Reimagine Next Normal Flexibility Profiles

What is your Flexibility profile: The Super Tele-Worker, The Social Gatherer, The Team Connector, The Workplace Friend, The Office Fan? With the rise of remote working and the recognition that focused work can take place anywhere, the task now shifts not only to reimagining how organizations should re-design their spaces for the updated role of the office, but also how to support leaders in managing their teams through change.

Digital Transformation – scaling up of capabilities / competencies

The Fourth Industrial Revolution needs trustworthy, auditable, accessible data, machine-readable information that is automatically updated using open data standards (such as XBRL or eXtensible Business Reporting Language) and global taxonomy registry and an open taxonomy innovation platform. Let’s discover together how this much-needed data revolution could be achieved and why accounting and compliance professionals who master the critical data in internal and external reports that drive the business will be invaluable.

Business Sustainability in WFH

• How to stay productive while working from home – Adrian Dinca

• Working from home: a love-hate relationship – Mihai Arghire

• The ‘must have’ Leadership Skills for 2021 – Colin Lovering

Customer Experience delivered in times of crises and beyond

• Service Delivery and enhancing customer experience during & after Covid-19 – Sunil Kumar

• Customer Experience during COVID 19 times – how companies manage human touch and quality of experience given the context – Irina Butnaru (Conduent)

The mind and body of the new organization

2020 is the year of change, no doubt. But we don’t need a pandemic with all the disruption it brought to see that the organizational culture has changed in the last years and it will continue to do so. Companies need to adapt to a new reality and to find new ways of communicating and motivating their employees. To see them as a whole and to apply mind and body development strategies.
Regina Maria will try to offer solutions to help keep the two aspects in balance during an insightful panel and with the help of three experienced professionals.

IMMUNE™, the Window into the Future Offices

It’s been 8 months since we work differently – yet who’s counting? – and more and more people wonder when they will return to their former lifestyle. Like it or not, we are the indoor generations; and now the pandemic forcibly articulated the need to transform our built environments in which we spend up to 90% of our time, so that our health is protected. How can we do that with IMMUNE™? Join us during the ABSL Conference to gaze upon the window into the future offices.

Return to Better: Reinvent the Office

It is time to reinvent the office and hold it accountable to help people and teams do their very best work. During our session:

• Ilinca will cover parts of an upcoming Steelcase research into key macro shifts we will begin to see in offices going forward and the ways in which we need to challenge assumptions about how an office is planned

• Kinga and Iulia will give you a virtual walk-through of how we adapted our Steelcase Business Center in Cluj to emerging user needs and

• Andrei will welcome you to the Stables Co-Working Space for some insights into how satellite spaces can support your workplace strategy

The pandemic upended how we interact with people, how we shop, how we learn, and it will fundamentally change the places where we work. Employee expectations about their work experience are evolving, and after months of working from home, the things people valued about their office, and those that frustrated them have crystalized. Employees have the right to expect the office to be more than just a place to go to work — it needs to help them add value and feel valued. And organizations have the right to a workplace that creates a competitive advantage and easily adapts to changing needs and conditions. Employees need — and deserve — to return to a better workplace. But if organizations want to attract people back, they need to understand the drivers of change and how they are impacting what workers want now.

Thinking ahead of the curve. The recruitment challenges across global services locations – an offshoring landscape

Evaluate and evolve – after ten months’ business and new reality, the companies and managers from global services centers are looking for the best way to keep their activity in line and looking towards evolution. As the question, where to locate a services facility, should ultimately come down to talent, in this session, the Hays specialists in recruitment, will reveal you what are the newest trends in the business services sector from a global view perspective.

Business Opportunities in the Next Normal

No crisis has been as challenging in recent memory as the COVID-19 pandemic, severely testing the strength of corporations and the business guidelines under which they operate. For CFO’s, finance and business leaders, it has accelerated the need to create agile, resilient organizations with higher levels of digitization and to better equip their finance teams to deal with today’s rapid pace of change and to harness the opportunity to create value for their organizations.

Lead learning outcomes:

• Understand how adoption of new technologies and new ways of working bring agility to an enterprise

• Collaboration cross-functionally in a flatter, more tightly networked organization to improve business partnering

• Participate in value creation through active engagement in all dimensions of the business model

• Equip and prepare team for the shifts in competencies required

Corporate Culture Under Pressure

We’ve all been part of the sudden shift towards remote work and have already faced many of the new complexities in both communication as well as collaboration that were brought by the monumental changes and demands from most businesses, across all markets. We ourselves, have undergone drastic changes to our (formerly secure) business model and therefore fully understand the impact of these changes on the very structure of organizations across the country and the everyday experiences of their employees. Disruption to the rhythms of everyday and the lack of in-person human interactions has created a drain on social capital and professional networks.

Whilst many leaders have spent the last few months focused on managing through the immediate impacts of the Covid-19 crisis, now is the time to pause and reflect, evaluate and plan.

Each decision made and action taken has affected corporate culture in some small way, whether done consciously or not.

Dale Carnegie Romania will be exploring this topic in greater depth on the 19th November with a dedicated webinar that draws from our latest International research and offers key insights.

Digital evolution in COVID-19 era

• eWFM planning tools and AI Time Tracker – Leonard Crisean

• “Deliberately Disruptive”: Strategic Approaches to Digital Evolution in Times of Crisis – Silviu Dragomir

• Beyond the crisis – Expediting the future in times of accelerating change – Maarten Oonk

• Data is the lifeblood of business. Digital Transformation and RPA are key pieces to the puzzle – Ievgeniia Lukianchenko