Lefteris Kanavas

Director, Former Head of Learning & Development, DunnHumby GP&S, Tesco
The Go Forward Group

What’s your Purpose? What’s your Passion? Why do you exist? How do you add Value? What’s your Legacy? These are just some of the questions Lefteris has been helping a huge number of Executives from some 23 Countries in Europe, the Middle East, and also the US, to figure out! Lefteris utilises a number of tools, such as Learning Immersion Experiences, Positive Psychology, Neuro-science, Leadership Development, Coaching, Mentoring, Learning & Development, Facilitation, and Spiritual Psychology to help people identify their true potential. He most recently led the Learning & Development department at Tesco's dunnhumby Global Products & Services. As a Moderator of the L&D Stream, Lefteris will stimulate the discussion around core themes in helping people reach their potential. He will also be leading the creative boardroom session on how different HR functions can master the art of influence and best demonstrate their value to the C-Suite.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Lefteris.

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Day 1- Igniting HR Business Impact

Saturday, August 6th, 2016

11:50 Case Study Revolution - Traditional management no longer works: How to successfully innovate your management methods and make it your competitive advantage

How to overcome problems with traditional management
How to innovate your management processes in a the new arena for competitive advantage
Statoil’s “Ambition to Action” model- sharing top tips on how to

Redefine performance
Set dynamic and relative targets that feed into a holistic performance evaluation
Achieve dynamic forecasting and resource allocation without a traditional budgets
Move towards a more self-regulating process- from calendar-driven to event-driven

How to address major implementation hurdles
How to foster productive HR-Finance collaboration

12:55 Case Study - Reinventing Performance Management: How to promote managers as development partners through trust and self-responsibility

14:45 Case Study Revolution - What are our employees saying today? How to bring employee voice and insight into real-time to achieve an accurate map of engagement sentiment

Moving beyond snap-shot analysis: How to implement an engagement survey that builds a real-time heat map of employee sentiment
Diagnosing cultural problems: How to leverage big data to identify patterns between well being, productivity, engagement
Pre-empting disengagement: How to apply predictive analytics to prevent in engagement campaigns to avoid a stagnation in productivity
Linking changes in sentiment to specific changes: How to ensure your engagement strategy is effective when going through a company transition

Day 2- Preparing Your HR For The Future Workforce

Tuesday, September 6th, 2016

11:30 Case Study - Hardwiring corporate culture: How to guarantee your HR processes promote the actual behaviour desired by your company values

Drilling down into leadership management: How to effectively analyse, manage and transform behaviour in your organisation
Bridging the gap between management style and structure: How to mould your management network to reflect your company culture

Hardwiring engagement: How to imbed processes that will continually motivate your employees

How to maintain simplicity in a complex, matrix organisation – at what point of systemic complexity do employees become disengaged?

12:35 Case Study Revolution - Embracing the digital: How to improve performance by eliminating learning

Fast tracking development: How to best diversify your learning portfolio in the new digital world
Quantifying ROI from digital learning: How to track the development of employee competence when using digital techniques?
The rise of a corporate YouTube: How to capitalise on user-generated content to provide just-in time flexible learning
Becoming a learning organisation: How to leverage social learning to increase employee engagement

14:00 Boardroom Creative - The art of influence: How can different HR functions best demonstrate their value to the C-Suite

How to align your HR initiatives with the short and long term goals of the business
Quantifying the added value of HR: How to use data-driven feedback to influence the C-suite
How to best present the impact of future trends to add real value to boardroom discussions
How to best influence the C-suite to get sign-off for key investments

15:35 Unconference Live: Think big to win big: What are the major step changes your function needs to make to thrive as a strategic business partner

Think big to win big: What are the major step changes your function needs to make to thrive as a strategic business partner in 2020?

A unique opportunity to ask a panel of HR experts your burning questions that were not covered over the 2 conference days. Guarantee you return to work with all the answers you need to make real step changes in your HR function

How can HR departments better collaborate to bridge key silos
How can your function embrace the new digital era to prepare for the new automated world of work?
How can HR win the boardroom battle?
How should HR leaders prepare for the transition required to adapt to demographic changes?
How should HR capitalise on new ways of working?