09:00 - 09:20
Opening Remarks
Amanda Lu, Managing Director, DDI East China
9:20 – 10:00
Topic: 21st Century Assessment Centers: A Diferent Approach to the Valid Assessment of Competen- cies and to Providing Meaningful Feedback to Assessees at Signifcantly Less Time and Cost
Speaker: William C. Byham, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, DDI
Introduction:
Early in the 21st Century, DDI introduced a radically new, cost-effective way of identifying leadership talent, diagnosing leadership development needs, and getting assessee's started on an efficient and effective leadership learning path. Since that time hundreds of thousand people have gone through various versions of DDI’s 21st Century Assessment Centers. William C. Byham will describe how a 21st Century Assessment Center operates:
· There are new and very different ways to assess behaviorally defined competencies.
· It is possible to assess the behaviors that make up a competency.
· Human assessor judgments can be made more reliable.
10:00 - 10:40
Topic: HR and Microsoft Culture Change
Speaker: Sharif Khan, GEO HR GM for Microsoft, Asia
Introduction:
Over the past few years, Microsoft has been undergoing continuous transformation led by CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft's human resources department is also changing, with corporate culture taking the brunt of this change:
· Why we chose to evolve.
· Our culture, defined.
· Our model for culture change.
· Measuring the current state of culture.
10:40 - 11:20
Topic: Organizational Capabilities and Leadership Development in Digital Industrial Era
Introduction:
In the digital age, what changes should be made to the strategic logic, organizational capability and leadership of enterprises? Phoenix Contact, a family business from Germany, chooses "looking at the present from the future”, to change the organizational form, activate the organization, motivate individuals, driven by customer value. It connects reliable people and things, establishes a coordinated, open, symbiotic and win-win ecosystem, and continues to evolve and grow in the current of the times.
· The key to organizational transformation in the future.
· Leadership and entrepreneurship in the digital industry era.
· Create a shared and symbiotic ecosystem and lead the new future of the digital industry.
11:20 - 12:00
Topic: Chinese Talent Assessment and Development: Where We Stand and The Way We Can Go
Speaker: Chaoming Liu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology at Fu Jen Catholic University
Introduction:
The purpose of this keynote speech is to facilitate the contexts of Chinese Talent Assessment and Development, and to share the practical experience and future thoughts with all participants. The speaker will elaborate the intention and structure of speech based on his academic and practical contexts:
· Reviews on the Milestones of Chinese Talent Assessment and Development.
· AC and leadership development in current Chinese societies.
· Insights for the future.
13:35-14:15
Topic: The Soar of Eagle - Sharing of TCL Senior Executives Training Program
Speaker: Fang Xu, Co-Chairman of CHO100, Executive Principal of TCL University
Introduction:
Eagles Development System is TCL's well-renowned talent training system. The eagle has become a symbol and totem of TCL's spirit of continuous self-reform, which is closely related to TCL's strategic cultural change.
· The origin of eagle: the nirvana from the globalization dilemma.
· The Selection of Eagle: Make the Right Choice before the Development.
· The Experiences of Eagle: To shoulder on heavier responsibilities, it's always to keep the feet on the ground, to tackle the difficulties and be self-disciplined.
· The Soaring of Eagle: The best cultivation is to appoint the trained ones.
14:15-14:55
Topic: Talents Assessment’s Role in Leadership Development
Speaker: Jasmine Wu, HRVP Greater China, Air Liquide
Introduction:
· How important is talent assessment? Is it universalistic and objective?
· Practices Air Liquide use to assess and assist talent and leadership identification and development, what are the results, confusions and why.
· Facing future and AI, a wish list to talent assessment, and the industry on bringing us to the future.
14:55-15:35
Topic: Team Climate Activates the Organizational Capability
Speaker: Frank Chen, Ph.D., CHRO, Thyssenkrupp Elevator China
Introduction:
Good leaders can create an excellent organizational atmosphere, and it is critical to create a healthy environment for the talent. With the vision to drive talent, talent to drive strategy, there will be a covenant of the team to win in the long term.
· Leadership development approach focusing on team climate.
· Leadership development approach – Begin with the end in mind.
15:55-16:35
Topic: Practice of Business-driven Talent Portrait Construction and Talent Assessment & Development
Speaker: Mei Wei, Ph.D., VP, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Introduction:
In the context of the transformation of the times and Geely's strategic transformation from traditional automobile companies to global innovative enterprises, Geely human resources reconstructs the talents management model which focuses on talents strategy, talents empowering and talents experience. The construction of Geely talents portraits provide a foundation of talents management strategy which will be beneficial to talents identify and develop accurately.
· Introducing the construction of talent portraits in the context of business drivers.
· Introducing the status of Geely talent assessment.
· Sharing the Geely Talent Evaluation Practice Case.
16:35-17:50
Panel: Best Practices of Talent Assessment and Development in China
Host: Eva Shen, Country HR Head, Honeywell (China) Co., Ltd.
