Description
Overview
The conference will tackle the current approach to analytics and will help you to see the ways of exploring and using metrics for monitoring staff turnover, employee engagement and diversity statistics. It will provide you with examples of how HR analytics can equip executive level leadership with palpable intelligence, which will enable you to make more informative and safer decisions. Learn how HR Analytics can be an inseparable and valuable tool, not only to monitor present and past HR activities, but also how it can be used to predict and support HR strategy and actions.
The event will encapsulate case studies, practical examples, knowledge sharing, discussions with HR analytics experts and plenty of opportunities for networking.
This event has been specially designed to assist HR professionals in their better understanding and development of HR Analytics.
Programme
09:00 | Coffee and registration | ||
09:30 | Chair’s opening remarks
Peter Reilly, Principal Associate, Institute for Employment Studies |
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09:45 | Valuing your talent: how organisations measure and report on their human capital
Edward Houghton, Research Adviser, Human Capital and Metrics, CIPD |
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10:10 | You don’t have to start big – make use of what you already have
Tim Cowley, Head of HR, FirstGroup |
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10:35 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
10:45 | Panel discussion – The future of HR analytics
Peter Reilly, Principal Associate, Institute for Employment Studies Ben Hawkes, Advisor, HR Analytics, Shell Tim Cowley, Head of HR, FirstGroup |
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11:10 | Refreshments and networking | ||
11:25 | How to get buy-in for your HR analytics from the board and beyond
Tony Latter, CEO and Co-Founder, The Happiness Index |
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11:50 | Best practice case studies using modern HR analytics processes
Dominic Embley, Sector Manager – Business Intelligence, HR & Recruitment, Informance |
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12:15 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
12:25 | Lunch and networking | ||
13:25 | Knowledge share – networking session | ||
13:55 | Where to start when you have people data but no reporting
Neil Parkinson, Senior HR Analyst, CBRE Limited |
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14:20 | Harnessing data to advance talent management
Aggy Russell (Dhillon), Head of People Insight, Virgin Media Simon Haines, Managing Director, GarnerHaines |
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14:45 | The future of HR analytics: techniques, technologies and training
Ben Hawkes, Advisor, HR Analytics, Shell |
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15:10 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
15:20 | Refreshments and networking | ||
15:35 | Focusing analytics on HR strategy using evidence based insights
Jon Ingham, Executive Consultant, Strategic Dynamics |
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16:00 | Using analytics across organisations – tips on how to get others engaged
Mark Porter, Operational HR Manager, Havering Council |
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16:25 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
16:35 | Chair’s closing remarks and end of conference Peter Reilly, Principal Associate, Institute for Employment Studies |
Speakers
Aggy Russell (nee Dhillon), Head of People Insight, Virgin Media
Aggy Russell (Dhillon) is a specialist in Corporate Finance and Human Resources having spent 22 years working in private sector organisations across international markets – a specialist in operating model efficiencies, HR practices and Reward strategy. Aggy is CIMA qualified and holds a Masters in Business Economics. Previous employers include the Financial Times and Universal Pictures. Aggy is currently leading the People Insight team at Virgin Media, championing business performance improvements through better People Insight. Aggy will be celebrating her ten year anniversary with Virgin Media later this year. |
Peter Reilly, BA, MA, Principal Associate, Institute for Employment Studies
Peter Reilly joined the Institute for Employment Studies in 1995 as a Senior Research Fellow and eight years later became Director HR Research and Consultancy. In May 2014 he resigned to become self employed whilst continuing his attachment to IES as a Principal Associate. Peter still contributes to consultancy and research work on workforce planning at IES. Clients come from all sectors and his involvement ranges from facilitation, through expert advice to design and evaluation. For example, last year he undertook a number of case studies on HR analytics for the Ministry of Defence. Peter is the editor of two reports on workforce planning – one for IES and the other for Cambridge Strategy Publications. He is a frequent conference speaker on workforce planning and HR analytics subjects and also trains HR colleagues on workforce planning techniques. He is a graduate in history and politics from Cambridge and Kent universities. |
Edward Houghton, Research Adviser, Human Capital and Metrics, CIPD
Edward Houghton is the CIPD’s Research Advisor for Human Capital Metrics and Standards. He is responsible for leading the organisation’s human capital research work stream exploring various aspects of human capital management, theory and practice; including the measurement and evaluation of the skills and knowledge of the workforce. He has a particular interest in the role of human capital in driving economic productivity, innovation and corporate social responsibility. |
Jon Ingham, Executive Consultant, Strategic Dynamics
Jon Ingham is an insight-based HR and OD consultant specialising in developing strategic and innovative approaches to HR planning; measurement and analytics; HR process management, and organisation design and development. As well as working as a consultant, Jon acts as a trainer, conference speaker, researcher and writer. He is the author of Strategic Human Capital Management (2006) and was a contributor to the ATD’s Talent Management Handbook (2015). He is currently working on a new book The Social Organization and has also just co-authored an article on Building Better HR Departments together with Dave Ulrich. Jon also blogs about analytics and other topics at his well known blog, Strategic HCM. |
