Engaging for change EVENT CANCELLED

Improving performance through wellbeing and engagement in challenging times

In 2010 higher education institutions are facing challenging times. Staff performance will be essential to success in navigating high levels of change. How will your institution support your staff to maintain motivation and engagement under difficult circumstances? How will you motivate employees to maximum performance?

This essential one-day conference will explore how higher education institutions can use effective change management, employee engagement and wellbeing to safeguard the health of both their institution and employees and emerge from change as resilient, healthy organisations.

Focusing on some of the key aspects of change management, the conference will bring together expert speakers from inside and outside the sector to provide valuable insights and practical case studies including:

• what is the role of leaders and management?
• the vice-chancellor's perspective
• what is the business case for employee engagement and how does this fit with the government agenda?
• how can change impact on equality and diversity?
• developing a partnership approach to change management
• effective internal communications during change

You will also have the opportunity to hear the latest evidence as part of the government commissioned report, Engaging for success: enhancing performance through employee engagement, explore practical case studies, take part in workshops to improve your own practice, network and share experiences with over 200 delegates from UK HEIs.

Workshop leaders include:

• Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Director, Affinity Health at Work
• Levi Pay, Policy Director, Equality Challenge Unit
• Peter Barnard, Registrar, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
• Tatiana Quadrello, Senior Researcher - Health and Wellbeing, The Work Foundation
• Michelle Crooks, Project Manager, HELIX and Corporate Communications Officer, University of Leicester
• Nina Quinlan, Wellbeing Project Manager, University of Leeds

High impact main stage speakers include:

• Professor David McLeod, author of the government commissioned report, Engaging for success: enhancing performance through employee engagement
• Ewart Wooldridge, Chief Executive, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
• Professor Michael Arthur, Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds

Delegate places are £250 per person.  To book your place please visit www.wellbeing.ac.uk