Strategic Business Planning
Course Overview
Sound strategic decisions require structured and disciplined environmental analysis and resource analysis. This course will enable the delegates to make cohesive and coherent strategies that span their division or the entire organization. It also involves content on implementation of chosen strategies, given the latest tools and techniques. Leadership theme lies central to the phenomenon.
Course Content
- The strategic management process
- Environmental analysis
- Analyzing resources and capabilities
- Competitive strategies
- Strategy Mapping
- Top-down strategy formulation
- Communicating the Strategy
- Customer Value Proposition
- Managing Strategic change
Who should attend?
Ideal for those who are entrusted with the task of proposing strategies, devising and implementing them in their organization, at various levels. It is suitable also those who deal with Business Plans for the purpose of financing or winning over resources in other forms.
Benefit of Attending
- Affords the participants the lens to analyze environment strategically
- Enhanced ability to assess, choose and implement strategies
Advanced Strategic HRM
Course Overview
The course will provide delegates with opportunity to reflect on the latest thinking in strategic human resource management, examining the implications, and how they can be applied in the GCC context. It will provide approaches to assess the competitive position and environment, so that participants are able to gauge better their organization’s strengths and areas of improvement, and then to apply remedial measures.
Course Content
- Building and sustaining organization’s competitiveness through people management
- Building Leadership competencies and organizational culture
- Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
- Impact of leadership on organization’s culture
- Tomorrow’s HR function – how evolving
- Performance measurement and performance enhancement tools
- Business transformation and the role of HR
- Understanding and managing the change process via HR
Who should attend?
Middle to senior level HR professionals and for senior functional executives in both he private and the public sector, tasked with the responsibility for assessing, exploring, designing and implementing HR strategies.
Benefits of Attending
- Help understand latest developments in HR and how value is being delivered thereby
- Identifying corporate competitive advantage, and how to enhance it further
- Managing HR and organizational performance effectively using the Balanced Scorecard and the HR Balanced Scorecard
Budgeting and HR Budget Function
Course Overview
This course will provide delegates with complete understanding of the costs involved with Human Resource function, so that they can present the comprehensive case to management for resource allocation. It will feature case studies, simulation and practical group exercises. This generates for the delegates a complete spectrum of cost elements, providing linkage with the finance function.
Course Content
- What is a Budget?
- Purpose of Budgets
- Components of HR Budget
- Building a comprehensive HR Budget
- HR Budget Metrics
- Measuring Financial Performance
Who should attend?
This course is for all HR professionals responsible for budgeting in their organizations. It will be highly beneficial for those who are aiming to explore new avenues so as to enhance HR functionality in their companies.
Benefits of Attending
- Better appreciation of costs involved in HR function and their utility
- Higher skills regarding tools for cost control measures
- Better understanding of the vitality of the HR function through studying cost base
- Better skills regarding assessing the validity of an HR Budget
HR Policy Formulation
Course Overview
The course covers the aspects of HR policy development from strategy alignment through to policy identification and implementation. HR will be introduced and projected as a productive strategic alignment tool rather than a policing one. In-depth analysis of HR policy of the organization is essential component for managing effectively. Benchmarking against best practice – tools available will be examined in detail.
Course Content
- Fundamentals of policy development
- Developing an HR policy manual outline
- Designing the HR Policy
- Stakeholder involvement
- Manager buy-in
- Recent policy developments
- Confidentiality and controlling access
- Dealing with sensitive areas of HR policy
- Psychological contract
- Downturn impact
- Identifying organizational needs
- Developing solutions
- Policy changes
- Policies for specific strategic initiatives
- Developing a user-friendly HR Manual
Who should attend?
HR practitioners who are responsible for policy development and implementation, and managers involved in organizational change and transformation.
Benefits of Attending
- Successfully communicating HR policies through enhanced ability to produce clear and coherent policy documents.
- Reviewing the specific role of HR in the organization and developing appropriate policies.
- Developing a useful and effective HR Handbook through learning from best practice examples
Performance Management
Course Overview
What gets measured, gets done. This course will enable delegates to establish and manage a performance culture, determine Key Result Areas (KRAs), set objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It will also help establish the right competencies and behaviors for all the roles in the organization. It will enable the managers to establish the appropriate performance management system to support own organization’s goals and business objectives, and facilitate employee performance enhancement.
