Workplace Trends: Managing New Workstyles
Wednesday 14 November 2007, 9.30am - 5.30pm
The Royal Society of Arts, London
Businesses are experiencing an accelerating trend towards new ways of working with a flexible, mobile workforce. This means that managers at all levels face the challenges of directing and motivating teams that are no longer physically in one place most of the time.
The skills needed to generate added value in this environment of myriad communications technologies and fluid office layouts and locations are only now evolving. The competences to design construct and operate buildings which maximise the potential of this virtual workplace are also rapidly evolving.
This conference explores these issues and the solutions that leading practitioners have successfully delivered. It is aimed at those responsible for managing teams in the workplace of tomorrow, those setting and implementing the human resource policies to deliver results, and the professionals that create and manage the workplaces in which they operate.
Programme for the day includes:
Paradigm shifts in property management
Nigel Oseland, Director, AMA Alexi Marmot Associates,
and Rob Wright, Director, Diverse Notion
Sustaining Tomorrow's Workplace
Guy Holden, Vice President and General Manager, Global Real Estate and Facilities Management, Johnson Controls
Flexible Work – setting it up and getting it right
Andy Lake, Editor of Flexibility
How IBM resolves the management issues caused by flexible working
Peter Bays, UKISA Mobility and End User Deployment Manager, IBM
After-lunch debate on ‘flexible working – a revolution or just a way to save office cost’
and Paul Morrell, former Senior Partner and International Chairman, Davis Langdon
LST's experience of introducing flexible working
Paul Wheeler, Land Securities Trillium
Coordinating 1,500 flexible workers
Caroline Oldham, Home-based Working Co-ordinator, OFSTED
Touchy-feely partnership versus technological leadership
James Woudhuysen, author and Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester
Conference moderators:
Paul Bartlett, Strategic Business Solutions
Nigel Oseland, Director, AMA Alexi Marmot Associates
With thanks to our sponsors
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