Main Conference Agenda

One of the biggest challenges of remote working is fostering culture, social cohesion and trust. How can HR teams help people to feel emotionally connected with their organisation's vision in a virtual setting?

• Cultivating cultural and social cohesion with a remote and digital workforce
• Risk management: How to ensure that employees are acting ethically when they are at home
• Practical strategies to help employees to feel connected to your brand
• Helping virtual employees to share information with each other virtually
• Virtual events and virtual team building – what works and what doesn’t work?

How can HR leaders cultivate a sense of stability and certainty in their workforces, while the world is still shaped by factors we can’t predict or control?

• HR-led change management strategies for an uncertain world
• How to set targets and measure output in the new post-pandemic era
• Negotiating the tension between wellbeing and productivity

While pay raises and bonuses may be off the cards for now, our panellists [insert company names] are maintaining employee engagement through a creative total rewards strategy that includes flexibility, training, benefits, wellbeing and time off. Here is how they do it.

• Finding the right mix between monetary and non-monetary rewards
• How to assess your current approach to rewards, remuneration and performance
• Who should receive your rewards, and what should they be rewarded for?
• How to structure and communicate flexible work arrangements
• Work life balance benefits: flexible schedules and job sharing schemes
• Creative and innovative rewards and benefits employees love

Diversity and inclusion must be integrated into HR policies, managerial capability and the employee experience. This organisation is leading the way when it comes to diversity - here is how they did it.

• Developing gender-balanced teams to improve performance and engagement
• Promoting accountability within leadership for hiring, promotion, and retention
• Using data and industry benchmarks to measure diversity metrics and monitor progress

Gone are the days of lunchroom chat and overhearing colleague's phone calls. But some employers have found new ways to imitate the unconscious learning that occurs in a natural, organic, sometimes indirect way in an office.

• How do you stop people missing out on information communication and knowledge transfer?
• Peer-to-peer learning in an era of remote work
• What are the alternatives to traditional “talking head” training?
• How to facilitate organic knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing?
• Quick-hit and bite-sized microlearning delivery
• Prompting employees to engage with, absorb and retain learning content

The performance review process has been discussed and debated at HR conferences for years. In a post-pandemic world, how should we approach goal-setting, performance reviews and assessment?

• Successful programs for assessing and measuring remote workforce
• Recalibrating KPIs to reflect a world that is more flexible
• How can we make performance goals fair and meaningful in this chaotic, ever-changing, uncertain environment?
• Ongoing coaching conversations that establish a rhythm of collaboration
• Bonus, commission and incentives that drive performance in this 'new normal'