Live from the HR Director's Business Summit all change at BP

2010-01-19 16:20

Day one: The lessons from BP

This year's HR Director's Business summit is seeing a strong delegate decision maker turnout as usual. The delegates I've been speaking to, from HR practicioners in financial services, to a food retailer to a Japanese fashion brand, seem to have mixed ideas about which speakers they rate, but they all have one thing in common - they are all hungry for knowledge. HR seems to have it's appitite back and those here have been open to all the ideas thrown at the by the speakers so far.

The opening panel debate warmed everyone up, the predicted snow held off for the time being and with hot drinks in abundance everyone got mingling on the exhibition floor, enaging with suppliers in one-to-one meetngs, themed lunches and at stands.

Meanwhile in the conference Christopher McLaverty talked about leadership and the changes BP have had to introduce to their structure as circumstances changed in the organisataion.

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