SteppingStones Recruitment, who recently captured a Cayman Islands Society of Human Resource Professionals (CISHRP) 2012 Top Employer Award, hosted a dynamic energiser session and cocktail reception at the CISHRP’s 9th Annual Conference held at the Ritz Carlton on Thursday, May 17, 2012.

Training and Development Professional, Emma Woodhouse, kicked off the Conference’s afternoon agenda with an icebreaker activity meant to provide an active and engaging forum for conference participants to get acquainted, connect with one another, and to compliment the address by the key note speaker which was to follow.

Energisers are an excellent way to encourage involvement and interaction between workshop attendees to re-focus and heighten the learning experience in these types of conferences and training environments,” expressed Woodhouse. “I often present a series of fun-filled challenges and initiatives to promote communication and knowledge sharing and to have a few laughs — it’s important to evoke a little laughter especially among a group who aren’t familiar with one another. In this instance, we had everyone circulate the room to find someone they hadn’t met before and, in a series of brief conversations, each less than two minutes long, express their HR goals and successes.”

The annual conference benefited from representatives across all industries and levels of talent management and recruitment, imparting information, strategies, and best practices relating to effective HR leadership and sustainability, career development, harmony and productivity in the workplace, and much more.

More than 70 guests closed the day with evening cocktails, also hosted by SteppingStones, presenting an optimal opportunity to further network and exchange ideas.