Autumn Season Launch
We are excited to announce the launch of our Autumn Season, below you will see our new research, which highlights the sheer amount of transformation taking place across virtually all organisations, regardless of industry or size.
On the back of the research, we have painstakingly created a comprehensive agenda tackling all of the big issues our CHRO, CPO and HRD clients are grappling with. We promise to enlighten, engage and most importantly enable you, to stay the one step ahead, by bringing the future of work closer. Through both digital and physical interventions, we offer unconditional support and in an environment that fosters individual and collective growth.
Prior to the launch of our Autumn Season, we welcome you to join us on our journey, to support the profession with these critical interventions. With Transformation top of the agenda, deep dive into 35 specific topics, with specialist experts, who will help you to ‘shift the dial’.
Introducing the inimitable Bertie Tonks
We are delighted to announce Bertie Tonks who will be our keynote speaker. Where Transformation is concerned there is simply no better HR practitioner to provide their wisdom and vast expertise. If you don’t know Bertie, he was HR’s Most Influential HR practitioner 2023 and is one of our biggest fans, and we quote “Working Futures are the unsung heroes of the HR profession.”
However, whilst that is a lovely sentiment, we think you are the real heroes, the HR profession and that’s where the real magic happens, when done well, creating great cultures, which breeds a competitive edge in any business, through its secret sauce, its People. That’s why we focus on supporting those who look after others in these businesses – like CHROs, Chief People Officers, People & Culture Directors, and HR Directors.
A Vision for HR Transformation
Transform your organisation’s HR landscape with insights from Working Futures 2024. Our latest research provides a comprehensive guide to future-proofing human resources through innovative strategies and technology. Discover how to seamlessly integrate AI and machine learning into your HR processes, enhance talent acquisition and retention, and foster a culture of continuous growth and well-being.
Equip your CHROs with the tools to navigate the complexities of modern business environments and lead strategic, data-driven transformations. Join us in pioneering a new era of HR excellence, where inclusivity, agility, and foresight are the cornerstones of success. Dive into our visionary journey and unlock the full potential of your workforce.
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Creating a New HR Operating Model
Over the coming weeks we will be discussing one of the burning issues for HR, Creating a New HR Operating Model, but this is ‘no mean feat’. Outdated practices need reinventing, but with the flexibility to continue to adapt in an agile fashion, as we continue in a state of continuous transformation and move away, as Josh Bersin says, from episodic change.
Stepping up to this task is Perry Timms, previously HR Magazines Most Influential Thinker. He will be taking a ‘deep dive’ into what is needed to create a new HR.03 Operating Model and how can we collaborate and co-create this as a profession.
Thomas offer a game changing solution
At our recent 2-day CHRO Strategy Event, we were brilliantly supported by Thomas, as Lead Sponsor. It’s well worth watching their Keynote as they have launched a new and very exciting solution which we think is best in class, its a game changer in fact, through better connecting teams and improving individual and organisational performance.
If it looks interesting, we have even better news…
Thomas is offering a limited number of complimentary pilots, on a first come, first serve basis, for a team of up to 25 individuals. Which means that, if your quick, you could get to use and assess the value of their platform, for a whole month. So, if you want to 'test drive' the platform please follow the link below and someone will contact you, but don't delay, this complimentary offer is genuinely very limited, for obvious reasons.
Ensuring DEI&B Best Practice
We feel it's never been more important to ensure we are treating our diverse workforces fairly, participatively and kindly. With lots of people concerned about these matters, how can we support our employees and ensure our DEI&B practices are bringing our people closer together and creating great cultures.
With this in mind, we feel it's a timely introduction to our ‘go to’ expert in this space. Mr Atif Choudhury who is an inspirational fountain of knowledge when it comes to all things regarding DEI&B.
He has become more than just a business partner for us and has helped us to question, explore, understand and grow in this space. We hope that he can also do the same for you. He assists organisations with deep seated knowledge of the subject matter, compassion, reason and integrity. He turns complex issues into simpler and more understandable matters, but also with pragmatic & actionable ways forward.
Tomorrow’s People: The HR Podcast
Host Perry Timms embarks on a thought-provoking journey into the realm of diversity with Atif Choudhury, shedding light on the importance of embracing differences and fostering inclusive workplaces and communities.
A World Class Facilitator
Gethin Nadin, is an award-winning psychologist, bestselling HR author and one of the world’s most influential HR thinkers. He was recently awarded two prestigious Stevie’s Awards in New York for HR Thought Leader of the Year 2024 and HR Professional of the Year. He is also a Fellow at the historic King’s College London, King’s Business School – a business school in the top 1% globally.
