The People Revolution

You want to provide engaging learning experiences that drive true change. But without an unlimited timeline and an unlimited budget, what things can you do to effectively generate buzz around your learning and engagement programmes, make content accessible to your varied audiences, get people excited to attend events and make sure the effort sticks?

Join Matthew Prisco (Client Digital Transformation Lead) and Gavin Padden (Customer Success & Engagement Lead) from Hemsley Fraser, the learning experts, as they tell a “Sliding Doors”-like story of two organisations: One which falls into a number of typical (but avoidable) modern learning and development traps, and another that recognises how the combination of a strong, multi-point engagement strategy, the implementation of consumer-focused, beautifully-designed learning content, experience platform and services can vastly increase the likelihood of programme success… All without requiring hiring a team of hundreds or robbing a bank!

Who should attend:

All learning and development, talent and HR professionals responsible for employee development and engagement.

What you will learn:

• Techniques for creating the buzz for knowledge and collaboration.

• How to create blended experiences that satisfy today’s employee development expectations - anytime, anywhere, anyhow – whilst also engaging teams behind driving to achieve the goals of the business

• Successful approaches organisations are taking to embedding mind-set, behaviour and performance changes

Today’s businesses are faced with ever changing complex and competing forces. With 79% of CEO’s worrying about the availability of key skills*, how can HR leaders ensure that their talent not only meets these challenges but has the skills to stay one step ahead of the competition?

Our webinar deep dives into how the world of work has changed and why a Total Talent Acquisition approach supports both business and HR objectives, whilst providing organisations with the best access to the best talent.

Emma Hydes, Vice President - Client Development at Cielo Talent will explore:

• The External Landscape

• Why organisations choose Total Talent Acquisition

• Defining Total Talent Acquisition

• Operationalising the Strategy

*(Source: PwC 22nd CEO Survey (2019))

HR is fast becoming a key strategic partner to the business. As the function’s role changes it shouldn’t forget Employee Relations (ER).

There can be little perceived glory in maintaining positive ER, and getting it wrong can hit, well, everyone: managers; HR teams; employer brand and the business itself. To quote a HR Director at a leading UK retailer: “You get no thanks for getting ER right. Yet, if you get it wrong there are serious consequences”.

However, ER transformation could be a sure-fire way for HR to be viewed as a strategic partner. ER can bring labour savings through digitisation of processes or reduction in absenteeism costs with improved MI. All have a significant impact on the bottom line, as well as delivering people performance improvements.

Join Daniel Cave, Head of Content at HR Grapevine, Rob Williams, Commercial Director at AdviserPlus, and Ian Renwick, Employee Relations and Insights Manager at Flybe, who will discuss whether the risk of “getting it wrong” is holding HR leaders back from embracing all the benefit ER transformation can bring? And how can we ensure that transforming ER is understood to have greater reward than risk?

Who should attend

All HR and ER professionals who are considering how they can transform ER

What you’ll learn

• Tools for analysing the maturity of your HR function and ER service

• The common challenges and opportunities for HR leaders as they drive for transformation

• Where digitalisation of processes can deliver tangible and significant ER returns

• How you can build a business case for investment in ER transformation

• Practical examples of where organisation have successfully begun their ER transformation journey

BridgeCon is the only conference in Europe focusing specifically on employee development, employee engagement, skill gaps, career drivers, career paths, and other ways to ensure employees have opportunities so they stick around longer. Learn how to solve the most pressing talent management issues facing businesses today—all led by peers at companies that have faced and overcome similar challenges.

What to Expect:

Hear From Expert Speakers
Our speakers are handpicked from leading European organisations to share how they’re enabling their employees to do amazing things. 
 
Build Connections
Network with more than 200 like-minded HR and L&D professionals from across the UK and Europe who will come together at BridgeCon Europe. 

Share Knowledge
Learn from industry thought leaders on how they created effective employee development environments to grow their people (and, thus, how you can too).

The Business Show, which is sponsored by Yell, Dell & American Express is Europe’s largest B2B exhibition. The show attracts over 20,000 visitors from all over the world who are looking for new & innovative products and services, which will help them to maintain, grow & develop as a business.

The Business Show will be taking place on the 27th & 28th of November at The London ExCeL. They have 400 exhibitors from the likes of Cranfield School of Management, Intellectual Property Office and Your Business Community Ltd. As well as this, we have a great list of masterclasses, one of which is hosted by Barclaycard this year.

This November will see over 200 seminar sessions and our best keynote line-up to date take the stage for 2 days. Make sure you don’t miss out on this world-class event and register here for your free tickets today.

At a time when many workplaces and work practises have been radically changed by transformation, it can be easy to forget why: for the benefit of your people. At any moment of disruption, there can be difficulties. Employees many feel sidelined by change and employers can lose sight of why they're changing. As a result, the business can lose out.

Yet, this is not why change occurs. Often, it is to empower and engage employees so the business can become a high-performance organisation. When tweaks, or wholesale modification, is made to organisational design, communication practises, company culture, purpose, and even the profile of the people you want to hire, it is with better business function in mind.

To ensure that people are at the centre of any workplace revolution, it's time for HR to take the lead in empowering their people so they can drive better business performance.