Course Content
- What is Performance Management?
- Creating a performance culture
- Performance based on objectives and goals
- Performance based on competencies and behaviors
Who should attend?
This course is for all in management who want a clearer appreciation of managing performance in their organization, with knowledge of tools and approaches being used. HR generalists at all levels who focus on performance management.
Benefits of Attending
- Support business effectiveness by implementing a best-practice performance management system.
- Gaining a better insight of the three critical components of an effective performance management system – objective setting, measuring competencies and planning development.
Performance Appraisal
Course Overview
Individual performance appraisals should help manage performance of each employee, however, it is not a productive exercise unless performance appraisal is clearly linked to corporate goals, as otherwise it becomes simply a form pushing and box ticking exercise, wasting precious resources and opportunities.
Course Content
- Performance Appraisal Cycle and Planning
- Creating a performance culture
- 20-70-10 – The GE Model
- Key skills in Performance appraisal
- Rating scales in performance appraisal
- Designing the right fit
Who should attend?
This course is designed for everyone who is interested in developing a performance appraisal system in their organization that provides the best fir given the circumstances and environment. It will help HR practitioners too in relating to topical approaches and recent developments in the sphere.
Benefits of Attending
Appreciating the critical role of Performance Appraisal
- Designing and implementing the right HR fit
Team Building
Course Overview
The common goal of every firm is maintained and fulfilled by the co-operative efforts by a group or team. Thereafter, team building training session helps in developing better team working skills to cultivate the working place as their own responsibility. It’s vital for every employee to understand the behavior of each other and work relevantly to achieve success elements.
Course Content
- What is Team Building?
- Team check for each employee
- Understanding and improving team differences Leadership
- Team Communications and Relationship Maintenance
Who should attend?
Senior Executives, Managers
Benefits of Attending
At the end of the program, Delegates will be able to:
- Appreciating the firm and working dynamically
- Identifying weaknesses and work together effectively
- Understanding employee’s behavior and improving team communication
- Appreciating all efforts and implementing effective changes as required
Fraud Risk Management
Overview
Given the high cost of fraud to public and private sector, much clarity is needed to a problem that flourishes in organizational cultures where transparency is poor. Global financial crises precipitated this issue, and with evolution of social media and technology, significant new challenges have emerged. This course takes through the context of fraud incidence, discussing the factors that contribute, and then elaborates on measures to manage the menace.
Course Content
Fraud – the Components
How big is the problem, and whose problem is Fraud?
Modes of Fraud
Types within financial, other corporates and the public sector
Fraud at the top – a concerning trend
Changing Motivation
Recognizing Fraud – Red Flags
The Changing Face of the Fraudster
Fraud Mitigation – Prevention and Detection
Enhanced Strategies
Who should attend?
Managers – senior and middle level, with the responsibility of managing risk in their organizations. Compliance professionals.
Benefits of Attending
The Course will enable Delegates to
- Understand the factors that contribute to fraud
- Get conversant with the types thereof
- Analyze the prevalence at different levels of industry
- Become more alert to the warning signs, the red flags
- Construct a coherent fraud risk management strategy and controls
Corporate Governance
Course Overview
Listed companies have to abide by principles of corporate governance, and it takes on added vigor in the case of multinationals with parent companies listed in G-8 countries and rest of Europe. This course takes through the wide dimensions of critical elements of corporate governance, with showcasing the principles and rationales enshrined in Code of Corporate Governance, gold standard being evolved in UK. It takes through the specifics of UAE, with application guidance.
Course Content
Need for the Code, Backdrop of major corporate scandals
Brief Development history, mechanism
Rights and responsibilities of shareholders, directors and non-execs
CEO / Chairman imperatives
Capacity and Role of Non-Executive Directors
Specific Committees: Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee etc.
Topical issues, developments
Who should attend?
All those interested in gaining knowledge about the need for, and application of sound corporate governance principles, as they impact in a multinational’s environment. Middle to senior management generally.
Benefits of Attending
- Appreciation of the ways to enhance organization’s profile and to enhance its control mechanisms
- Guidance on how to apply CG principles and how to design adequate structures
Understanding of the wider corporate environment, with involvement of capital markets