The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a clear vision and ambition to become a global powerhouse across all sectors, as clearly set out in the Vision 2030 Agenda. Public investment has been underpinned by expansion, as demonstrated by the three giga-projects currently underway. Leadership, both in the public and the private sector has also emphasised […]
Category: CASE STUDIES
Talent Management in the GCC
To look on the bright side, we have all recovered from the first Eid and are now looking forward to the second one. Having lived through the era when HR was still personnel, a minor division of the accounts department, and seen the huge changes in technology and attitudes in HR since the 70’s, I […]
Case Study: Cluster-based Learning Plans
Implementation of Cluster-based Learning Plans in a Lighting Equipment Manufacturing company. Background: The organization being referred to is a large manufacturer of electronic products for the lighting industry. Started in the early 1990s, the company has scaled and diversified very quickly, especially in the last decade. With a workforce of about 5000 spread across multiple […]
Case Study: Building A Team From Scratch
Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? Binod Shankar. I am the Managing Director of Genesis Institute Tell Us About Your Background? I started my career in an industrial bank in India where I cut my teeth on project appraisal of small and medium enterprises. I then spent six years executing audit, financial […]
Case Study: Identifying Competencies
Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? My name is Elie Georgiou-Botaris and I am the Practice Leader at Towers Watson Middle East. My focus is on Talent Management and Organizational Alignment. Tell Us About Your Background? I have been in HR my entire professional career, spanning around 35 years in operational, strategic […]
Case Study: Realigning Culture
Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? My name Is Paula Jane Cox, I am a Learning and Development consultant, based in the UAE, working across all GCC countries and Arab states. Tell Us More About Your Background? My Initial career was in Sales, with a great foundation and training from Yellow Pages, […]
Case Study: Implementing Training Evaluation
About 4 years ago I was tasked with implementing training evaluation into the organisation I was working with. The training teams (and there are many in this organisation!) would be quite content to use “happy sheets” and knowledge tests as evaluations of training however, when the question “how do you demonstrate your value?” was asked […]
Case Study: E-learning, The Attention Span of a Gold Fish
Gold fish are said to have a 2 second memory, which is the time it takes them to swim around their little basin and believe they are facing a whole new world. Do you sometimes find your class or yourself to have a similar attention span? How do you keep acquiring new skills and training […]
Case Study: Identifying New Trends in Employee Development
I need not to rehash for you the sufficiently chronicled history of employee development and management over the years and in pens far more articulately eloquent than mine. We believe that organizations are witnessing now more than ever a fast-paced, ever-changing reality increasingly nostalgic for precise and focused learning and development solutions. We have experienced […]
Case Study: Consult and Coach For a Cause
Tell us your name and what you do My name is Tena Pick and I am the Head of Media at C3- Consult and Coach for a Cause. Tell us about your background I hold a Bachelors Degree in Entrepreneurial Economics and a Masters Degree in Social Entrepreneurship. Before deciding to focus on social entrepreneurship […]