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 […]
Category: CASE STUDIES
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: Organizational Development
euphoria Consulting (euphcon) is a Dubai based strategic consulting firm specializing in organizational transformation and executive coaching. We asked the CEO and Organizational Change and Development Consultant Ashish Patel to discuss an Organisational Development Consultant Partnership which he implemented for Business Transformation in a company facing a crisis. Ashish Patel: As an Organizational Change and […]
Case Study: Employee Value Proposition
Henry Fares, Vice President of Human Resources, DHL Express Middle East and North Africa 1. Tell us about your background? Upon completion of my MBA degree I worked for 4 years in sales and marketing; yet, my continuous education focused on subjects such as organizational behaviour and industrial psychology. Observing successful professionals made me notice […]
Case Study: Mindset – Bending Reality
Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? I’m Victoria Song, and I’m a Leadership Advisor to successful founders and CEOs of the fastest growing technology companies in Silicon Valley and celebrities with power, platform and influence. I’m also the author of the new book, Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable which […]
Case Study: New Land Of Opportunity
Recently, a client wanted to open a business in the UAE. He had a great idea that he wanted to move from concept stage to reality. It was a copy of Airbnb.com for the Middle East (basically an ecommerce site for residence sharing). He began by writing a strong business plan with the help of […]