1. Recently, the focus on the reinvention of performance
management has never been stronger. With big names such
as Accenture, GE, Adobe and GAP making the news for
rethinking their strategies, it has become more imperative
for organisations to review their current policies. Moreover, a
recent survey from Deloitte University Press has shown that
89% of the respondents interviewed had either reviewed,
updated or are currently evaluating their performance
evaluation policies.
Most companies have realised that a dynamic performance
management process is the only way to go in addressing the
issues faced in management of employees and maximising
employees’ potential. As such, performance management
is being reinvented for a brand-new purpose: to serve as an
efficient, focused business process that improves employee
engagement and delivers business results.
The Employee Performance Management & Development
conference will bring together Australia’s HR leaders
from prominent organisations to discuss key trends and
challenges in performance management, equipping you with
best practice strategies to design an effective employee
performance management and development strategy
By attending, delegates can expect to:
• Gain an overview of the current performance
management landscape and analyse the rising trends
• Attain insights and capitalise on shared experiences
from leading organisations on their strategies on
performance management
• Leverage on technology to cultivate and utilise data to
improve existing employee performance
• Discuss the challenges of effectively managing
employees with flexible work arrangements
• Understand and examine the importance of innovative
strategies in performance management, employee
engagement and handling underperformance
effectively
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Jacques Liebenberg,
Director of People
Performance, Metro Trains
Melbourne
Milano Pellegrini, Head of
HR, Supply Chain, Caltex
Robert Brierley, Human
Resources Director,
PACCAR Australia
Alec Bashinsky,
CHRO – Partner
Performance, Asia Pacific
Regional Talent Leader,
Deloitte
Troy Hoggan, Head of
Performance, Telstra
Ronan Carolan, Head of
HR Consumer, Australia,
Optus
Vicki Klunyk, General
Manager HR HS, Specialty
Group Payroll, Harris
Scarfe
Amber Kristof, Human
Resources Director, L’Oreal
Anna-Lisa Chivers,
Human Resources Director,
Goodyear Dunlop Tyres
(Australia)
Michael Patron, General
Manager Total Rewards,
Tabcorp
Julie Catanach, Executive
Manager Performance,
Suncorp Group
Alla Keogh, Head of
People, MYOB
Rebecca Supierz, HR
Manager - Australia NZ,
SEEK
Connie Kuhlman,
HR Business Partner,
Accenture
Kevin Murphy, Senior
Manager, Employee
Reward, IAG
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Pre-Conference Workshop:
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Workshop Trainer:
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Melbourne | 18 – 19 February 2016 (Conference)
17 February 2016 (Pre-Conference Workshop)
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2. Why attend?
One of the biggest issues within the HR function is the need to rethink
how companies manage, evaluate and reward their employees. As
organisations struggle with leadership, engagement and capability
challenges, a renewed focus has been placed on the employee
performance management processes more now than before.
Employees today find themselves looking for ongoing feedback and
mentoring from their leaders and peers. They want to understand
how they can improve and where they can go next. Innovative new
performance management models are now becoming imperative as
business revamp and enhance their talent solutions. From a static
performance management process evolving into a strategic tool in the
HR function, performance management has become more than just an
annual checklist, but a continuous process.
The Employee Performance Management Development
conference recognises the growing need for organisations to evaluate
their existing performance management policies and to innovate their
strategies in performance measurement, management and
development. You will benefit from industry best practices, leverage on
shared experiences and learn from Australia’s leading organisations on
how to improve existing performance management processes.
Who should attend?
