Human capital management is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organisation’s most valued assets its employees.Globalisation and knowledge intensive work have tremendously raised numerous challenges in attracting, developing, motivating and retaining talent because human capital development is the key to organisational success. These challenges can be addressed through early awareness of emerging trends. HR professionals can help their organisations to anticipate and respond to the changing environment in the way best suited to their organisation.

This track will expose practical tips and strategies on how to effectively make a positive HR impact in your organisation and contribute directly to the business plan.

Leadership plays a central part in developing an organisation’s talent pool. In fact, leaders are the ones who provide a winning difference to the organisation. They are in a unique position to enable employees to think beyond their environment. Kouzes and Posner remarked that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women but a process ordinary people use when they bring forth the best from themselves to others. Seen this way, leadership is simply a relationship between leaders and followers and the one that can be learned.

The Leadership track will explore successful global practices and models with particular relevance to Asia.

Competencies make up the foundation for organisational performance as they clarif performanc standards and highlight the types and levels of competencies an organisation requires. Despite the benefits, organisations fail to make full use of the competencies. Fortunately, there are frameworks available today that can simplify the process of introducing competencies into Human Capital Development applications such as Talent management, Succession Planning, Deployment, etc.

This track will explore what some organisations have done successfully, the best practices in the competency profiling, assessments as well as application and implementation strategies.The Return on Investment (ROI) on these initiatives will also be addressed.

Talent management is increasingly regarded as a growing influence in determining the success of an organisation. The inability to attract, engage and retain enough talent will result in nonexecution of your growth strategy. Whether you are responsible for Human Resource in a corporate organisation, government agency or a non-profit organisation, you are faced with the imminent need to identify access and develop talent to ensure continuity of leadership at all levels in your organisation.

This track will reveal how successful organisations plan their talent needs, how to develop recruitment and retention cultures and processes that ensure a healthy talent pipeline for continued organisational growth.

There is big competition for talents and organisations with a good employer brand being able to pick and choose from the best candidates. Job seekers are becoming more inclined to work for corporations where the organisation’s values are aligned with their own.

Recruitment remains the crucial activity of the HR department. Indeed, the number of people in HR with responsibility for recruiting is increasing. In an environment in which employee cynicism and mistrust are becoming significant obstacles to overcome, the coherence and continuity provided by effective employer brand management has resulted in increasing support for effective employer branding among the HRD and HRM community.

This track will provide a practical insight into all areas of employer branding, from understanding the branding process and learning how to create a branding framework to communicating a company’s values effectively.