ASR User Group - HR Software Systems

Personnel Software - ASR User Groups & previous Guest Speakers

Over the last few years ASR, a leading personnel software supplier, has had some excellent Guest Speakers - who have delivered presentations on a number of human resource issues, including:

Kate Russell - Employment Law

Kate Russell (BA (Hons), Barrister, MA) studied business law, qualified as a barrister and later worked in industry. She has experience as an operations manager and as a supplier of corporate HR and training in the manufacturing, distribution and services sectors. She started Russell Personnel & Training in 1998 and now uses her extensive knowledge of employment law and practical skills to advise small and medium sized businesses on HR issues.

Kate specialises in the delivery of extremely practical employment law awareness training. Her unusual combination of legal background, direct line management experience and hands-on HR skills, enable Kate to present the stringent requirements of the law balanced against the realities of working life. She completed an MA in Human Resource Management in 2004.

She is a senior presenter for several companies and a popular public speaker.

Kate is the author of “101 Tips For Employers – The Briefcase Bible For Employment Questions”, the ultimate employment book for managers. She also writes a monthly employment update newsletter, now into its sixth year of production. In it she neatly combines the useful, topical and the frivolous.

David Bennett - Graphology

David Bennett a leading Graphologist very kindly agreed to present at ASR’s Winter User Group meeting  2006. Graphology is a well researched science and validated system of analysis used to determine the personality of an individual through the study of the strokes of handwriting. Your handwriting reveals abilities, aptitudes, outer personality attributes and deeper features of the inner character.

Staff recruitment is graphology's most common use. But it can be used in any situation regarding people - e.g. compatibility, team building, career or redundancy counselling. David gave an insight in to graphology illustrated with handwriting samples of the famous (including members of the Royal Family, Tony Blair, Geoffrey Boycott and Sir Cliff Richard) and the infamous (including Harold Shipman) to demonstrate their personality traits.

Winning Releationships - Develop Leadership, Not Just Leaders - Shay McConnon - People First

Shay McConnon is a psychologist, an author and the founder of People First and international training and consultancy group that specialises in creating winning relationships in the workplace. Shay recognises that people are the key to an organization's success. He has developed a series of breakthrough programmes for developing not only leaders but leadership across organisations.

People First is best known for its highly acclaimed Winning Relationships - the performance culture, a programme which has cascaded in organisations including Siemens, BAE Systems, Barclays Bank, PepsiCo Foods and other leading organisations in Europe, the USA and South Africa.

Shay is a regular speaker at conferences, is a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association and has recently been awarded top speaker by the Academy of Chief Executives.

He will show ASR Customers how to:

• Improve staff satisfaction levels
• Transform conflict into collaboration
• Capitalise on the diversity of styles in the workplace
• Improve the impact of leadership across the organisation
• Engage staff and promote ownership

Invisible Persuasion - Marc Hogan

Marc Hogan has been practicing NLP, Hypnosis and Social Psychology for the last ten years, specializing in all aspects of ethical persuasion.. Marc spoke at the Winter 2005 meeting on "Invisible Persuasion".

Throughout his sales, marketing and training career he has worked for international blue-chip and Times Top 100 companies specializing in electronics, pharmaceuticals and utilities, including GEC Marconi and British Gas.

In his unique and dynamic style he has trained thousands of individuals to become more persuasive in a variety of situations from sales to flirting!

ASR's customers learnt about how to motivate teams and get the best out of their people. Marc also showed how to pick up on and utilise peoples own subconscious signals as well as the hidden language techniques that advertisers use to effortlessly persuade us!

By the end of this session customers learnt some highly innovative, useful and flexible skills.

Inspiring High Performance - Andrea Bacon

Andrea Bacon, who successfully completed the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race on board the winning yacht very kindly agreed to speak at ASR's HR Software User Group meeting on "Inspiring High Performance" in 2004. As a crew member on the board the winning yacht, Group 4, Andrea was able to identify first hand the attributes and skills that make effective leaders stand out from the crowd and the essential elements of a high performing team. Her subsequent 2½ year research study, in partnership with Henley Management College, validated her findings and demonstrated the impact of emotional intelligence on performance.

How NLP can be Applied in Business - Debbie Brockwell

Debbie Brockwell of Debbie Brockwell Associates an experienced HR Professional with a successful track record for blue chip companies at both operational and strategic levels presented at ASR's HR Software User Group on "How NLP can be Applied in Business". Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) an incredibly powerful set of techniques for achieving human excellence in both business and personal development gave ASR's customers an insight into this growing phenomenon.

Debbie specialises in personal development, working with both individuals and organisations to enable sustainable change. Her experience spans a variety of market sectors including retail, financial, health services, engineering and charities.