Dominic Embley, Sector Manager – Business Intelligence, HR & Recruitment, Informance
For 7 years, Dominic has been advising companies on how to see the whole story within their enterprise. Customers have included MARS, Disney, Tesco, Jaguar Land Rover, Friends Life, Del Monte, Bakkavor and Manchester United Football Club. He has designed innovative solutions for the HR and Recruitment sector and was involved with an analytics tech start-up that was acquired in 2011. Earlier in his career Dominic was a Director at PPM (a management consultancy) and prior to that a team leader at the Adecco Group. In his spare time Dominic is a voluntary business mentor for the Princes Trust, a keen motorcyclist and sports fan. |
Tim Cowley, Head of HR , FirstGroup
Tim is motivated by getting HR analytics to provide the greatest value to the organisation. Often this does not involve incurring significant additional costs but it does incur getting executive support. (Geeky as it sounds), Tim is passionate about developing HR analytics not only for operational improvement but also for strategic development. Tim has worked in commercial and HR roles in the banking, government, support services and transport sectors. Tim is a qualified business psychologist and a chartered fellow of the CIPD. |
Neil Parkinson, Senior HR Analyst, CBRE Limited
After gaining experience across a number of roles Neil embarked on a career in recruitment/HR analysis. After successfully implementing a culture of data led decision making across two recruitment advertising agencies he moved to BSkyB to set up a new recruitment analysis function. Neil set up his own consultancy to help clients bring their data to life. He worked on developing strategic KPIs, designing dashboards and enhancing in-house analysis capability. At CBRE he is currently establishing HR analysis for the EMEA region. Early successes include delivering dashboards to MDs and HRDs, improving data integrity and adopting a new analytics tool. |
Ben Hawkes, Advisor, HR Analytics, Shell
Ben Hawkes is an Advisor within the HR Analytics function of Shell International, which is responsible for delivering talent analytics and assessment services to Shell’s 90,000 employees worldwide. He has worked in the field of talent assessment and analytics in Europe and the US for almost 20 years. Prior to joining Shell Ben was employed by IBM as Global Head of Content for their assessment product portfolio. During his time with IBM, he worked on projects developing new approaches to HR analytics including machine learning, text analytics and simulations. Ben is a regular presenter at conferences in the UK and US, and is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the use of technology to assess and predict workplace behaviour. His most recent chapter on game-based assessment will appear in the upcoming book International Applications of Web-Based Testing: Challenges and Opportunities. |
Mark Porter, Manager, Corporate Workforce Strategy, London Borough of Havering
Mark is the Operational HR Manager for oneSource, a unique partnership working arrangement between the London Boroughs of Havering and Newham. He manages a multidisciplinary team across both boroughs. He is also the Chair of the pan London Workforce Planning Group which provides advice and guidance to all London boroughs on human capital metrics and how best they can be used in organisations. Mark has extensive experience of working within the HR field and also as a manager which gives him the unique ability to understand how managers think and what they want from an HR team to run their business. He is passionate about the importance of using good data to tell an organisation’s ‘story’ and inform strategies – but not to the point of being a geek about it! |
Tony Latter, CEO and Co-Founder, The Happiness Index
Tony likes to challenge the status quo and works hard to provide a consultative, human approach to nurturing a business’s most important asset – its people. Believing that at its core workplace happiness is based on an open and honest approach, Tony loves nothing more than helping organisations utilise technology to increase their client and staff retention rates. With 13 years’ experience of growing companies (including IPC Media and AXA), Tony learnt early about the importance of listening to and acting upon the feedback from his team/clients in order to effectively increase productivity and ultimately revenue. His belief is ‘create the right environment to work in and people will naturally excel’ – benefiting customers, employees and employers alike. |
Simon Haines, Managing Director, GarnerHaines
Simon is a recognised thought leader in the field of workforce analytics. He conceived and led Deloitte’s workforce analytics practice and built this into a global team, before setting up GarnerHaines in 2014. He works with forward-thinking HR and business leaders to ensure their HR analytics make a tangible positive impact on their business performance. He has led projects internationally with organisations including Vodafone, EDF Energy, Swiss Re, and McDonalds – and has had the pleasure of working with Aggy and the Virgin Media team over the past 3 years. |
Sponsors
Informance – limitless business intelligence for human resources
At Informance we understand that developing the right human resources strategy for people analytics and performance management is vital to the success of your business. We are experts in providing HR solutions, based on Qlik technology, that transform the way organisations use HR analytics to understand their workforce better, optimise performance and drive talent management strategies. Qlik’s platform-enabled visual analytics provide limitless business intelligence and data discovery capabilities that unlock the true power of your data and give you the information you need to make fact-based decisions for driving change, improving efficiency and increasing profit.
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The Happiness Index is the UK’s leading employee engagement pulse technology. We help measure your business’ greatest asset – your people!
Focused on improving business performance by promoting better cultural alignment and engagement, we aim to empower HR leaders in the boardroom by providing them with the stress-free, yet insight-rich analytics they need to make key strategic business decisions and create value from their human capital investments (what we call the 2nd P&L). |