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Ian Thomas, Head of Manpower and Talent Management, Banque Saudi Fransi shares his thoughts on the Recruitment and Talent Management Forum

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Forum Day One - 25 January, 2011
08:30 Registration And Morning Coffee
08:55 Opening Remarks From The Chair
09:00

A Practical Approach To Aligning Recruitment, Talent Management And Business Strategy

  • Reassessing and analysing the goals and objectives of your business plan
  • Evaluating your talent management strategy in view of the goals and objectives of your business plan
  • Successfully aligning the objectives of your business plan and talent management strategy ensuring that they are both positioned towards long term growth


Ian Thomas, Head of Manpower and Talent Management, Banque Saudi Fransi, KSA
09:45

Understanding The Importance Of Diversity Within The Workplace And Overcoming The Resulting Challenges

  • Workforce Diversity in the GCC
  • Importance of Diversity
  • Fostering the Multicultural work environment
  • Managing Diversity
  • Challenges of Diversity


Khaled Helaly, Director, Strategy and Business Planning, QATAR FOUNDATION, Qatar
10:30

The Future Of Learning: Developing A Holistic Learning Approach To Reap Long Term Benefits

  • Understanding the complexities of employee developmental needs
  • An overview of various new learning approaches
  • Incorporating these new learning approaches with your organisation


Elie Daher, Vice President and Managing Director, SCHLUMBERGER, UAE
11:15 Networking And Refreshment Break
11:45

IBM’s Chief Human Resource Officer Study: The Results And Their Implications

  • Assessing new recruitment and talent management strategies and their impact on performance and growth
  • Cultivating creative leaders within the organisation
  • Building a community based knowledge sharing system


Csilla Szokodi, Human Capital Mangement Leader, IBM, Hungary
12:15

Satisfied Employees = Productive Employees: Getting The Most From Your Staff

  • How to ease tensions within an organisation while freeing your staff to provide service and care
  • Open communication on all levels to build trust
  • Finding ways to create a nurturing and inclusive culture that motivates employees towards more productivity


Emad El Magraby, Regional Professional Education Manager, Johnson & Johnson Middle East Inc, UAE

13:00

 Structured Networking Session: Bring plenty of business cards for this rapid fire session, where you get to meet all the speakers

13:30

 Networking Lunch
14:30

Return On Investment For HR Programmes And Initiatives: Assessment, Training And Measuring

  • Tools and methods to ensure accurate performance measurement and employee engagement
  • Analysing the results to assess the effectiveness and success of HR initiatives and training programmes
  • Exploring and comparing the pros and cons of assessing and measuring the results of training and HR initiatives
  • Understanding and overcoming the challenges of implementing assessment and measurement


Elie Daher, Vice President and Managing Director, SCHLUMBERGER, UAE
15:15

What Does Talent Management Mean To Us: The NBK Capital Journey

  • How does NBK Capital, the Investment Bank of NBK, understand Talent Management
  • Programs and initiatives put in place over the last five years to manage NBKC Talent
  • Other programs and initiatives planned for the future
  • Successes and challenges faced by the organisation
  • Key Learnings


Khalil Cotran, Managing Director HR, NBK CAPITAL, Kuwait

16.00 Refreshment Break
16.15

Engaging Employees To Ensure Optimal Performance And Job Satisfaction To Allow For Fulfillment Of Long Term Personal And Organisational Goals

  • Deducing the factors that influence the levels of employee engagement
  • Assessing current levels of employee engagement
  • Looking at innovative methods to improve employee engagement

Mehtap Arslan, HR Director, ASTRAZENECA, UAE
17:00

Employees As Strategic Partners For Success

  • Creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes and supports employee excellence
  • Building and implementing a strategic and integrated training and career development programme
  • Structuring policies that support community development within the organisation
Mohammed Alarifi, Finance& Administration Manager, AL ELM INFORMATION SECURITY COMPANY, KSA
17:45

Potential (P) Of An Employee With His Performance (P) And The Impact Of The Proper Identification Of PP To Pay

  • Identifying the area and level of potential of an employee
  • Evaluating the association between perceived potential and actual performance
  • Analysing the effectiveness of pay based on potential performance of the employee

Georges Abi Hana, Head of Human Resources, FIRST GULF BANK, Lebanon
18.30 Closing Remarks From The Chair
18:35 End Of Forum Day 1
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