As CPO, how do I lead through complexity and manage my anxiety?

How to navigate complex business environments, manage personal stress and lead with confidence amid constant change.

Playing a full role in leading the business while also leading the HR function presents many dilemmas. How can you as CPO navigate a path that delivers business results while maintaining your personal resilience and integrity?

Rupert Brown has experienced turbulent change during his HR career and as CPO, and has researched what it takes to survive and thrive in this challenging role.

Asad Husain has been CHRO 4 times in varied sectors and has achieved HR transformations in fast-moving and complex environments.

In this webinar Rupert and Asad share their hard-won learning from leading HR in challenging environments and explore strategies for building influence and personal strength.

Deborah Wilkes, CEO of Enable-HR International, shares her own insights and also what HRDs have said in our current ‘Confidence in HR’ survey. Click here to participate in the survey.

Who is this webinar for?

CPOs, CHROs, Strategic HRBPs, HR leaders, CEOs

What will I learn?

This is the first webinar in our new series ‘How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work’. These interactive sessions will equip and inspire CPOs to navigate a world where there is increasing change and complexity. We will hear from accomplished CPOs and invite input and questions from our audience to ensure that each webinar is practical, relevant and rooted in today’s challenging context.

In this webinar Rupert Brown, CPO, will share insights from his extensive experience of leading and transforming HR in global organisations including P&G, Maersk and Virgin. Rupert has recently researched leadership during change for an upcoming book, and will share his findings from interviews with leaders in all functions, CXOs and Chairs.

Asad Husain will draw from his impressive career of being CHRO 4 times and share his learning about the strategic and personal challenges of leading the HR function and how he overcame them.

Areas to explore include:

Achieving clarity and purpose during change
Leading change in a more thoughtful, considered and better way
Building trust with the CEO and Board
Managing expectations – what you can deliver and what you can’t
Avoiding taking the burden of culture on HR’s shoulders; ensuring that culture is a collective responsibility
Bringing business leaders and the HR team along – making change a shared endeavour
Keeping the right focus and priorities in a world that keeps changing.

Facilitators

This webinar is hosted by Asad Husain, 4xCHRO, Rupert Brown, CPO and Deborah Wilkes, co-founder of Enable-HR International.

What are the outcomes?

Greater clarity around personal focus as a CPO or senior HR leader
Relevant and practical ideas about how to move forward with what you want to do as CPO
Building strength and courage from hearing others’ experiences and challenges
Insight into how to deepen trusting relationships with the business leadership team.

What do I get?

Stimulating, interactive webinar with fresh content to challenge and support your thinking
Inspiration to build your own leadership during change
Thought leadership and research from different perspectives
Practical, relevant input that relates to the reality of HR in organisations today.

Date:

Recording from Monday 2nd December 2024

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Webinar series: How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work

Date: Monthly webinars will be scheduled

Navigating the complex dynamics of playing a full role as a business leader while also leading the HR function presents many dilemmas. How can you as CPO forge a path that ensures that HR delivers business results while maintaining your personal resilience and integrity? Expectations of HR are rising, and these interactive webinars will be rooted in the reality of the challenges facing the CPO.

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Date: Recording from Friday 8th November 2024

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Recording: Priorities for a new CHRO

Date: Recording from Thursday 3rd October 2024

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Date: Recording from Tuesday 17th September 2024

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