In a world where technology is becoming more pervasive, where your staff have increasingly easy access to on-line tools and content, where hybrid working begets investment into intangible digital assets rather than physical space; where the skills you need are ever changing and difficult to source how can you ensure your people strategy is fit for the digital age?   

About this session

Much has already been said about the importance of culture, skills and individual’s mindset to successfully transform digitally but exactly what to do is less clear.

At this event we will explore ideas for your people strategy and how these could be practically realised. We will explore whether “going agile” is really the cultural shift your organisation needs to stay relevant in today’s fast paced world. Hybrid and remote working create an opportunity for organisations to re-imagine their use of physical space but how do you sustain an effective digitally connected workforce?. How can staff (and volunteers) develop the digital skills their roles now demand? What specialist roles might you need inside your organisation for IT, data or digital? 

At this exploratory session on People and technology Adapta will be looking at what makes an organisation effective at exploiting technology through the lenses of culture, collaboration, learning and structure.   

What will attendees gain from attending this session?

• Unpacking what is at the core of agile and how and when you might be able to practically encourage this mindset more broadly in your organisation to better exploit your data, content and technology.
• How hybrid working offers both opportunities and challenges to “team centred” collaboration models along with practical ideas and enabling technologies that may help. 
• Exploring tomorrow’s third sector organisation in respect of organisational structure, staff skills and externalised capabilities that may help you with your future thinking on staff.

Who should attend this event?

Anyone can benefit from this event but perhaps especially:

• People and HR managers.
• Senior leaders especially those accountable for corporate, operations, people, volunteer, learning etc.
• Heads of digital, data or IT teams.
• Staff focused on hybrid working/internal communications/innovation/project management.
• Anyone with an interest in how some people help organisations become digitally capable or staff “literacy” in digital, data and technology.

The programme

14.00   Why is Adapta Consulting running a session on People?

What we see as technology consultants for the UK third sector.

14.10   Your People/ Your Culture

What kind of culture shift might you need? And practically how is it possible to influence culture change (if at all)?

14.30   Your People/Your digitally connected workforce

Now we don’t see each other physically every day what could organisations be doing to foster an effective digital workforce? And what core skills might your staff need?

14.50   Your Digital, Data and technology People/Your Structure

Many TSO (third sector organisation) structures have remained unchanged for years or decades even but are we getting to the point where we need to think again about how we position digital, data and technology roles within an organisation? And what kind of roles might you need anyway?

15.10   End 

About the speaker

Mark Luckins, Principal Consultant, Adapta Consulting

Mark advises senior leadership teams to help them navigate the world of digital technology. He helps charities and third sector organisations determine the right digital, data and technology strategies to enable their mission. In his career, Mark has held various technology leadership roles and had achieved numerous certifications (ITIL, CISSP, PRINCE2, MCSE); academically, he holds a degree in "Operations Research" (better known today as 'data science'). Mark has worked in large international charities (Plan International); the public sector (Houses of Parliament); small international charities (Marine Stewardship Council); UK charities (Crisis) and the education sector (ICAN). He has delivered major multi-million projects (CRM, website and data architecture) as well as smaller projects; and he is regularly involved in innovation and helping to save money and reduce overheads. He prides himself on providing commercially realistic, rightsized advice appropriate to the maturity of the organisation.

Virtual Zoom event - 14.00-15.15,