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Accounting for People 2.0: The Business Case for Human Capital Reporting
Thursday 21st October 2010, 5 - 7:30pm
The Screening Room, Soho Hotel, 4 Richmond Mews, London, W1D 3DH.
A successor to the 2003 Task Force on Human Capital Management is to be launched.
Exclusive Human Capital Event: Data driven decision making with limited budget.
Option 1: Friday 17th September, DeVere West One, London. 11am - 2pm with lunch included.
Option 2: Thursday 21st October, Soho Hotel, London. 2pm - 5pm with networking drinks included.
These seminars are designed to brief senior HR professionals on the new Mantra for 2011; Human Capital measurement, implementation and reporting. HPA will reveal emerging diagnostic tools that map employee value and risk within the business. Such assessments, developed by our team of specialist researchers, can take you one step further than metrics and link HR and business results to your employees' behaviours.
Within the session you will have the chance to explore how human capital analytics can pinpoint areas for investment and allow for cost savings from the top down. Through case study examples, we'll be giving a first look at these clear, practical tools that represent a break away from the usual HR planning cycle and provide actionable business intelligence for quick and long term wins.
Agenda
[Actual timings depend upon event date]
1. Arrival, tea and coffee served
2. Welcome Address - Dr Michael Reddy
3. From Human Resources to Human Capital: Data driven insights for HR leaders - Lindsay Soulsby
4. Tea/coffee served
5. Live case study: People Risk Assessment - Lindsay Soulsby
6. Finger buffet lunch
7. The business case for conducting an Assessment - Lindsay Soulsby
8. Utilising actionable business intelligence in your organisation - Helen Ross
9. Finish and networking
Speakers
Dr Michael Reddy, Director, HPA
Michael is best known as the Founder and former Chairman of ICAS, the psychological services company, which he ran for 20 years and brought to international status with 17 offices overseas. He is a Chartered Clinical and Occupational Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the RSA.
Lindsay Soulsby, Commercial Director, HPA
Former Strategic Marketing Manager for Abbey (now Santander), Global Head of Design and Operational Planning for Barclays, HR Performance Specialist for Accenture, and more recently L&D Specialist for Rothschild, Lindsay Soulsby brings together organisations and academic institutions who share a stake in the development of human capital best practice.
Helen Ross, Research Manager, HPA
Helen Ross, BSc, MSc, Occupational Psychologist, shares responsibility with Ruth Hannant for extending the full range of HPA inventories and audits, and for managing HPA's research teams. Her particular area of interest is behavioural risk.
Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 01908 524 115 for more information or if you would like to attend as places at each session are limited – please note the briefing is free to attend.
HPA hosts a number of events throughout the year, on themes around new and effective ways to measure, manage and report on people. They are often free of charge to attend and feature expert speakers from the HR, psychology and finance fields.
On September 17th 2010 we are hosting an HR Assessment Workshop that will explore how to better align HR strategy with the business goals: http://www.hpa-group.com/latest/item/109-strategic-hr-planning-for-2011-a-human-capital-briefing
For those with more of an HR leaning, our sister company, People Resolutions, runs a regular series of events; you can take a look at the calendar here: http://www.peopleresolutions.com/events/event-timetable. To get a feel for People Resolutions' events, please see the video below.
HPA and People Resolutions jointly host webinars via our online community, HubCap (free to join), which has a digital library full of HR and human capital materials, alongside a member forum to debate and discuss. If you have any queries, please contact Natalia at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 01908 524 115.
Hosted in partnership with People Resolutions and HubCap Digital, HPA invites HR professionals to understand the real facts behind workplace investigations in a free webinar on Tuesday 3rd August 2010.
‘One of the most critical issues facing investors and corporate stakeholders is the challenge of ensuring the relevance, timeliness, reliability, consistency and comparability of information and its impact on the ability to truly measure the value of an enterprise in the New Economy.’
So begins Ryan Offutt's Crystalline that goes on to explore in some depth the theoretical underpinnings of human capital management, as well as current and future challenges in this emerging area. Newly published on our knowledge network, HubCap Digital, you can access the full works (and download for free) by clicking here.
