The HR Leaders Africa conference in June is Africa’s most influential gathering of HR professionals

HR Leaders Africa 2014 leads with the Guru Day and, in 2014, it hosts one of HR’s iconic thinkers and trendsetters. Armed with a new best seller and findings of a survey of 300,000 managers,Chester Elton will share the latest thinking on employee recognition and motivation – a key ingredient in the employee retention mix.

As founder of the global consulting company The Culture Works, Chester works with the leadership teams of firms such as Cigna, American Express, Proctor & Gamble, AT&T and Texas Roadhouse.

In this very interactive and engaging session based on The Gostick & Elton New York Times best selling book, “All In” and research from over 300,000 surveys on high performance organization from Towers Watson, Chester will teach leaders how to Engage, Enable and Energize their workforce through the power of recognition or “Rooting for Each Other” (step 6). The simple formula of E+E+E outlines how these high performance organizations deliver extraordinary results through creating the right culture at work. This workshop will focus in energizing your people through effective recognition. In short, to get your people “All In” and committed at your organization.

There will be two pre-Conference Masterclasses led by expert facilitators with over 50 years of HR experience collectively.  The first Masterclass, Elements of Success: A SHRM Talent and Competency Model is a workshop is for senior HR managers and other key stakeholders to develop an understanding of the potential strategic advantage to be gained through best practice and high performance HR.  It will be led by Brad Boyson , Executive Director, SHRM MEA The second Masterclass, Strategic Workforce Planning, is a workshop is for senior HR managers and other key stakeholders to develop an understanding of the potential strategic advantage to be gained through best practice and high performance HR.

This day will include a panel discussion on Empowering HR – engaging with and equipping executive management to respond to HR challenges , with panel members including Emmanuel Michael , Head, Human Resources, Accion Microfinance Bank Limited, Wale Adediran ,HR Director,Guinness Nigeria, and Oludare F. Arinde , Group Head, Human Resources, Forte Oil Plc.

A second panel discussion will look at Career and talent development strategies for high performers in Africa and will address linking career and organisational development to your business objectives and addressing your competency shortages, communicating career development plans to staff, and creating new opportunities and overcoming flat structures – enabling horizontal movement, redefining hierarchies and interim job opportunity engagement.

Other sessions include: Cultivating women employees on the career path to leadership, Addressing leadership shortages – developing the next generation of leaders, Local content - Overcoming the challenges to effective nationalization of the workforce, Critical tools for bolstering employee retention, The evolving role of HR as business partner to identify talents and develop future leaders and Adapting HR practices for successful talent acquisition and leader building.

Other sessions include: Cultivating women employees on the career path to leadership, Addressing leadership shortages – developing the next generation of leaders, Local content - Overcoming the challenges to effective nationalization of the workforce, Critical tools for bolstering employee retention, The evolving role of HR as business partner to identify talents and develop future leaders and Adapting HR practices for successful talent acquisition and leader building.

For further details: www.hrleadersafrica.com