Returning to the Workplace: EMEA Edition

We know that anticipating the potential return to the workplace, and building a strategy around this (which is right for your business and your people) is front of mind right now.

At Culture Amp, we’ve put together a ‘Prepare for the Return to Work’ survey to help you collect employee feedback that you can utilise to understand the views of your employees and to build out the right decisions in relation to this, as well as informing how you may want to communicate and roll out your return to work strategy.

In this webinar we will chat to Nine's Head of Employee Experience, Lyndall Strachan, who will share Nine’s journey of using employee feedback to inform their own return to the workplace, and how using this data has driven their action plan.

We will also share some of our own insights from our benchmark data on the key priorities that Culture First organisations are considering as they plan their journey to returning back to the workplace.

Join Culture Amp and HR leaders from PayFit, Aggreko, Mashreq Bank and VanMoof as we discuss the impact of COVID-19, how each organisation has adapted and what positive outcomes have evolved as a result of this global crisis.

During a time of crisis, it can be difficult to operate business as usual. Amidst the uncertainty, HR leaders are being pulled in different directions – from managing communications and crisis response planning, to maintaining some level of continuity of business operations. We’re all facing unchartered territory and learning as we go. This means that many organisations are currently reassessing their feedback strategy and will need to weigh in on a variety of factors in order to meet their unique organisational needs.

Join Culture Amp’s Senior People Scientist Kristina Dorniak-Wall as she shares some options, perspectives and things to consider before you close out your current or begin your next performance cycle.

Join Culture Amp and Yulia O’Mahony (previously Head of D&I & Wellbeing at John Lewis) for an interactive discussion on rethinking organisational culture & wellbeing in a post-covid workplace.

In this session, we’ll explore and unpack possible implications for the post-covid workplace. We will look particularly at what potential silver linings or opportunity we may see emerge off the back of adversity for culture, engagement and wellbeing.

Individuals want an enjoyable experience throughout the entire employee lifecycle, and organisations are prioritising the employee experience by investing in tactics to maintain a highly engaged and productive workforce. However, designing a powerful experience isn’t just part of a to-do list for HR. It is the impact that the organisation has on their employees.

In order to truly understand the employee experience, HR and People leaders need to collect employee feedback to understand the moments that matter to individuals at the organisation, and identify the key stages in the employee journey to focus on: from onboarding, engagement, development, performance, to exit.

During this webinar, we will discuss how engagement and feedback can impact the overall employee experience, and why it matters. We will be joined by Brendah Nambalirwa, Head of HR and Admin and Elizabeth Nyakwea, Director of HR at M-Kopa Solar who will discuss their experience.

You will learn:

- A true definition of the employee experience
- Key drivers of the employee journey – understanding what matters
- How employee engagement and performance are measures of the employee experience
- How to create a Culture First employee experience

Now more than ever people leaders are striving to ensure that their organizations are helping to support their employees' wellbeing. Two major factors that play a role in this are mental health and DEI initiatives.

In this roundtable-style discussion led by Culture Amp Senior People Scientist Sahra Kaboli-Nejad, Mind Share Partners’ Founder & CEO Kelly Greenwood and Senior Associate Bernie Wong, Coinbase's Global Head of Belonging, Inclusion, and Employee Experience, and Culture Amp's Director of Equitable Design & Impact Aubrey Blance will discuss how the intersection of mental health and DEI can play a role in your overall people strategy.

Join two culture first leaders for a conversation about safeguarding the employee experience through turbulent times. During this interactive discussion, we’ll focus on the employee experience during the moments and interactions that matter, the ability to listen, engage and respond with your employees, whilst doing this in the face of extreme financial pressures. Now, more than ever, culture comes first.

Speakers include:
* Didier Elzinga - CEO & Co-Founder of Culture Amp
* Jessica Barlow - Director of HR & Talent at Foundry

We will discuss the factors to consider in collecting employee feedback to inform your approach.
We know that anticipating the potential return to work, and building a strategy around this which is right for your business and your people is front of mind right now.

At Culture Amp, we’ve put together a ‘Prepare for the Return to Work’ survey to help you to garner employee feedback that you can utilise both to understand the views of your employees, but also use this information to build out the right decisions in relation to this, as well as informing how you may want to communicate and roll out your return to work strategy.

In this short and sharp 30 minute webinar, our People Scientists Jess Brannigan & Charlotte Burt will run through the considerations for organisations thinking of launching this survey; such as when to launch the survey, the design of our template and key design considerations for you, and thinking ahead to how to make the best use and application of the data you receive back. We'll also gain some insight from HR Director, Jess Reoch on how Rothschild & Co. are preparing for return.

Join Culture Amp and Bendelta as we uncover how HR teams in Government and Healthcare were forced overnight to be agile and respond to the current pandemic to safeguard their workforces. It's no secret we have all been forced into unfamiliar waters. However, this talk will unpack how the HR teams in both industries have been progressive and adapted some impressive results that will forever impact the world of work as they know it. Our discussion will share lessons learnt, and suggestions to consider as we move ahead and operate in these unfamiliar waters.

One of the top drivers of employee engagement and retention is access to continuous learning and development, but this requires quality feedback that includes a plan for improvement and achievement. The trouble? It can be awkward or uncomfortable to give this kind of negative feedback to others, and recipients are often resistant to hearing it.

This session will highlight the hurdles to delivering negative feedback, and show ways in which successful organizations leverage its power to motivate performance and engagement.

Join us to learn:

- The hurdles to delivering negative feedback
- How companies have found success with frequent feedback
- How performance feedback can be used to motivate good performance and increase engagement
- How continuous learning and development impacts employee engagement and retention

Join Culture Amp and DONE!Berlin for an interactive discussion of how to recruit, onboard and retain employees in a virtual organisation.

Featuring matter experts from DONE!Berlin, a boutique consultancy from Berlin for fast growing companies, and Culture Amp to learn and discuss how to develop and implement a successful recruitment and onboarding process in a virtual workplace. During this panel discussion, best practices we be shared to support your processes and give your company a competitive advantage within the market.

We will address: the new context for virtual recruiting and hiring; the challenge of virtual onboarding; how to retain talent; and how to reinforce a culture of belonging and connection - along with questions from you!

Speakers:
Janet Haupka, Managing Director & Sr. Consultant at DONE!Berlin
Matt Parker, Recruitment Lead at Culture Amp
Marie Kanellopulos, Managing Director & Consultant at DONE!Berlin
Melissa Paris, Lead People Scientist at Culture Amp

We are thrilled to invite you to our latest virtual fireside chat with two prominent leaders in the People and Tech space. Join Culture Amp CEO and Founder, Didier Elzinga, and Grab’s Head of People Chin Yin Ong, as they discuss how to redefine your people strategy in such turbulent times.

During this hour, you will get to hear what’s top of mind for Didier and Chin Yin as they discuss:

What’s keeping both leaders up at night in regards to their people
How to safeguard the employee experience during disruption
The role of active listening and feedback
How managers are supporting people leaders
Register today to secure your spot. Places are limited due to high demand.

During a crisis, the employee experience is often one of the first things to be overlooked – with businesses instead focusing on how to minimise disruption and maintain a sense of ‘business as usual’. Over the last few weeks many companies have decided to pull back their engagement surveys, fearing it’s the wrong time to be seeking feedback from employees. In truth, the employee experience is one of the most important considerations during a crisis or times of uncertainty.

In this webinar, Culture Amp Senior People Scientist Charlotte Burt will discuss why it’s more important than ever to gather employee feedback, why running an engagement survey during uncertain times is crucial to long term business success and hear firsthand from TransferWise on their learnings.

Takeaways from this session include:

- Explore the importance of always listening to your employees during times of change and uncertainty
- How companies can and should act on people and culture data to drive success through change
- Hear from TransferWise on how they are addressing this challenging period

There's no question that the working world we knew yesterday, is in stark comparison to the one we live in today. As workplaces move to virtual and dispersed settings, it begs the question; what happens to the familiar employee experience we once knew?

This discussion will explore how to optimise the employee experience during the disruption we are all currently facing.

You will learn:
- The essential ingredients that create a great employee experience
- Which ‘moments’ are most at risk in a virtual world
- Connection and belonging - how to keep this in check during COVID

This talk will be interactive with various options for you to ask your pressing questions with our subject matter experts.

During a time of crisis, it can be difficult to operate business as usual. Amidst the uncertainty, HR leaders are being pulled in different directions – from managing communications and crisis response planning, to maintaining some level of continuity of business operations. We’re all facing unchartered territory and learning as we go. This means that many organizations are currently reassessing their feedback strategy and will need to weigh in on a variety of factors in order to meet their unique organizational needs.

Culture Amp and Mind Gym hosted webinar recently on Managing performance evaluations through a pandemic, where Culture Amp’s Senior People Scientist Hannah Wilken provided some options, perspectives, and things to consider before you close out your current or begin your next performance cycle.

During a time of crisis, business as usual is difficult. Amidst the uncertainty, HR faces the challenge of being pulled in different directions – from managing communications and crisis response planning, to maintaining some level of continuity of business operations.

Over the last few weeks, we have heard of organisations deciding to either abandon their current or upcoming performance cycle, give everyone the same rating, or just continue with evaluations as planned. But many HR leaders are still unsure about what steps to put in place following the COVID-19 pandemic. In this webinar, we provide different options, perspectives, and things to consider before you close out your current or begin your next performance cycle.

Culture change isn't an easy thing to achieve - but it's possible. Join this interactive webinar and hear how Coca-Cola Amatil used real-time people data to completely shift the dial across their people and culture journey. You will hear:
- An easy to adopt approach to leadership transformation
- How people data can reveal quick wins for your organisation
- How to use data to seemingly improve your culture
- Using insights to improve conversations

The notion and ability to be our ‘authentic self’ at work is a constant refrain in conversations about workplace culture. But many of these conversations fail to account for the active responsibility of companies in creating a culture that makes this possible. We’ll be talking to Joanne Lockwood, Inclusion Specialist - about the unspoken challenges associated with authenticity and the practical things companies can be doing to build an inclusive workplace.

Join Culture Amp's Work Culture Evangelist and Culture First Podcast Host, Damon Klotz, for a live Culture First Podcast recording.

Damon will be lead a discussion with Five9's SVP of Human Resources, Tricia Yankovich, and Talkdesk's Senior VP, Head of People Operations, Shauna Geraghty, about how they have utilized data to drive meaningful change within their organizations.

Originally intended as an in-person conversation at HR Transform, we are thrilled to bring these two accomplished people leaders to the virtual stage to share their learnings and insights with the virtual Culture First Podcast audience.