Ryan's Crystalline marks the second in a new series of thought pieces written by the HPA Business Intelligence team and selected guest writers. The expertly crafted documents are designed to keep you abreast of the latest thinking in human capital and sample the quality of our research output. As well as our own publishing schedule, HPA also invites organisations to commission their own bespoke Crystalline for targeted business intelligence - learn more about our services here.
About the Author
Ryan Offutt is currently studying towards an MSc in Occupational Psychology at Sheffield University. Before making a career change to occupational psychology, Ryan worked as a professional editor and writer for AGCAS, producing online and print content for the Prospects graduate careers site (www.prospects.ac.uk). He has a BA (2002) from the University of Maryland (USA) and an MA (2004) in English Literature from Sheffield University, and has also worked as a graduate tax consultant at PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP. You can reach him at
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HPA’s Director, Michael Reddy, will give a talk about the powerful role of human capital analysis at “Human Capital: 2010 and beyond”, a one-day conference on 30th Sept 2010 run by The Human Capital Forum in Central London.
The conference will explore the possibilities of
- “A broader definition of the Board’s role, in addition to shareholder returns
- Fuller reporting of business intelligence, including human capital reports
- A more complete definition of ‘sustainability’
- The potential for linking marketing investments and employee engagement
- More diversity of views in media coverage”
and our Editorial Director, Ann Graham, will be on the panel during a Question Time debate on “Is business news coverage part of the problem?”.
There will be opportunities to discuss and network throughout the day, at the prestigious Hallam Conference Centre.
For further information and to book a place, see the Conference web pages, or email
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Our Library and Discussion Network, HubCap Digital, has had a makeover.
Key new features:
- New front page – designed to improve access and navigation
- Improved Find, Publish, Discuss and Profile functions
- An automatic email to you when someone replies to your posts in the ‘Discuss’ forum
- Information about forthcoming activities:
- Accounting for People (AfP) 2.0
- Handbook of Human Capital 2011
- Human Capital Summit in Oct 2010
Visit http://alpha.hubcapdigital.com to have a look.
We would love to hear your comments and suggestions for future changes – email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to let us know.
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Thursday 15th July 2010, 9.30am-1pm: The HR Professional's Guide to Mediation (Seminar, London)
A free half-day seminar in London, giving real and practical insight into how mediation works, when it should be used, and mediation in the eyes of the law, plus in-depth everyday examples of mediation showing the service in action.
Agenda
- Why is Mediation Important?
- What is Mediation and How Does it Work?
- When Can I Use Mediation?
- An Inside Look at Mediation
Speaker
- Linda Hoskinson – Director, Human Potential Accounting and Head of Practice for People Resolutions
Click here to book your place.
Please note: Places are limited to 25 at this event so please book early.
For further information click here, call us on 01908 524110 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Everything You Need To Know About Workplace Mediation
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Hot on the heels of a successful HR-focused webinar on the new Fit for Work Scheme, we're excited to reveal a glimpse of some of this year's jointly hosted events. In conjunction with People Resolutions and our online arm, HubCap Digital, there are workshops, seminars and our inaugural Summit (for those who like to get out of the office) and business-focused webinars (for those who can't). And if you're really pressed for time, we live tweet throughout so there's always something to take away.
If you're interested in attending any of the following, send This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it an email or call 01908 524 115 and we'd be happy to book you a free place.
The Human Capital Summit
On Thursday 21st October 2010, HPA is delighted to host the first Human Capital Summit for business leaders, at the Soho Hotel, central London. The evening will attract executives, human capital experts and media representatives to understand what it truly means to value employee contribution across the business. We'll be showcasing next generation tools for quantifying, in financial terms, people value and risk.
Networking over drinks in the Crimson Bar will give way to presentations by high profile speakers in the Cinema Screening Room and an interactive voting session. Places are free but extremely limited - please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it as early as possible about availability.