The Tao of Everest - Ian Woodall

In an unique and dramatic presentation at ASR's Winter User Group 2003 Ian Woodall brought the triumphs and tragedies of climbing the highest mountain in the world directly to our customers.

At 8 a.m. on 29th May 1999 Ian Woodall stepped onto the summit of Mount Everest and into history, becoming one of only a handful of mountaineers to have climbed the highest mountain in the world from both its south (Edmund Hillary) and north (George Mallory) sides. During his first ascent from the south in 1996, he and his team were trapped in the killer storm described in John Krakauer's best seller Into Thin Air. They were the closest of any team to those stranded and dying in the storm. In its aftermath they retreated to base camp. While other teams were packing up to leave Ian and his team chose to try again, finally reaching the summit as the only team left on the mountain.

Two years later while attempting the north side of Everest Ian stopped only a few hundred metres from the summit to try and help a dying American climber. The woman's first words were "Don't leave me". Yet Ian eventually had to leave her to secure the safety of his own team.

Ian Woodall is the founder and director of The Tao of Everest, a unique programme of keynote addresses, workshops, and Everest base camp treks specialising in practical leadership.

Customers learnt:

• Three key insights to successful leadership.
• Why trust is a leadership necessity.
• Why leadership means recognising the achievements of others.
• How integrity forms the foundation of all leadership.

Valuing People as Assets - Andrew Mayo

Andrew Mayo is a frequent speaker, writer & facilitator in international Human Resources Management. Andrew specialises in people and organisation development, and has previously worked for nearly thirty years in major international organisations. Andrew is a Programme Director at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and Associate Professor of Human Resources Management at Middlesex Business School. He is also the author of numerous HR articles and books.

ASR's customers learnt that valuing people as assets is integral to the development of organisations and how ASR's HR software can help to manage this process.

Managing Your HR Career - Lynne Dorling

Lynne Dorling is a Director of 3D People Management Ltd, an HR company that offers a new dimension to the development of people.

In a career spanning over 25 years, Lynne has worked in both commercial and HR roles, both as a line manager, and in supporting roles of Learning and Development. Much of her career has been with a major blue chip company. She has also spent two years as a business consultant, living and working in North America.

Having left corporate life 3 years ago to set up her own consultancy, the business quickly expanded into a successful partnership. 3D works with clients from many different sectors, including retail, health, legal, finance and the voluntary sector. Assignments include corporate restructuring, developing HR strategy, team building, and individual coaching.

Lynne is passionate about helping other people manage their lives and careers more proactively. She has also recently designed a Career Development Workshop specifically for HR Managers.

ASR customers learnt how managing their careers and the careers of their employees is beneficial for individuals and the companies they work for.

International HR Issues - Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer is the Managing Partner of the Marple Partnership - human resource consulting for organisation solutions. A Psychology graduate and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Tony has been pioneering international Human Resource management and development practices for twenty-five years, ten of them from outside the UK. He has lived and worked in Iran, Switzerland, France and the United States formulating and applying processes for multinationals covering:

• Knowledge and Performance Management
• Organisation Development and Succession Planning
• Management, High Potential and Career Development
• Culture Change Management and Communications
• Compensation and Reward Strategy and International Assignment Practice

Tony Palmer's presentation on International HR Issues focused on how these issues were managed by ASR's HR software. It helped to manage the recruitment process plus all of Host Broadcasting Services (HBS) employees at the various stadiums in Japan and South Korea during the 2002 World Cup. HBS identified ASR as a leading personnel software supplier and chose our personnel, recruitment and e-HR software.

Controlling Sickness Absence - Angela Rhodes

Angela Rhodes is an HR consultant with Crispin Rhodes a specialist HR resources company. From basic employment law through to dedicated recruitment and retention procedures, Crispin Rhodes will guide you through the maze of personnel management, ensuring that you maximise the potential of your staff at all times. But most importantly Crispin Rhodes works as a member of your management team, contributing knowledge and experience, encouraging and building personal relationships with your staff and devising ways for everyone to build their skill sets and progress along their chosen career path.

ASR's customers learnt how to manage their absenteeism process more successfully via ASR's HR Software using the Bradford Index which is a standard report.

HR Software

Enquiries regarding the User Groups can be made to ASR's Marketing Manager on: sales@asr.co.uk or you can phone on +44 (0) 1582 714 800.

Find out more about ASR's HR Software:

	HR Pro - HR Software
	.NET HR Workflow
	HR Pro - Personnel Software
	HR Pro - Recruitment Software
	HR Pro - Training Software
	HR Pro - e-HR Software
	Accord Payroll Software