Table of contents
Administration notes ... 3
Terms and conditions ... 4
Venue details ... 5
Consultant biography ... 6
Seminar programme ... 7
Administration notes
Purpose
Develop a business driven talent strategy, implementation framework and talent culture that drives
business performance.
Timings and registration
Please report to reception on arrival. Registration will be open from 9:00am. Please aim to arrive at the
venue by 9:15am at the latest to complete registration. The seminar will begin at 9:30am and finish at
approximately 4:30pm.
Preparation
Please complete the online pre‐course questionnaire and return to us as soon as possible before the
seminar commences.
Lunch and refreshments
Refreshments will be provided throughout the day, along with a buffet lunch. A vegetarian lunch option will
be available but please let us know if you have any other special dietary requirements on your pre‐course
questionnaire.
Smoking policy
It is illegal to smoke anywhere within the venue premises.
Access requirements and special facilities
Delegates with any special requirements should contact Jade Wysocki on 020 8371 7030 before the
seminar.
Dress code
The dress code for this programme is smart/ casual.
Messages
Please note that it will not be possible to interrupt the seminar to pass on messages, and we remind you
that all mobile phones should be switched off during the seminar.
Terms and conditions
Payment
Unless otherwise expressly agreed by JSB, payment either by cheque, BACS or credit card must be received
within 14 days from the date of invoice, or five days before the event to which this invoice relates,
whichever is earlier. Please make cheques payable to JSB Group Ltd. It is a condition of attendance that the
event fee has been pre‐paid. In the event of late payment we reserve our statutory right to interest at the
rate of 8% above base under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
Cancellations, transfers, substitutions and refunds
The above requests must all be made in writing.
Cancellations
The following charges apply if you cancel:
• 29+ days before an event = 20% of the event fee
• 15‐28 days before an event = 50% of the event fee
• 1‐14 days before an event = 100% of the event fee
Transfers
• Transfers made 15+ days prior to an event will be charged at 20% of the event fee
• Transfers made 1‐14 days prior to an event will be charged at 50% of the event fee
• The transfer option only applies to delegates who are transferring to a different date for the same
event
• Delegates must specify their choice of transfer date at the time of transfer
• The option to transfer can only be used once, after which non‐attendance will be treated as a
cancellation and all outstanding invoices will be due
• The original event invoice must be paid in full prior to a transfer invoice being issued
If you would like to make a substitution, please call us on 020 8371 7000 and we will be happy to help you.
Substitutions can be made at any time without incurring a penalty.
Venue details
Radisson Blu Edwardian Kenilworth Hotel
97 Great Russell Street
London
WC1B 3BL
Telephone:
Fax:
Web:
0207 666 2041
0207 753 0101
www.radissonedwardian.com/kenilworth
By rail
The hotel is easily accessible from all Central London mainline stations and taxis are available outside the
stations. If you wish to travel to the hotel using the underground please visit www.tfl.gov.uk, this is the
Transport for London website and is a valuable tool for planning your journey. Attached is a tube map that
you may find useful along with a street map.
By underground
The nearest underground station is Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern Line). The hotel is
approximately a 5 minute walk from the station. Exit onto Tottenham Court Road (exit 3, Dominion
Theatre), walk straight ahead (so the Dominion Theatre is behind you) and turn right onto Great Russell
Street. Walk up the street past the restaurants etc and the hotel will be at the end of the road on the left
hand side.
By air
The Heathrow Express runs direct to London Paddington in just 15 minutes (20 minutes from Terminal 5),
with a train every quarter of an hour. The Gatwick Express runs a similar service into London Victoria. Light
rail services (DLR) run regularly from London City Airport.
By car
We recommend using Google maps or a sat‐nav to plan your individual journey, please use the postcode
WC1B 3BL. The hotel does not have a car park attached to the building and roadside parking is not available
nearby however there is an NCP car park on Great Russell Street (WC1B 3NQ).
Accommodation
We have not been allocated any special rates with the hotel for this event, but if you wish to book a room
at the venue please go to the website where you will be able to take advantage of any promotional rates.
Alternatively we suggest the following web links for locating suitable accommodation:
www.lastminute.com, www.booking.com, www.laterooms.com.
Consultant biography
Angela Qureshi
Angela Qureshi, Director, heads JSB’s Education sector and Strategic HR faculty. As an HR strategist and an
experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, she has extensive experience at blue chip
consulting firms; Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as Head of HR at a large
University.
Angela’s current work includes: Delivery of a leadership development programme for senior managers,
currently broadening to support a wider cultural change programme (ongoing); supporting an HR
department with a process of change to move towards a more strategically focused, business partnering
approach to HR provision, encompassed by the whole function (ongoing). Angela brings useful experience
and latest thinking from her work in an extensive range of sectors including professional services and
finance.
Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc
Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University. Angela is a Level A and Level B British
Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, and is licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments. She
is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Key areas of expertise:
• HR and organisation strategy
• Business strategy development facilitation
• Leadership, change management and organisation development
• Management development skills
• Performance management including objective setting, performance appraisal, training and
development, motivation and reward
• Operational HR including capability, discipline and grievance, sickness absence, case work,
employment law for managers, recruitment and selection, role design and competency
development
Seminar programme
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Talent management designed as a strategic business driver
• The business case for talent management – current research insights
• Defining talent requirements from a strategic perspective
• Approaches to assess the talent your business needs to deliver its future
• Integrating with values‐led behaviours and culture
• Determining how scarce the talent is internally/externally, how easily developed,
and implications for your talent management approach
• Defining your talent management scope ‐ choices and considerations: balancing
recruitment with internal development; critical roles versus whole organisation
approach; reward integration; diversity matters; and other considerations
• Embedding talent management into business planning
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Assessing and developing your organisation's talent management culture
Assessing current practice and belief
• Assessing current talent management indicators of practice and culture
• Strategic choices around talent development approaches, and cultural implications
• Leadership and management behavioural requirements and commitment:
achieving involvement, engagement and buy in, and role modelling behaviours
Defining and agreeing the goals and principles of your talent management scheme
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Integrated talent management design and delivery: building the infrastructure
A model for fully integrated strategic talent management practice, options and tools:
• Talent pipeline, succession planning, talent attraction and acquisition
• Talent engagement and retention, managing talent risks
• Talent development, career progression, talent mobility
• Talent assessment, performance management, integrated reward
• Talent definition, competencies, maps and pathways
Learning from other organisation case studies
Utilising technology: options to enable and support the process
15:00 Coffee
Seminar programme (continued)
16:15 Taking talent management forward: your tailored plan to progress for your organisation
Consolidate your work throughout the day to ensure your clarity of next steps and
requirements to progress Talent Management at your own organisation
16:30 Close of seminar
