Foster a culture that takes the fear out of change and innovation!
Maintaining high performance can be difficult with so much change in the workplace and around the world. How can you ensure your business structure, productivity, and culture not only survives, but thrives during change?
Join us at our Strategic HR Summit and hear Keir Hansen, Head of High Performance Netball NZ and Ryan Ghisi, General Manager of Global People Programs at Xero share their experiences.
Hear about how to:
- Enable your organisation so it responds to change like a living, dynamic organism
- Reframe project thinking to build shorter cycles for complex problems – divide big tasks into bite sized chunks for smaller teams to resolve
- Create transparency and build greater trust and engagement through sharing business goals and the truth about company performance
- Manage the person, not the outcome to enable change while balancing BAU within an individual and team capacity.
Ryan dives into design thinking for HR and people innovation and reveals how real-time snapshots of staff wants and needs are critical for productivity and development. He also covers why honest leadership, a shared vision and transparent communication plays a crucial role during periods of change.
Keir will share with you how to develop your middle managers into performance coaches that take charge of development, engagement and planning for their staff. He also reveals how to actively engage with your people leaders to help mitigate burnout with larger-than-life workloads and how to prioritise project tasks.
Drive high performance through great company culture, support your organisation and teams to reach new heights, and watch your business soar!
Strategic HR Summit: Culture Driven Performance
- Thursday, 25th March 2021
- 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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EMA Business Hub
145 Khyber Pass Road
Grafton, Auckland
Speakers

Max Ashton
Head of Service
Samsung

Melissa Brown
Head of Human Resources
Foodstuffs North Island

Ian Sargeant
Business Development Manager
– Partnership & Groups
nib

Keir Hansen
Head of High Performance
Netball NZ

Ryan Ghisi
General Manager – Global People Programs
Xero
Schedule
Registration and networking – lunch is served
Organisations that thrive in a fast changing world: flexible, team based, empowered and purposeful
- Does your current business model suit future business needs, growth plans, and modern talent retention?
- Enabling your organisation as a living, dynamic organism
- Assessing team and organisation dynamics – the hard lines, the dotted lines, how do they cross over, and what does this mean for relationships during disruptive times?
- Increasing your organisational transformation probability of success – how to get started and other learnings.
Big problems, bite-sized approach – taking the fear out of failing and building dynamics that emphasise growth, innovation and collaboration
- Reframing project thinking and building shorter cycles for complex problems – dividing big tasks into bite sized chunks for smaller teams to resolve
- Turning the psychology of your teams into a fail fast culture while reducing the shame and false expectations that undermine high performance
- Multi personalities, multiple teams – Rewards initiatives that drive collaborative behaviours and celebrate an innovative mindset
- Optimising cross-functional teams to get your customers to the answers faster.
Morning tea – networking break
People innovation, change and the communication that backs it up
- Design thinking for HR – Creating feedback loops that build snapshots of current and future state of people’s wants, needs and bridging the gaps in between
- Restructures, business outsourcing, and effective leadership – Maintaining the integrity of your culture through change
- Transparent, clear and visible – Building trust and engagement through sharing business goals and being honest about company performance.
Enabling middle-management to become performance coaches – development and learning, planning and engaging your people
- Managing the person not the outcomes – how to enable change and balance BAU and being realistic on what individual and team capacities are
- Challenging thinking about project priorities against everyday tasks to free up time without heavily impacting the business’s bottom-line
- Actively engaging your leaders to support staff to work in a different way to mitigate burn out, stress and larger-than-life workloads.

Small Business, Big Benefits!
nib can now offer EMA members (with five or more employees) the same benefits usually only available for larger organisations on nib’s Premier Health business plan.
This includes:
- Immediate pre-existing condition cover (excluding general exclusions, and Serious Condition Lump Sum option).
- Waived stand down periods on GP, Dental & Optical, and Specialist Options when added within 90 days of policy commencement.
- Employees’ family members can also receive the same health cover benefits when added within 90 days of policy commencement.
For further information, join us at Fresh People or please get in touch with the nib group team today.
Email: grouphealth@nib.co.nz | Phone: 0800 287 642
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