The HR Directors' Forum series reaches its year ended climax in Guangzhou
7 Dec 2006
Tian Lun International Hotel

Marking the finale event on the annual HR Directors' Forum series calendar, the Guangzhou Forum was held on 7th December, 2006. With leading HR directors and VPs from across the region together with international HR and business experts on hand, the HR Directors' Forum Guangzhou 2006 offered 12 breakout workshops with real world case studies along with the latest trends and insights to develop, improve, and solve human capital issues and other challenges facing most multi-national corporations and local enterprises in China today.

A-Performers.com takes up Gold Sponsor role
Following the successful sponsorship of Conferences held in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, A-Performers.com again served as Gold Sponsor and Prize Sponsor of the HR Directors' Forum Guangzhou 2006. "Our long term support of this leading Asia-Pacific HR event reflects our strong commitment in building a career community, an elite network and a knowledge provider in Greater China region, in addition, our development is in line with the mainland's dramatically accelerating economic expansion that is intensifying the war for talent across different industries."

The HR Directors' Forum Guangzhou is regarded as an exceptional networking event for HR decision makers to meet their senior level peers. "84% of conference attendees were high level executives from senior HR managers, directors and vice presidents to general managers and presidents," reported by a spokesman from the event organiser Key Media. "85% of attendees were from companies with staff sizes of more than 300 employees."

A host of professional speakers
The speakers, who shared their views, experiences and expertise at the Conference, are all leading HR and business persons. Among them were: Mr. Arron Finley, manager of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; Mr. Chris Barclay, CEO of ALTEC; Mr. Ivo Hahn, CEO of Xecutive Group, Ms. Phyllis Cai, consultant and industry leader for Watson Wyatt; Mr. Richard Finan, HR director Hong Kong and Southern China, Kimberly-Clark; Mr. Samuel Tan, chief operating officer of MAST Industries; Ms. Yang May, corporate training manger, BMW; and many others. They all spoke on the latest critical issues of talent management, strategic leadership development, the relationship between leadership effectiveness and employee commitment, and the maximum of ROI on training and people development, etc.

"Successful and informative, I was especially impressed by the presentation by Ivo Hahn," says Susana Chen, assistant to GM, Bank of Montreal.

The positive comments from delegates
The event organiser says they had received a plethora of compliments and positive feedback on the Conference. "Overall, very good and helpful…Well-organised. Will come back next year," says Mr. Joe Hong, associate HR director, Colgate –Palmolive.

"…good chance to share ideas and collect information," says Ms. Margaret Yu, head of human resources, Baxter Guangzhou. "Panel discussion was good, with good interaction. Topics were also well thought out."

A high-level networking platform
The delegates in attendance were very pleased with the rewarding opportunities provided for networking and exchanging ideas and opinions with senior level peers. The networking refreshment breaks and round table luncheon as well provided a valuable platform for personal interacting and information sharing.