+44 (0)1635 886555
info@mondale-events.co.uk
Birmingham HR Services for Schools Conference and Exhibition
Event Dates and Prices
Tuesday 23rd October 2018
8.00am – 3.30pm
A traded service of 
“Stronger Together – Share, Learn, Inspire”
Further to the success of last year’s first annual Conference and Exhibition, we are delighted to again be hosting this event in conjunction with HR Services for Schools, a traded service of Birmingham City Council.
Open to all schools in Birmingham and surrounding areas, this one-day event promises to provide Head teachers, Business Managers and Senior Leaders with an interesting and informative day full of new updates and ideas to take back into their school settings.
The event will take place in the excellent facilities of the Gallery at the NEC in Birmingham and will include a Conference with keynote speaker and comprehensive range of workshops and an exhibition where up to 50 education suppliers will be displaying their latest products and services.
Companies wishing to take a stand at this event should kindly contact us as soon as possible to secure their place.
#SchoolsHRConfThe Gallery, NEC, Birmingham B40 1NT
The charge per delegate for this event is £160.00 and this includes lunch, refreshments throughout the day and on-site parking.
All delegates are requested to select their workshops when registering and to note that spaces are limited on some of the workshops and can therefore only be offered on a first come first served basis.
Schools registering two places are eligible to a third place free of charge and this should be selected with full name and details at registration.
Workshops
The following workshops will be running and can be selected on the booking form.
1A. Even top athletes have a coach
Diane Rance and Marian Hubbell – Creating Value with People
This interactive workshop aims to help you to make a difference in your school with a coaching approach.
By the end of the session you should be better able to:
• Recognise how a coaching approach can support managing under-performance
• Ask coaching questions to explore barriers to achieving performance standards and identify ways forward collaboratively
• Identify ways of engaging with those who are feeling uncertain or disconnected during a time of change
• Describe how you can use a coaching style to maximise potential
• Apply a simple coaching framework
We will explore:
• What is coaching and when to use it
• The power of insightful, positive and forward-looking questions
• The GROW Model
1B. How to bring your sickness down in 3 easy steps
Employee Relations Team, HR Services for Schools
Sickness and absenteeism costs schools time and money and can potentially decrease the effectiveness of teams. This session will provide useful tips, tools and advice to help managers with the confidence to address absence head on.
1C. GDPR Lessons learnt so far
Steve Cullen – Insight Management Services
Q&A session – This will provide an opportunity to discuss the impact of the new GDPR legislation, issues schools and organisations have encountered along the way, as well as give delegates the chance to ask any questions that have arisen since the legislation came into force.
2A. Even top athletes have a coach
Diane Rance and Marian Hubbell – Creating Value with People
This interactive workshop aims to help you to make a difference in your school with a coaching approach.
By the end of the session you should be better able to:
• Recognise how a coaching approach can support managing under-performance
• Ask coaching questions to explore barriers to achieving performance standards and identify ways forward collaboratively
• Identify ways of engaging with those who are feeling uncertain or disconnected during a time of change
• Describe how you can use a coaching style to maximise potential
• Apply a simple coaching framework
We will explore:
• What is coaching and when to use it
• The power of insightful, positive and forward-looking questions
• The GROW Model
2B. Thriving at work
Julie Sanders RMN, MSC PsyhTA, CBTPGDip, UKCP reg therapist Occupational Health and Wellbeing Manager
A workshop to help understand the modern meaning of Wellbeing in the workplace the role and responsibility of the manager and the benefits of investing in Wellbeing interventions. An interactive short work shop to highlight the current trends and available resources on how to manage staff who are going through life events, stress, bereavements, workplace change and what research tells us works and what doesn’t.
2C. How to bring your sickness down in 3 easy steps
Employee Relations Team, HR Services for Schools
Sickness and absenteeism costs schools time and money and can potentially decrease the effectiveness of teams. This session will provide useful tips, tools and advice to help managers with the confidence to address absence head on.
3A. How to market and brand your school to attract the best candidates
Justin Smith – Managing Director, Chameleon Training and Consultancy
“Marketing for Schools – debunking the airy fairy myth!”
