As a Silver Sponsor and Training Partner for People Power, Veronica Swindale, Managing Director of nesma, checked in with Lyndsey Morrison, Director at The Projects Studio, to determine how this year's People Power is shaping up
Great to see that People Power is back live again at Northumbria University in June. What are the themes this year? We are super excited to be bringing people back together again at an actual LIVE event on 30 June! The timing should provide us with the perfect opportunity to connect and re-connect, share our stories, explore fresh thinking, and plans for future success.
The past year has pushed us as an events business to add some new strings to our bow, making this year’s People Power conference a ‘hybrid’ event, with the option to participate virtually. While curating this year’s conference, we reflected on how we can retain the lessons learned and how we can help make this a time of positive and sustainable change for both employers and employees. The themes of this year’s conference are Talent, Behaviour, Culture, and Innovation. Talent because of huge shift and movement of the workforce – so addressing topics such as upskilling, reskilling, talent attraction and retention, onboarding, offboarding, and reboarding. Behaviour – well, there’s a lot in there, isn’t there! Everything from meta-skills such as self-awareness, empathy, communication, and leadership, and how you use those skills to manage change, build high performing teams and improve performance and productivity. Culture – focussing on employee experience, engagement, diversity and inclusion, and the changing working environment. And last but certainly not least – Innovation. We are keen for People Power to look towards a bright and productive future – thinking about the new workplace, digitalisation, and tech. What do you think will be the key topics that people will be seeking guidance on postpandemic? As we look to the post pandemic future, people are craving a return to life as we knew it, but better! With the lifting of restrictions, people will be thinking about getting back to the office.
Having spent over a year working from home, many habits have become entrenched, so how will we change our current ways of working? What can we learn from the last year? – and how can leaders create the conditions to motivate, engage and bring people back?
