Forum | QLD - Employee Engagement

This leadership event will focus on Employee Engagement

Employee engagement reflects the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in their work and workplace.

Gallup has found that engaged business teams drive positive outcomes within organisations. Gallup estimates that low engagement costs the global economy AU$13.4 trillion, or 9% of global GDP.

What are you doing to improve this?

It seems, quite a lot. This forum will expose the wide range of initiatives that Australian industries are employing to improve engagement in their people.
Australia has moved from 23% of it’s workforce being ‘engaged’ in 2023 to 25% in 2024. This is a significant improvement (10% in real terms) but there is a long way to go.

Our QLD forum events are great opportunities to come together with others in your field to share and acquire knowledge.  Attendance typically exceeds 30 people so you will depart with increased knowledge and a broader network to call upon in the future.

Our Presenters:



     
     Brendan Croucher 
     Director, Footbridge Consulting
     LinkedIn
     

Brendan Croucher, from Footbridge Consulting, is on a mission to help build Healthy, Engaged and Adaptive organisations and communities.

A fundamental part of his work is helping them build Conversational Capacity® – the ability to engage in constructive, learning focused dialogue about difficult subjects and in challenging circumstances. Based on the bestselling book by author Craig Weber, Conversational Capacity is a vital competence for both leadership and collective performance. It sits at the core of increasing engagement within individuals, teams and entire organisations who are, to use the Gallup definition, “highly involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace.”

Brendan’s interactive session will focus on providing a new lens through which to view the importance of engagement, the situations in which it matters most, and actionable suggestions for how we can increase it.

Brendan’s client group includes BHP, Brisbane Broncos, Rio Tinto, Boeing, Anglo American, RSPCA Qld and AGL



     
     Ishan Galapathy 
     Author, Productivity Expert & Speaker
     LinkedIn
     

Ishan is an author, productivity expert and speaker with a wealth of knowledge, working across six countries for 25 years, including large multi-nationals. He was involved in developing a global supply chain excellence program for one of them.

Ishan’s latest book, UNLOCK: Engage the Seemingly Disengaged, showcases a framework to shift both productivity and engagement. Employee engagement is the holy grail that almost all employers are searching for to have a more productive workforce, deliver meaningful outcomes, create a happier workplace and, as a result, deliver a better bottom line.

Renowned for his simplified techniques, Ishan helps manufacturing businesses to achieve more through productivity improvement and leadership programs.

Agenda:

08:15:  Arrival and registration
08:30:  Group Discussions - How do you grow engagement in your businesses
09:00:  Session 1: Conversational Capacity - Guest Speaker: Brendan Croucher
10:00:  Morning tea
10:30:  Session 2: Roundtable workshop - Engagement - The state of the Global Workplace - Digging deeper into engagement
12:00:  Lunch
12:45:  Session 3: UNLOCK: Engage the Seemingly Disengaged - Guest Speaker: Ishan Galapathy
14:30:  Event ends

Who should attend?
This event is ideal for People and Culture professionals, General Managers and Operations Managers.
As a member of IPA you can register up to 2 people, subject to availability, to attend this event.
This event is for IPA members only, there will be no public access to this event.

When do I need to register by?
Registrations close 7 days prior to event date. 
Registrations are based on a "first-come, first-served" basis. 
There are no allocated seats with membership.

Who can I contact for further information? 

     
     Samantha Jeffrey | National Engagement & Events Manager
     samantha@industrypartners.com.au 
     0438 058 823

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