GUIDO BETZ – Managing Director, Change International Ltd.

From Change Worrier to Change Warrior: Mobilizing people for Change

• Never neglect basic Change Management principles
• The S•A•V•E Model for successful Change
• Initiating a leadership cascade
• Examples from successful change initiatives
• What gets measured gets done: how to monitor Change?

10:00 – 10:40

JÁN URIGA – Senior Manager, PwC 

How to get out of the delusion of failed change management

• Change management is a safety belt during a flight. The probability of injury during a turbulence is significantly lower.
• Doing business without people is impossible. The same holds true for changes...
• There is a high probability of being slapped in the face in the change process. But is it much worse to morally fail in implementing changes to such a degree that we are not even worth the slap in the face to anybody.
• There is no change manager with a black belt who can manage anytime, anywhere, anything. However, there are smart leaders who do not rely on themselves in implementing changes, but on their team, discipline and a lucrative vision.

Coffee break

It is not about preconditions but about reality – the most frequent mistakes and failures of internal communication in the change process. It is not about a broad range of tools but about the manner of their application - a range of internal communication tools and their timing within the change management context. It is not a question of whether but of when – internal communication trends that necessitate change and impact the life of organisations. 

• Slovenská Sporiteľna – Štefan Frimmer, Communication and Sponsoring Department Director, Slovenská Sporiteľňa
• AICO –Slovenská Pošta – Bela Lysáková (TBC)
• Volkswagen – Lucia Makayová (TBC)
• Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic - Andrea Stoklasová, Head of the office of the president

Moderator - JÁN URIGA, Senior Manager, PwC

12:30 – 13:45

Lunch break

• How to take advantage of resistance to change? 
• How well are people prepared for change? 
• What experience do we have with change management (a case study). 
• How to prepare and educate people for change?

How to overcome change? Inspiring stories of Slovak companies.
Panel discussion

Adapt yourself of fail. Reality of nowadays turbulent days. How can Slovak companies cope with change? What is the profit and loss of change management? Let yourself inspire by stories of four Slovak companies in interesting panel discussion.
 

• Robertshaw  - Jiří Hudec, Plant manager
• Delta Electonics (Slovakia - Miroslav Šagát, HR manager
• Allen & Overy Bratislava - Katarína Matulníková, Senior Advocate
• Košický samosprávny kraj - Štefan Kandráč, Head of education  department  
• Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile Czech - Pavel Beneš, Corporate Office and External Affairs Manager

 
Moderator - PETER DOSEDLA, CEO, Express People 

Coffee break

• How to understand, deal and drive the transformation of the 6 ‘Environments’ at play in a process of change
• How to connect effectively with the different ‘Populations’ existing in the organization
• How to build up that ‘Critical Mass’ of relentless promoters of the change
• How to win the existing scepticism of people disillusioned by previous failed change experiences
• How to develop the long lasting ‘Adoption’ of the desired change, mastering the Engagement process and the Anchoring of the new behaviours

MARCELA HOLICKÁ – Change Manager EEMEA, Mondelez International 
Change as a way to success

• David vs. Goliath, or how to convince business not to oppose changes? 
• How to best manage change in an environment of constant and complex changes? 
• Can and is change management able to bring added value and benefit?  

LINDA HOLBECHE – Holbeche Consulting, Proffesor and Researcher at University of Bedfordshire & Cass Business School
Organisational agility and how you can build an organisation’s ability to change/adapt on an ongoing basis 

• What’s driving the need for agility
• The difference between adapting and being adaptable
• Framework: the elements of organisational agility
• Implications for leadership and the HR contribution

JÁN VLACH – Change Manager 2016, Head of Retail Risk, Tatra Banka

How can change management support the implementation of a new bank strategy? 

• What is change management expected to deliver when implementing a new strategy. 
• It is not enough today to be just a trainer in change management tools. 
• What does the first experience in real change management use in practice shows us?

ŠTEFAN ROSINA – Chairman of the Board of Directors, MATADOR HOLDING, a.s.

Change Management is a neverending story

• Is a good leader necessarily also a good change manager?
• Industry 0.0 – a conservative style of managing people. 
• Industry 4.0 – an autonomous style of managing people – what has to change and how?

SAMI SOKKAR - Professor for Communication and Leadership

Business in the near future - How we deal with change in relation to 21st century challenges. 

• Why change itself is the challenge No.1
• How do we deal with change and why aren’t we better at it?
• New type of employee - change in managing workforce
• From the age of the corporations to the age of customers and employees: changing paradigm
• Change in how build perceptions of organizations: Why to build an employer brand as a change mechanism