IPM reaps sky-scraping benefits at CIPD conference

Island’s premier professional body in HRM, IPM’s official representatives Mr. Samitha Perera (the President) and Mr. Rohitha Amarapala (the Vice-President) recently participated at the annual conference and exhibition organized by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

CIPD conference and exhibition, which was held in Manchester Central, had been a huge success with a participation of 4,000 HR professionals seeking practical HR insights, new tools and techniques and new inspiration. Creating the best workplace on earth, Techniques to enable transformational employee engagement, Collecting and communicating HR data for greater business insight, Developing leadership behaviours aligned to vision, values and culture, Creating meaningful work through big data are some of the seminar topics discussed at the conference.

IPM representatives made use of the opportunity to discuss with Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Peter Cheese about new approaches in updating the IPM curriculum, in order to make it up to the globally recognized standards. They had further discussions on CIPD representation at the IPM annual conference, which is scheduled to be held on 18th and 19th of June 2014 at The Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall [BMICH], Colombo.

Mr. Perera and Mr. Amarapala also had discussions with Mr. Cheese on further developing of key result areas of HR over the Asian region, in collaboration with Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. These collaborative efforts will facilitate corporate sector and all the HR profes- sionals in the Asian region, who are longing for practical HR insights, new tools, techniques and inspiration of the field, which would keep them up to date. In order to strengthen the partnership between the two institutes, IPM representatives also presented the CIPD Chief Executive Officer a special gift.