Directors, Heads, Senior Managers and Specialists in Human
Resources, who are responsible for:
Australia’s only employee performance management focused conference
Programme-at-a-Glance
DAY ONE
Keynote: Changing the way we work – People and Performance
Keynote: Evaluating key trends in HR performance management
What’s next in performance evaluation and its redesign
Panel: Innovative strategies in performance management
Leveraging technology in employee performance management
Utilising data for effective employee performance management
Legal considerations in managing underperformance and discipline
Panel: Key considerations in handling underperformance effectively
DAY TWO
Keynote: Reinventing performance reviews
Rewarding employees with appropriate compensation
Aligning benefits with corporate performance
Panel: Flexible work arrangements in performance management
Caltex’s performance management across all ages
SEEK’s perspective in performance review and cost-efficiency
Designing a high-performance innovation culture
in PACCAR Australia
Panel: Value of employee engagement and talent management
Learning Objectives
By attending, you and your organisation will benefit from the
following learning objectives:
1. Examine the key trends in performance management and
analyse the changing landscape
2. Discuss what’s next in performance management –
alternatives to performance reviews
3. Acquire knowledge on how to best leverage technology
and data to improve existing performance management
processes
4. Leverage on best-practice strategies from leading organisations
on how they manage talent, nurture leaders and encourage a
high-performance innovation culture
5. Develop a strategy to manage underperforming employees
while considering the legal ramifications of doing so
6. Ensure that your employee compensation is aligned with your
business strategy and examine the challenges in motivating
employees with benefits, reward and remuneration
7. Evaluate the impact of flexible work arrangements on your
workplace and learn how to overcome the associated risks in
performance management
8. Identify the challenges in performance management in
managing junior and senior employees and how to avoid
common mistakes
9. Comprehend the importance of providing constant feedback
to employees – understanding the ongoing performance
management process
10. Analyse the importance of employee engagement to drive
value and gain insights to support your organisation
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• Human Resources
• Performance Management
• Talent Management
• Organisational Development
• HR Business Partner
• HR Strategy
• People and Culture
• Employee Benefits
• Workplace and Employment
Relations
• HR Shared Services
• Change and Capability
• Learning and Development
• Workforce Management
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3. Conference Day One – 18 February 2016 (Thursday)
8:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Address
OVERVIEW AND TRENDS
9:10 Keynote: Changing the way we work – People and
Performance
• Evolving the current practices in performance evaluations and
reviews
• Analysing the changing landscape: trends in recent years
• Rethinking the role of HR with effective performance
management: turning it into a business strategy
• Building a performance management culture and enable effective
coaching through training
Michael Patron, General Manager Total Rewards, Tabcorp
9:50 Keynote: Evaluating the key trends in HR performance
management
• Analysing the new changes in legislation, i.e paid parental leave,
flexible work arrangements and how it affects performance
management and measurement
• Moving away from performance reviews: are they still relevant?
• Challenges faced today: engagement, retention and capability
development
Troy Hoggan, Head of Performance, Telstra
10:30 Morning Tea
CHANGING PERFORMANCE REVIEWS AND INNOVATION
11:00 What’s next and why in performance evaluations and its
redesign
• Evaluating the current performance reviews and ensuring they are
still relevant
• Reviewing the alternatives to performance reviews
• Changing the focus from annual performance reviews to a
continuous dialogue
• Challenges in motivating employees without performance reviews
Ronan Carolan, Head of HR Consumer, Australia, Optus
11:40 Panel Dialogue: Innovative strategies in performance
management
• Identifying the opportunities for innovation
• Assessing and understanding the risks and requirements when
moving away from traditional performance management systems
• Key considerations in effective design and implementation of
innovative new performance management models
Ronan Carolan, Head of HR Consumer, Australia, Optus
Troy Hoggan, Head of Performance, Telstra
Alla Keogh, Head of People, MYOB
12:30 Networking Lunch
EVALUATING USES OF DATA AND TECHNOLOGY
1:30 Leveraging technology in employee performance
measurement
• Evaluating the use of analytics and talent insights in performance
assessments and plans
• Expanding the breadth and depth of data used in analysis and
discussions of employee performance
• Ensuring HR provides and utilises insightful analytics for
organisational growth and managing employees efficiently
Connie Kuhlman, Client Account HR Lead, APAC, Accenture
2:10 Utilising data for effective employee performance
management
• Integrating and using HR metrics for constructive performance
management
• Measuring what is needed rather than what is available and
keeping business strategy on track
• Applying predictive analytics for strategic performance
management
• Determining the right metrics to be measured together with
organisational objectives
• Quantifying the cost of your performance management
programme
Jacques Liebenberg, Director of People Performance, Metro
Trains Melbourne
2:50 Afternoon Tea
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS AND UNDERPERFORMANCE
3:20 Legal considerations in managing underperformance and
discipline
• Knowing when to terminate an underperforming employee –
understand how to terminate from a legal and employee relations
perspective
• Developing a strategy to manage underperforming employees
• Steps in conducting the meeting for unsatisfactory performance
• Ensuring your disciplinary process is fair
• Practical steps for avoiding liabilities associated with discipline
Helene Lee, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
3:50 Panel Dialogue: Key considerations in handling
underperformance effectively
• Alternatives to termination and litigation: what can be done?
