PRE-CONFERENCE FOCUS DAY
12:00 pm Registration & Networking
1:00 pm Pre-Conference Day Chair’s Opening Remarks
Constructing Talent Pathways to Stabilize Your Organization
1:10 pm Panel Discussion: Working With Your Staff to Map Career Blueprints
Synopsis
As craft workforces become more multi-generational with a vast number of eligible retirees, what can HR leaders in construction do to develop their existing workforce and implement effective succession planning to secure the future of the organization?
1:40 pm Discover: Building Career Blueprints for Effective Succession Planning
Synopsis
- How can we combat the ageing workforce and ensure that we have forecasted the future talent demands?
- Hire a L&D manager and create blue prints for each position in the company
- How Total-Western are re-assessing the way they pass down knowledge to the future workforce, creating blue prints for each role and making the resources accessible to eager employees, which has lead to an increase in retention and engagement of younger employees
2:00 pm Develop:How can we provide progression opportunities to our staff if our organization structure does not permit promotions?
Synopsis
- How can we identify competencies needed for the relevant job, and thus the relevant successors?
- How can we capture and transfer knowledge from one role to another, through mechanisms such as mentoring?
- How can we effectively deal with leave absence management?
2:10 pm Action:How are you going to change the way you develop your staff?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
2:30 pm Networking Break
Succession Planning for a Successful Future
3:00 pm Discover: Succession Planning to Close the Management Skills Gap
Synopsis
- How can we tackle lack of middle managers, particularly assistant project managers and assistant superintendents, and prevent this from causing a strain on career progression in the industry?
- Build leadership development and soft skills training in addition to technical competencies in the construction industry.
- How Samet Corporation have created a senior leadership development program that includes vital soft skills to close the gap in their organization
3:20 pm Discover: Succession Planning for the Senior Leadership Bench
Synopsis
- With organizational growth comes the challenge of filling additional and expanding leadership roles.
- We must create a tailored pathway to senior leadership for high potential employees
- How TDIndustries identified a cohort of high performers and have created tailored development plans to accelerate their development to prepare for leadership roles
3:40 pm Develop:How else can we ensure that the pipeline of the future is constant and stable?
Synopsis
With significant talent shortage how can we unlock new talent pools to increase the amount of desirable candidates for the future? How can we ensure that these pools have early exposure to construction or transferable skills?
4:00 pm Action: How are you going to change the way you succession plan when you return to your organization?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair