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Investors in People
08 Dec 2009
National conference held at Westminster Conference Centre, London
Building on the success of 2008, this year’s Investors in People 9th National Conference focused on the performance challenges faced by employers in the downturn.
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Programme
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10:00
Polly Toynbee, Journalist and Commentator, The Guardian
Welcome from Conference Chair
10:05
Simon Jones, Chief Executive, Investors in People UK
How Investors in People can support organisational improvement
10:20
David MacLeod and Nita Clarke: Transforming performance through employee engagement: findings from the MacLeod Review
David MacLeod, Co-author of the MacLeod Review
Nita Clarke, Director IPA
10:40
Lord Young of Norwood Green, Minister for Postal Affairs and Employment Relations, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Keynote address - Keeping Britain competitive through the downturn
10:50
Panel discussion: Session 1
David MacLeod, co-author of the MacLeod Review
Sue Round, Head of Learning and Development, Sainsbury’s
Professor Cary Cooper CBE, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (External Relations), Lancaster University
11:20
Refreshments and networking
11:45
Session 2 - Forum 1: Corporate Health Responsibility: How to realise the bottom line performance benefits of embracing health and wellbeing at work
Peter Barnard, Registrar, The Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
11:45
Session 2 - Forum 4: High performance workplaces: How to improve efficiency with transformational HR
Stephen Moir, Corporate Director - People, Policy and Law, Cambridgeshire County Council, winner of HR Strategy Award in 2009
Penny Tamkin, Programme Director, Leading for High Performance, The Work Foundation IIP Facilitator: Cliff Sparrowhawk
11:45
Session 2 - Forum 5: How to measure performance: From job satisfaction to employee engagement
Angela Baron, Adviser, Employee Engagement, CIPD
12:35
Dame Carol Black DBE, National Director for Health and Work
Keynote address - The performance payback of a healthy workforce: tangible results for people and organisations
12:55
Dame Carol Black DBE, National Director for Health and Work
Question and answer
13:00
Buffet lunch and networking
14:00
Chris Humphries CBE, Chief Executive, UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Investors in People - its future with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
14:20
Session 4 - Forum 2: Keeping staff onside: How to effectively engage employees in a recession
Dr Angela Carter, Research Fellow, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield
14:20
Session 4 - Forum 1: Corporate Health Responsibility: How to realise the bottom line performance benefits of embracing health and wellbeing at work
Christine Hancock, Director, The Oxford Health Alliance
15:05
Refreshments and networking
15:35
Professor Bob Fryer CBE, Chairman, Campaign for Learning
Prospects for learning in the downturn
15:50
Sir David Normington KCB, Permanent Secretary, Home Office
Transformational leadership in the Home Office and the impact of Investors in People accreditation to staff development
16:15
Questions and discussion: Session 5
16:20
Chair’s closing comments
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