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How to Become Fully Professionally Qualified and Why

More and more HR professionals are pursuing professional membership of the CIPD to achieve industry recognition and to open doors to new career opportunities. Attend this session to discover how professional membership can support you and why it’s fast becoming an essential requirement for many leading employers. ...more

Stand number: 400

Networking – the Number One Skill for Personal and Business Success

Love it or hate it networking is something we all engage in to varying degrees. But why do so many of dread it? The idea of self promotion can be quite off putting but successful networking is less about marketing ourselves and more about building relationships. ...more

Stand number: 505

Case Study: How to Overcome your Auto-enrolment Challenges

Auto-enrolment is being introduced for the benefit of your employees. Discover how one consultancy is helping its clients successfully navigate the challenges this new legislation introduces and hear from Morrisons on how they have worked to ensure that auto-enrolment is a positive experience for their employees. ...more

Stand number: 610

Mediation for Managers – a ‘How To’ Session

Mediation is now recognised as being the most effective way of resolving employment conflict but is often misunderstood. This session demonstrates how managers can use mediation successfully in their organisation. ...more

Stand number: 475

Making Development Programmes Work: a Checklist for HR Professionals

Management development programmes frequently fail to deliver promised results. This presentation outlines common pitfalls associated with development programmes and how to avoid them, particularly in the present economic context. ...more

Stand number: 370

Building Social HR Leadership

Create a more connected and social organisation, by developing behaviour and a work culture that encourages collaboration, and makes effective use of social tools and technologies. ...more

The Role of HR in the Connected Enterprise

This session will explore how the rise of the connected generation, consumerisation of IT and globalisation present opportunities for HR to transform traditional ways of working into collaborative and transparent cultures through the use of social technologies. ...more

Stand number: 390

Management Quotient (MQ) – the Natural Evolution of IQ and EQ

We are all familiar with IQ and EQ but what about Management Quotient (MQ)? Explore what MQ is and how to measure and use it in your organisation. ...more

Stand number: 305

Tomorrow’s HR World – an Employee’s View on the Future of Work

ADP will reveal the results of its comprehensive and wide ranging survey of the views of the UK workforce and discuss what its findings mean for HR. ...more

Stand number: 560

Using Social Media to Enhance your Recruiting Strategy and Develop Employer Brand

Monster will share insights on how to enrich your recruitment strategy by engaging with potential talent on different social media platforms - either as part of a social employer campaign or by developing your employer brand on social channels. ...more

Stand number: 253

How to Create an Assessment that Truly Measures what Matters

Kenexa’s new assessment platform allows the user to bring together over 8,000 competencies and over 200,000 assessment questions to create an assessment that truly measures what matters. This new platform offers configurable candidate reports, custom user interface and localization. 2x Assess configures for quick candidate scoring, reports and analysis. ...more

Stand number: 430

Steps Ahead Mentoring Programme – how CIPD Members can Help get Britain Working

The CIPD Steps Ahead Mentoring programme links up young jobseekers with CIPD members for one-to-one mentoring. Discover how you can use your experience and HR skills to become a Steps Ahead Mentor and the benefits of being a Mentor for you and the young person. ...more

Stand number: 400

Blogging – HR’s Secret Weapon

Understand how blogging is capable of spreading knowledge, sharing learning and providing insight, and realise how you can tap into this rich tapestry of resources covering all aspects of HR. ...more

Independent Research Reveals the Latest Trends in Jobseeker Behaviour Online

An overview of the current trends in online recruitment, presenting exclusive research on jobseeker and recruiter behaviour and looking at how they are using job boards to gain maximum benefit. ...more

Stand number: 465

Maximising the Power of Recruitment Technology

The session will explore how an integrated talent management system can help identify, retain and engage your company's most valuable asset, using technology as an enabler. ...more

Stand number: 253

Case Study: How you can maximise candidate experience in a brand conscious world

• Introduction – background
• Defining a first class candidate experience – what does it look like?
• Best Practices: Improving attraction experience
• Best Practices: Improving application experience
• Best Practices: The rejected candidate
• Results: How does candidate experience impact recruitment effectiveness
• Q & A session
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Stand number: 531

Speed Networking

Maximise your networking time, meet new HR professionals and develop contacts in these fun and organised sessions. ...more

Stand number: 400

Using Wellbeing Initiatives to Improve the Health of your Workforce

This session demonstrates how you can roll out cost-effective yet relevant wellbeing programmes for employees while at the same time capturing vital management information to help shape future strategies. ...more

Stand number: 510

Culture and the Role of Learning and Development Functions

This session explores recent examples of cultures that have had a detrimental effect on organisational performance and how L&D can make a positive impact in this area. ...more

Stand number: 410

Getting Ahead in your HR Career

Whether you’re starting out or looking to progress, CIPD - the world’s largest Chartered HR and development professional body - will support and inspire you to achieve your full career potential. In this session you’ll discover more about the career development tools and practical advice that is available via the CIPD. ...more

Stand number: 400

HR Practitioner Top Tips

So social media is simple enough, but how do you actually integrate it into your company and realise its benefits, whilst limiting its potential dangers? Speak to practitioners that have introduced social media into their business effectively, and listen to their advice for doing it yourself. ...more

The Impact of Incompetent Management on Engagement and Organisational Performance

Informed by a provocative 2012 study of UK managers’ views, this session explores the issue and impact of incompetent organisational management  and how to tackle the challenge in your organisation. ...more

Stand number: 521

Employer Branding – a Competitive Edge

Hear how the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games team have developed their employer brand to attract and retain high performing specialist talent with a finite lifecycle and a limited budget. ...more

Stand number: 523

Harnessing Social Media for Organisational Effectiveness

Hear the latest CIPD Research on how social media is transforming how we work and how we communicate, and understand its potential for enhancing organisational capabilities. ...more

Stand number: 400