Maximising team performance, building agility and getting the most out of your teams. This is possible by playing to your team's strengths - in the flow of work, every day.

Dr Amy Pressland will share the key results from the Benenden Health 2024 Gender Health Gap report including the impact on women, employers and broader society. This presentation will provide examples of best practice in the world of work (and beyond) and suggestions for employers to support female employees.

This talk will explore questions such as: the importance of top down leadership. Does the saying  'everyone enacts the mentality of their leaders' have an impact on an organisation and how? Delving into how HR can be a truly transformative function within the legal industry, with reference to learning and development and diversity and inclusion. 

For the HR profession to be evidence-based, it needs to connect research insights with practitioner expertise. Join us to be part of that two-way conversation! Topic by topic, academic experts will outline what's known in the body of research and people professionals will have space to question, probe and relate to their experience. 

Topics include: 

• The four-day work week: perceptions, experiences, and work outcomes
• Empowering and retaining Neurodivergent talent
• How does employee power and voice contribute to 'good work'?
• Attracting and retaining young people in the workplace
• A new partnership between business and trade unions?
• A question of class: exploring the links between socio-economic background, job quality and HR practices
• Negotiating difference at work: exploring disclosure of different and diverse identities
• Digital Mediations in the Workplace (DigiMed): Implications for wellbeing, equality, and diversity
  

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Amidst ongoing redundancies and economic uncertainty, employees are hesitant to switch jobs, but the desire to progress in their careers remains. How can employers take advantage of this period of the great hesitation, engaging and proactively providing support in the career development of their talent, providing them with guidance and internal opportunities to pursue their career aspirations with clarity.

This session will explore how HR can navigate the impact of AI, support career development, and implement proactive strategies to future-proof skills and keep top talent engaged within your organisation.

• Learn how HR transformation projects drive change and can exceed expectations from initial blueprints.
• Gather strategies to build trust with operations for a high-performing environment.
• Find innovative technologies and creative solutions to enhance HR impact.
• Discover practical tools and insights to lead transformative HR initiatives.

• How AI is reshaping employee roles and boosting productivity.
• Integrating AI with HR to help streamline onboarding, training, and performance management.
• Utilising AI to improve work-life balance, mental health, and employee engagement.
• Ethical considerations address privacy concerns, bias, and fairness in AI-driven workplace systems.
• What are future AI tools and technology trends that will redefine employee experiences?

Learn from your trusted global skills partner how to build the most important skills for human performance. 

 Low productivity has long been the achilles heel for UK business. Discover findings and recommendations from a new report to help you engage and empower staff to drive growth.

Why does the HR profession need to be evidence based? What are the risks of not doing so and the benefits to be had? What does it really mean to be evidence based and how can we go about it? In this workshop, leading advocates of evidence-based management will talk you through all this, explaining the core principles and practices, how they apply to HR, and showcasing CIPD resources to help you get started. We also present an in-depth case study of evidence-based practice in action and include time for you to discuss and reflect on how it can work for you.

Join us for insights on how leadership has evolved, emphasising people-oriented skills, collaboration, and innovation, and learn practical strategies to build a strong leadership pipeline in today's dynamic environment.

A deep dive into how digital services and API’s are transforming how employers access screening services to provide their candidates with seamless, integrated onboarding journeys. Learn how employers in the future can tap into  an Instant Services Marketplace.

Having confidence and being comfortable in having conversations about wellbeing is an essential skill for people managers, requiring a thoughtful and empathetic approach. While managers cannot be expected to be medical experts, they are expected to support the wellbeing of their teams. Despite the expectation, our research suggests there is still a gap regarding the competence and confidence of managers in addressing wellbeing issues. So how can you encourage managers to have safe and effective wellbeing conversations with people?

People professionals are often involved in solving complex organisational problems, but how can research-based practice help to solve these problems? It's often easy to lean on professional judgement, senior stakeholder views or best practice examples. However, injecting evidence into the decision making process increases the effectiveness of your solutions and reduces bias. 

This interactive workshop will explore the benefits of getting involved with research and how this can in turn strengthen the decision-making process.

Discover how tailored language training can foster psychological safety, boost employee engagement, and improve retention. Learn strategies for integrating effective communication programs into diverse, multilingual teams.

For the HR profession to be evidence-based, it needs to connect research insights with practitioner expertise. Join us to be part of that two-way conversation! Topic by topic, academic experts will outline what's known in the body of research and people professionals will have space to question, probe and relate to their experience. 

Topics include: 

• Sustainable hybrid work: wellbeing in the digital age
• The challenge of 'moving on' from conflict
• Cybervetting: social media assessments in selection
• Testing the edge: how people working in extreme contexts can thrive
• Advancing equality, diversity and inclusion through voice for all: presenting a new tool for assessing and enhancing the impact of staff networks
  
• Skills-underutilisation: making the most of your workers' skills

CIPD research reveals that conflict in the workplace is far more common than people professionals would ever want it to be. But with the most common resolution to conflict is to simply ‘let it go’, is there a discrepancy in the perceived handling and management of a conflict scenario, and the experience of the employee experiencing the conflict?

The much anticipated first 100 days of the new Government has passed, but where are we with Labour’s plan to make work pay proposals and what should businesses anticipate and prepare for as the plan continues to evolve? Join us for this interactive session where we’ll focus on the areas you want to know about and the implications for employers.

Explore the broad impact of apprenticeships on bridging skills gaps, enhancing diversity, and driving innovation. Hear from industry experts, apprentices, and employers about their transformative effects across sectors.

For AI in the workplace to be ethical, it must be human-centric, evidence-based, and include a long-term vision. Let Top Employers Institute shine a light into what is working now, how to embrace this technology to improve your business and empower your employees.

Tips for organisations on how to ensure that they're using occupational health and wellbeing services to effectively manage staff sickness, boost productivity and protect their organisation.

It's important for workplaces today to instil cultures of wellbeing, but how can people professionals take care of their own wellbeing at the same time? Practitioners today have to navigate how to take care of themselves whilst taking care of others. But how can you truly avoid wellbeing fatigue? Hear from Helen Fitzhugh on what it takes to 'share the load' and make wellbeing everyone's responsibility. Including a focus on 'how' to implement wellbeing strategies and not just 'what' to implement. Andri Georgiadou will then explore how to balance seeking meaningful work whilst maintaining healthy working habits. Is finding purpose in work really a double-edged sword?