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The No.1 Hands-on Business Acumen Workshop
That All HR Leaders Must Not Miss!
5 - 6 May 2015 | Prince Hotel & Residence, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
WORKSHOP
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Addressing one of the hottest topics this year, The Business Savvy HR Leader
Workshop is a highly interactive workshop designed to help HR professionals with 3-10
years experience master strategies to strengthen their business and financial acumen
and develop project management skills to support management-level needs, therefore
becoming key contributors in the organisation.
As this is a hands-on workshop, participants will be encouraged to be aware of
business information about their companies, such as annual reports, financial reports
and industry analyst reports in order to identify and resolve real-life business issues.
“In my 20 years of
dealing with Fortune
Global 500 CEOS, CFOs,
and COOs, the biggest
frustration they have
with their senior HR
managers is that they
don’t understand the
BUSINESS well enough!”
– Dirk Rossey,
Former CHRO, Dubai Holding
Divisions and Former Vice
President, JP Morgan
JOIN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SERIES EVER RUN BY HRM ASIA!
Last year, HRM ASIA ran a pilot program of the Business Savvy HR Leader. The
feedback from the participants was overwhelmingly positive!
“Informative sessions,
especially on the C-suite
expectation of HR
Leaders!”
– Maybank
“The sessions were very
informative. Facilitators
shared their views and
ideas on strategic HR!”
– Westports Malaysia
“Challenge traditional HR
mindset!”
– Alcon
Dirk Rossey
Former CHRO,
Dubai Holding
Divisions and
Former Vice
President,
JP Morgan
Facilitators:
Jane Horan
Founder,
Horan Group
James Leong
Founder and
CEO, Visions.One
Consulting Pte Ltd
David Heng
Managing
Director and
Head, Commerce
Leadership
Institute
CIMB Group
Mahendran
Kapuppial
Finance Director
Kimberly-Clark
C-Suite
Panellists:
CEO Representative: CFO Representative:
Hari Nair
Head – HR
Transformation
Maxis
Frank Trampert
Chief Operating Officer
Tune Hotels Group
COO representative:

2. WHY ATTEND?
MUST ATTEND FOR:
CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS
High-level HR generalists, specialists, and consultants,
either transitioning, or looking to acquire the skills and
competencies needed to transition into a new strategic
HR Business Partner role.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
Align your HR strategy with your overall
business plan to support strategic development
Leverage communication tools and important
business lingo to be a powerful player in the
boardroom
Create business value for your ideas through
an analysis and application of business and
financial information
Master essential project management
concepts, skills and techniques to effectively
plan, execute and complete your HR initiatives
on time and under budget
Explore how to work in collaboration with and
influence multiple business units to ensure that
business plan priorities and actions are aligned
across the organisation
Measure how HR-related decisions and actions
impact the five core metrics of any business:
revenue, cost, quality, service and productivity
POLITICAL
SAVVINESS
MEANINGFUL
ANALYTICS
The 5 Pillars of Learning
4
1
2
3BUSINESS
ACUMEN
FINANCIAL
LITERACY
Limited Attendees
The workshop will be limited to 30 seats to ensure
maximum hands-on learning and experience for
all participants.
Highly Participatory Training Methods
An interactive mix of integrated case studies, live
group instruction, engaging group exercises, open
discussions, on-stage interviews with C-suite
guests and an on-site business clinic will give our
participants the “how to” applicable skills that
they can use on returning to work.
High Quality and Comprehensive
Training Materials
All participants will receive a binder containing
copies of the presentation slides, handouts and
other course materials as a permanent reference
throughout as well as after the workshop.
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5 PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
SKILLS

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“Engaging and generous and
very ‘real’ in sharing experiences
and perspectives.”
-Bloomberg
“Practical tips! We are often blind
to our own blind spots. Very good
trainers.”
-Sentosa Development Corporation
“Very useful congress. Very
deep, meaningful and practical,
in a way that we can understand.”
-Etiqa Insurance & Takaful
“I came to this session with many
questions but after the course,
I realised that I was asking the
wrong questions! Very good!”
-Maersk Drilling