This session will provide delegates with practical advice and insight into how to produce an effective marketing plan for your school. Free templates and resources will be made available for colleagues so they can introduce some simple and cost effective initiatives which are proven to make a difference. Managing your reputation, your brand image, making your school more attractive to new staff and parents and improving the communication flow with your local media contacts – these will all be explored in the session.
3B. It’s Just a bit of banter, right?
Baljit Kaur, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist, Innate Consultancy
From the White House to front of house, workplace banter has been the subject of much debate in recent months. Baljit will share her decade of experience across private and public sector organisations to look at how these high profile cases translate to our workplaces. She’ll also explain how banter informs engagement and look at how the language of banter can help to unlock employee voice.
When opinions vary wildly on what is acceptable, we’ll use small group discussions and activities to explore how to manage or control banter in the workplace.
**NOW FULL** 3C. Thriving at work
**NOW FULL** Please do not select this option.
Julie Sanders RMN, MSC PsyhTA, CBTPGDip, UKCP reg therapist Occupational Health and Wellbeing Manager
A workshop to help understand the modern meaning of Wellbeing in the workplace the role and responsibility of the manager and the benefits of investing in Wellbeing interventions. An interactive short work shop to highlight the current trends and available resources on how to manage staff who are going through life events, stress, bereavements, workplace change and what research tells us works and what doesn’t.
Event Speakers
Baljit Kaur
Baljit is a Diversity and Inclusion specialist. Having spent over 10 years specialising in issues to do with diversity, inclusion and equality both in public and private sector organisations, Baljit has experience of delivering training, reviewing employment and customer facing policies from a ‘D&I’ perspective, and designing and implementing E&D strategies and policies. She passionately believes that diversity and inclusion needs to be anchored in corporate cultures and embedded in all people processes. Baljit is a Board member of ‘Women in Banking and Finance’ supporting initiatives that contribute to greater gender diversity, in addition to being involved in a number of practitioner and professional groups providing best practice insights. Baljit is also a committed supporter of the Greater Birmingham Engage for Success Network helping to organise events.
Dave Keeling
Dave Keeling is an Actor, Comedian, Writer and Stand Up Educationalist who delivers highly engaging programmes for Laughology. As a facilitator, presenter and trainer, Dave has worked nationally and internationally in business and education for the last 20 years specialising in change management, improving teamwork and communication, developing creativity and enhancing wellbeing.
Diane Rance
Diane began her career in the car industry, in Employee Relations, where she first developed her skills around handling “Tricky Conversations”, before moving into a strategic HR role. She now works independently as a qualified Executive Coach and Mentor, and continues to support people who are handling “Tricky Conversations”. Diane is a mentor at Aston Business School and has been a Governor at a primary school and a sixth form college
Julie Sanders
As the Health and Wellbeing Manager for Birmingham City Council, Julie provides specialist knowledge to improve the health and wellbeing of peoples working lives for best business outcomes. Julie has managed services within the public sector providing psychotherapy and wellbeing services as well as introducing wider culture changes through the training of managers to understand the concepts of Wellbeing and Mental Health at work. She is also a qualified Mental Health First Aider Trainer and has extensive experience of training managers in a variety of roles.
Justin Smith - Owner, Chameleon Training and Consultancy.
Following a career spent in private sector business development and marketing, Justin moved into the education sector over 20 years ago and has worked as a senior leader in 3 large secondary schools in Suffolk and Norfolk. In 2017 Justin established his own business, Chameleon Training and Consultancy, designed to provide specialist marketing, income generation and bid writing services to the education sector. A vastly experienced bid writer, Justin has secured over £7 million in additional income for schools, from a variety of sources including conventional grants and trust funds, commercial sponsorship and donations. Chameleon Training and Consultancy has developed a suite of practical and innovative products, services and masterclasses to support school leaders nationally, from stand-alone primary schools to large multi-academy trusts. Justin was awarded the Guardian/ISBL Marketing Award in 2015, became an ISBL Fellow in 2017 and is a member of the Institute of Fundraising.
Marian Hubbell
Marian is a specialist in the written and spoken word and has a talent for supporting others to grow in confidence, tackle challenges and increase their motivation and influence. With a background in managing HR and training in the public sector, she is an Accredited Trainer of NLP and is currently studying Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy at Warwick University.
