IRS Conference


IRS Employee Engagement Conference

22nd May 2008, The Lewis Media Centre, London

Day 1 - Thursday 22 May 2008

9:00

Registration and coffee

9:30

Chair: Tom Barry, managing director, Blessing White

Opening remarks
9:45

Moving Forward with Employee Engagement

• We all think we understand it, but what is employee engagement and how
should it be measured?
• How much evidence is there of an engagement-performance link?
• What drives engagement levels in organisations, and are the drivers always the same?
• Moving forward: the research is interesting, but what should organisations do about engagement?
Dilys Robinson, Principal Research Fellow, the Institute for Employment Studies
10:30

Engaging employees to win

• How to engage your employees to win
• Making employee engagement happen in your business
• Engaging and aligning your people
• Measuring employee engagement: understanding your Employees
David MacLeod, senior associate, Towers Perrin
11:15

Tea /coffee and networking

11:35

CASE STUDY: Employee Engagement in the Civil Service

Developing a measure of employee engagement for the Civil Service
What drives employee engagement in the Civil Service? What we know so far
The future: the largest employee engagement survey in Britain?
John Bell, Head of Employee Engagement, Cabinet Office
Michael Silverman, Associate Director, Ipsos MORI
12:20

Lunch

13:30

Employee engagement in tight ecenomic conditions

What employees from board director to call centre worker, say would make them increase their discretionary effort
Why trust and understanding is crucial to engagement
How to prove that engagement initiatives really pay.
Tom Barry, managing director, Blessing White
14:20

A Psychologists view of Employee Engagement

• What are the behaviours behind employee engagement?
• What impact is this having in the workplace?
• What are psychologists doing to better understand engagement and it’s impact on the work place?
• What should we be aware of as potential issues as employee engagement research matures?
Tom Smith, Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Lane4
15:00

Tea/Coffee & networking

15:20

Case study: A winning engagement strategy

• Using insight to inform and measure engagement activity
• Examples of Vodafone engagement initiatives
• The critical role of the line manager
Annette Ware, Head of Communication and Involvement, Vodafone UK
16:05

Chair’s closing remarks

16:15

Close


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