Webinar: Managing for growth: How to equip your managers to drive business success, 10th July Business Culture Awards

Wednesday 10th July | 1pm BST | 2pm CET | 8am ET

Managing for growth: How to equip your managers to drive business success

Wednesday, 10th July | 1pm BST | 2pm CET | 8am ET

Managing for growth: How to equip your managers to drive business success

View Previous Conference on 15th November | "Connection, Direction, Action: Transforming Winning Cultures"

Session Themes: Mindset & Behaviour Change, Culture Transformation, Learning

The importance of line managers in creating more engaged and higher-performing teams is commonly accepted. But their influence is arguably even more far-reaching in fast-growth businesses, SMEs and challenger brands.

In this webinar, you will learn:
• How developing managers at all levels can fuel organisational growth, help retain and attract top talent and contribute directly to improved retention and performance
• A blueprint for how to apply such a strategy, using the award-winning Manager Development Programme co-designed and delivered by ETS and Gatehouse Bank
• A case study bringing to life how ETS helped Gatehouse Bank to better develop consistent manager skills and behaviours at all levels.

About ETS: ETS is an award-winning consultancy working with organisations who share a passion and commitment to ‘moving the dial’ on their peoples’ experience and impact at work. Clients choose ETS as a holistic partner, to do things like; better listen to their peoples’ views via employee listening tools, understand their culture, and develop team or leadership capability. ETS works with a diverse client list, which includes Tesco, Taylor Wimpey, Clarion Housing and Cancer Research UK.

Speakers

Joanna Collings
Chief People Officer
Gatehouse Bank

Joanna Collings joined Gatehouse Bank in 2021 as HR Business Partner and was appointed Chief People Officer in July 2022. She is a Human Resources professional with almost 25 years of experience in the banking sector and over 18 years of Business Partner experience. Prior to joining Gatehouse Bank, Joanna worked at Future Williams & Glyn Bank, where she was responsible for influencing the design and delivery of new HR policies, as well as leading a business transformation programme for Retail Banking. She has also enjoyed a longstanding career at Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest, both in Corporate and Retail Banking. Joanna holds a BSc (Hons) in Banking & Finance as well as a Diploma in Personnel Management.

Nicky Paris
Director & Client Partner
ETS

Nicky has worked in the industry for over 20 years, in that time consulting with businesses of all sizes, in all sectors. The programmes she has been involved in designing and delivering have reached hundreds of thousands of employees and managers. Her passion is to ensure that the workplaces she supports are providing the very best experience for their people and enabling them to thrive and have a positive impact every day. She works with C-suites and colleagues on the ground to ensure she knows exactly what a business needs. In her role, Nicky helps businesses uncover the things they are doing really well, as well as the opportunity areas to make things even better. Some of Nicky’s clients include Cancer Research UK, Bellway Homes, Provide Community, Value Retail and of course, Gatehouse Bank.

Sarah Collins
Senior Consultant
ETS

Sarah is an experienced senior level consultant and is passionate about helping organisations to create the best environment for their people. She does this through working closely with our clients to truly understand their needs and their context and finding the best solution to deliver the right outcomes for the organisation and their people. Sarah has an MSc in Occupational Psychology, an MA in HR Management and is CIPD qualified. She has spent most of her career working within large organisations where she specialised in: • Leadership development – assessing leadership potential and designing development solutions including leadership team effectiveness • Talent Management and Succession – identifying potential, succession planning and designing and delivering talent development programmes • 360 feedback for leadership development Sarah has experience within a variety of sectors including civil engineering, facilities management and energy. Project work examples  Succession planning – implemented a talent management and succession planning approach which doubled internal hiring at a senior leadership level. Leadership development – designed and delivered an assessment centre and development programme for newly created leadership roles to give employees the skills and competencies needed to successfully take on the new roles.

Katie Jacobs (Host)
Award-Winning Business Journalist and Editor

Katie Jacobs is an award-winning business journalist and editor. She is a well-regarded commentator on the world of work, HR and leadership and previously worked at the CIPD, where she built the body’s HR leader network from scratch, creating a strong peer community of chief people officers. In her journalism career, she was previously editor of HR magazine, where she was involved in delivering brand extensions such as the HR Excellence Awards, the HR Most Influential ranking and the HR in the Boardroom CHRO development programme, as well as running the day-to-day editorial of the magazine. She has written about the world of work for magazines including People Management, Work and Management Today and newspapers including the Times and the Financial Times. She was also editor of Supply Management, the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. Katie is the co-host of CIPD Work magazine’s popular What If podcast, which puts provocative business questions under the spotlight. She is the co-author of several influential CIPD reports including The Value of People Expertise on Corporate Boards and Responsible Business Through Crisis, a three-year landmark research project with Professor Veronica Hope Hailey exploring the impact of the pandemic on leadership. In her journalism and speaking work, she has interviewed everyone from comedians Katherine Ryan and Sue Perkins (in front of large live audiences), to FTSE100 CEOs and board chairs, as well as countless CPOs, academics and HR thought leaders. She has a track record in working with brands serving the HR market to develop thought leadership including white papers, reports, blogs, articles and podcasts.

"The team at Business Culture Connected are incredibly easy to work with. They quickly understood the mission and purpose of my business and I felt I was in capable hands as they showcased this to the HR community and wellbeing specialists. I look forward to having an opportunity to work with them again soon.”Founder, Caldeira Consulting Company