The Summit brings together key personnel, thought leaders, academics, HR practitioners and leading HR service providers. It provides an unparalleled platform for HR professionals to access leading programs and key knowledge to advance their own work and careers.

The Summit will offer presentations, Interactive  panel discussions, case studies and workshops by top industry professionals, consultants and academics. Learn about emerging challenges and development strategies in the Human Resources industry and achieve greater business results.

The focus of this event is firmly on providing you with workable strategies and solutions that you can implement for improved real-world performance.

Summit overview and summary

With the ever changing environment and around the globe political, economic and social conditions are impacting HR strategies leading to new and also innovative thinking to keep abreast of developments and best practices. Its not enough to just keep ahead you need to think fast and proactively, especially when dealing with such global issues as economic crisis, conflicts, economic slowdowns which effect currency and globalization. Together with merger and transformation, takeover issues and expansion strategies.

Today’s HR Director needs to be on top of Engagement, Talent acquisition, Motivation, Leadership development, their overall HR effectiveness and Change Management strategies that are crucial to success.

Highlights

• Effective leadership strategies with your corporate goals to maximise corporate and people performance.
• HR and dealing with the change in the economy and motivation tactics including employee retention
• Explore the best ways to grow business through talent management and the HR strategy that leeds to company growth.
• How to effectively gain buy in at all levels securing trust and motivation.
• Find the best way to identify and acquire your talent; how to start the talent management process; creating the right definitions of what talent means for your company; and how to manage and act on results.
• Explore best ways to engage your staff. Employees who feel that they are a part of the business and understand more importantly the corporation’s goals are more willing to commit and deliver their working best to achieve those goals.
• How to implement Change Management and best practices for a secure strategy of change, including understanding the key drivers to pull to deliver sustainable change within the organisation.
• Improve your Retention and Succession Planning – the vital keys needed. Key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of your business. Learn how to affect a good retention and succession strategy.
• How to make sure you deliver effective leadership strategies. Learn how to increase your business effectiveness by using these no-fail strategies to improve communication in your organisation.

Click here for further information and to obtain your ASPEL discount remember to add this Promo Code in the Request for Further Information Form: A12ASPEL

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Quora is not exactly new – it opened to the public (by invitation only) in June 2010, but it already has around 500,000 users – why is it gaining ground in the crowded social media space so quickly, especially since it was so difficult to access?

The key lies in two main reasons:

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One advantage of joining Quora is that you don’t have to be jumping around from one website or forum to the next – almost all the topics a Learning Professional could be interested in can be found in the one site. So, for example, I found discussions on Leadership Development, Leadership Training, elearning, Virtual Worlds, Website construction and so on.

Another advantage is that like Wikipedia, Quora is considered by the search engines as being ‘high authority’, so any response you write will not only be noticed within Quora, but will also be noticed by Google, Yahoo, Bing amongst others (your response to a question could even make Google Page one!). This will support your visibility as a Learning professional to the wider world.

And, of course, if you have a question that you want answered, it’s a good place to start!

If you are a Quora user already, what do you think of it?

If not, and you are faced with the ominous ‘Access by invitation only’ then drop me a line in the comment box below, providing some evidence of your status as a Learning professional (a website, LinkedIn profile etc) and I’d be happy to send you an invitation to join Quora