Success for organizations through people is often a result of combining knowledge, skills and the ability to inject the work environment with fresh and breakthrough ideas. While conventional wisdom teaches us to learn skills, and enhance our knowledge for the job, we often forget that we need to keep coming up with new ideas that will help the organisation succeed and sustain amidst increasing competition. It is here that a dynamic workforce plays a huge part in shaping the road ahead for organisations. A culture of dynamism breeds innovation, performance and results that redefine the industry. It is this dynamism that we will endeavour to tap and listen to some of the success stories and best practices

The most successful companies coming out of the economic downturn are those that invest in their line managers, giving them skills to be better people managers. The need for line managers to own people management is cited as being vital to successful change management and business performance. Research indicates that talent management efforts may be better spent on line managers than high potentials. It is here that HR plays a critical role in creation and facilitation of relevant systems and processes, build and sustain a culture that nurtures talent and promotes performance. This conference elaborates on the theme of HR’s role in building business impact and managing talent by empowering the line manager. The event aims to leverages the collective thought leadership of some of the eminent HR leaders and business heads from various industries who shall share their perspectives on the theme “Empowering the line manager.”

Today, organizations are striving to achieve profitability and growth in an increasingly competitive environment. With the burgeoning services economy, people have emerged as the biggest assets and differentiators between organisations. Hence, it becomes absolutely imperative to focus on organizational development through people. The role of the HR Manager comes into focus in this context. Aligning strategy to business needs, modelling new frameworks for capability development, building competency through various interventions and assessing impacts through tools are some of the thoughts in the minds of the current HR Manager. It is in this context that the conference has been proposed. The conference is ideally positioned to leverage on the collective thought leadership of some of the eminent HR leaders from various industries who shall share their perspectives on the theme of “Nurturing Capability for Business Excellence”

Success for organizations through people is often a result of combining knowledge, skills and the ability to inject the work environment with fresh and breakthrough ideas. While conventional wisdom teaches us to learn skills, and enhance our knowledge for the job, we often forget that we need to keep coming up with new ideas that will help the organisation succeed and sustain amidst increasing competition. This convention endeavours to break you out of a routine thought process and present some of the HR best practices that germinated from great ideas and redefined organisations.