Providing the Right Culture for the Leaders of Tomorrow

I recently made a presentation at 2011 HRINZ National Conference, August 9, 2011

Early this year the first GradConnection Graduate Motivations Report (the report) was published reflecting on what students and graduates are looking for in a New Zealand graduate employer. In tracking approximately 75,000 visits to their website over a nine month period in 2010 GradConnection was able to quantitatively outline interesting trends, desires and motivators that the future leaders of our businesses are requesting when they embark into their working careers - information that until now has been simply guess work for employers hiring graduates, entry level staff or students into graduate programmes.

This session was interactive and informative, developing and teasing out key themes in the report and other supporting research. A live case study of a well known New Zealand organisation was worked through showing what they are doing to provide the right working culture for our leaders of tomorrow to flourish in. As people learn best from hearing other peoples experiences (positive or negative) a panel discussion made up of some our well known New Zealand organisations added first hand insights. The panel included:

• Belinda Lally -FNZ Limited (previously Office of the Auditor General & Telecom New Zealand) 
• Richard Westney -KPMG (previously Fonterra) 
• Anoka Nallaiah-Transpower  

I also provided additional information from other employers I work with as well as current international trends picked up from the UK Association of Graduate Recruiters conference held in Wales in July.  

To see the Presentation Slides go to http://conference.hrinz.org.nz/Site/National_Events/conferences/2011/Conference_Presentations.aspx