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Event Details

Date
Thursday 11th March 2010

Venue
OA Sport, Woollam Playing Fields, 160 Harpenden Road, St Albans, Herts, AL3 6BB

Format
7.45am - Registration
8.00am - Seminar and Breakfast
9.30am - Networking
10.00am - Close

Cost
Free

Essential HR 2010 breakfast seminar with Helen Giles MBE

Learn best practice employee engagement and leadership with the multi-award winning leader of Broadway and Broadway’s Real People.

Leading employment law services firm SA Law kicks off its Essential HR 2010 free breakfast seminar series with an opportunity to meet and learn from Helen Giles MBE. Helen is HR Director of homelessness charity Broadway, and Managing Director of Broadway’s Real People.

Helen’s long list of HR awards provides testimony of her expertise and success in this field. In addition to being listed as one of Personnel Today’s Top 10 HR Power Players, and being ranked 12th in HR Magazine’s Most Influential HR Practitioners in 2009, her team has won a National Training Award; Personnel Today’s Best Place to Work in HR 2007 and Best Small HR Team 2008; the Best Employer and Best Charity Partnership categories in the Third Sector Excellence Awards 2008; HR Team of the Year in Inside Housing’s Housing Heroes Awards 2009; and Best Third Sector Strategy in HR Magazine’s HR Excellence Awards 2009. Helen was also awarded HR Director of the Year at the 2008 Personal Today Awards and was made MBE in the same year for her contribution to homelessness services.

In what promises to be a lively and informal session in which delegates can voice their experiences and issues, Helen and SA Law’s own Head of Employment Vanessa James will cover:

Boosting employee engagement as we emerge from recession
How public sector organisations can maintain engagement whilst facing cuts
How HR teams can drive engaging leadership
The best ways to measure HR team success and report it back to the business
The latest news affecting HR professionals

How to Book

Places at this free breakfast seminar are limited, and so we recommend booking early to guarantee a place. Simply complete this online booking form or contact Katie Cairns on 01727 798076 or by email at katie.cairns@salaw.com

Speakers

Helen Giles MBE, FCIPD
HR Director, Broadway
MD, Broadway's Real People

Described as a “shining light in the charity sector” by Personnel Today, Helen has worked in the homelessness sector since 1986. In addition to her celebrated role as HR Director of Broadway, she is a founder of Broadway’s Real People – an HR consultancy and training support organisation that helps personnel teams to achieve best practice employee leadership and engagement.

In 2008, Helen was recognised in the New Year’s Honours List for her pursuit of people management excellence in the not-for-profit sector. In the same year, she was also awarded HR Director of the Year at the 2008 Personal Today Awards. She writes a regular column for Inside Housing magazine that discusses the pressing HR issues of the moment.

Vanessa James
Partner, Head of Employment, SA Law

Vanessa is a well-known regional commentator on employment issues, with a growing national profile in the HR sector. She consults on all aspects of employment law, assisting employers and individual employees with matters and disputes.

Vanessa’s expertise covers unfair dismissal, breach of contract, discrimination/victimisation, bullying and harassment, as well as issues of religious belief, sexual orientation, whistle-blowing, pay and TUPE. She has many high profile and complex Tribunal and High Court wins to her name, in addition to being highly skilled in the fields of contract drafting and negotiation.

SA Law, 60 London Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1NG T +44 (0)1727 798000 F +44 (0)1727 798002 info@salaw.com