Employee Engagement Summit 2014

Amy Armstrong, Research Fellow, Ashridge Business School

• Developing and engaging leaders for better performance
• Examining behaviours, models and expectations
• Ensuring leaders receive regular feedback and take accountability

Doug McIldowie, Group HR Director, GKN

Session 03: Employee engagement in organisations: Implementing a ‘strategy for excellence’

• Sharing results from VaLUENTiS’ latest ‘Employee Engagement in Organisations’ research
• The key components of an employee engagement strategy
• What does ‘excellence’ really mean?
• What ‘Playmaker™’ organisations are doing in employee engagement (and what others aren’t doing)

Nicholas Higgins, Founder & CEO, VaLUENTiS Ltd

Session 04:  Ensuring field workers feel connected with the business

• Making sure engineers feel valued especially when dealing with negative press
• Introducing new technologies to help works stay connected
• Measures and benefits of engagement investments

Beverley Rowney, ‎Head of Internal Communications and Cultural Transformation, British Gas Services

Session 05: Engagement as a building block for business; create a great culture and values

• Creating a culture for change
• Navigating employees through uncertainty and change
• Developing accountability for personal and professional development
• Refreshing the culture and values

Joanna Jepson, Culture and Engagement Workstream Lead and Emma Sutton, MBNA Bank of America

Session 06: Knowledge share networking session

Session 07: Engaging through change

• Simple steps to maintain employee engagement during periods of change and uncertainty
• Working with line and senior managers to manage change and to support other employees
• Helping technical managers become more emotionally aware
• The data behind the success

Alexandra Buck, Former HR Manager – Employee Engagement, CISCO

Session 08:  Monitor and manage engagement success through survey analysis

• Ask and focus on the right questions – planning the approach to the survey
• Setting clear communications and expectations once you get your survey results
• Actioning change through survey analysis and follow up to embed engagement across the business
• Building manager engagement and embedding values
• Provide employees with opportunities to drive own engagement and enablement plans

Katie White, Head of Engagement, Fujitsu

• Taking a cafeteria style approach to reward
• Creating satisfied and engaged employees through cost effective solutions

Ingrid Waterfield, Senior People Advisor, KPMG

Session 10: Engage an ‘engaged’ workforce

• Developing a down to earth approach to maintain the momentum and continue the journey
• Continuous monitoring and measurement
• The importance of open and honest 2 way conversations
• Examining the value of providing leadership and development opportunities

Mairi Probin, Internal Communications and Engagement Manager, Iceland Foods

Session 11: Future gazing with the ‘Engage for Success Guru Group’

• Examining the future direction for engagement
• What additional challenges might we face
• Will the concept of engagement remain relevant for years to come?

Dilys Robinson, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Studies