M Media Event APAC 2024!

• Effective collaboration with leadership to support their understanding of the role of L&D in the organisation.
• How can organisations unlock success through learning and development?
• Aligning learning initiatives with strategic goals.
• How can organisations work cross-functionally and not in silos?
• How can L&D impact business growth?

•  Where are CHROs focusing their attention when it comes to The Future of Work?
• What are they looking for from their leadership team?
• How have CHROs changed their outlook and strategies post-pandemic?
• What are the biggest challenges CHROs now face?
• How can they inspire the whole organisation and lead authentically?

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• How HR is changing with the future of work.
• The purpose of HR in a VUCA World with accelerated growth strategies.
• Powerful examples of how HR can bring to the work environment, the employee experience and how we can accelerate growth for the companies we work for.

Wardah Harharah is a Singapore national with over 20 years of global experience in driving business success through organizational design, culture transformation, performance transformation and change management.

Join her as she discusses the power that learning can have in building belonging through human connections whilst navigating the ever-changing digital era. 

• How can you maintain employee connection whilst still offering flexible working or that transcends locations, geographies, time zones and cultures?
• Connecting employees to purpose and driving engagement.
• Generating authentic connections and capturing those ‘water-cooler’ moments remotely.
• Creating a sense of community and belonging for all employees.

• Explore the role of talent leaders in leveraging AI for strategic talent management and addressing hybrid work challenges.
• Highlight the necessity of agile career development and catering to the needs of a multi-generational workforce.
• Emphasise LinkedIn’s Economic Graph as a cost-efficient tool for real-time data on job trends and skill requirements.
• Discuss the impact of AI on employment, with a focus on upskilling human-centric skills to complement technology.
• Showcase LinkedIn’s AI-driven solutions for talent acquisition and personalised learning, emphasising the synergy between AI and human skills.

• How can organizations maximize creativity and productivity through better use of technology?
• Can tech enable cross-team collaboration and effective teamwork?
• What processes should be streamlined through automation technologies?
• How can employers be intentional in their technology approach and design frictionless digital experiences so employees can be productive?

• How to take your global company learning initiative scale it down and personalize it for your teams across the world, whilst ensuring quality and consistency are kept across diverse departments.
• Why a ‘one size fits all’ approach will never work. How to regulate budgets and resources fairly, dependent on locations, team sizes, and roles.
• Carrying out needs assessments and identifying key differences by working with your top teams in each location.
• How to ensure communication is consistent with your different offices and teams to show the company’s support and enthusiasm for learning and development of the employees.

• How can organizations embrace AI to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and drive employee engagement? 
• Practical examples of how GenAI can simplify the process of planning, creating, organizing, and distributing L&D video.
• Why video needs to be part of your internal communication and L&D strategy.

Attendees will have a focus area or business problem to discuss in their groups. This is an opportunity to collaborate and share ideas with your fellow attendees.

Attendees will have a focus area or business problem to discuss in their groups. This is an opportunity to collaborate and share ideas with your fellow attendees.

• What technology is disrupting the L&D space? Keeping up with emerging technology and how this can be integrated into your learning initiatives.
• How can technology change non-training methods of development like coaching?
• Using tech to increase human interaction between instructors, learners, and coaches.
• What is hype and what is here to stay? How to know what tech to invest in.

• Extracting meaningful trends from background noise in HR narratives.
• Developing x-program Intelligence across HR to drive business outcomes.
• Driving efficiency and experience across HR services through AI.

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• What is Social Wellbeing and how does it fit alongside Physical and Mental Wellbeing?
• Why Social Wellbeing is a crucial strategy for today's employee engagement and your employer branding.
• How can you attain high Social well-being for your organisation without burning out your HR team?

• Creating a positive, diverse and inclusive work environment that values and supports employees.
• Effective communication and engagement strategies to enhance the employee experience.
• Tailoring your employee experience across all your different demographics.
• Measuring the impact of your EX-programs - how can you tell how well they are working?

• Identifying barriers to learning within your organisation
• The importance of leadership buy-in to support learning initiatives.
• Providing accessible and inclusive learning opportunities
• Managing information overload. How can L&D guide employees to effectively navigate and filter vast amounts of information that is available to them.
• Empowering employees to take ownership of their own learning journeys.

• Do your company values and purpose propositions speak to your employees and show them they belong?
• How can organisations ensure leaders are intentional about creating a strong, positive, and inclusive company culture? 
• What are you doing within your businesses to create a sense of belonging for all?
•  How can you make culture about emotional connection and not about bricks and mortar?
• The importance of strong company values and vision to unite employees.

• What critical challenges do leaders of today and tomorrow face and how can they be equipped to deal with them?
• Changing paradigms to a more human leadership style, what capabilities do future leaders need? 
• Overcoming executive leadership resistance to change and how can you engage them in learning programmes?
• How do you enable good leadership with a constantly changing and dispersed workforce? 
• Developing strategic capabilities, behaviours, and frameworks. 

• How do you prioritise strategy/business goals Vs culture to succeed in the current disruptive marketplace?
• Sharing our experience of building a robust culture in our organization in APAC.
• How does culture help in implementing change/transformation / AI, EX strategy, flexi work etc or it does create hindrances?
• How to measure org culture and improve it.
• Key take aways.          

• How is AI transforming the L&D landscape?
• Understanding AI-powered learning platforms, what benefits can they bring and what do you need to watch out for?
• Effectively integrating AI into your existing L&D processes.
• Real-life examples of successful AI adoption in L&D.

• What recruitment challenges are organisations facing in today’s labour market?
• Building and promoting an employer brand that attracts top talent.
• Improving the candidate experience and leveraging technology to improve efficiency.
• Strategies for retaining top talent including rewards and recognition, career development and a positive work environment.
• Developing robust talent pipelines and seeking new talent sources.

• Future trends in AI, jobs and skills.
• Human-centered, sustainable and scalable approach to reskilling.
• Role of HR and leaders in an AI-first world. 

• Understanding the changing technology landscape and its impact on workforce skills.
• Data-driven approaches to skills forecasting.
• Designing training and development programs.
• Fostering a culture of continuous learning and upskilling.

• Assessing skills shortages in your organisation and predicting future skill requirements.
• Fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Leveraging technology for scalable learning solutions.

• Creating a holistic listening program that moves beyond just surveys – what other ways can you listen to your organisation?
• Actioning the insights to better the business and the employee experience.
• How can you ensure that you are listening throughout the whole employee journey?
• How can you get leadership involved and invested in the process?

Join Mona & Tilo to explore how a strategic partnership between Learning & Development (L&D) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) can unlock superpowers that propel positive sustainable change in culture & leadership. This session will cover real WBD initiatives where the L&D and DEI Team in APAC successfully collaborated across 5 key areas of impact including Top Talent development, Maximising the Power of Business Resource Groups and Leadership Team Development. You will leave the session with 3 practical tips from the speakers on what you can activate immediately within your organisation.

Much is written and talked about in HR circles re the need to become ‘skills based’. But what does this actually mean?  What does it look like?  How do you transform to be a skills-based organisation? This practical and informative session will explore what it takes to become a truly skills-based organisation and highlight the key elements that organisations pursuing this strategy need to consider.  Steve Scott, Global Head of Workforce Management, People Insight and Analytics at Standard Chartered Bank will describe the exciting work underway at the bank – regarded as many as one of the organisations leading the charge into becoming skills based.  The session will cover the business and employee benefits of becoming skills based, explore the required interventions needed across the full extent of the employee lifecycle to enable the transformation and highlight approaches to skills-based planning. With clear tangible take aways this practical based discussion will hopefully both inspire you and provide clarity on the required next steps for your organisation to take.

• What is GenAI, and how can we utilise it as L&D Professionals?
• Integrating GenAI and Content Structures: A Winning Combination.
• Tools and resources you can use right away for L&D. 

• Creating an environment of trust and psychological safety.
• How can employers avoid employee burnout?
• How do you build resilience in your employees and your leaders?
• Why employee wellbeing is a business priority that should not be overlooked?
• Making employee wellness meaningful, what can you do beyond rolling out apps?
• Creating a culture where employees can thrive.

• Why Purpose matters and how it unleashes energy.
• How Individual Purpose can drive Business Performance?
• Unlocking performance, productivity and meaning via Purpose.
• Case Study: Hard data on the difference employees with Purpose can make.

• How can organizations create a cohesive and collaborative workplace where employees from different generations can thrive?
• Understanding the needs and work preferences of each generation.
• Implementing effective communication strategies, and tailoring communication styles and channels.
•  Encouraging collaboration and cross-generational mentorship.

• What practical steps can L&D leaders to take to encourage learner engagement?
• Encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing through social learning activities.
• Ensuring employees are receiving personalised learning programs.
• The role of technology in enhancing learning engagement.
• The importance of feedback and assessment in learner engagement.