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How psychometric assessments can help HR professionals make better data-driven hiring decisions, evaluate workplace culture, reduce churn, increase employee engagement and optimize teams.

This will be an interactive session aimed at HR professionals. We will discuss daily issues faced by companies and offer strategies to address those. Basic knowledge of assessment tools would be beneficial, but not essential.

Experts: Arthur Meulman, General Manager of jobs.lu and representatives from Good&Co’s psychometrics team and Samar Birwadker Good&Co’s CEO

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives

•  Provide a fun, engaging and educational session for HR professionals on the use of big data in solving common issues for teams and companies.

Mergers and acquisitions are organizational strategies companies use to achieve various types of benefits. M&As however always have profound impacts on the employees of both organizations at every level as two organizations attempt to integrate into one. 

According to many studies, more than 70 percent of all M&As fail to achieve their anticipated objectives. This rate of failure is often attributed to various HR-related factors, such as incompatible cultures or management styles, lack of change management, loss of key talent, lack of communication, lack of visibility on the new structure, dis-engagement, loss of trust and uncertainty of long-term goals.

How an organization prepare for these challenges and manage them before, during and after the transaction has an important impact on the success of the transaction and the ability of the company to achieve its strategy.

Based on concrete cases and exchange of experience the participants will look at the HR aspects to consider when engaging in M&As:

Before the deal:

Pre-transaction analysis and budget

Anticipating and dealing with management issues

Preparing the communication plan and social dialogue

Aligning working terms and conditions

During and after the deal:

Deploying the communication and transition measures

Deploying the new company culture

Selecting the new leadership team and designing the new org chart

Dealing with the workforce reduction

Measuring Employee’s engagement

Developing M&A competencies

Expert: Virginie Boyard, Partner (VISTIM S.A.)

Level:
Expert – Intermediate

Objectives

Private equity, formerly an obscure asset class reserved to corporate firms, is becoming an everyday word for many professionals of the Luxembourg financial center.

Still classified among the alternative assets, private equity and venture capital gained a life of its own with the increasing number of start-ups and credit limitations of banks. Why is private equity so relevant today and how is it changing? Which opportunities lay ahead for the industry in Luxembourg?

Expert : Luis Gaveias (Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association)

Level:
Beginner

Objectives

In 2004 a groundbreaking research provided a cross-cultural, common language describing the best qualities in human beings. The VIA classification of strengths and virtues, which has been regarded as the most wide-reaching effort in positive psychology, in its essential and universal validity, unveils the final, unique DNA of humanity.

The 24 character strengths of the VIA classification are values in action; they are “positive traits which are core to our being/identity and our doing/behavior” (R. Niemiec).

Every individual has a unique set of character strengths that, if used in an optimal way, allow them to find well-being and be happy, and different researches have confirmed that people who use their strengths every day are three times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life, six times more likely to be engaged at work, 8% more productive and 15% less likely to quit their jobs.

Unfortunately, many people are still unaware of their power, and live their lives in an autopilot mode, which in turn can produce disengagement at work, in private life and relationships, to final dissatisfaction and disconnection from the self inside of each of us.

In this workshop, participants will learn to identify their character strengths and how to use them to improve their well-being, to activate their achievements, to elevate themselves and others towards making use of their resources in the best way.

Trainer: Maria Grazia Serra

Level:
All levels

Objectives

Forget old tactics that focus on interrupting potential customers with your sales message. Instead, provide helpful information, and they will come to you – guaranteed.

Inbound marketing has become a key cornerstone for brands that have realized how customer behaviour is changing. You don’t know whether inbound marketing has a place in your organization? You see the value of inbound, but aren’t sure where to start? This workshop takes you through the basics of a successful inbound marketing strategy in 2018 and shows you how different inbound channels and techniques can help you grow your business and your revenues.

New consumer behaviour: traditional buyer journey vs modern buyer journey, integration of multichannel, digital in decision making, trust in reviews, and more

The basics of inbound marketing logic, techniques & goals. Pull vs push marketing. Overview of main inbound channels: influencers management, content marketing, paid (SEA, SMA), SEO

From lead generation to lead and client nurturing: how to do it right, boost conversion and create brand advocates

Marketing tech stack for a modern marketing team

Talkwalker as an inbound driven marketing organization. Our marketing structure & how it responds to the new market developments and challenges

Takeaways & tips on starting on your inbound marketing journey

Expert: Elena Melnikova, VP Marketing (Talkwalker)

Level:
All levels

Objectives

How to digitalize your services and adopt technological changes?

