Leading in Your Role:
Human Resource Managers
May 11-12, 2023 | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
English & Mandarin Chinese
Yew Wah International Education School of Zhejiang Tongxiang
This is a Certificate Program – 16 Hours of Professional Development will be Awarded.
Schools that had leaders recently complete this course:
“A lot of processes that take place were brought to the forefront. This helped me develop an improved understanding of why certain things happen and why people may react in the ways that they do to different situations. The group conversations and the facilitation were incredibly useful.”
Our Goal
Our goal is to support, upskill & inspire Human Resource and Business Leaders in their ever growing and shifting roles in International Schools around China. If you’d love to up your game & develop the winning mindset, skillset and daily actions required to be a world-class, value-adding business partner to school leadership, come join like-minded professionals from top schools around the region for this two-day workshop where participants will have an opportunity to network and grow Human Resources practitioners’ impact and contribution to the school’s success by acting as a vital business partner. Participants will be introduced to the key competencies, skills and tools HR practitioners require to help them play a strategic role in schools.
Our Ideal Audience
Human Resource Heads/Directors, Human Resource Managers, Business Managers, and any other operational staff involved in the recruitment, administration and/or evaluation of staff.
Language
Primary Facilitation will be in English, all materials will be translated into Mandarin Chinese and small group break-outs will be organized to accommodate both English and Chinese speakers.
Venue
Yew Wah International Education School of Zhejiang Tongxiang
No.88 He Yue Avenue, Gao Qiao Town, Zhejiang Tongxiang, 314515, China
Transport routes to the school from Shanghai or other nearby cities:
Highspeed train, 10 mintues for walk from train station to our school
A hotel that out-of-town participants can book
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Registration Fee
400USD for Search Associate Members
450USD for Non-Search Associate Members
As International Schools have grown in Asia, so have the responsibilities of the HR Manager.
The Human Resource Management role in International Schools, across China, is evolving quickly. The challenges of the last few years have not only increased the demands and pressure on Human Resource Leaders but has exposed the critical opportunity and need for Human Resources Leaders to take on a strategic partnering role. Historically, HR personnel were largely in charge of personnel management issues related to overseeing Non-Academic staff, visas, housing and reimbursements. In Asia, especially, the HR role has always been looked upon as needing to be a generalist, ready to step into any personnel, or personal, issues that may impact expat teaching staff’s ability to focus on their classroom teaching duties. At the same time, many HR Leaders come to schools with extensive experience and insight that often has been undervalued and/or underutilized.
The purpose of this workshop is to reconcile the historical biases school’s have about HR Management with the reality of the changing market school’s are competing in. For schools to successfully navigate and overcome challenges related to personnel, such as recruitment, orientation, performance management and legal compliance, schools will need to embrace the HR Leader as a strategic partner.
This will be an interactive workshop providing an opportunity to learn from like-minded leaders from other schools as well as provide fundamental HR Management tools and templates for:
Identifying the skills and knowledge to be a Strategic Business Partner,
Understanding how to influence school senior leadership,
Recruiting and selecting the right people with the right skills,
Effectively managing non-academic staff’s performance to maximize business outcomes.
Participants will engage in activities and discussions to identify practical applications for the theory and case studies introduced over the two days. The facilitator will offer examples and case studies from his own experience demonstrating the benefits changes in HR practices can offer schools. Lastly, participants will work with the facilitator to customize tools and templates introduced throughout the workshop to ensure they are able to present them to senior leadership for immediate adoption.
Ray Chow is a leadership consultant and executive coach based in Beijing, China with over 25 years of experience. He has lead Human Resources, People and Learning Functions in Asia and Canada. His experience includes serving as Chief Operating Officer leading HR, Finance and Operations for global and Canadian NGOs focused on youth and experiential learning as well as leading People and Learning for large multi-national companies like EY Ernst & Young in Taiwan. For the past ten years he has served as executive coach and consultant to leaders and leadership teams across China and Asia, including with school leadership at Keystone Academy Beijing, Shanghai American School, Dulwich College, Seoul Foreign School, and other kety schools across Asia and Europe. Ray has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Accounting, is a certified accountant in Canada and the United States. With his hands on executive leadership experience over both the business and educational side of schools and multinational companies as well as human resources he is uniquely positioned to help schools close the gap between educational and operational leadership. Some of his speciality areas include:
Adaptive mindset shift for leaders and leadership team
Cross-cultural communications, teaming and influence
Talent Acquisition and performance management
HR capacity building in change management
Coaching in the working place
Ray Chow
Two Day Agenda
Time
Activity
Purpose/Main Topics
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Introduction
Changes in the market require changes in our role and mindset
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
The Changing Role of HR
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Reflect, Synthesize And Connect To Practice
Introduction to the role and need for increasing 360 influence in HR Leadership and Management.
Understand how difference in culture, perspective and goals impact our collective ability to achieve our objectives.
Stakeholder mapping and needs analysis.
Understand how to leverage currencies and the law of reciprocity to create value for internal and external stakeholders.
Personal reflection, small group discussion and implementation into your specific school context.
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Day 1
Understanding historical bias related to our role.
Hear and learn about the evolving role of HR in international schools across the region.
Step back from our day to day to reenvision what is possible.
Redefining the HR Department and the HR Leader Role.
Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Building Value-Added HR
Introduction to HR strategic functions in international schools – talent acquisition, performance management, professional development and personnel administration.
Key challenges preventing us from becoming a Business Partner and how to move forward from where we are now.
The required skills, knowledge and competence for HR staff to cope with a changing environment.
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:45 PM
(Including break)
Understanding and Influencing our Stakeholders
Debrief
Time
Activity
Purpose/Main Topics
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Reflection on Day 1
Connecting key insights and content to Day 2
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Recruitment and Selection – Make the Right Recruitment Decision
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Day 2
Understand the increasing importance of finding the ideal hire for roles in today’s complex and competitive recruitment environment.
Basic principles in recruitment and selection.
Minimize the chance of making bad hiring decisions.
Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Recruitment and Selection – Best Practice Skills and Selection Techniques
Introduction of interview skills and selection techniques.
Share and co-develop best practices in schools to identify and hire the “ideal team player”.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Accountability and the Art of Difficult Conversations
Understand the role and principles of accountability and hard conversations in the role of HR Leadership in leadership of direct reports, peers and other key stakeholders.
Learn and practice tools and approaches to accountability and hard conversations.
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Debrief
Reflect, Synthesize And Connect To Practice.
Identify a specific improvement goal that will make the most difference in your leadership and role.
Search Associates Members
USD 400.00
Per Registration
Non-Search Associates Member
USD 450.00
Per Registration
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Registration Fee Refund Policy
If notice of cancellation re the registered participant is received:
30+ days pre-event: 80% of fee is refundable
15-29 days pre-event: 40% of fee is refundable
Less than 15 days pre-event: no refund
"Event" means the first session in the program.
Participants who commence but do not complete the full annual program (withdrawing part way through) will not be granted any fee refund.
You may request substitution of a participant(s) and this will be processed at no cost.
Any free places purchased will be cancelled first. Free places cancelled are not refundable.