• Strategies on how to manage difficult employees
• Practical tips on how to have challenging and difficult
conversations with underperforming employees
• Challenges in motivating and engaging an underperforming
employee
Vicki Klunyk, General Manager HR HS, Specialty Group Payroll,
Harris Scarfe
Chris Turner, Head of Outsourced HR Solutions, Adecco
Michelle O’Connor, HR Excellence Manager, MMG
4:40 Chairperson’s Closing Address and End of Day One Conference
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Peter Dwyer, HR Consultant, Peter Dwyer and Associates

4. Conference Day Two – 19 February 2016 (Friday)
8:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Address
BENEFITS, REWARDS AND RENUMERATION
9:10 Keynote: Reinventing performance reviews – why you need
to do it
• Benefits of removing ratings and distribution curves
• Overview of what Deloitte is introducing globally
• Analysing and introducing world class framework around
performance management and technology to make it simple,
agile and frequent
• Why this new approach is cost-efficient employee performance
management
• Ensuring a return on investment on your performance
management approach
Alec Bashinsky, CHRO – Partner Performance, Asia Pacific
Regional Talent Leader, Deloitte
9:50 Connecting Performance and Total Rewards – Breaking
Down the Silos
• What matters most at work: A 2020 beyond outlook
- Find out which benefits and work aspects matter most to
employees
- Understand both executives and employees views on what their
companies offer
• Connecting performance reviews with other HR processes
• Ensuring performance management is integrated with total
rewards
• Why solely relying on performance management tools won’t
necessarily guarantee a better outcome
Mark Souter, Value Engineer, and
Russell Porter, Value Engineer, SAP SuccessFactors
10:30 Afternoon Tea
11:00 Aligning compensation and benefits with corporate
performance
• Associating compensation with a detailed HR strategy to boost
employee performance management
• Revolutionising remuneration management through a
contemporary approach
• Attracting and retaining talented employees with valuable
employment offerings
• Evaluating substitutes to monetary rewards
Kevin Murphy, Senior Manager, Employee Reward, IAG
CASE STUDIES – FLEXIBLE WORK AND STRATEGIES
11:40 Panel: Challenges and opportunities with flexible work
arrangements in performance management
• Identifying issues faced when evaluating performances with
flexible work arrangements
• Challenges in measuring and managing employees not in the
office – overcoming issues faced
• Understanding and learning how to overcome the associated
risks within flexible work requests
Julie Catanach, Executive Manager Performance, Suncorp Group
Amber Kristof, Human Resources Director, L’Oreal
Jacques Liebenberg, Director of People Performance, Metro
Trains Melbourne
12:30 Networking Lunch
CASE STUDIES – EMPLOYEES OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS
AND COST EFFICIENCY
1:30 Case Study: Challenges in performance management across
all ages
• Evaluating the difficulties in performance management from staff
of different ages and how to overcome
• Analysing the different approaches in managing junior and senior
employees
• Encouragement without remuneration: alternatives to monetary
rewards
• Making incentives work: emerging trends and common mistakes
to look out for
Milano Pellegrini, Head of HR, Supply Chain, Caltex
2:10 Case Study: SEEK’s perspective on performance reviews and
cost efficiency
• Benefits of moving away from performance reviews and rankings
• Alternatives to performance reviews
• Examining the decisions that led to this outcome
Rebecca Supierz, HR Manager - Australia NZ, SEEK
2:50 Afternoon Tea
CREATING A HIGH PERFORMANCE WORKFORCE
3:20 Case Study: Designing and supporting a high-performance
innovation culture
• Managing the performance of high potential employees critical to
organisational success
• Setting clear objectives and involving employees at every stage –
importance of communication
• Examining the challenges to nurturing high potential individuals
