In this exclusive HR Summit presentation, David will share valuable best practice and demonstrate how employees, customers and the community have visibly noticed the difference from focused engagement practices at Standard Chartered.
Essentially, people enjoy working for (and do business with) a company that offers more through engagement. David will also share strategies that managers can use to provide clarity of purpose, nurture talent, respect diversity and play a responsible role in the community - all which have resulted in improved engagement, productivity and company performance at Standard Chartered. Participants will learn basic principles that could be applied in any organization to further improve levels of employee performance, including:
1. What do we mean by engagement?
2. What are the leading indicators of great performance?
3. Why engagement is at the core of out-serving employees, customers and achieving operational excellence for any industry; and
4. The value of sharing and visible leadership
By exploring the above from Standard Chartereds perspective, this session will help participants to understand how genuine responsibility for the right engagement can attract and retain people who achieve more than come to work and do their day job.
David Thomas is Group Head of Human Resources for Asia, Standard Chartered Bank and based in Hong Kong. David has over 20 years HR leadership experience and is accountable for Asias people strategy and practices by working closely for the Banks Group Executive Director and CEO, Asia - and alongside the HR Executive Committee - to oversee 25 countries, over 54,000 employees and approx 500 HR professionals in the East. David has successfully led and developed many high performing teams and continues to build focus on engagement across Asia, to compliment Standard Chartered's record income and profits for the 7th successive year in 2009 - almost $4bn of the bank's trading profit was generated in the Asia region! David enjoys coaching senior executives and has held a variety of international HR leadership positions since he joined Standard Chartered in 2002, including Head of HR for the Bank's Middle East and Africa business and subsequently Head of HR for SC First Bank Korea.
David's early career began as an employee relations specialist; he has also held senior HR positions at RBS Group and JP MorganChase prior to his career with Standard Chartered. David is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Strategic HR programme and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.
The Power of Engagement - Achieving Continuous High Performance!