4. 8.30am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.00am
STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH
C-Suite Insider: What Do They Want From Their HR Leaders?
AGENDA
Tuesday - 5 May 2015
WORKSHOP
MODULE ONE: BUSINESS ACUMEN
Join our face-to-face interview with C-Level leaders and gain a deeper insight into how they think HR can better lead to align talent with
the future of the business and earn a tactical seat at the table. This session will allow participants to learn from and evaluate their views
against those of the C-Suite accountable for the overall success of the organisation.
Moderator:
C-suite Panellists:
Dirk Rossey
Former CHRO, Dubai Holding Divisions and
Former Vice President, JP Morgan
Dirk Rossey is a 25 years international HR veteran and pioneer in organisational behaviour, change management, process improvement and
leadership development. He is a Six Sigma black belt holder. In his current role in Arowana, he introduced the holistic performance management
strategy under the banner Values – Strategy – Culture – Talent – Performance. He formerly provided internal consulting for Ernst & Young, Dubai
Bank and Tatweer (Dubai Holding), JP Morgan (as Vice President) and Inchcape (as General Manager). He currently sits on a number of Boards
specializing in advice with regards to HR strategy and business support.
10.00am ON-SITE BUSINESS CLINIC
We will offer a unique opportunity for participants to have a one-on-one consultation with one or all of the C-suite panel
members to discuss specific business challenges and opportunities.
C-suite Panellists:
11.00am MORNING REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
David Heng
Managing Director and Head,
Commerce Leadership Institute,
CIMB Group
CEO representative:
Mahendran Kapuppial
Finance Director,
Kimberly Clark
CFO representative:
Frank Trampert
Chief Operating Officer,
Tune Hotels Group
COO representative:
David Heng
Managing Director and Head,
Commerce Leadership Institute,
CIMB Group
CEO representative:
Mahendran Kapuppial
Finance Director,
Kimberly Clark
CFO representative:
Frank Trampert
Chief Operating Officer,
Tune Hotels Group
COO representative:

5. WORKSHOP
Dirk Rossey
Former CHRO, Dubai Holding Divisions and
Former Vice President, JP Morgan
12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
MODULE TWO: BUSINESS ACUMEN COMPETENCY
11.30am
Part I: Business Skills for HR – Complementing Your HR Expertise with Influential Business
Partnering Competency
HR leaders often face the challenge of connecting their work to real business outcomes and garnering the attention of business
unit executives. Lack of business acumen is a key roadblock to their greater strategic positioning. They are required to have an
understanding of how a particular business makes money, as well as have a grasp of the key challenges and priorities the business is
facing.
This module is designed to help you understand the language of business and provide the “know-how” to support key business drivers
and align human capital to meet evolving business needs.
Module Outline:
• Understand the Business – HR Linkage from a C-suite Perspective
• Decipher business strategy and how it relates to organisation capabilities and core competencies as well as how those
connect to pivotal talent and organisation design decisions
• Evaluate your organisation’s financial anchors (margin and velocity, and the resulting returns) and the shifting nature of the
game (the company’s positioning, business model, external context, competitor’s positions and set of targeted customers)
• Value chain thinking in your business: Where you are in the value chain, strategic sourcing and procurement, business
process and logistics, supplier management and partnering?
• Examine all your HR processes and potential investments to understand your HR priorities and make investment decisions
like other lines of business functions
Facilitator:
1.30pm
Part I: Business Skills for HR – Complementing Your HR Expertise with Influential Business
Partnering Competency
Dirk Rossey
Former CHRO, Dubai Holding Divisions and
Former Vice President, JP Morgan
3.30pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING BREAK

6. WORKSHOP
MODULE THREE: POLITICAL SAVVINESS
Jane Horan
Founder, Horan Group
Dr. Jane Horan is an expert in global career management and cross cultural leadership, working with multinational organisations to build inclusive
and engaged workplaces through meaningful work. Combining years of corporate experience at Kraft, Disney and GE in talent management, cross
cultural leadership development and organisational savvy, Jane offers concrete advice and practical tips in organisational effectiveness, career
management and leadership transitions.
She is Chief Career Officer at The Horan Group, an internationally recognised speaker on Unconscious Bias, Political Savvy and Transformational
Leadership, and author of two books, How Asian Women Lead and I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career, providing practical applications for
21st century leadership and careers. She consults to Fortune 500 companies,NGO’s and academic institutions in Asia, US and Europe.
4.00pm
Savvy skills for HR professionals – Understanding the value of positive political savvy in
business leadership and organisational effectiveness
Political savvy is a critical leadership competency-- always in demand, yet rarely taught inside organisations. As a trusted advisor and
business partner, HR professionals recognise the value of building savvy skills: understanding power dynamics, influencing strategies,
and forming internal coalitions.
This highly interactive session examines savvy through the lens of Human Resource professionals to demonstrate the positive side
of this critical skill, and how it impacts organisations, business and teams. Participants discuss and define savvy from a personal
perspective and through the prism of their organisation.
Module Outline:
• Defining savvy, understanding links to leadership and business performance
• Reviewing a Political Model of Behaviour, analysing the connections to organisational and team effectiveness
• Examining savvy cases of perception management, political styles and networks situation
5.30pm END OF DAY 1

