Κολέγιο CITY College
Main Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece
02 June 2017
An outstanding presentation by Dr Szamosi and Mr Liassides at the 9th MHRA HR Conference in Skopje
Dr Leslie Szamosi, Academic Director of the Executive MBA programme and Mr Chris Liassides, Academic Director of Postgraduate studies at the Business Administration & Economics Department of the International Faculty held a brilliant presentation at the 9th MHRA HR Conference that took place 31 May- 01 June in Skopje.
The two guest speakers jointly presented the topic "Revisiting Positions: Getting HR on Top” and received particularly positive feedback by all participants who found the presentation engaging, outstanding and highly inspiring.
The foundation of the presentation was based on the fact that HR in the region has come a very long way in the last fifteen years from an admin function to a more strategic one and that we needed to take this to the ‘next’ level. The premise of the presentation was to discuss how we in HR can get into the C-Suite (CEO level) given that only 5% of CEOs today come from HR. Attendees were presented with a toolkit approach to upgrade their excellence in people engagement skills to business acumen. The importance of internal marketing and personal branding rounded out how we get HR on Top!!
The conference featured an international panel of speakers specialised in HR, while it was well-attended by more than 250 participants - mainly HR professionals from the country, but also other countries including from Kosovo, Bulgaria, the UK, Italy,France, Croatia and Slovenia.
The aim of this year’s Conference ‘Best HR Solutions to Fight off Challenges in Emerging Industries’ was to keep up with the hot HR topics that affect both human resources managers and general managers of fast-growing businesses addressing the need to be always up to date with advanced techniques and solutions.
The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College was among the supporters of the conference.
Ms. Hristina Lozanoska, President of MHRA stated that: "Liasidis and Szamosi's presentation HR ON THE TOP was the most inspiring and provocative presentation and raised real questions on what HR managers should know and do in order to have more successful careers and to become part of top management. MBA programmes are a basis for expanding the profile of HR managers, and Liassidis and Szamosi were specific with their recommendations to the audience to create business cases of their HR proposals, to learn the language of finance, marketing, strategies if they want to be heard from the top management, and to get support for HR investments. The potential is there and HR managers that want to shift to the CEO world need to know the power of internal marketing and PR, and to work smart not only hard, to know how to demonstrate their leadership skills and to act as leaders in their environment so they can be recognised.”
Comments by participants
"An amazing presentation with an invaluable toolkit presented."
"This is the first time that I watched a multidisciplinary presentation blending together perfectly a variety of business issues, all bringing about the essence of human resource management."
"Definitely the best presentation today!"
"The least I can say is that Dr Szamosi and Mr Liassides Google-ized the conference with their up-to-date factual presentation relating to truths within any contemporary organization."
"Working for over 25 years in organizations as an HR executive I always thought that I knew everything about managing HR and internal marketing and HR branding but this presentation ruined the perfection picture I had in my head. Congratulations for making all of us realize things that we would never have thought of tackling in our everyday working tasks."
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