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AC2021 - 104: Making HR Strategically Better, Faster, Easier in a post COVID-19 World

Qualifies for CPD hours - HR StrategyTalent Management - Workforce Planning

This session helps attendees with tangible, ready to implement solutions, to help HR leaders better articulate, influence, and deliver the Strategic Value their department contributes to the C-Suite in a post-COVID-19 world.  It is not news that HR leaders have often struggled to justify their strategic contributions to the enterprise and the C-Suite. This is truer than ever due to the pressures imposed by COVID-19 and the creation of a remote work revolution.  How can they transform from having a primary task-oriented, cost-centre approach to driving value and harnessing the limitless human potential within their department and across the organization? Using a case-based approach, this presentation examines three companies that have leveraged solutions to overcome the six critical themes facing HR leaders globally in a post-COVID world.

Learning Objectives

  • List the 6 critical themes facing HR leaders in a post COVID-19 world
  • Describe the key elements of HR Readiness for a post COVID-19 World
  • Describe the differentiators of an Agile HR Leader
  • Identify 3 gaps between your current state and desired future state in your HR role – regardless of what your title is (What can you do now to start delivering strategic value – instead of doing tasks?)
  • Identify 3 immediate, ready to implement action items to start delivering strategic value as an Agile HR leader
  • Identify 3 immediate, ready to implement action items to start delivering strategic value as part of your HR Department

Eseza Catherine Byakika

HR Consultant
Interactive PDF

Accomplished Human Resources Professional with 15+years of hands-on HR management experience and broad HR knowledge, metrics for benchmarking, measuring, analyzing, and articulating value and ROI of HR initiatives, practices, and policies. Demonstrates strong business acumen and possesses entrepreneurial spirit with genuine desire to deliver results proactively and consistently for clients and internal teams.

Harish Chauhan

Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Interactive PDF Corporation

Harish Chauhan is a People and Business Performance Consultant with Home Hardware Stores Limited headquartered in St. Jacobs, Ontario. His primary responsibility is to lead the successful transformation of the warehouse leadership team as they go digital.

He has designed and delivered over 300 strategic talent transformation workshops and seminars for CEOs, professionals, as well as managers and their staff. His broad experience across a diverse range of industries include health care, pharmaceuticals, technology, heavy equipment, engineering, construction, telecom, food service as well as financial services. In addition to work with blue chip clients such as TD, Loblaw, Adidas and others, in 2014, Chauhan architected the entire learning and performance strategy for Xerox Canada – upon which the future of the business and its talent rested upon.

Chauhan was a 2018 and 2019 Learning Elite Judge and helped evaluate the best talent development companies by Chief Learning Officer Magazine. He has both, Electrical Engineering and Industrial Design degrees from Carleton University, Canada. Chauhan delivers innovation, passion and strategic savvy to create engaging, relevant and influential talent strategies that inspire desired change and results.