The EMEA HR Directors annual summit is one of the industry’s leading event for senior HR executives with unparalleled workshops featuring experts who shared business and organizing strategies, and guest speakers from leading organizations who educated and inspired attendees.

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In these two days of the event, participants from various countries inside and outside EMEA (UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Hungary, Denmark, France, Sweden, Netherlands, South Africa, Slovenia, Turkey, Bahrain, Serbia Montenegro, Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, USA, Poland, Portugal etc) leveraged their professional organizing skills and networking with fellow organizers. Exhibitors were on hand at the Organizing Exposition, demonstrating the latest products and services within the area of human resources.

With a speaking faculty that included HR executives from companies such as NATO, Bekaert, Hudson, BT, Staples, Regus, RBS, UBS, American Express, Adidas, CIPD, IMD, National Bank of Hungary, Moscow Higher School of Economics, LinkedIn, Global English, a wide range of issues were addressed, such as facing global challenges and sharing a vision on the future of the HR.

“Creating an environment where knowledge workers can reach a high level of effectiveness will be one of the key challenges for management in the 21st century. The Summit has clearly shown that the Human Resource leaders across Europe are conscious about the need to shift the focus from Human Resources to people in order to liberate the latent knowledge and creativity in organizations” observed Richard Straub from EFMD, this year’s conference Chair.

The HR summit witnessed the Keynote addressed by Marc Timmerman, Executive Director for Talent Management at Hudson, sharing with the audience the visionary future of HR. ‘While people are still restoring from the ‘Economic Battle Fatigue’ and getting ready to play the ‘Talent Crunch’, it is evident the future should move beyond this superficial impression. On the short term the key focus for organizations lies with People, Profit, and Planet’.

The summit was a huge success and many important topics regarding human resources were presented in front of a large audience. The summit participants discussed the influences of the HR world. While HR does have a seat at the table, it still seems to constantly question its power and impact. What does HR actually contribute to the table? Should HR stop questioning its internal image, just get to business and truly be a business partner within the increasingly challenged organization? HR needs to keep the finger on the pulse, bridge the gap from operations to the strategy, walk the talk, and most importantly adapt to the new context.

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The Summit participants also noticed the need to re-establish the emotional, economical, social identity of the human being and agreed on the urging need to rename Human Resources to Human Relations, changing their Employee Charter into a People Charter. There is a significant increase in complexity due to the social-demographic pressures. “HR is entering an age of Dadaism, evolving from the function of personnel administration by providing legal compliance in the short term to the role of talent management by means of guaranteeing engagement, focusing more on longer term, values, giving more autonomy and responsibility to people”.

Other key focus points were increasing and securing the future Talent Pool and employer branding. What should be the new effective employer value proposition? How can the organization re-invent its employers brand and have a multi-facetted appeal to a large audience? We may already start by listening to the voices of the Talent, creating an atmosphere at the top that offers protection and space for error, creating opportunities for Baby Boomers and understanding Generation Y. Deliver to its promises and walking the talk is the key to good leadership and employer value proposition. “Flexibility and Sincerity are the key words for future success, which should be the main thread through the leadership mindset, HR systems, flex careers, diversity leading to engagement and good reputation”, dixit Timmerman.

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Finally, participants noticed that innovation and change are part of the growth and evolution at each level of the organization. What can be changed and improved should be done, whether it is within the processes, people or finance. It was agreed that the incremental change should be part of everyday life and work. Learning is the key to development.

Organizations are people based. If on average only around 30 % of leaders are fully competent in leading people within a complex and ever changing business, it becomes the responsibility of HR to close the existing leadership gap. At the end it is necessary to recognize that a Company’s Culture and its Shared Values and Beliefs underlie the company’s identity. A point which Marc Timmerman underlined by re-formulating the French national motto to “Egalité, Fraternité, Liberté & Sincérité.”

Overall, the interaction at the conference between speakers and participants was remarkable and many new ideas were mentioned regarding human resources and change management strategies. The audience was very actively involved in the question and answer sessions held after every panel, and many important inquiries into the speaker’s research were discussed.

Following the findings of the EMEA HR Directors Summit a new event will be organized on the 17th-18th of November 2011 in Barcelona covering they key points around Attraction, Recruitment, Development and Engagement of Talent.

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For the 1^st time the concept of the Summit , which already has had quite a lot of interactive possibilities ( networking, panels & discussions, cocktails ) the motion of “Think Tanks” was introduced: Enabling attendees to find new insights and even come up with solutions on some of the most important topics in HR in the world of today.

New Ideas were discussed on : 

• Finding new talent  better
• Investing in development of potential of the people
• Importance of having a clear employer brand
• Working on more recognition of people
• The utilization of social media in attracting new talent
• And with this improving the communication with the people inside the company.

For the organizers, HRTruevents this event was an offshoot of their very successful EMEA HR Directors Summit of April .They surpassed expectations of attendees with a top quality Summit, compact quality delegates , with customized service which will bring clients repeatedly back to their conferences. Speaking with most of the Top Level Speakers and Directors of the Company, HrTruevents in a short span of time have certainly delivered well.

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