2022 Workshop on Human Resource Management and Training - Future of work, Working for the future

The objective of the workshop was to cocreate and write the story of our future. We considered new challenges and requirements in the changing environment in which NSOs operate that go beyond the impact of the pandemic.

Our goal was to share the lessons learnt from the pandemic rather than our experience of the pandemic. We are keen to know what kind of useful lessons members of our big statistical family have learnt from their experience. We are interested not only in what are the accelerated changes we observed and what is the permanent legacy, but also what remained the same and what does not need to change. We want to lay the foundations for our future. This is why we are looking for really new and innovative stories that could quickly become bestsellers in the countries of the UNECE.

During these three exciting days, we built up our story focusing on key pillars: 1) organisation, 2) employer, manager and leader, 3) employees and supplement with 4) mix/horizontal /blended/hybrid issues. We viewed each pillar from four dimensions: 1) mindset, 2) environment, 3) behaviour and 4) skills. 

In addition to telling stories with the support of traditional presentations or maybe some modern tools (video, infographics, etc.), the workshop included small group discussions along with interactive and participatory sessions. These activities focused on sharing experiences, identifying areas for future work and identifying innovative and non-standard practices.
The target audience of the workshop included senior and middle-level managers responsible for the human resources management and training, risk management, culture and ethics domains, in their respective organisations.