DAY 1: July 26th, 2010
Registration/Breakfast: 7am to 8am
Keynote Address: Geneva Musau, Director of HR & Administration, ZAIN Ghana 8.00am-8:30am
General Session 1: 8: 40am – 10:10am
What Every HR Leader Should Know About Strategic Planning
Workplace Application: In this workshop, you will learn about strategy: what it is, how to build it, and the pitfalls to avoid.
For HR leaders to gain the ear of senior executives, we must be able to speak and understand strategy. In this highly interactive and engaging session, the presenter delivers to you The Drivers Model—a roadmap for building strategy that demonstrates the critical difference between mission versus vision, goals versus objectives, values versus guiding principles, and critical success factors versus strategies.
Networking Session: 10:10am-10:30
Concurrent Session 2: 10.30 am –12 pm
Employee Benefits: Just How Competitive is Your Company?
Workplace Application: This interactive session will give you 10 strategies that will help you better manage your employee benefits so that you can remain competitive, and recruit and retain the best talent.
Employee benefits are consistently ranked among the top reason that employees stay with a company. What are the most common employee benefit offerings? How does your company stack up in comparison to other companies? What’s the future outlook on employee benefits, and what do you need to do to prepare your organization to stay competitive? Find out what companies are doing and plan to do regarding employee benefits.
Presenter: Senyo M. Adjabeng, CEO, Corporate Aims Services.
SESSION 3
Concurrent Session 2: 10.30 am –12 pm
Securing the Future: Taking Succession Planning to the Next Level
Workplace Application: This session will prepare you to execute five strategies for a succession planning process.
Some organizations wait until a key office is empty before discussing succession planning. Others have future leaders pass on opportunities or, worse, fail miserably in new roles. Using real-life examples and practical tips, the presenter will pinpoint the elements that can turn succession planning from just another HR exercise to a sound business practice.
Presenter: Materson Armah, HR Director, Ghacem Ghana Ltd
Lunch 12pm-1:00pm
Concurrent Session 4: 1 pm -2.30 PM
Get More Work From Fewer People: Without Making Them Hate You or Quit
Workplace Application: This session will give you tools and techniques to boost employee productivity, so you can accomplish greater results with fewer people, while avoiding burnout and turnover.
Increasing employee productivity is critically important, especially if your organization has been downsized, and people have more work to do within a lower budget. HR professionals must help employees spend time productively toward the accomplishment of organizational goals and focus on key priorities. You will learn how to boost personal, departmental, and organizational productivity in today’s lean and mean workplaces and increase headcount equivalent without increasing salary expense. Essential for those who are responsible for improving productivity and achieving greater results with fewer people
Presenter: Ayodele O. Jaiyesimi, Head, Human Capital and Development Management, First Bank of Nigeria, PLC
Concurrent Session 5: 1.30pm-2:30pm
Communicate Despite the Obstacles: Engage Employees with Efficient and Effective Communication
Workplace Application: This session will help you capture employees’ attention by providing strategies for effective communication (even if you lack time and budget).
Today’s challenging economic climate makes it even more difficult to reach employees with critical communication about pay, benefits and other HR issues. And the challenge is made greater by the fact that time, budget and resources are all in short supply. But there is a way to engage employees and encourage them to take action, and this interactive session will show attendees how, offering 5 strategies for effective and compelling HR communication.
Presenter: Dr. Tosen Eyitsede
NETWORKING SESSION/REFRESHMENT: 2.30-2:45pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 6 2:45PM-4:15PM
INDUSTRY FOCUS:
Best Practices in Human Resources Round Table is an interactive session that provides the opportunity for participants to learn from one another. This is a great opportunity to benchmark your best practices with that of the competitor.
Facilitator: Victor Madubuko, PHR. Chief Executive Officer, CareerNation USA
SESSION 7
Concurrent Session: 3pm-4.20pm
ENERGY, IT & TELECOMUNICATION:
Human Resources best practices in Telecommunication
SESSION 8
Concurrent Session: 3pmpm-4.20pm
FINANCE/INSURANCE & BANKING:
Human Resources Best Practices in Banking & Finance
SESSION 9
Concurrent Session: 3pmpm-4.20pm
HEALTHCARE/GOVERNMENT/NON-PROFIT/EDUCATION
Human Resources Best Practices in Government/Non-Profit, and Education
SESSION 10
Concurrent Session: 3p-4.20pm
HOSPITALITY/RETAIL/TOURISM
Human Resources Best Practices in Hospitality/Retail/Tourism
SESSION 11
Concurrent Session: 3p-4.20pm
ENTERPRENUERS/CONSULTANTS All presented by Victor Madubuko
Conference Debrief: 4.15pm-4.30pm.
DAY 2: July 27th, 2009
REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST: 7am to 8.00am
General Session 7
Advancing Your Career Through Mentorships 8am-9.45am
Workplace Application: This session will demonstrate the importance of mentorship’s and as well provide information on what makes mentorship successful.