and how to overcome
• Actionable strategies to build an innovative workforce
• Fundamental steps in talent management – placing the right
people at the right place
• Analysing how performance management boosts innovation in
the workforce
Robert Brierley, Human Resources Director, PACCAR Australia
4:00 Panel Dialogue: Evaluating the value of employee
engagement and talent management
• Creating strategies in successful employee engagement and
boosting employee performance
• Comprehend the necessity of employee engagement for
business
• Drive value and gain insights into the outcomes of valued
employee engagement
• Importance of talent management for organisational growth
Vicki Klunyk, General Manager HR HS, Specialty Group Payroll,
Harris Scarfe
Anna-Lisa Chivers, Human Resources Director, Goodyear
Dunlop Tyres (Australia)
James Bell, People and Organisation Director - Australia Asia
Pacific, Wood Group
Gaya Srikumar, HR Director ANZ, Pfizer Australia
4:50 Chairperson’s Closing Address and End of Conference
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Emma Grogan, Partner, PwC

5. Workshop | 17 February 2016 (Wednesday)
Aligning your performance management strategy
with business needs
With more companies realising the bottom-line value in effective
management of human resources, it has become more imperative that
HR practitioners stay up-to-date on the latest employee performance
management strategies.
Maintaining and cultivating a high-performance workforce has also been
a growing need for organisations to ensure that their human resources
are managed effectively. Now more than ever, it is a business imperative
to build workforce capability to ensure that learning and development
within the organisation are aligned to meet workforce capability needs.
By attending this workshop, delegates will gain an in-depth
understanding of supporting business needs with employee
performance management, rethink the existing performance
management framework and build a high-performance culture with
workforce capability.
Trainer’s profile
Workshop Trainer:
Senior Representative, PwC
SESSION 1: 9:00 – 10:30
Support your business needs with performance management
• Attract talent and retaining existing employees
• Identify business needs to support with performance
management
• Leverage upon a strong workplace culture to execute strategy for
organisational success
• Understand how culture defines your organisation’s brand and
why it really matters
• Strengthen the company brand with a positive workplace culture
• Gain knowledge on how to effectively communicate and embed
the desired culture in a meaningful way
10:30 Morning Tea
SESSION 2: 11:00 – 12:30
Rethink performance management
• Review existing performance management systems
• Case studies: Evaluating how change has improved
organisations’ efficiency
• Evaluate the needs of your employees to tailor an effective
performance management system
• Design innovative new performance management systems
specific to your organisations’ needs
12:30 Lunch
SESSION 3: 13:30 – 14:45
Linking core values, culture and engagement to build a high
performance workforce
• Manage the performance of high potential employees critical to
organisational success
• The importance of clear communication – setting identifiable
goals
• Identify the challenges in nurturing high potential individuals and
how to overcome
• Actionable strategies to build an innovative workforce
14:45 Afternoon Tea
SESSION 4: 15:15 – 16:30
Building workplace capability
• Align learning and development within the workforce to meet
workforce capability needs
• Design strategic plans to meet the directions of the organisation
• Support workforce capability needs during times of rapid
organisational change and transition
• Contextualise learning and development programs to support
capability, culture and performance outcomes
• Revitalising performance management systems
• Linking individual and team performance with organisational and
performance requirements
16:30 Closing Summary and End of Workshop
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