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A04 – The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today
Jeanne C. Meister, Founding Partner of Future Workplace

The 2020 workplace will not be like the 2010 workplace. Will your organization be ready?
HR leaders need to be rooted in the present while looking toward the future, to meet the demands of a constantly shifting and global marketplace.
Internationally recognized speaker Jeanne C. Meister will share thoughtful tips and critical information about to prepare now for a workplace that will be fluid, diverse in age and ethnicity, flexible, collaborative, mobile, global, and hyperconnected.
Innovative new styles of leadership—ones that are collaborative, personalized, technologically adept and culturally attuned—will be required in the 2020 workplace. Join us for a dynamic session and learn about three trends impacting the workplace of 2020, namely globalization, multiple generations in workforce and emergence of social media at work. You will also learn top five things Human Resource professionals can do to prepare for the 2020 workplace.

B01 – Creativity and Innovation: What's Style Got to do with it? Different strokes for different folks
Marci Segal, B.A., M.S. (Creativity and Change Leadership), president of creativityland inc and Co-founder of World Creativity and Innovation Week (Toronto)

HR professionals are challenged to engage teams and individuals in new thinking to arrive at new answers, which is not always a stress-free task. This session is intended to make it easier for HR professionals to involve people in innovation and creativity efforts. Marci Segal is globally recognized for her pioneering work linking creativity and innovation with psychological type, that influenced a generation of creativity and personality styles professionals world wide. This session is a solid distillation of her research and creativity and innovation practice. Marci will share with HR professionals four unique approaches toward creativity and innovation including motivations and behaviours, clues for what people of each style need to be at their creative best and 7 principles for supporting creativity and innovation day-to-day. The styles used for this session come from the multi-lens approach available through using the world renowned Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument. Join us for a thought-provoking and powerful presentation that will leave you inspired and motivated in building capacity to sustain innovation day-by-day!

C10 – The Power of Personal and Relational Influence
Chantal Westgate, CHRP, professor of organizational behavior at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University

Every business today is a relationship business. The quality and impact of your work as HR professionals depend upon relationships — with co-workers, employees, managers, senior managers and support services. However, we can only influence others to the extent that our relationships are strong.

This interactive session is designed to make an immediate impact on the way you think and act. With concrete explanations you will learn by doing. You will be guided in drawing up you own influence map and given practical tools to increase your emotional intelligence and build your relational influence.

D03 – Move your HR Function to the Next Level: the NEW HR Strategic Business Model
Grace A. Odums, Strategy Consultant (USA)

After a phenomenal success at the 2010 World HR Congress, Grace Odums leads this highly interactive and action-packed session that will provide you with the tools required to serve your organization in a dynamic, critical, value-added way! Your success as an HR practitioner, the achievement of your HR department and your career ascent all depend upon your understanding of the CEO top of mind and your ability to align everything you do with the CEO’s laser-like focus on people, strategy and innovation. Is your HR division prepared to serve as an impact player? Or are you conducting “business as usual?” Be prepared to:

  • Consider the 5 global trends impacting both top and bottom lines of the business – a CEO Top of Mind.
  • Discuss the New HR Strategic Model.
  • Review 6 competencies every HR practitioner must possess in order to build the new HR Strategic Model – NO EXCEPTIONS.
  • Explore the 12-Step Process for Being a True Strategic Partner to the C-Suite.

E06 – Global Innovation: Creating the “New” Across Borders, Cultures, Time Zones and Teams
Howard A. Wallack, MA, MSc, GPHR, Director, Global Member Programs at Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

As companies globalize – either through international corporate investment, mergers and acquisitions, direct export sales and distribution and marketing networks, or supply-chain relationships – the pressure is unrelenting to always have new products, fresh approaches, and ever creative responses that work well around the globe or can be adapted appropriately for local circumstances. HR practitioners need to know why innovation is important globally and what their role is in fostering it within their companies and organizations. After participating in this session, you will understand the value of global innovation, which countries excel at it and why, what conditions need to exist for global innovation to thrive, and how do global managers – including HR practitioners – show leadership in preparing everyone in their organizations to juggle culture, time zones and team dynamics to foster effective innovation.

CLOSING KEYNOTE SESSION

Jeremy Gutsche is an innovation expert and one of North America's most requested keynote speakers. He is the author of Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change. An innovation enthusiast and natural-born entrepreneur, Jeremy is the brains behind TrendHunter.com, the #1 trend-spotting site in the world – attracting more than 500,000,000 views – the largest, most influential, most updated collection of cutting edge ideas available anywhere. Trend Hunter is fueled by a global network of 50,000 contributors. The site has been featured or cited in over 40,000 articles, and Gutsche has appeared everywhere from Entertainment Tonight to the BBC to discuss new trends.

Jeremy was recently awarded the 2011 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, and also received Cisco’s Innovation Excellence Award.

Jeremy is a creative, globe-roaming individual with a broad appeal that stretches from The Economist to MTV. He possesses a unique perspective on innovation in the business context, and draws on his background in both corporate strategy and Web 2.0 to provide attendees with inspiration and tools to generate ideas, stimulate creativity and unlock potential. Jeremy holds an MBA from Queen's, is a CFA, and studied innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

HR: unleash creativity and innovation!
Jeremy Gutsche
Innovation Expert, founder of TrendHunter.com (Toronto, Ontario)

You probably have many great ideas and important strategic initiatives, but how do you filter through all the noise to unlock true opportunity? People and organizations get so set in their ways (their culture) that they actually restrain innovation and miss opportunities that may come their way.

In a world of increased competition, intensified customer demands, and shifting employee demographics, a culture of innovation is more important than ever. When it comes to sparking business innovation, how do you make your teams more creative at solving problems that actually matter?

Join Jeremy Gutsche, innovation expert and one of North America's most requested speakers for an exceptional closing keynote. At the cutting edge of innovation, Jeremy brings a rare perspective on how to unleash innovation within a business context.

With a contagious enthusiasm for innovation and a very engaging presentation style, Jeremy will deliver a beginning-to-end exploration of the innovation process, reinvented. With several examples, Jeremy will walk us through the ingredients that can lead to innovation, such as Risk taking, Failure, Customer Obsession, Creativity, Story Obsession and Wei-Ji.

Jeremy Gutsche's high-energy keynote will teach you engaging ways how HR can support innovation, spark organizational creativity, think outside the box and better equip your team for a changing economy.

Times of change and uncertainty can spark the greatest opportunities for innovation and for organizations to reinvent themselves – HR is at the heart of those changes! Help prepare your organization for nothing less than a revolution!

Note : Cette conférence sera présentée en anglais (traduction simultanée disponible).

Jeremy Gutsche is an innovation expert and one of North America's most requested keynote speakers. He is the author of Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change. An innovation enthusiast and natural-born entrepreneur, Jeremy is the brains behind TrendHunter.com, the #1 trend-spotting site in the world – attracting more than 500,000,000 views – the largest, most influential, most updated collection of cutting edge ideas available anywhere. Trend Hunter is fueled by a global network of 50,000 contributors. The site has been featured or cited in over 40,000 articles, and Gutsche has appeared everywhere from Entertainment Tonight to the BBC to discuss new trends.

Jeremy was recently awarded the 2011 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, and also received Cisco’s Innovation Excellence Award.

Jeremy is a creative, globe-roaming individual with a broad appeal that stretches from The Economist to MTV. He possesses a unique perspective on innovation in the business context, and draws on his background in both corporate strategy and Web 2.0 to provide attendees with inspiration and tools to generate ideas, stimulate creativity and unlock potential. Jeremy holds an MBA from Queen's, is a CFA, and studied innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

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