Event Agenda
July 16 2008, Wednesday
AM
0830
Registration
0850
Opening address from the chairman
0900

SESSION ONE / KEYNOTE SPEECH
Organizational development & HR – what is the connection and difference between these two functions?
As the business growth and fierce competition, OD seems to become more and more important. Are you currently practicing both human resources and organizational development? Has the OD department been moved to the Human Resources division? Do you know the business case to accept or challenge this combination of responsibilities? So in this session, our speaker will offer straight talk about the benefits and limitations of combining two critical roles and how to make the best use of them.

  • What is OD?
  • Connection between OD and HR
  • Difference between OD and HR
  • Choose the best model for your organization
0945

SESSION TWO / CHANGE MANAGEMENT
How to use change management to gain a great result of organizational development

  • How HR enhancing the ability to lead yourself and others through difficult change initiatives
  • Understanding the critical elements for driving successful change
  • Developing coaching skills to create a change-ready culture throughout your organization
  • Creating and implement effective transition strategies
  • Decreasing the negative effects of change on individuals and groups
1030
Morning refreshments & networking break
1100

SESSION THREE / OPERATIONAL EXECUTION
Driving operational execution: Building and leveraging strong partnerships between OD/HR and line managers
Every successful program need good execution plans. When OD/HR is not actively involved in execution planning, many key criteria for success are not identified or managed. So in this session, our speaker will share their case study about the achievements and lessons learned from the successful role OD/HR played in developing an execution strategy for a field-based expansion, incorporating key human capital strategy elements.

  • Design a practical execution plan
  • Process to execute, step by step
  • Get the support for line managers
  • Tips for great success
1145

SESSION FOUR / PANEL DISCUSSION
How to use talent management to benefit organizational development
In nowadays, companies that are innovative and agile are rewarded with an increasingly strong competitive position, and talent is the key to both acquiring and sustaining this advantage. Most organizations have pockets of strong talent practices, but few have holistic and integrated talent practices. In this session, our speaker will introduce how to establish and outstanding talent identification and training system for talent retention and successful organizational development.

  • How to move from a siloed to holistic approach to talent
  • Approach to structuring the talent management function
  • How to effectively partner across the organization to make optimal talent decisions
  • Talent identification and training in your organization for talent retention
1230
Luncheon
PM
1400

SESSION FIVE / STRATEGIC BUSINESS MODEL
Connecting your OD initiatives to strategic business models
As we know, OD is not like traditional HR's role. It's more strategic and served like an OD professional, you must truly understand business especially the strategic business models. So in this session, our speaker will introduce their best practice of connecting the OD initiatives to strategic business models.

  • Why must we understand business as an OD manager
  • Practical process for us to truly understand the strategic business models
  • Key issues for the successful task
1445

SESSIOIN SIX / ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Simple and effective model for assessing organizational behavior Organizational behavior is a very new topic but it's also important for organizational development. In this session, you could learn how to identify and assess an organization's functioning on many critical, interrelated variables such as culture, strategy, leadership, motivation and
innovation.

  • Strategic and tactical planning
  • Designing employee opinion surveys
  • Systematic problem solving to improve performance and the quality of work life
1530
Afternoon refreshments & networking break
1600

SESSION SEVEN / ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH
Patterns of organizational health: diagnosing and curing organizational disease
No matter individuals or organization, health is always the foundation of developing. Unfortunately, for most people, organizational life brings more anxiety, tension, and burn-out than joy. Peppered with real-life examples from around the world, this session provides both a conceptual framework and a practical guide for individuals to improve the health of the organizations they are involved with by diagnosing and treating diseases and creating a context for organizational health.

  • What is organizational health?
  • How to combine the individual health with organizational health
  • Organizational disease? – best practice to cure it!
  • Importance and great result for a healthy organization
1645

SESSION EIGHT / PANEL DISCUSSION
How to clearly define your role as an internal OD consultant
Organizational development requires high level professionals. Not the same as the HR's role, OD managers will focus more about the business strategy, organization structure and so on. So as an OD manager, it's much more like an internal consultant than just normal HR manager. In this session, our speaker will introduce how to clearly define your role as an internal OD consultant for a better organizational development.

  • Defining what OD consultant is
  • How to be an OD consultant
  • Tips to avoid failure
  • Best practice
1730
Closing remarks from Chairman and end of the conference
    coming soon!