Previous meetings held by Cisco

It is every leaders’ dream to build the perfect team: a diverse blend of personality types, a broad range of skill sets, inspirational managers and up-and-coming HiPo’s. But they do not always consider the generational mix, which can leave parts of the workforce completely overlooked. In this ChapmanCG podcast, we speak with Dr. Robert Kovach, Director, Conscious Leaders & Teams at Cisco, about his experience and unique take on building cross-generational teams in today’s climate. Cisco is the global leader in networking, security, collaboration and unified communications, based in Silicon Valley,  with more than 75,000 employees worldwide. Robert has been with…

In conjunction with Cisco and EY, ChapmanCG was delighted to host two HR Leaders Discussion Forums in Sydney on “The Future of HR”. There was great interest in this topic with HR leaders from Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, Telstra, AMP, Allianz, Goodman Fielder, Citi, QBE, JLL, Mars, Kimberly-Clark, Pepsico, Stockland, Toll, Optus, Strategy&, British American Tobacco and many other companies in attendance. Simon Terry, Chairman of Change Agents Worldwide, led a thought-provoking conversation that explored our digital future, bringing a “Hustlers, Hipsters, Hackers” lens to HR, employee experience, collaboration and many other areas. The ensuing discussion was reflective with many of…

Recently a group of Japan TA Leaders gathered at Cisco in their Roppongi headquarters in Tokyo to discuss what does and doesn’t work when it comes to recruitment and employee branding in Japan. The meeting was well attended by representatives from a broad range of organisations including Amazon.com, CBRE, Citi, Citrix, Coca-Cola, Covance, Philip Morris, Rakuten, Ralph Lauren, Salesforce.com, Telstra and others. Feet on the Ground One of the biggest differences when recruiting in Japan, as compared to regional and global HQ locations, is the limited manpower on the ground. Whereas in many countries you might find specialists for things…

On Monday, the 10th of November 2014, The Chapman Consulting Group held two HR Leaders networking sessions, along with our hosts Origin Energy and Cisco Systems. The topic for discussion, “Beyond the Ulrich Model – What’s the next big thing in HR?” resulted in an energetic discussion amongst the HR leaders present from American Express, Avaya, Coca Cola Amatil, Cochlear, Deloitte, DEXUS, Diageo, Hewlett Packard, Lend Lease, Perpetual, Schneider Electric, Woolworths and others. The Ulrich Model Today’s HR Leader will certainly be familiar with The Ulrich Model, a ground-breaking model first detailed by HR management guru Dave Ulrich in his…

​The Chapman Consulting Group (ChapmanCG) co-hosted the 2nd Quarter Hong Kong Talent Acquisition Heads session at the offices of Cisco on Wednesday 19th June. The session was facilitated by Ben Davies, a Managing Director with ChapmanCG and by Paul Ferrari, a new Hong Kong based Director with ChapmanCG. A broad mix of industries were represented in a vocal round table. There was plenty of best practice sharing and representatives from Avery Dennison, Shangri-la, Walmart, Bank of America Merril Lynch, UBS, Dell, BBVA, 3M, KPMG, Deloitte, Telstra, Flextronics and many more attended. Keynote topics for discussion were vendor streamlining; learning from…

The Chapman Consulting Group co-hosted an excellent HR leaders gathering with Cisco in Singapore this morning. We were joined by a fantastic group of Regional and Global HR Heads. Interestingly 20% were in Global roles which was wonderful to see, to discuss and share their thoughts on HR today. The discussion began with some shared insight on Talent Management, how high potentials are identified and are they announced as ‘Talent’. The long term talent plans of some industries (oil and gas companies) looking as far as 2025 were very different to others struggling to lock in 1-2 year plans (some…

The Chapman Consulting Group hosted its China and Regional Staffing Heads learning session at Cisco in Shanghai on 15 October. The session was chaired by Vineet Gambhir, Regional Staffing Director, Cisco. This quarterly session brought together some of the brightest, high potential staffing talent in China to discuss emerging trends in Social Media. The Chapman Consulting Group was fortunate to have Martin Cerullo, Global Head of Branding and Communications, from Alexander Mann Solutions in Hong Kong, as the guest speaker. Matthew Chapman, CEO of The Chapman Consulting Group, was also in attendance. The results of the annual APAC Staffing Leaders…

The Chapman Consulting Group spent a busy week with HR Leaders in three locations in India; Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore this week. Our Half-Yearly HR Briefing Series for Quarter One and Two for India and Asia Pacific was hosted at the premises of many prominent companies such as Convergys, Philips, Nielsen, Coca-Cola, Shell, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Cisco, General Motors and Standard Chartered Bank. During this week-long series of HR Briefings with more than 300 HR Leaders across India, we noted the following trends: Increasingly, India is being split off from Asia Pacific or the Middle East…

The Chapman Consulting Group has just hosted its Quarterly HR Leader Update Series in China. The four events were held at Cisco, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson and Deutsche Bank. The breakfast session at Johnson & Johnson and lunch session at Deutsche bank focused on Country and Regional HR Leaders. The Honeywell session involved Country and Regional Heads of Talent Acquisition. An afternoon tea at Cisco brought together Shared Services experts. In conjunction with Organisation Solutions, we also jointly hosted HR Leaders at the offices of Diageo and SAP for two separate “Good Science Great Practice” sessions (delivered by Alison Eyring,…

The Chapman Consulting Group co-hosted the Q3 Regional Staffing Heads update at the offices of Cisco in Singapore. Cisco were great hosts and a number of the APAC Talent Acquisition team joined us for the session. Attendees included APAC Staffing Heads from the technology, manufacturing, financial services and hospitality sectors. It was a lively and insightful session with plenty of knowledge sharing. William Chin, Regional Head of Talent Acquisition at Qualcomm who attended the session, summarised some of the takeaways he took from the session on his blog: see http://www.asiahrblog.com/2011/09/singapore-regional-staffing-leads-meet.html. William was particularly interested in innovation occurring around internal mobility:…