We are super excited that he will be facilitating on the session:
A Decade of Change: The profound societal impact of your HR decisions
As the UK navigates a pivotal decade, the role of employers in shaping society's future has never been more critical. In this thought-provoking session, Gethin will explore the unprecedented influence that the workplace has on the nation’s health and prosperity.
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Transformation is the key
Transformation appears to be the key challenge across all of our HR Director clients, so we are over the moon to have Erik Korsvik Østergaard, joining the Working Futures fold this season. Erik is a World-renowned Futures Thinker and Leadership Advisor, Seasoned Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker & 2x Author.
With Transformation & Uncertainty, the two hot topics on all the HR Directors lips we are speaking to, wouldn’t it be nice if we had a time machine, to jump into the future and be able to see what the future holds? Well, we have the next best think, Erik! He will be running a Futures Thinking session, to jump into the future, image what working life might look like and then back cast, to see how we either secure a future we love the look or or ensure a future we hate the sound of, doesn't occur.
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Their technology reveals cues within unconscious behavior by analyzing team communication patterns in real-time. Insights are plotted as a time-series of emotions and help to timely detect and address human risk issues such as leadership alignment, employee engagement, workplace harrassment and fraud before they impact your bottom-line.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Dumi Senda is an Award-winning Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Expert, BBC England Diversity & Inclusion Portfolio Lead, LinkedIn Learning Instructor & Team Building Top Voice, ICF Certified Coach, International Speaker and Trainer.
Dumi ran a superb Lunch and Learn at the Delauney for us recently which we’ve shared with you as it’s well worth a watch.
If you would like to join Dumi, find out more about our Hackathons or Lunch and Learns, or understand how we can help you overall, we would love to meet you and see how we can help. You can book a call with one of our specialists here.
Our partners over at WorkPal are offering a special introductory pilot, exclusively through Working Futures.
Workpal is a digital solution with AI reporting to improve engagement, performance and productivity. It aligns your whole workforce with your “strategy to execution” challenge. It engages & empowers all your staff to drive their own performance anytime, anywhere and on any device in one fully connected digital solution 24/7/365, office based, front-line, home or hybrid.
The resulting CPO’s workforce data – that includes, Talent, Succession Planning, Learning Needs Analysis, Objectives, Feedback, Health & Well-being and much much more - is delivered real-time using generative AI.
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HR applications of AI
We have the passing of a very particular and prestigious baton this year, from Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic who was Keynote Speaker at our previous Strategy Day to Bertie Tonks opening our Autumn Strategy Day in November.
Tomas, who is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, provided an insightful and thought-provoking keynote at the last Working Futures Strategy Day on: HR applications of AI based on I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to request what makes us unique.
Hacking HR’s greatest challenges
The team at Diversity & Ability and their CEO Atif Choudhury ran our last Hackathon, in conjunction with Perry Timms and PTHR. It was superb, filled with 25 HR directors who engaged in an energetic Hack around the topic of Unlocking Potential: The intersection of inclusion and business success.
Check out the highlights of that session to hear what the attendees had to say about their experience. If this looks like something you would like to be involved in, the next Hackathon: Creating physically accessible and productive work environments, will be co-hosted again by Diversity & Ability on the 17 October in London.
According to the Gallup report, only 13% of employees in Europe are engaged at work, while 72% are not engaged and 16% are actively disengaged. Moreover, Europe has the lowest regional percentage of engaged employees and second lowest regional percentage of employees experiencing daily sadness
If you are looking to transform the dynamic and performance of teams in your organisation, improve the employee experience and therefore engagement, and create a psychologically safe environment then take a trial of the Meta Team approach.
We've found that the most engaged teams are always playing two games—a well-honed outer game arising from a highly evolved inner game. Both are essential in building a winning organisational and team culture.
Futures Thinking & HR3.0
We are utterly privileged and excited to announce a unique opportunity to collaborate with Erik Korsvik Østergaard, the world-renowned Futures Thinker and Perry Timms, HR’s Most Influential Thinker 2022 and leading the charge, in designing a new HR Operating Model: HR3.0.
These two titans are coming together, the day before the Working Futures Strategy Day, to provide:
Futures Thinking & HR3.0: Evolving the People Profession for a determinable future of humanised work
Tackling the Productivity Puzzle
Using concepts from the Olympic sport environment that have been applied across multiple commercial contexts by PlanetK2, Dr. Chris Shambrook will present a common sense, not commonly applied approach to pursuing productivity.
With a focus on Performance and what it takes to help people maximise efficiency and effectiveness through continuous development within their roles, Chris will present the core building blocks that make up “The Productive Organisation.”
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