• How can HR help prepare their organizations for the Future of Work
• Building a Future of Work framework and aligning people strategy to ensure successful business operations.
• How can HR leaders contribute to a culture of high employee engagement and positive employee experience
• Harnessing the full potential of employees and gaining a competitive edge.

• How can you maintain employee connection whilst still offering flexible working or that transcends locations, geographies, time zones and cultures?
• Connecting employees to purpose and driving engagement
• Generating authentic connections and capturing those ‘water-cooler’ moments remotely
• Creating a sense of community and belonging for all employees

Is your organization change ready? How do you cultivate a work culture that is receptive to change?

• Ensuring you have a clear vison and incentivizing employees to move towards it
• Developing change champions and building change management capabilities into your organization
• Communicating change effectively, knowing your audience and the impact that any change will have on them.
• Creating a compelling case for change and ensuring all leaders are on board.

• How can employers be intentional with their technology approach to improve the digital employee experience?
• Bridging the gap between the people function and IT to create effective digital workplaces.
• Leveraging technology for internal insights and frequent touch points with teams.
• How can employers remain competitive in their technology approach in such a fast-moving environment?

• How have employers had to change their culture strategies to reflect the new ways of working?
• How can employers protect company culture whilst empowering hybrid teams?
• Should companies be encouraging micro cultures that form around teams or should culture be determined from the top down?
• How can leaders be intentional in creating a sense of belonging for all employees?

Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in one of the following discussion groups:

Group 1: How to make a business case for and operationalize employee experience?

This session will look at the perception of cost relating to employee experience and culture. How can you understand the costs, how do you operationalise it and get funding and ongoing budget and how does it contribute to the bottom line?

Group 2: Total Flexibility Vs. Mandated hybrid Vs. full-time In Office/ on site

From strategy to execution. Now organizations have seen the effects of their chosen working model what outcomes have they seen? This session will look at different working models and discuss the pros and cons of each one. Is your model working or do you need to consider a different approach or adapt it? What do you need to support each working model?

Group 3: How can you move towards being a skills-based organization?

This session will look at how organizations can shift mindsets and redefine talent strategies to move away from the traditional job role hierarchy to a faster moving, dynamic matching of skills to work and how do you move to skill-based hiring or should you hire for behaviours and train for skills?

Group 4: How can you equip your leaders and managers to be successful in a multi-choice workstyle culture?

Now that employees can work from anywhere, what tools and skills do leaders need? How are you equipping your leadership and managers to be fully capable of navigating the new working models to make sure they are successful and deliver results?