Moving the dial on workforce expectations during shifting economic times
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The employee experience is about to shift due to economic pressures and recessions across Europe. Yet demand for skills remains high, as businesses continue to transform products and services. This means creating a positive working culture that attracts and retains talent is vital to financial success.
The panel will share how they plan to support a workforce strained by recessionary events and widespread inflation, and enter 2023 with an improved outlook, enabling a focus on core business values, long-tail growth and a renewed urgency to inspire engagement.
In this webinar you will hear from forward-thinking employers about the reward and benefits decisions and actions they are taking, and how they are using ROI-focused recognition strategies to build loyalty, support DEI, create good cultures and leverage wellbeing as a financial gamechanger.
Key themes to be explored
• How the economic recession/downturn will change reward, recognition and benefits in 2023
• Ways to evolve workplace processes to build loyalty, support DEI and create a positive working culture
• The rise of the importance of tangible ROI – and how to prove it through recognition
• Making employee wellbeing a differentiator for recruiting and retention as well as a financial gamechanger
Thanks to strategic partner Workhuman for supporting this REBA webinar.
Senior Reward and Recognition Manager, ISS Facility Services UK
Head of Reward, Centrica
Karen Gaynor has over 20 years HR experience in major global conglomerate organisations providing solutions in Healthcare, FMCG and Energy. With leadership experience as a HR Director and in Compensation and Benefits, Karen has a wealth of experience that results in a true understanding of the diverse requirements of employees and leadership.
Karen is part of the Centrica reward leadership team delivering powerful reward, incentives and benefits. Karen is responsible for leading compensation topics within Centrica, including pay, incentives, share programmes, recognition, and executive remuneration.
She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and ensuring reward solutions support building a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
“I'm looking forward to hosting this round table because I have experience of creating reward strategies that are aligned to changing business strategies and I look forward to finding the right pathway to further support pay transparency, equity and inclusion.”
Senior Vice President of Client Strategy & Consulting, Workhuman
As Senior Vice President, Client Strategy & Consulting at Workhuman, Derek helps clients – including some of world’s most admired companies – leverage proven recognition strategies and best practices to elevate employee engagement, increase retention, and improve bottom-line results. While he currently leads the company’s strategy & consulting services division, from 2000 to 2010 Derek also oversaw the company’s global marketing and rewards functions, growing Workhuman from a start-up to the Unicorn organisation it is today.
Derek is one of the world’s foremost experts on employee recognition, engagement and continuous performance management, helping business leaders set a higher vision and ambition for their company culture. As a renowned speaker and co-author of three books – Making Work Human, Winning with a Culture of Recognition and The Power of Thanks – he teaches HR leaders how to use recognition to proactively manage company culture. His viewpoints and writings are also regularly featured across major HR publications including HR Zone, Workspan, HR Magazine, HR Executive, and Workforce Management.
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