7. WORKSHOP
MODULE FOUR: FINANCIAL LITERACY
James Leong
Founder & CEO, Visions.One Consulting Pte Ltd
James Leong is a strategic learning partner to Singapore’s top financial institutions, leading blue chip public listed companies and has trained
with many institutions such as SMU, SIM, NUS, ISCA and Duke CE. He has presented regularly at professional forums, continuing professional
education training, appeared on radio and investor education webcasts. The Singapore Business Review has also featured him as one of ten
influential professional speakers in Singapore. James is well known for his dynamic presentation and ability to simplify complicated concepts in
a simple, easy and fun way for his audience to understand and apply to achieve impactful results.
MODULE FIVE: MEANINGFUL ANALYTICS
AGENDA
Wednesday - 6 May 2015
8.30am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE8.30am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.00am
PART I: HUMAN CAPITAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN HR AND
FINANCE
PART I: HUMAN CAPITAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN HR AND FINANCE
Most CEOs express how important it is for HR professionals to have a thorough understanding of budgets, financial statements, Profit
and Loss (P&L) and productivity metrics – that define the health of an organisation. If HR professionals want to move up the ladder
and assume a senior management role, an understanding of the numbers is essential to grasping the drivers of financial success and
how HR can impact the bottom line.
This module will incorporate and stress the practical application of finance tools to real-life HR issues, without sacrificing the theoretical
rigor that will enable you to better apply what you learn in a variety of situations.
Module Outline:
• Understanding the income statement, balance sheet and cash flows
• The difference between turnover, cash and profit
• Capital Expenditure (CAPEX), Operating Expenditure (OPEX) and investment in people
• Cost types and behaviours
• Techniques to improve the budgeting, forecasting and decision making processes
Facilitator:
10.30am MORNING REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
11.00am Part II: Human Capital Financial Statements: Bridging the Gap Between HR and Finance
1.30pm
Big Data in HR: How to Use Meaningful Analytics to Think Strategically & Present Strategic
Workforce Issues to The Board?
12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
Business is increasingly driven by two things: analytics and the value of human capital. Executives want a clear picture of how their
people contribute value, and how they can invest in programs such as training to optimise that value.However, HR lacks insightful
metrics, tools and analysis to quantify human capital value and achieve data driven decision making for the workforce.
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This module will provide the effective and efficient tools and techniques needed to help optimise HR management practices, project
the financial impact of workforce decisions and build the business case for strategic investments.
Module Outline:
• How to develop a credible HR SMART numbers and use them to demonstrate the value and ROI of HR
• How to optimise your organisational design activities and associate them with HR programs on the back of HR analytics
• Storytelling with data to understand, interpret and communicate insights
• Frameworks and approaches that can advance from descriptive benchmarking, creating dashboards and describing past
trends, to a strategic HR business impact capability
Facilitator:
MODULE SIX: PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
2.30pm
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR HR: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS ACUMEN & HR CASE
STUDIES COME ALIVE?
There are many project management tools and methodologies available in the market. Each of these methodologies is made to target
a specific audience (e.g. Engineers, Six Sigma and others), but they all boil down to the following:
1. A phase in the beginning where you detect, recognise, observe and/or describe the problem or project to be introduced (often
associated with a definition of teams, targets and timelines)
2. A research phase where evidence and facts are found to continue to make the baseline business case to solve the problem
3. A suggested solution to solve the problem
4. A plan for the implementation of the solution
5. The actual implementation of the solution
6. A follow-up phase to ensure that the implementation is working
In this session, you will be tasked with starting to solve one substantial business and one HR issue inside your company.
Facilitator:
Dirk Rossey
Former CHRO, Dubai Holding Divisions and
Former Vice President, JP Morgan
4.00pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING BREAK
MODULE SEVEN: PUTTING THEM TOGETHER
4.30pm DEVELOPING A BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT/BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION PLAN IN YOUR BUSINESS
Each participant will be asked to develop 3 changes to his or her organisation that will make a real bottom line business impact. The session
willbefacilitatedbythemoderatortoworkontheirproposedchangesinmoredepthusingtemplatesandguidelinesprovidedbythemoderator.
Facilitator:
Dirk Rossey
Former CHRO, Dubai Holding Divisions and
Former Vice President, JP Morgan
5.30pm END OF WORKSHOP
Hari Nair
Head – HR Transformation, Maxis
Hari Nair is Senior General Manager with Maxis group companies and is currently leading critical HR transformation projects. Previously, Hari lead
the HR functions in Envision Inc. and CoreObjects. Prior to that, he was the HR Business partner for a large business unit in Satyam Computer
Services, spanning 14 countries. Hari has 20 years of well-rounded leadership experience in HR with specialisation in Talent Management,
Performance, Technology and Transformation.
Hari is a Chartered Member of CIPD, UK and is a certified Human Capital Analyst. He has presented and published several articles on contemporary
HR issues in international journals and conferences.

9. THE BUSINESS SAVVY HR LEADER WORKSHOP
5-6 May 2015 | Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Email: karen@hrmasia.com.sg
Telephone: (65) 6423 4631
Fax: (65) 6423 4632
Website: www.hrmcongress.com
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