Seminars
Our free full or half-day seminars feature a range of guest speakers and experts, including CEOs and Directors. Venues typically feature locations in and around London, the southeast, Manchester and Birmingham.
Forthcoming seminars:
- 15th July: Assessments - When to use audits and how to get the best out of them
- 7th October: Counting the Cost of Conflict
- 18th November: Conflict Resolution
- 2nd December: Engagement - How and Why
Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to register your interest or book your place.
Webinars
Webinars give us the chance to draw together experts from around the world, with guests including business leaders and academics.
Forthcoming webinars:
- April: Fit for Work - what's it all about?
- June: HR and the Business
- July: Assessments - When to use audits and how to get the best out of them
- September: Setting up an In-house Mediation Service
- October: Counting the Cost of Conflict
- November: Human Potential Accounting
Registration for webinars takes place through our Web 2.0 knowledge sharing network HubCap Digital. HubCap is free to join and webinars are advertised there as well as here. Follow up Q&A sessions also take place live on the HubCap forum.
To examine the new Fit for Work scheme being launched, and its implications for you as an employer, our sister company People Resolutions will be hosting a free webinar on 4th May 2010.
A free full-day seminar hosted by our sister company People Resolutions, featuring expert speakers in conflict prevention and management.
4th March 2010, De Vere: West One Hotel, Oxford Circus, London W1
9:30am to 4pm; arrive by 9am for tea/coffee
Refreshments and lunch available during the day
Agenda
9.30am-12.30pm - Conflict Resolution: How and Why?
Exploring the types of conflict that arise in an organisation, the available methods to resolve them and the dangers of not doing so.
1.30pm-4pm - Best Practice in Conflict Prevention
Identifying hotspot areas of conflict within your organisation can have a direct bottom-line cost to the business.
Speakers:
- Linda Hoskinson, CEAP - Director, People Resolutions
- Alison Twist - Experienced Investigator, People Resolutions
- Lindsay Soulsby - Director, Human Potential Accounting
- Ewan Malcolm - Specialist Mediator and Trainer, People Resolutions
- Jiten Patel - Conflict Specialist, People Resolutions
- Katherine Stoessel - Specialist Mediator and Trainer, People Resolutions
- Helen Ross - Occupational Psychologist and Researcher, Human Potential Accounting
The full programme will be announced shortly. For more information about some of our speakers, please click here.
Places at this event are limited - please email
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to reserve your place.
Human Capital Breakfast Briefing
Wednesday 10th February - Tower Hill, London
*25 place limit*
Human Potential Accounting Seminar in Association with HubCap Digital and People Resolutions
HPA is hosting a human capital breakfast briefing on Wed 10th February near Tower Hill, London, with two morning sessions to choose from (8:45am and 11.00am start). Our human capital experts, including HPA’s Founder and Chairman, Dr Michael Reddy, will be facilitating two-way exchange around key themes throughout the morning, with three workstreams to choose from:
- Diagnostics - Measuring both sides of the human asset coin
- Value Creation - Predictively identifying how the development and management of people impacts on the bottom line, hosted by Laurie Bassi of McBassi & Company
- Conflict Assessment & Resolution - How and when to use mediation and investigations in an organisation
Agenda
8.15am and 10.45am - Arrival; Continental breakfast & tea/coffee
8.45am and 11.00am - Welcome address - Dr Michael Reddy, Founder, HPA
9.00am and 11.15am - Introductions to the four workstreams
9.15am and 11.30am - Discussion groups - refreshments available throughout
10.00am and 12.15pm - Tea/coffee break (10 mins)
10.45am and 1.00pm - Questions and closing remarks, followed by finger buffet lunch for the later morning group
To reserve your place, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Click here to see our event flyer.
Venue Address
America Square Conference Centre
1 America Square
17 Crosswall
London EC3N 2LB
HPA has changed. Those eagle-eyed of you out there will have spotted it already of course. We hope you approve. Why change? Not just to start the New Year with a fresh look. We liked the ‘old’ site - we just had so much more we wanted it to do and say, so we took the call to not just redesign it, but to go for a completely different look and feel.
