Conference Day One, 3 August 2009

 

Day One | Day Two | Workshop

08:00 Registration & coffee
09:00

Conference Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Mohammad Imran Kunalan Abdullah, General Manager, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)
09:15

Understanding Malaysia market job skills requirement and managing human capital for such demand

  • Identifying key problems of the industry
  • Matching needs and requirements
  • Projecting wins for the industry
  • Creating future opportunities
Mohammad Imran Kunalan Abdullah, General Manager, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)
09:45

Gaining Support for Change Management: Key Factors for Effectiveness

Roshan Thiran, CEO, Leaderonomics
10:15 Networking Coffee Break
10:45

SAP present on a new agenda for HR – Enabling High Performance

  • Megatrends & Business Challenges impacting HR
  • How Can HR Respond
  • Best Practices of Best Run Organization
  • Enable Talent Transformation with Technology

Audrey Pang, HCM Solution Principal, SAP Asia

11:15

 

Understanding and Leveraging Employee Engagement in Times of Uncertainty

  • Components of employee engagement
  • The power of an engaged workforce   
  • How employee perceptions and opinions have changed during the
    economic downturn 
Michael Drawhorn, Managing Principal of Malaysia/Singapore, Towers Perrin
11:45

PANEL DISCUSSION
Learning the boardroom language and  getting line management backing

  • What HR required to know and doesn’t know yet
  • Setbacks for novices & middle managers in the field of HR
  • HR trends for 2009 that propel or set the industry back
  • Management expectations from line mangers for HR to help
Moderator:  Samuel Kurian, Director, Leaderonomic 
Panelist:

Yong Kit San, Head of employee engagement & development, DIGI
Zulkifly Bin abdul rahman, General Manager, NEC Semiconductors (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Asohan Satkunasingham, Head of Human Resource (Group Plantations)  
Mohamad Imran Kunalan, GM learning & development, Multimedia Development Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd
12:30 Networking Lunch Break
13:30 Engagement & Incentives
Chairman’s Introduction
Leadership Development
Chairman’s Introduction
13:30 Chairman's Introdution

Arriffin Mansor, Founder & Managing Consultant, ABM Consult
Chairman's Introdution

Siti Aishah Md Lassim,  Chief Human Resources Officer, Bursa Malaysia Berhad
 

Case Study on Petronas: Employee engagement in economic slowdown

  • Understanding employees level of engagement and measuring its success rate
  • How empowerment can increase the engagement level of the employee?
  • How to increase involvement from each employee to turn disengaged employees to full engagement
  • Real cost for disengagement  
Abdul Jalil MD Taib, HR Resource person for Petronas, Petronas

Working with Women in Asia: Transcending Cultural Expectations in the Field of HR

  • What cultural backgrounds are we facing in the region?
  • Facing Obstacles and Overcoming them
  • Solutions for Changes & Diversification
  • Following through by Joining Leaders & Associations Who Can Help & Share Their Expertise
Siti Aishah Md Lassim,  Chief Human Resources Officer, Bursa Malaysia Berhad
14:00

Case study on Certis CISCO:

"Innovative recruitment and branding strategies to attract and retain talent"

  • Manpower development and planning
  •  integration of career development with branding strategies to attract talent
  •  innovative resourcing strategies
  • integration of talent management with recruitment stratgies
Gerald Chan, Head of Recruitment Group Human Resources, Certis CISCO Security Pte Ltd

People on the Move: Career Progression in a Flat Organization

  • The Story so Far… resistance is futile, you will be Yellow
  • How to sustain an engaged workforce when there’s nowhere to promote them?
  • “eee’k!!” When Training is NOT Developing!
  • “BuBuBo!!” way of Developing Leaders, where 100+100=infinity…or Disaster
Yong Kit San, Head of employee engagement, DIGI
14:30

Customer Service Internally for Engaging Talents Now

  • Attracting the Right Mix of Talent
  • Spotting the Talent to Engage
  • Segregating the Disadvantageous  Diplomatically
  • Foreseeing Potential Setbacks & Hurdles
Zulkifly Bin Abdul Rahman, General Manager, NEC Semiconductors (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

Planting the Seeds of Greatness : HR holds the shovel and fertilizer

A talk on developing leaders: -

  • Who to plant?
  • What to plant?
  • How to nourish


Edmond Yap, Executive Director, Education Republic
15:00
Coffee Reception
15:30

Case study on Certis CISCO:

"Innovative recruitment and branding strategies to attract and retain talent"

  • Manpower development and planning
  •  integration of career development with branding strategies to attract talent
  •  innovative resourcing strategies
  • integration of talent management with recruitment stratgies
Gerald Chan, Head of Recruitment Group Human Resources, Certis CISCO Security Pte Ltd

Case Study on how Procter & Gamble retain their top talents in its organization

  • Reviewing leaders’ options in the market: issues & setbacks
  • Translating potential losses and gains into numbers
  • Considering factors for loyalty
  • Translating plans into actions




Michael Tan Kian Yen, Country HR Manager, Malaysia & Singapore, Procter & Gamble
16:00

Balancing rewards and risks during good and bad times

  • Should deserved employees be rewarded during bad economy?
  • How to continuously motivate employees who are not monetary rewarded so as to continuous increase productivity
  • Opportunities and Challenges
Arriffin Mansor, Founder & Managing Consultant, ABM Consult

Understanding and learning HR challenges in period of volatility: Challenges and Opportunity

  • HR challenges during a period of volatility
  • New HR ideas for managing staff training and development
  • HR priorities during the economic downturn
Dr Amat Taap Manshor, Director / Principal Consultant, Linkfarr Sdn Bhd
16:30

Employee engagement in economic slowdown

  • Understanding employees level of engagement and why engagement is working or not
  • How empowerment can increase the engagement level of the employee?
  • How to increase involvement from each employee to turn disengaged employees to full engagement
  • Real cost for disengagement

Lim Chee Gay, Vice President of Human Resource, Astro

The world is getting smaller, flatter and smarter. How can your organization thrive in a hypercompetitive global market place?

  • The importance of continuous employee skill training and development to keep up to current market requirement or equipping oneself with skills for future needs
  • How developing ideas from employees can help to create a blue ocean in the midst of this contested market?
GP Rao, Chief-Human Resources & Management Services, Recron (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
17:00 Chairman’s Closing Chairman’s Closing
  End of Conference Day One

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