Exchange of practices between
leaders of public services
Restructuring to improve Productivity and Efficiency
13 Octobre 2014
Nicosia, Cyprus
09:00 – 17:00
Invitation to the joint CEEP / EAC seminar
CEEP, the European organisation representing public services is pleased to invite you to a
seminar that is held in the context of the activity of “exchange of practices between leaders
of public services”. The seminar will is organised jointly with EAC, the Electricity Authority
of Cyprus. The seminar will address a key challenge that public services and in particular
utility and network providers in fields such as water, waste management, public transport
and electricity are facing today: The need to improving productivity and efficiency in light of
financial constraints and increasing external pressures. The seminar should focus in
particular on the role of human resources management and HR innovations in this context.
Focussing on utility and network providers, the seminar seeks to bring together leaders and
top-managers of network service from different European countries. The idea is to organise
an exchange between public service leaders in an open and trustful atmosphere, where
every participants is both a teacher and a learner. The seminar is expected to bring
together around 30-40 participants
This approach is reflected in the programme structure that includes only a limited number
of keynote inputs and focuses more on providing space for mutual learning. The following
key questions may guide the exchange of experience and practices as well as mutual
learning from each other:
- What are the major challenges with view on improving productivity and efficiency within public
service providers?
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- Which measures have been taken within your enterprise to foster change and adaptation and
which role does HR play in this context?
- Which tools exist with view on a successful implementation of internal HR change processes that
may be transferred also to other sectors?
CEEP and EAC would be pleased if you could attend the seminar and contribute to the
exchange. Therefore we would like to invite you to use the attached registration form also
to provide us briefly with some further information on the issues mentioned above from
your perspective. On this basis, the organisers would be able to elaborate a final
programme that reflects participants’ interests and needs in the best possible way.
Please find the registration form attached. Therefore, we would like to ask you to return
the attached registration form until the 10th of September 2014 to Mr David Anciaux
(david.anciaux@ceep.eu).
After your registration we will provide you with the final programme and further
organizational and technical details.
Please note that we can reimburse up to 20 participants from outside Cyprus. Travel and
accommodation expenses will be covered through the project following your registration
and according to the conditions mentioned in the document attached.
With kind regards
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Draft Agenda
09:30 – 10:00
Registration
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome address and objectives of the project and the seminar
 Valeria Ronzitti, General Secretary of CEEP
 Electricity Authority of Cyprus
10.15 – 10.45
Participants introducing themselves / interactive session
10.45 – 12.30
Session 1: Change in Public Services and HR management: between
administrative and financial limitations
 Input EAC: “EAC Restructuring to improve Productivity and Efficiency”
 Input from 2 large network providers
Discussion and exchange
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Session 2: Parallel working groups Towards the management of change in
HR with stakeholders
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Themes and topics to be defined in the light of participants’
interests
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Input from public services providers
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30
Reports from the workshops and discussion
16.30 – 16.45
Summary of the day
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