CONFERENCE DAY TWO
7:30 am Registration & Networking
8:00 am Chairs Opening Remarks
Bringing Women into Manufacturing
8:10 am Discover: Bringing Women into The Business & Building Belonging
Synopsis
- How can we attract women into the manufacturing industry and support them to develop their career
- Conduct a needs assessment and listen to the data
- How Finlays are supporting their female staff through implementation of ERGs, public speaking forums and piloting 3 different types of mentorship programs to grow female leadership
8:30 am Discover: Elevating Employee Experience
Synopsis
- Great EX leads to great CX which in turn delivers increased revenues along with retention of talent
- Strategies and best practices in attracting, delighting, and retaining talent
- Useful tools to help you strengthen employee engagement & culture and elevate performance
8:50 am Develop: How else Can We Create Feelings of Belonging in Our Manufacturing Spaces?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Focus Day Chair
With 68% of manufacturing jobs being held by men, how can we entice women to work in manufacturing? How can we see potential in women to fill roles that
were previously restricted and reserved for men?
9:10 am Action: How are You Going to Help Women Develop at Your Organization?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
How can we make these opportunities more available and convenient for women than other industries?
- How can we build a sense of belonging so that women choose to stay in these roles?
- How can we build advocates out of our male workforce so that women feel safe in male dominated work environments?
- How can we set women up for success in the corporate environment and raise the leaders of tomorrow?
9:30 am Innovation session by Seertech Solution
Synopsis
Seertech is the established global specialist in unlocking the power of people via effective application of learning technology. At scale. Seertech
is the Learning Enablement Platform that supercharges workforce capability for corporations, frontline operations, and the extended workforce,
driving accelerated business performance. We combine the best of LMS, Connected Worker Platform, and LXP technologies into a single AIpowered
People Engine that transforms your people’s potential into a differentiated capability that maximizes measurable business results.
9:40 am Manufacturing Segmented Networking
Synopsis
In this Quick Fire Session meet HR leaders who are working in your manufacturing space, sharing the same challenges and day-to-day experiences. Build networks and form long lasting friendships with others in the space
10:40 am Discover: Securing Skilled Labor in Tight Talent Markets
Synopsis
- How can we find skilled labor in new geographies or markets?
- Work with your marketing and branding team to ensure that you are targeting the right individuals.
- How Cacique have become an award-winning-state-partnership workforce developer due to their strategic recruitment marketing to build skilled labor
11:00 am Discover: Taking a Methodological Approach to Standing Up a New Business
Synopsis
- How can we build a new part of the business from scratch?
- Take a step-by-step approach: Design your organization, hire your leadership, create operating models and stabilize the execution
- How Intel Foundry Services have build a new business from the ground up, learn how they built the trajectory of the business and how they approached challenges along their journey such as: culture clashes and more!
11:20 am Discover: Increasing Frontline Employee Engagement through Managers to Boost Productivity & Retention
Synopsis
- How can we increase engagement of our hourly workforce?
- Be intentional about training and recruiting of managers
- How ITW are implementing have created a plan to increasing engagement that includes: personalized mentoring for managers, culture change, resources informed by exit surveys and re-examining the hiring process for managers
11:40 am Develop: How Else Can We Decrease High Turnover in Our Hourly Positions?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Focus Day Chair
12:00 pm Action: How Are You Going to Retain Valued Floor Staff?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
- Where budgets pose restrictions, how can we be creative in enticing our staff to stay?
- How can we re-emphasise the appeal in the manufacturing industry?
- How can we communicate the safety and stability of working in the manufacturing industry over gig economy equivalent job positions?
Developing a Diverse and Inclusive Organization that Intentionally Promotes Belonging
12:20 pm Fireside Chat: Increasing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
Synopsis
Hear from Graphic Packaging International about the strategies they are using to promote diversity, inclusion and belonging at their organization
12:40 pm Lunch
1:40 pm Speed Learning
Synopsis
In this quick-fire session, each table will be hosted by an Manufacturing HR leader who will share the secrets of their most high-impact leap; you then get the opportunity to question the host before moving on to your next table