7:30 am Main Conference Registration & Networking
8:30 am What it Takes to Make a Leap a Reality
8:40 am Chair’s Welcome, Opening Remarks & Connection Before Content
Rethinking How to Navigate the Long Term Impact of the ‘Great Resignation’ On Campus
8:50 am Discover: ‘The Great Resignation’ or Great Retention? How Enhanced Understanding of What Makes Staff & Faculty Tick Will Pivot Snowballing Rates of Resignation
Synopsis
- Develop an unparalleled retention strategy to enhance employee loyalty and cultivate a stable workplace culture across campus
- Redefine your employee satisfaction strategy to remain the employer of choice long after initial recruitment in an increasingly tight labor market
- How Florida International University utilized data forecasting to stay one step ahead, tangibly lessening the impact that the Great Resignation had on campus
9:10 am Discover: Reimagining Your Flexible Working Model as you Navigate A World Where Priorities are Shifting for Faculty & Staff
Synopsis
- Leading with flexibility to ensure you continue to attract and retain top talent and respond effectively to the needs of today’s applicants in a world where flexibility is a priority for many
- Challenge the idea that flexibility is one-dimensional: Thinking creatively to shape a flexible working package that enables all employees to feel heard
- How the University of Houston’s ‘Alternative Work Arrangements’ initiative is improving its employees’ work-life balance, contributing to overall workforce productivity
9:30 am Discover: Creating an Environment Where Employees Voices are Heard for Increased Retention, Diversity of Thought & Long-Term Job Satisfaction Across Campus
Synopsis
- Empower staff and faculty to engage with your institution’s strategy as individual contributors
- Understand the importance of the employee voice through feedback for transformed employee engagement
- How the University of Tennessee System operationalized its institutional values and leveraged an inclusion and engagement strategy for all employees ensuring their ability to fully engage as an individual contributor
9:50 am Develop: What More Can We Learn from HR Leaders Who Have Revolutionized Their Retention Strategy?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
10:10 am Action: What Are You Going to Do Differently to Retain Top Talent?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
10:30 am Speed Networking & Refreshments
Transform the Wellbeing of Your Staff & Faculty
11:10 am Discover: Unlock the Benefits of an Incentive-Driven, Multifaceted Employee Wellness Program for Both Staff & Faculty
Synopsis
- Discover how to build a functioning employee wellness program which genuinely enhances health and wellbeing amongst staff and faculty
- Reimagine your approach to employee wellbeing by placing emphasis on awareness, prevention, and healthy choices, and see a reduction in overall healthcare costs
- How Purdue University’s award-winning employee wellness program changed its healthcare expenditure trajectory to notably cost avoid $22 million in 2022, whilst simultaneously enabling employees to improve their overall wellbeing
11:30 am Discover: Equipping HR Teams to Effectively Deal with Burnout Across Campus from Staff to Faculty to Students
Synopsis
- How can HR prevent burnout on the frontline when dealing with frustration and stress on all levels from employees to leadership?
- Incorporate a meaningful burnout prevention approach for improved mental wellbeing for staff and faculty and a constructive workplace culture
- How Clemson University changed its approach to stress and burnout and saw considerable improvements in productivity and employee turnover
11:50 am Develop: What More Can We Do to Truly Support the Wellbeing of Higher Ed Employees?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:10 pm Action: What Changes Are You Going to Make to Your Wellbeing Strategy?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
Building Better Campus Leaders
1:30 pm Discover: Multi-Dimensional Leadership Development for Increased Engagement & Productivity Across the Campus Workforce
Synopsis
- Rethink how to support and develop effective leadership skills for all levels of your workforce and enhance professional development
- Cultivate leadership skills where agility, compassion, strategic thinking, and creativity are intertwined and impact all layers in the organization
- Learn how the University of Texas at Dallas’ campus-wide program opens access to leadership development programs designed to enable the success of current and future leaders in an ever-changing workforce environment
1:50 pm Discover: Unlock the Benefits of Building a Multifaceted Professional Development Program to Energize Staff & Faculty in Their Roles
Synopsis
- Develop a professional development path to help employees better perform and increase the overall productivity of your teams
- Enable your workforce to continue their professional growth with a lean strategy to enhance their skillsets
- The University of Texas System’s professional development program which creates interactive opportunities to gain future-ready competencies, functional skillsets, and human skills, transforming employees’ ability to succeed
2:10 pm Discover: Reimagine Your Leadership Strategy to Invigorate Your Workplace Culture & Increase Job Satisfaction Amongst Staff & Faculty
Synopsis
- Understand how best to structure your leadership development training for both staff and faculty
- Increase engagement on all levels by offering meaningful professional L&D across campus
- Hear how KAUST utilized data to rethink their leadership priorities and streamlined their organizational design
2:30 pm Develop: What More Can We Do to Revitalize Our Approach to Learning & Development for Employees?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
2:50 pm Action: What Are You Going to Do to Develop a Winning L&D Strategy?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
3:10 pm Networking & Refreshment Break
New Ways to Navigate Performance Management
3:30 pm Discover: Leveraging Performance Management Technology to Facilitate Workforce Efficiency & Job Satisfaction
Synopsis
- Discovering how to deliver certainty within your workforce through providing a framework for career growth and development
- Rethinking how to optimize individual job execution by utilizing a Pay-for-Performance culture, strengthening partnerships between supervisors and employees
- Hear how Carnegie Mellon University has leveraged Workday’s performance and optimization tools to maximize employees’ professional development
3:50 pm Discover: “What Gets Measured Gets Done, And What Gets Rewarded Gets Repeated.” Challenge Tradition & Drill Down Into the ‘How’ & ‘Why’ of Good Performance, Campus-Wide
Synopsis
- Implement an effective coaching and engagement strategy to enable staff and faculty to take ownership of their day-to-day work
- Increase engagement and accountability across the workforce by identifying meaningful KPIs
- Uncovering how the University of California, Berkeley improved their employee performance management survey scores by 8%
4:10 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn from the HR Leaders Challenging Traditional Performance Management Styles?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
4:30 pm Action: What Changes Are You Going to Make to Your Performance Management System?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair