Making Strategic Decisions about People
Monday, 8 December 2014 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Free
Overview
The way an organisation makes its decisions has a critical impact on its effectiveness. The financial crises, environmental disasters, value destroying M&As, and within HR – terminations of employment, often supported by large payouts, as well as the HRIT (eg e-learning) systems left unused in many businesses, show that we do not always get our decisions right.
Effective decision making does depend upon having an appropriate business model and a suitable leadership team in place, but there is also a lot of what leads to a good decision, for example, the way that responsibility for decisions is allocated and the capability of decision makers, which depends upon HR.
HR therefore plays a crucial role in enabling effective strategic decisions, and in supporting business success. We should pay attention to the ways in which we can influence the people who are recruited, support their development, structure the decision making forums, and otherwise facilitate decision making within our organisations.
HR also makes important decisions itself, and the decisions which we make are some of the hardest to get right. In fact Gallup have suggested that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.
So, attend this course, find out how to improve decision making within your business (and hence your impact on business results) and improve the decisions you and your team are making about your people and organisational effectiveness.
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Attend this course if you are a:
- Chief human resource officer
- HR director
- Head of organisation effectiveness
- Head of talent management
- Head of learning and development
- HR business partner or HR team member wanting to contribute more broadly to organisational effectiveness
- HR professional, or talent management leader, wanting to improve your own effectiveness
- Business leader, with responsibility for the effectiveness of your own organisation
Programme
| 9:30 | Registration and coffee | |
| 10:00 | Welcome, introductions and objectives for the day | |
| 10:15 |
Effective rational decision making
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| 11:30 | Morning coffee | |
| 11:45 |
The psychology and sociology of decision making
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| 13:00 | Lunch and discussion | |
| 13:45 |
Structuring decision making
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| 14:30 | Afternoon tea | |
| 14:45 |
Making people decisions
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| 15:45 | Conclusions and action planning |
Trainer
Jon Ingham
HR Strategy Consultant
Jon is a leading specialist in strategic people management and organizational development issues. He regularly speaks and provides training in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia and has also lectured on strategic management, change management and human resources on executive MBA courses across Europe.
He is the author of Strategic HCM: Creating value through people (2006) and is currently completing a second book called Social advantage. He also posts regularly to blogs with these same titles and has recently been recognized as the top global online influencer in talent management.
Before working with Symposium, Jon served as Director of Human Capital Consulting, Europe for Buck Consultants / ACS, as Head of HR Consulting for Penna and as International HR Director for Ernst & Young after working as an IT and change management consultant for Andersen Consulting. Jon delivers a number of Symposium training workshops on HR issues such as business partnering, workforce planning, business and HR process design, organizational design and development and HR innovation.
Jon has a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Engineering and an MBA. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Additional Information
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