Everyone wants more productivity. What actually works?

About this event

Part of our senior leaders stream of monthly events for HR leaders delivering strategy for their organisation.

About this event

With rising cost pressures, rapidly changing business models and AI reshaping work and productivity, Senior HR Leaders need a clear, shared view of how they can drive performance in their organisations.

This webinar will help Senior HR Leaders build a clear, shared understanding of productivity and performance, explore how these concepts are being reshaped by the current economic and workplace climate, and identify the role HR can play in enabling sustainable organisational outcomes.

What we'll cover

• Define productivity and performance in practical, people-centred terms enabling us to distinguish between activity, output, outcome, value and impact.
• Consider how productivity and performance should be measured at organisational, team and individual level.
• Understand how economic uncertainty, including labour market shifts, AI, skills gaps, wellbeing and regulation are changing the performance agenda.
• Identify where HR can move from running initiatives to strategically driving organisational performance.

What you'll take away

• A clearer language for discussing productivity and performance with senior stakeholders.
• A stronger understanding of how external pressures are changing what good performance looks like.
• Practical examples from peers on how to build sustainable productivity within your organisation.

Guest speakers:

Rebecca Peters

Senior Policy & Practice Adviser - People, CIPD

Rebecca joined the CIPD research team in 2019, specialising in health and wellbeing at work, as both a practitioner and a researcher. Rebecca now leads the CIPD’s research and policy agenda on the People Profession the Future of the Profession, dedicated to gathering insights on HR and people management practices.

Rebecca has a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology from Kingston University, where she conducted research on the resilience of Prison Officers. Her background in Occupational Psychology motivates her ambition to bring together research and practice throughout all the work that she does.

Catherine Qi

Head of Research, Winmark

Catherine Qi is Head of Research at Winmark, where she leads C-Suite research programmes in partnership with the CIPD. Her work brings together senior executives from FTSE-listed and multinational organisations to examine leadership transitions, workforce complexity, and the changing demands on senior leaders. Her research includes drawing on the C-Suite Priorities survey of over 14,000 executives and a series of advisory board programmes with CEOs, Chief People Officers, and Non-Executive Directors that focuses on the challenges facing senior leaders today, in addition to the transition from management to C-Suite and board-level leadership.

Clair Staines

CPO, POWWR

Clair Staines is an award-winning Chief People Officer with more than 20 years of experience in Human Resources, specialising in helping small and medium-sized businesses build high-performing, people-first cultures. Throughout her career, she has successfully transformed disengaged workforces into motivated, high-performing organisations by focusing on employee experience, leadership development, engagement, wellbeing, and organisational culture.

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