In your position as team leader the quality of the relationship among your team members is perhaps one of your biggest areas of focus. A unified and communicative team produces the best results, but it’s not always easy to develop a united team. People simply have different beliefs, backgrounds and social skills, all of which […]
“Teamwork is required to achieve the ambitions of the Gulf nations and to provide prosperity and stability so that they can devote their time and effort to social and economic development and to avoid the spectre of war, which always results in the destruction of humanity.” – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Teamwork could […]
The concept of gamification is sweeping through the business world, with hundreds of companies jumping on the bandwagon over the past few years. Gamification is the practice of applying game design and game playing techniques into normal business operations. Modern workforce engagement programs such as gamification can increase employee engagement by 50% or more. The […]
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.” – Ronald Reagan Employees want to be recognized for their hard work and rewarded for it. In some ways it seems elementary to need a medal, but the truth is, we never outgrow wanting and needing […]
A mere 31% of business leaders discuss career development with their employees.This is the statistic for Australia. The scenario is even worse in UAE and the Gulf, though no official statistics are available. However, it is common knowledge that with the exception of a few multinational and very large local companies, training and career development […]
This article is not going to share any secrets of success or business models etc. While writing this I recapped my discussions, discussions held in the recent past with a number of my colleagues, juniors, peers and seniors. There were some common points which were discussed by many, one of them was boss management and […]
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 […]
There is no doubt that in today’s fast changing work environments and markets, workforce development is crucial for both organizations and employees success and survival. This is reflected in the increased budgets and spending on employee’s development and training across government, federal and private organizations in the Middle East region. However, even with higher spending, […]
In today’s workplace, most of the information that we need to perform our roles on a day-to-day basis is unstructured and continuously changing. The information transferred through traditional training interventions, prevalent in most of our organizations, will often be out-of-date by the time we need to use it. In fact, research indicates that we learn […]
All managers, team leaders and supervisors know that the most difficult time consuming task they have is to motivate their staff. We all apply different motivation techniques and theories. Allow me to list the most common ones for those who don’t know them: 1-Job Design: A-Job Simplification. B-Job Enlargement. C-Job Rotation. D-Job Enrichment. 2-Rewards. 3-Employee […]
