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Courtenay HR and Personnel Today team up again for the second Best Places to Work in HR awards Following on
Breakfast with Greg Dyke
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Courtenay HR Business Breakfast Presents:
Greg Dyke - Why did they cry?
7th September 2005, 8.00 for 8.30am
When Greg Dyke left the BBC, it prompted an unprecedented mass walkout by BBC staff in protest. How could one man touch a nerve with so many and what lessons can we learn from this extraordinary event?
In the latest of our series of business breakfasts, Greg gives a unique insight into his views on leadership and how he challenged the conventions of traditional people management. His brutally honest and uncompromising account is a must see for senior people practitioners.
The event will be held at The Hospital, an unusual and inspiring venue based in Covent Garden, London: The Hospital, 24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ. Please visit www.thehospital.co.uk for details.
To register please click here.
About Greg Dyke
Greg Dyke was educated at Hayes Grammar School and later at York University where he read Politics. After an early career as a journalist, he started his broadcasting career in 1977 at London Weekend Television. He became Editor-in-Chief of TV-am in 1983 and the following year Director of Programmes for TVS. He returned to LWT in 1987 as Director of Programmes; and from 1991 to 1994 he was Group Chief Executive of LWT (Holdings) plc.
After the Granada take-over of LWT, Greg Dyke joined Pearson Television as Chief Executive. He guided the consortium which created Channel 5 and became its first Chairman. He became Director-General of the BBC in January 2000. In his four years at the BBC he started four new digital television channels, five new digital radio channels, opened two new BBC regions, launched the BBC’s interactive television services and helped create Freeview, a new free to air digital platform. He also made major commitments to expand the BBC’s education services and to improve the cultural diversity of the workforce.
Greg Dyke left the BBC in January 2004 in controversial circumstances following the report of the Hutton Inquiry. Greg Dyke became the Chancellor of the University of York in November 2004 and in May 2005 became chairman of HIT, a production company specializing in programmes for the under fives.
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