Function Can Play a Part
ONG TEONG WAN
Consulting Partner, Singapore Institute of Management
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Solutions Workshops |
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| 10:45am
Coffee break |
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 11:15am
Organisational Learning - Staying Current &
Preparing for the Future
S V SHIV SHANKER
Head of Organisational Learning, Asia, Standard
Chartered Bank
• Making learning a distinctive advantage
and building commitment in the organisation in creating
the learning culture
• Alignment with business in terms of strategy
and content through effective engagement with stakeholders
• Identifying the gaps in the organisation,
developing and executing learning solutions and
managing the learning in the organisation and evaluating
effectiveness
• New Learning models to meet the demands
of the business
• Scalable learning delivery models to reach
the larger population efficiently. Minimise barrier
between learning and work
• Provide a clear framework for individuals
and managers to understand capabilities required
for their current and future roles
• Aligning learning options to capabilities
and make it easily accessible to the employees
• Role of Organisation Learning in developing
the right learning solutions, and executing the
learning solutions and supporting the staff to build
the required level of capabilities
• Explore, develop and introduce new learning
methods that are relevant to the future operating
environment
• Organisation Learning needs to change the
way it executes its roles: old paradigm vs. new
paradigm
• Types of learning content, learning delivery
method and the direction for the future of Organisation
Learning
• New learning management systems and technologies
that will support the new future learning methods.
• Building Governance framework to ensure
consistent standards in learning
• What will the success look like for Organisation
Learning in future
• Case study – Standard Chartered Bank's
journey towards building the learning Organisation |
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11:15am
HR Challenges Panel
(Panel debate & discussion)
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Solutions Workshops |
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 12:00pm
The Nine Success Areas for Global Managers
FRANK KUIJSTERS
Director, Digne Consult, Asia-Pacific
In this interactive and rewarding session, Digne
Consult presents the seven success areas for Global
Workers (Managers): "leadership", "co-operation",
"workload management", "energy management",
"communication", "social support
system" and "personal style and qualities".
Although Global Workers (Managers) are well-skilled
and well-experienced, it does not give a guarantee
for their success working in a global business environment.
When Global Workers (Managers) lack local experience,
they have to invest a considerable amount of time/
energy before being able to deliver business results.
Understanding local business protocols, customs
and manners are essential keys for being successful
in an international environment. Global Workers
(Managers) usually are insufficiently prepared for
these challenges. Basic rule is to work hard(er),
retry after failure and re-establish contact after
mis-communication; simply: not to give up. This
trial-and-error approach comes at a cost: sub-optimal
co-operation with local workforces, stress and personal
ineffectiveness. Bottom-lines these explicit and
these implicit facts will affect the business results
effect bottom lines. |
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| 12:45pm
Lunch |
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 2:00pm
Moving Towards Competency-Based Training with
the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications
System
GARY WILLMOTT
Deputy Chief Executive, Singapore Workforce Development
Agency
With Dr Willmott’s extensive experience
in the establishment of integrated national training
systems for adult learning and education, he will
explain how to create a successful world-class
workforce, and also to improve your business’
and workers’ competitiveness and effectiveness
in this ever-changing market with the implementation
of competency-based training within your organisation.
During this session, Dr Willmott will share with
you the following:
• What is competency-based
training?
• Why shift to competency-based training?
• Developing competency-based curriculum
in your workplace with the WSQ
• Overcoming common challenges to implementing
competency-based training
• International and local case-studies
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2:00pm
Benchmarking – Employee Satisfaction
DR BRENT RUGE
Managing Director, ISR
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| 2:45pm
Coffee Break |
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3:15pm
CATs and The FISH Phenomenon
STEPHEN LUNDIN
International Speaker |
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 4:00pm
– Special Extended Plenary Presentation*
Cats and The FISH! Phenomenon: Rediscovering the
Bold Simplicity
of Our HR Mission
STEPHEN LUNDIN
International Speaker
CATS
The purpose of CATS is to organise and present the
most powerful principles of personal innovation
in a way that makes them useful for everyday human
beings going about their daily lives with a desire
to be more innovative.
It’s all about curiosity. Curiosity is a trait
celebrated in people and in cats. Curiosity is also
the very cornerstone of innovation. Cats may be
attracted to nooks and crannies that seem pointless,
but could you imagine innovation without a human
being who said to herself, “I wonder what
would happen if?” It is said that curiosity
killed the cat. Have you ever seen one die of curiosity?
The Nine Lives of Innovation have been developed
to provide a structure to a rather diverse set of
ingredients that make up innovation. By accessing
the potential of any one of the nine lives we boost
our personal ability to innovate, even though all
around us there are forces trying to kill our curiosity.
And at work the curiosity killing forces multiply
and we can greatly increase the odds that innovation
will occur at work there by living the nine lives.
And once we live one of the nine lives we can proudly
call ourselves a CAT!
The
FISH! Phenomenon: Rediscovering the Bold Simplicity
of Our HR Mission
The FISH! Philosophy captured in book and film
has sparked what might be called the largest natural
experiment in the history of human resources.
All over the world, individuals, teams and organisations
have rediscovered the importance of HR in establishing
a great culture, creating higher levels of morale
and motivation, improving efforts to recruit and
retain talent and producing a higher quality of
life at work. While the provocation that provided
the initial spark for this rediscovery was a group
of fish mongers behaving like buskars; the FISH
stories of everyday folks like you and me have
kept the fire burning. In healthcare it has been
likened to a positive staff infection. Dr Lundin
will trace this story from its diverse beginnings
to today’s global phenomenon and while doing
so, will inspire those of us who choose human
resources as our vocation in life to a clearer
understanding of our considerable contributions
to the world.
5:30pm End |
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