Panelists: Meifeng Guo, Director, Human Resources Dept., Phoenix Contact (China) Holding Co., Ltd.
Jenny Ni, HR Director, Dow China
Jide Zhao, HR Director of Wanhua Chemical, Executive Dean of Wanhua University
Chris Xu, Co-Chairman of CHO 100, Executive President of TCL University
Jasmine Wu, HRVP, Air Liquide (China) Holding Co., Ltd.
Frank Chen, Ph.D., CHRO, Thyssenkrupp Elevator (China)
Mei Wei, Ph.D., VP, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.
13:30 - 13:40
Host Opening Remarks Remarks:
William C. Byham, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, DDI
13:40 - 14:20
Topic: The Assessment Technologies Used at the Olympic Games in Sochi and the Impact
Speaker: Svetlana Simonenko, Ph.D., Managing Partner of Detech Group, Russia
Introduction:
Limited experience of organizing and holding Large international events and no volunteer culture became the main challenges for Olympic and Paralympic Games in Feb and March 2014. There was the objective – to attract, select, train, mobilize 70,000 motivated people - very diverse team – from all over Russia. That is why the Organizing Committee chose the critical “5 right” approach - right people, right time, right skills, right job, right attitude.
14:30 - 15:10
Topic: Finding the Real Deal: Exploring the Personality Profles of Future Leaders in an Assessment Center
Speaker: Clara Yi Xin Chua, Psychologist, Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) Singapore
Introduction:
One of the ways in which the Singapore military select future leaders is by assessing recruits’ suitability to become officers through an assessment center - Situational Test (SITEST). SITEST is an assessment center designed to test recruits’ leadership potential by putting them through realistic simulations.
· Explore the personality profiles of future leaders selected through an assessment center.
· Examine the short and long term implications of lower levels of diversity of leaders in an organization from a system perspective.
· Discuss about the measures that can be taken in an organization to increase diversity.
15:20 - 16:00
Topic: The Exploration & Refection of Leadership Assessment Center Practices for Beijing City Government
Speaker: Xiangdong Gu, Ph.D., Research Associate & R&D Head, Beijing Leader Assessment Service Center
Introduction:
· Review the development process of competitive selection of leading cadres, and analyze the problems and challenges in the practice of cadre assessment.
· Introduce the development history of assessment technology for leading cadres for more than 20 years, with emphasis on the construction, revision and application of assessment system for leading talents.
· Reflect on cadre assessment practice, look into the future and Clear direction.
16:10 - 16:50
Topic: Assessment Center in the Singapore Police Force
Speaker: Si Hui Ko, Lead Psychologist, Singapore Police Force
Introduction:
In the Singapore Police Force (SPF), the cost of placing an unsuitable officer in key leadership roles has severe consequences given the complexity of modern policing operations. One of the key leadership positions that is critical to effective operations in the SPF are those in middle-manager positions. In order to ensure that suitable officers take up this position, an AC was developed for this selection and assesses officers based on the SPF Leadership Competency Framework. This sharing focuses on the use and value of the ACCO as an assessment resource in supporting SPF management’s decisions.
13:40 - 14:20
Topic: The Power of Matching Leaders to Their Challenges
Speaker: Chan Yung Phang, Principal Consultant, SHL China
Introduction:
To gain insight into how to best resolve this disconnect between volatile work environments and static leadership strategies, SHL conducted one of the largest and most comprehensive leadership research studies in more than 25 years. SHL collected information about leader performance on the job and delved in depth to understand how leader roles differ. SHL also collected information on more than 60 aspects of the work environment, from team dynamics to organizational culture to industry conditions.
· SHL’s Innovative Insight in Leader Assessment.
· SHL Cutting-edge Leader Edge Solution.
· Case Sharing.
14:30 - 15:10
Topic: Case Sharing: Identifying Innovation DNA Among Talents
Speaker: Olivia Zhao, HRVP, Autoliv China
Introduction:
The future competition of enterprises in the digital era is ultimately the competition of efficiency. How to make a multinational company with a perfect system break through the tradition to innovate and evolve with the times, to become agile, to create innovative DNA, to give new vitality, become more and more critical.
· The talent portrait with innovative DNA.
· The main points and challenges of identifying Innovation Team DNA.
· The small-scale success of agile organizations – practices of innovative agile team operations.
15:20 - 16:00
Topic: Empowerment: Establishing Industry Talent Standards, Building an all-win Ecosystem
Speaker: Ada Ji, Executive Dean, Wyeth Business School, Wyeth China
Introduction:
· Sharing of the Development White Paper of New Consumer-Driven Partnership for Maternal and Child Store.
· A solution for talent development based on the data of assessment center.
· Best practices of talent development based on assessment.
16:10 - 16:50
Topic: Ten Practices for Enterprises to Build the Talent Supply Chain
Speaker: Belcome Xu, Ph. D., Founder & CEO of TaleBase
Introduction:
· Talent Supply Chain is built to achieve sustainable high-performance balance of the organization.