Whether you are the recipient or provider of mentoring, you can reap multiple benefits to advance your career. Mentees can develop important “for life” relationships to enhance their career/personal life. Mentors can enhance their coaching skills, hone their interpersonal skills, and “give back” to the corporate community. This practical session will include qualities of good mentorships, developing and maintaining the relationships, tactics for mentors/mentees to maximize participation and signs of derailment.
Presenter: Eva Richter Addo, Head of HR, Zenith Bank Ghana Ltd
Networking Session/Refreshment 9.45am-10am
Concurrent Session 8
Dealing with Negativity in the Workplace 10am -11.45am
Workplace Application: This session will teach you how to turn negative attitudes into positive behaviors, and problems into opportunities.
Not only do problem employees perform poorly, they make it tough for everyone else to do their jobs, too. You’ll learn why people have bad attitudes and explore ways to head off conflict and confront people about their bad attitudes. Armed with information you gain from this session, you’ll be on your way to finding win-win solutions that will have you and your colleagues working effectively—together.
Presenter: Mr. Henry Atta Paidoo
Concurrent Session 8 10am -11.45am
Developing a Strategic Mindset: How To Become a Trusted, Strategic Advisor
Workplace Application: This presentation will teach the techniques and processes to increase the personal impact you have within your organization, and to help you become trusted strategic advisors.
Getting to the table, being a trusted strategic advisor, and getting the boss to listen are personal and professional goals sought by most HR managers and leaders. Through powerful stories and examples, you will learn how to get the attention of the boss, focus on what matters, understand what bosses expect of advisors, as well as understand strategy, gain a management perspective, and give advice powerfully.
Presenter: Abiola Adepoju, Certified Project Manager with PMI and Prince2, and a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning, UK.
Networking Session 11.45-12pm
LUNCH 12.pm -1pm
General Session 1pm-2.30pm
Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations
This session is designed to provide human resources professionals with practical guidelines on how to effectively conduct an investigation into a complaint of discrimination or harassment to minimize the risk of litigation and prevent liability. In particular, this session reviews the company’s legal obligation to conduct a prompt, thorough and objective investigation in response to workplace complaints as well as the critical importance of the investigator’s role as a neutral fact finder. By attending, participants will learn/review:
• How to effectively interview the complainant, the alleged harasser as well as third parties with knowledge of the underlying facts.
• How to ask questions that will overcome witness resistance and put them at ease while obtaining essential information.
• What should be transcribed in the investigator’s notes during the investigation to facilitate preparation of the summary report.
• How to organize the information gathered, analyze the key factual findings and assess witnesses’ credibility in an objective manner to reach a conclusion on the merits of the complaint.
Presenter: Senyo M. Adjabeng, CEO, Corporate Aims Services
Concurrent Session 10 1pm-2.30pm
Bringing Value as a Leader
Workplace Application: This program is designed to challenge the thinking of those who are either viewed as a leader or are being prepared to step into the role of a leader.
How important is leadership to an organization? Is leadership a position, a presence or a job? Reality is, it is all three, but the priority must be understood. Before leadership is anything, it has to be a presence.
Dr. Tosan Eyitsede
Networking Session: 2.30pm-2.45pm
Concurrent Session 11: 2.45pm-4:15pm
Retention Before Hiring, After Hiring, and Long-Term Retention Strategies
Workplace Application: This session will assist you in developing a more comprehensive strategy to improve employee retention.
This session starts with the premise that the best retention decision is a good hiring decision. It will look at how you select the right person for the job and company and will cover strategies for welcoming the employee into the organization in a manner that increases retention likelihood. Finally longer-term retention strategies will be discussed, such as creating a great place to work and providing growth opportunities for all employees.
Presenter: Dr. Esi Ansah, CEO and Founding Partner, Axis Human Capital
Conference Debrief 4.15pm-4.30pm
Networking Session 4.30pm-6pm
DAY 3: July
28th, 2009
POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
Facilitators:
Facilitator: Victor Madubuko, PHR. Chief Executive Officer, CareerNation USA
BREAKFAST: 7am to 8.30am
9am to 3pm
Inspiring someone to be their best is no easy task. Just how do you manage for optimum performance? How do you create a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best? This one-day workshop will give you some of those skills
How You Will Benefit:
• Understand the role of goal setting in performance management.
• Have tools to help your employees set and achieve goals.
• Have a three-phase model that will help you prepare employees for peak performance, activate their inner motivation, and evaluate their skills.
• Have a better knowledge of motivational tools and techniques
What You Will Cover
• The Shared Management Model
• Setting Goals
• Phase I (Preparation): Choosing the Right
• Person for the Job, Setting Standards, Coaching, and Training
• Phase II (Activation): Motivation
• Phase III (Ongoing and Formal Evaluation):
• Feedback and Performance Reviews
What’s Included?
• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Specialized manual and course materials
• Personalized certificate of completion