The quality of service offered to customers as well as the strong brand image are the key to attracting and retaining the customers. Constant technological developments are changing the landscape of different sectors and accelerating the digitisation of processes and services. It might be difficult to monitor the evolution of the legal framework surrounding the digitisation of these services.

However, to minimize the risk of falling behind in markets, it is important to adapt to technological change. However, many companies are still reluctant to engage digitally. Despite this, Luxembourg is very well positioned to enable companies to switch to digital with confidence and the necessary changes have been made to national laws to facilitate the transition to an all-digital business environment.

This workshop will guide you through the applicable legislation and explain how to avoid difficulties. 

Experts : Olivier Reisch et Lara Herborg Olafsdottir (DLA Piper)

Level:
Beginner – Intermediate

Objectives

Do you know what your vision for your future is? Does everyone on your team share a vision for the future?

The Being Strategic framework helps you – individually or with a team or company – chart a clear course for the future and work to get there, combining the nuts-and-bolts practicality of strategic thinking with the aspiration and freshness of visioning.

Being strategic means consistently making the core directional choices that will best move you towards your hoped-for future.* In this workshop, you’ll learn a model and a set of skills that will allow you to do just that – in any part of your life. You’ll learn how to better frame challenges and problems, and envision a future where the problem has been solved. You’ll learn to identify the obstacles to your envisioned future – and build a path for achieving that vision. Learning and using this framework will demystify the idea of strategy: you’ll have a practical approach to thinking and acting strategically, so you can clarify the future you want to create and plan how to achieve it.

The Being Strategic* framework involves these 5 steps:

1.Defining the CHALLENGE: Before you begin to look to the future, it’s essential to know what you’re solving for, so everyone agrees on the core challenge.

2.What Is: CURRENT REALITY: Before creating a vision, you have to know where you are now. Here, the individual or the team identifies their current situation.

3.What’s the Hope: VISION: The individual or the members of a team create a shared vision for the future for themselves or for the team or organization— one to which they are all committed.

4.What’s in the Way: OBSTACLES: Here, the individual or team looks at what they’ll need to overcome in order to reach their hoped-for future.

5.What’s the Path: STRATEGY AND TACTICS: This step builds a practical path—first directionally then specifically—from the present to the envisioned future.

Expert: Vanessa Defournier, Leadership Coach (Inner Latitude)

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives

This session will include information about leisure life and schooling system In Luxembourg.

No matter you came here alone or with the family, you could definitely use this information session when you try to discover this country or put your kids in the local school.

you will spend 3 hours with 2 speakers, each has lots of knowledge on these topics and of course, we will have Q&A session for solving some specific questions.

Join this seminar, to meet the Delano Community, the English community in Luxembourg.

Expert: Duncan Roberts (Delano)

Level:
All levels

Le Personal Branding, c’est développer une stratégie de communication propre à votre identité et vos valeurs professionnelles afin d’émerger parmi la multitude complexe de vos pairs.

C’est également créer et faire connaître une promesse auprès de vos collaborateurs, vos collègues ou votre hiérarchie. C’est enfin, promouvoir vos activités professionnelles, votre expertise et développer votre notoriété.

Ce workshop s’adresse à vous dirigeants, salariés ou indépendants, qui êtes en quête de visibilité, crédibilité ou attractivité mais qui entendez régulièrement cette petite voix intérieure vous asséner « de toutes les manières, je ne sais pas me vendre ». Il part de trois constats simples :

Avant de lancer votre marque professionnelle, devenez donc votre marque préférée ! L’objectif de ce workshop est ainsi de vous faire devenir votre premier fan à travers une approche théorique, ludique, et participative.

Comment y parvenir concrètement ?

Nous évoquerons ensemble les fondamentaux du personal branding, puis au travers de mises en situation, nous mettrons à jour les croyances (limitantes ou aidantes) qui forgent votre identité professionnelle actuelle. Enfin, nous vous proposerons une initiation à plusieurs outils issus du coaching qui vous permettrons de mieux appréhender les mécanismes de la confiance, et vous aideront à gagner en influence.

Ainsi outillé et conscient de vos propres mécanismes internes, vous pourrez bâtir, sur des bases solides, une personal brand unique, authentique et pérenne à l’opposé du relooking factice et éphémère trop souvent proposé.

Experts : Anna Gibert et Claude Rodisio

Niveau:
Tous niveaux

Objectifs