So what's changed?
We have streamlined our core services into Diagnostics; Business Intelligence and Consulting. Added a great deal more information – with some neat visuals – making them easier to understand. Allied to this, the new HPA site focuses on providing greater information in our key areas of expertise: Optimising human capital; behavioural risk management; organisational culture and financial reporting. We’ve also added some depth – and colour – to where we’re coming from – and where we’re headed. For those looking for our blog, we brought along a load of posts as well as added a few new ones to get the relaunch off with a bang. We’ve also added a few new colleagues – more about them in the next post.
Enjoy!
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E=mc²: How to Square the Equality Bill Against the Bottom Line
Wednesday 27th January, 15:00 GMT
HubCap Digital Webinar in Association with HPA and People Resolutions.
Find out how your organisation can turn current and future Equality & Diversity regulation into a new understanding of managing people as assets - and see the impact on the bottom line.
1. Welcome Address and HPA Vision – Four Tribes for Human Capital. Michael Reddy, HPA
2. The Present and Future Equality & Diversity Scenario – From Behavioural Symptoms to Cultural Causes. Andrew Ades MBE, Principal Public Sector Consultant to People Resolutions
and the Equality & Human Rights Commission
3. The Business Case for Better People Management. Jiten Patel MA, ACIB, Director of Leading Vantage Limited
4. Creating Actionable Business Intelligence for Improving Your Return on People. Laurie Bassi, CEO, McBassi & Company
5. Q&A Session with the Panel:
- Michael Reddy
- Laurie Bassi
- Jiten Patel MA, ACIB, Director of Leading Vantage Limited
- Linda Hoskinson BSc (Hons), CEAP, Director, Head of Practice for People Resolutions
6. Closing Remarks. Michael Reddy.
About the Speakers
(To the HubCap Digital website)
Participants must register or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Since coming together in July 2009, the consolidation of People Resolutions and HPA continues with HubCap Digital, originally conceived as HPA’s 2.0 digital library and research community, being expanded to incorporate People Resolutions’ customers and consultant network.
Currently in Alpha, HubCap was always set to expand beyond providing the Web’s most advanced aggregation of human capital ideas and research. Forums are already in test phase for release Jan 2010, but the digital library is also broadening to encompass People Resolutions' HR-related subjects. Of course, HubCap is working on a long-term dual approach, providing basic formal taxonomy whilst anticipating a community folksonomy to afford maximum collaboration between users. But a second track is being added to ensure that both sides – HPA bringing in psychology, finance and law, People Resolutions taking care of HR – can connect around their own respective materials whilst at the same time being able to switch tracks to get a fuller picture.
On another front, HubCap’s digital viewer will be fully operational in 2010. Created for Shenley Holdings, the umbrella company behind HPA, People Resolutions and HubCap, but getting its first ‘airing’ on HubCap, the document viewer is a powerful way of focusing attention in and around works, with users able not only to use the viewer to showcase their own material but also to join conversations around other people’s, leading to new ideas and contacts. The viewer – in the form of embedded code much like a YouTube video – will enable People Resolutions to promote interactive information, factsheets and brochures to its customers directly on its own website. It is also in the planning for HubCap’s document viewer to be embeddable for anyone whose materials are uploaded and shared on the joint network later in 2010.
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HPA is delighted to be working with Rob Briner from the University of Birkbeck on a new and exciting piece of research investigating the costs of employee risks. This piece of research will look to understand how organisations currently account for people risks and the way in which this data is used to inform organisational as well as HR strategy.
Research results will be available in the near future. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details.
More about Rob Briner:
Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Head of the Department of Organizational Psychology at the University of Birkbeck. His research focuses on the reciprocal links between work and various aspects of well-being such as moods and emotions. His other interests include the psychological contract at work, absence, ethnicity, work-nonwork relationships, and contextual performance. He is also involved with a number of evidence-based management initiatives.
He has published in journals such as the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior; and in 2005 he published a book on the psychological contract with Neil Conway.
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