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Seminar Outlines
For more information on our seminars and an update on our latest schedule please email info@peopleworkbest.com, stating which seminars you are interested in.
Bringing Life to Work – Coaching as a strategic tool
Talent Spotting – Attracting, identifying and retaining talent to maintain your competitive business edge
Bringing Life to Work
• Are your change strategies being blocked by people?
• Are your development programmes yielding tangible results?
• Are you getting the best from your people?
• Do your people strategies look after the whole person?
Coaching is a proven tool for managing change and bringing the best out of people in all circumstances. How do you manage the human side of change? How do you create the space to bring out creativity and innovation? Join our panel of experts to explore how coaching can make a real difference to your organisation.
Talent Spotting
Attracting, identifying and retaining talent to maintain your competitive
business edge
• Is your organisation being slowed by lack of innovation?
• Are you winning the ‘war for talent’?
• Are you making the most of your talent pool?
• Have you addressed tomorrow’s talent needs?
• Are you losing your best people?
We hear a great deal about the need to win talent in today’s knowledge based business environment. What strategies do innovative organisations use to recruit and retain talent? How can you predict success and measure potential? What causes highly talented people to ‘derail’? Come and discover how the most forward-looking organisations are addressing these challenges.
Both Bringing Lifeto Work and Talent Spotting balanced insight and experience with personal testimony from guest speakers.
Guest speakers included:
Jane Ringham of the London Borough of Southwark will
explain how coaching has brought greater satisfaction and productivity to
both her professional and personal life.
Professor Adrian Furnham holds a chair in Psychology at University
College London. He will look at some of the best predictors of success and
how to measure potential. Professor Furnham is a consultant to leading world
class organisations and is a prolific writer on management and occupational
psychology.
Jane Corby, Chief Executive of Corby Primary Care Group, will discuss
how coaching is helping her manage some of the challenges of transforming
a Primary Care Group into a Primary Care Trust.
Revitalising Competencies
This seminar provided a useful forum for:
• Showing how to get the most from competencies
• Demonstrating ways of securing senior management support
• Integrating competencies with existing systems
• Ensuring competencies are not just another initiative
It also explored why competencies work and when to use them, and included a live case study example from the London Borough of Sutton. The case study showed how competencies in place since 1993 were not linked to corporate systems and were regarded as outdated and irrelevant by managers. People Work Best helped the Council to develop new competencies, with buy-in from the Chief Executive, that reflected core values and policy aims. These in turn were linked to the appraisal system, selection procedures and management development programmes.
Selecting the Best
This seminar looked at how structured assessment methods help select the best
person for the job. It answered the questions:
• What do we mean by selection and assessment?
• How to uncover the real person – can they really do the job?
The seminar also examined some of the weaknesses of superficial assessment centres and why they don’t always work.
Competencies in Action
This seminar demonstrated an innovative and cost-effective approach to development
centres in local government. Using a pioneering project conducted by the London
Borough of Lewisham, the seminar showed:
• How to design development centres for maximum effect
• How to ensure that participants derive maximum benefit
• How to test and validate newly developed management competencies