· The risk of personnel redundancy is higher than that of personnel shortage.
· Decomposition, sorting out and combination of capabilities are the key to build Talent Supply Chain.
· Choosing is more important than cultivating.
17:00 - 17:40
Topic: Combining Business Simulation Training Programs with AC in a Pharm Company: Method and Efectiveness
Speaker: Xile Gao, R&D Director, Aceman Group Consulting
Introduction:
· Sharing the case of Business simulation training program combined with AC in appraisal of senior managers.
· Behavioral observations in business simulation training program had high validity and effectiveness in classifying competencies of senior managers.
· Reasons are given to adopting business simulation training program in AC design and application for senior managers.
13:30 - 13:40
Host Opening Remarks Remarks:
Andrew Chu, Managing Director, DDI North China
13:40 - 14:20
Topic: Who Do You Believe? Combining Theory, Research, and Practice to Know What Really Works!
Speaker: George C. Thornton III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University, United States
Introduction:
The presentation summarizes the best sources of information regarding theory, research, and practice on the AC method, and provides a list of practical implications and recommendations derived from our preferred epistemology, namely where there is a convergence of theory, research, and practice. In our view, he best way to design and implement an AC is to have a combination of sound theory of the processes, empirical research evidence, and examples of practical applications that have been evaluated in multiple organizations. The presentation concludes with a brief illustration of how our model of knowing applies to other HRM interventions.
14:30 - 15:10
Topic: The Challenges and Opportunities of AC & DC in China
Speaker: Gonggu Yan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University
Introduction:
In this presentation, the short history of assessment center in China will be introduced at first. Secondly, the main uses of AC and DAC are showed with examples. Two new simulation exercises we developed will be introduced as well. Finally, the Chances and challenges are summarized both on theoretical studies and practices.
15:20 - 16:00
Topic: Meta Leadership: A Methodology of Leadership Assessment and Development Based on Psychobehavioral Science and Experiential Learning
Speaker: Xiaoyong Xu, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University
Introduction:
In recent years, many business school students, entrepreneurs and business leaders, go to the Gobi, deserts, forests and other challenging environments to genuinely recognize, experience and self-reflect, with the hope of leadership development.
This methodology of leadership assessment and development based on psychobehavioral science and deep experiential learning is defined as Meta Leadership by NCCL. This presentation will share the research findings of NCCL and JLAD over the past three years related to Meta leadership.
16:10 - 16:50
Topic: Leadership Competency Assessment and Leadership Development Based on Charisma Personality
Speaker: Kai Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, School of Business, Renmin University of China
Introduction:
Based on a new understanding of human nature and the central role of common goals in leadership formation, this presentation begins with exploring a leader's charismatic personality and rethinking and integrating the role of a leader's characteristics, behaviors, values, and abilities in leadership formation.
· Leadership charm and charismatic personality.
· The structure and measurement of charismatic personality.
· Leadership quality evaluation and leadership development based on charismatic personality.
17:00 - 17:40
Topic: Leadership Development in College: A Case Study Based on ACDC Approach
Speaker: Jyh-Hong Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Asia University
Introduction:
· Summary of the insights and practices on leadership education at university.
· Brief history and current situation of the creative leadership center at Asia University.
· The leadership education at university as the foundation and core for long-term leadership development.
13:30 - 13:40
Host Opening Remarks:
May Wei, Head of Talent & Rewards Consulting Services, Willis Towers Watson Taiwan
13:40 - 14:20
Topic: Talent Management Strategy and Best Practice in the Digital Era
Speaker: May Wei, Head of Talent & Rewards Consulting Services, Willis Towers Watson Taiwan
Introduction:
To solve the talent problem in the digital era, Willis Towers Watson conducted an in-depth study and brought forward the Six “Right” Solution. This presentation will introduce the new thinking of organization innovation, the critical competencies and development of future leaders, and how to build digital talent pool and best practices related to this.
14:30 - 15:10
Topic: What do You Do with Assessment Center Data? Best Practices of Talent Development Based on Assessment Center Results
Speaker: Xiao-guang Dong, GM, REC Consulting Co., Ltd.
Introduction:
What does the data and index based on assessment center mean? How can we leverage the data for development? This presentation will introduce the scale and feedback of AC, and discuss how to develop the competence in a Post Assessment Development workshop.
15:20 - 16:00
Topic: Behavior Transformation and Project Measurement
Speaker: Louis Liu, GM, Louis Development
Introduction:
· Best practice of leadership development and 3 typical challenges.
· Challenge in behavior change, and solutions with mobile internet technology.
· Behavior measurement challenges of leadership development projects.
· Promotion and selection decision after leadership development project.
16:10 - 16:50
Topic: The Road of Testing Development in China under an International Scope
Speaker: Alex Tong, VP, ATA
Introduction:
This presentation will introduce the rapid growth and technology application of the Chinese testing market, and analyze the testing data in the past 20 years, to explore the AI development and future trends of the Chinese testing market.