1st South Asian HR Conference on Employee Engagement: Why Now!

Why this conference:

Wednesday 3 November Lahore, Pakistan Pearl-Continental Hotel

As the South Asian businesses head towards an upturn, there is a greater need than ever for engaged employees. Employees who go beyond the bare minimum (read: job description) and use their discretionary behaviour to excel at work, build collaborative teams, serve customer needs and wants and help organisations achieve growth, brand-building and profitability. Pakistani organisations are going through a double jeopardy: impact of global recession and domestic lawlessness and uncertainty. This is resulting in gross underperformance at all work levels. The conference will then look at this critical question: can we deal with growth and profitability through a more engaged workforce? If yes, how? Using the up-to-the-minute global research, the conference will address how three central characters: the leadership, the organisation and the line manager can help or hinder the employee engagement. In each of the three parts, the conference will come up with specific action steps that can be taken to engage employees for the immediate uncertainties and near-term upturn when it happens.

Conference outcomes: After attending this conference you will be able to learn these specific eight outcomes: Engaging through leadership Why employee engagement is critical at this juncture in Pakistani and South Asian contexts How top leaderships commitment to employee engagement and using employee differentiation can help achieve the apparently impossible How to focus on employee strengths, invoke decisionmaking at all levels and develop discretionary behaviour

The engaging organisation How the job content and money side of employee engagement matter, and how issues of procedural justice, workplace stress and work-life balance need to be addressed How social media and small things can impact employee engagement in a big way

Engaging through line manager The role of line manager in expectation-setting, giving ongoing feedback, discovering and developing potential and providing learning opportunities Islamic perspective on employee engagement How to measure and leverage employee engagement

Who must attend COEs and leadership teams Everyone in HR Line managers at all levels

Benefits of attending Face to face with top HR leaders and academics Substantive keynote presentations, interactive panel discussions, dealing with issues in depth (read: not at superficial level) Networking opportunity with hundreds of midcareer and young HR professionals Specially designed fellowship breaks so you could develop partnerships and create opportunities for you and your organisations Be a part of prestigious HR award ceremony: Best organisation to work for and HR star of the year

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Timing 8:30 am 9:00 am 9:15 am 9:30 am Topic Registration Welcome note Employee Engagement in South Asia: Why Now! Inaugural address Session 1: Leadership Chair: Ahsan Iqbal, former Education Minister 9:35 am 9:45 am 10:00 am Top leadership commitment to high-octane employee engagement keynote Engaging employees through differentiation Executive Panel Discussion on Decisions, Discretion, Strengths Moderator: TBA Brought to you by: Rozee.pk TBA

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Speaker/Panelists/Topic Lead

Faisal Awan, Associate SkillCity Lahore Paul Keijzer, CEO, Engage Human Resources

Monis Rehman, CEO, Naseeb Networks Asif Malik, VP HR, ICI Pakistan M Mudassar Aqil, GM HR, Bank Alfalah Dr Sitwat Husain, Head HR, Descon Engineering Amer Hameed Khan, Director Masood Textiles, Faisalabad Rizvana Ikram, Director HR PC Lahore

10:40 am 10:42 am 11:00 am

Group photo Coffee break Session 2: Organisation Chair: TBA

11:05 am 11:15 am 11:30 am 11:40 am 11:55 am 12:10 12:20 pm

The money side of employee engagement keynote The job content Procedural justice for employee engagement Workplace culture and social relationships Work-life balance and workplace stress: The cost of disengagement Happy for what? Social vs business engagement Acts of engagement vs methods of disengagement An activity with live ranking results

Arif Masud Mirza, Head, ACCA Pakistan Waqas Khan, Senior HR Business Partner, PTC Wasif Waseem Ashraf, Director HR, Coke Rahila Narejo, CEO, NHR Dr Erum Maqbool, Associate SkillCity Haroon Waheed, Director HR, Unilever Pakistan Usman Mir, Senior HR Business Partner, Unilever Lahore Dr Nasira Jabeen, Director, IAS, Punjab University Azhar Bilal, Head HR, Crescent Bahuman

12:30 pm

Executive Panel Discussion on Small Things That Matter Moderator: Fawad Shah, Associate SkillCity Islamabad

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Kamran M. Siddiqui, MCB Bank Mian Omer Shah, GM Customer Service, Wateen Telecom Mian Naseer Ahmed, DGM HR Interloop, Faisalabad Waqas Abrar Khan, GM National Foods

13:15 pm 14:15 pm

Lunch & prayer break Session 3: Line Manager Chair: Dr Perry Phalasingh, consultant, The Netherlands

14:20 pm

Expectation setting and providing feedback keynote

Leon Menezes, Director & General Manager HR Pakistan, Middle East, Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Shell Bakhtiar Khawaja, Group Head Learning, Bank Alfalah Fatima Asad-Said, Director, AbacusConsulting Sohail Rizvi, Head of Management Development, Bank Alfalah Kiran Khan, Head HR, 3M Ashaar Saeed, Director HR, Reckitt Benckiser Dr Noor Fatima, Nepra Islamabad Ijaz Nisar, Editor, Manager Today

14:35 pm 14:50 pm

Learning and development opportunities Executive Panel Discussion on Using employee potential: discover, use, develop Moderator: Adeel Anwar, Head HRD, Metro Brought to you by: Manager Today magazine

15:30 pm 15:45 pm

Networking/Mentoring Break Session 4: Putting It All Together Chair: TBA

15:50 pm 16:00 pm 16:10 pm 16:25 pm 17:25 pm 17:30 pm

Islamic model of employee engagement - keynote Measuring employee engagement a team presentation & role play Leveraging the engaged employees concluding address HR excellence awards Vote of thanks Networking tea

TBA Usman Mir & Bushra Asghar, Unilever HR Naushad H Javaid, Director People Excellence, Telenor Pakistan Adeel Anwar, Head HRD, Metro Haroon Waheed, Director HR, Unilever Pakistan

Conference moderators: Wajahat Gardezi, Associate SkillCity, Multan | Maryam Shahid, Associate SkillCity, Lahore Fawad Shah, Associate SkillCity, Islamabad

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Nominations invited for SkillCity HR Awards 2010

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SkillCity is arranging the 1st South Asian HR Conference on Employee Engagement: Why Now! on 3 November at Pearl Continental Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan As part of the conference, you will have a chance to nominate organisations and individuals who deserve to be acknowledged. You can nominate in these four categories: 1. 2. 3. 4. Best Place to Work for (MNC in Pakistan) Best Place to Work for (Pakistani-owned firm) Rising HR Professional (3-5 years in HR) Star HR Professional (10-20 years in HR)

You can nominate any organisation or individual in these categories in the space provided. Please remember to fill all fields. The nominations are open till 2300 hours on Saturday 30 October. The names will go to a SkillCity jury who will decide the finalists. The jurys decision will be final. Thank you for taking the time. See you at the conference! Nominate now! http://skillcity.pk/hrawards/

Sponsorship opportunity
Sponsor the SkillCity 1st South Asian HR Conference on Employee Engagement: Why Now! and continue to be an employer of choice. Why sponsor? 300+ delegates from HR and non-HR functions from high-performing organisations across the country 30 credible and insightful speakers & panelists New-generation organiser known for quality learning interventions Much-talked-about and much-awaited event of the year Pre-event website, social media and website presence Post-event recall Email us for sponsorship options skillcity@live.com

Fee: Rs 6,000 per participant | Rs 3,000 for students Cheques payable to Skill City Register for the conference online | http://skillcity.pk/register/

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