Directors Forum
Directors Forum agenda
8.00am - 8.30am Registration and breakfast reception
8.30am - 9.00am Networking breakfast
9.00am - 9.10am Opening remarks from the Chair
9.10am - 10.00am Talent shortage driving business transformation
- Explore new and novel ways to combat the talent shortgage, including 'virtualisation', work redesign, mass career optimisation, cooperation and innovation
- Evaluate how the biggest and most successful organisations are responding to talent shortages
- Gain the tools that you need to meet the talent shortage with a significant and structured response
Lisa Barry, national practice leader, Human Capital, Deloitte
10.00am - 10.40am The role of HR as executive business partner
- Identify the strategic drivers of your business and what those drivers mean to your organisation (and you)
- How strategic HR management can increase revenue and improve operations (and how you can prove it)
- Develop a commercial focus so that you can produce positive outcomes for key stakeholders, employees, line managers, customers and investors
10.40am - 11.00am Morning break
11.00am - 11.50am Leadership development: Building a pipeline of future leaders
- Hear about GE's successful leadership development programs and interventions
- Find out how GE's leadership development programs have positively impacted the organisational culture
- Explore strategies to identify leaders that can potentially transform your organisation
Jim Nolan, vice president HR, General Electric
11.50am - 12.40am The 7 drivers of highly engaged organisations
- Get clarity on the vital seven engagement drivers that really count, and what to do about them
- Identify new innovative solutions used by best employers to engage employees simply and easily
- Reverse the 'whinge/entitlement culture' and replace it with a self-responsibility culture
- Learn how to provide scalable, flexible, easy to implement systems for creating a sustainable win-win culture
- Learn how to deal with the 'more with less' vicious cycle
Ian Hutchinson, CEO, LifeByDesign, author and lifestyle strategist
12.40pm - 1.40pm Lunch
1.40pm- 2.30pm HR strategies in mergers & acquisitions
- Discover how to overcome difficulties in attracting talent during and after integration
- Find out how to sensitively and pragmatically manage redundancies
- How to retain high performers (or anticipate and plan around their departure)
- Hear successful ways to manage cultural change
- Align the transaction with your organisational values
Jane Thomas, head of people and culture, AGL Energy
2.30pm - 3.00pm Directors' legal checklist for mergers and acquisitions
- Standardising contracts and benefits
- Under-estimated compensation & benefits exposure
- Unforseen legal exposure and intellectual property issues
- Identifying threats and opportunities
- Integration considerations and lessons learnt from previous transactions
3.00pm - 3.20pm Afternoon break
3.20pm- 4.00pm Executive remuneration in Australia: Managing in a changing environment
- The current remuneration environment
- Accounting, regulatory and market developments in executive remuneration
- Australian public company practices
- The link between executive performance and reward
- Emerging trends in executive remuneration
Bruno Cecchini, partner, Human Capital, Ernst & Young Australia
4.00pm- 5.00pm Workshop: Political intelligence
- What is political intelligence and positive organisational politics?
- Test your political intelligence skills
- Understand the relationship between power and politics
- Increase your political skills to influence positive politics in your organisation
Fabian Dattner, partner, Dattner Grant
5.00pm Chair's closing remarks and end of conference
5.00pm - 6.00pm Cocktail function and speed networking
Speed networking is the new, exciting and highly productive way to meet your fellow delegates and industry leaders - all in the one place! Maximise the value of your time at the HR Summit and capitalise on this opportunity to meet morepeople in a one-hour session than you could anywhere else. Use this fun and fast-paced session to exchange business cards, set up meetings, and initiate profitable business relationships.
Facilitated by Jen Harwood, CEO, Direct Incite
