FREE WORKSHOPS

Day 1: 28 April 2010

10:00-10:45am
Developing positive workplace relationships
Presented by: Relationships Australia

In this workshop you will discover what helps build strong and effective working relationships in a corporate environment and improve your ability to recognise and respond to issues before they develop into problems. The workshop will be practical and hands on - with opportunities to apply skills and learning to your own workplace. The overall aim of the workshop is to demonstrate how a proactive approach to workplace relationships can deliver real results to a business and its people.

Lyn Fletcher, director of operations, Relationships Australia NSW

2:00-2:45pm
Engage your people for the upturn
Presented by: RedBalloon

To be competitive in this economic climate you need to engage your employees so you are ready to take on the upturn. In this workshop you'll hear how having a focused team of engaged employees brings commercial return for your business. Learn from RedBalloon's strategies in building an award winning company with an employee engagement score card of over 90% two years running from Hewitt (the average in Australian businesses is 54%). Hear what RedBalloon has put in place to create a great culture and the five steps that have delivered success for RedBalloon.

• Determining whether employees are ‘attached’ to an organisation (what does it mean and why is it important)
• Understanding the process of an employees’ logical connection to a business
• Defining emotional connection and what drives it
• Experiencing employee brand connection – your people as advocates of your business
• Recognising contribution – making people feel like winners

Naomi Simson, Chief Experience Officer, RedBalloon

2:45-3:00pm
Talent attraction, assessment and early retention - ROI on talent spend a "must hit" corporate objective!
Presented by: Jobwire

As the GFC disappears over the horizon and talent shortages re-appear employers must change to excel in the new talent market or risk restrictions to the success of their businesses.
This interactive workshop will enlighten and excite all levels of HR professionals through to CEOs.  Attendees will take away actionable learnings that will help ensure leadership in the talent market for your business.
We will investigate real world examples of leading talent attraction methodologies, explore trends in talent assessment strategies - science, art and automation - and study on-boarding do's and don'ts.

Jeff Thompson, CEO, Jobwire

Day 2: 29 April 2010

10:00-10:45am
Middle management – The missing gap
Presented by: UNSW Global Workplace Training

This interactive workshop will help HR managers understand the crucial role of middle management in aligning HR objectives with business strategy.
Learn how to coach middle management to reach their performance benchmarks and make a solid contribution to the bottom line. 

Neville Walter, group executive, business development and marketing, UNSW Global Training

2:00 – 2:45pm
The landscape for attracting talent has changed forever
Presented by:  JXT Consulting

Job Hunters favour search engines as the #1 way to search for jobs!
- Discover the fundamental shift in Job Hunter behaviour and learn where 86% of job seekers are looking for their jobs online
There are currently over 50 million job related searches a month on Google in Australia
- Understand how search engines are effectively the world's largest job board
Most job ads posted on companies' websites are invisible to these searches
- Learn how to ensure your companies job ads are visible to the largest pool of job hunters
Automatic integration across Social Media Networks (facebook, twitter & linked in)
- See how easy it is to integrate with Social Media Networks and tap into this ever growing pool of passive job hunters
Reduce your advertising spend on job ads and increase the quality of your applications
- Learn how to significantly increase the job hunter traffic to your own website thus reducing your reliance on external advertising

Glenn Davies, director-talent acquisition, JXT Consulting 

Note: The workshops are FREE TO ATTEND and run concurrently to to the Main Conference and Directors Forum