Training

All great business leaders agree on one thing – that an organisation’s greatest asset is its people. Yet most leaders take a very unscientific approach to talent acquisition. This course will explore how you can take the risk out of hiring, by adopting the idea that past behaviour is a brilliant indicator of future performance.

Too often organisations hire incorrectly. They base their hiring upon trying to hire a mirror image of the previous incumbent or on a job description that is out of date or hopelessly ineffective. Effective hiring begins with identifying the qualities of individuals most likely to succeed in the organisation and by defining the results that you require from the role. Attitudes and behaviours are key.

Competency-based recruitment provides a roadmap and a clear guide to finding the right candidates for your roles. Used by some of the world’s greatest organisations, competency-based recruitment will revolutionise the way you hire.

The Strategic Management Performance System (SMPS) Boot Camp is an intensive, hands-on interactive education and training designed for professionals to acquire knowledge and build skills in leadership and management of strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation and control. The Strategic Management Performance System (SMPS) program covers the entire strategic planning and management cycle. The program content is organized to be presented in order of occurrence if you were to “begin at the beginning”. A logical path for understanding the required (13) steps unfolds revealing a practical strategic management process; one that is in alignment with the Association for Strategic Planning “Lead-Think-Plan-Act” Body of Knowledge guidance and professional certifications. The course will help you identify principle developments in the study and practice of strategic management. You will be able to describe the vital role performance management plays in strategy execution and change management, whilst selecting performance measures that matter most. You will understand the critical role communication plays in positive change management, and formulate strategies to improve organizational performance.

Urgent requests, meetings, shifting priorities, unrealistic deadlines! Does this sound like a typical day for you?

Project Management Can Help.

The tools and techniques associated with Project Management (PM) will give you the confidence you need to get the job done – on time and on budget. In this highly practical four-day course you will learn scheduling, budgeting and planning skills that will take your project successfully from conception to completion. Whether it is purchasing office equipment, planning a meeting or special event or creating a presentation, the skills that you will gain by attending this course will ensure that you are equipped to take on the challenges.

Creating a Talent Acquisition Strategy
Talent Acquisition and Retention encompasses the activities involved in building and maintaining a workforce. HR demonstrates strategic value by developing, implementing, and measuring the individual and organisational success of activities and programmes for sourcing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, orientation and retention. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining a modern talent management system.

Succession Planning
Succession planning is the process of identifying high-potential employees, evaluating and honing their skills and abilities, and preparing them for advancement into positions which are key to the success of the organisation. Succession planning involves understanding the organisation’s long-term goals and objectives, identifying high-potential candidates and supporting their respective developmental needs. To be strategic, succession planning must also determine workforce trends and predictions. This module outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining an effective Succession Planning programme. This module uses a real-world case study capstone lesson to reinforce the learning objectives.

In all countries, real estate accounts for a vast proportion of non-petroleum economic activity and constitutes approximately one-third of all capital assets. You simply cannot ignore it as a business opportunity.

An understanding of how real estate properties are conceptualised, designed, built, managed and marketed is essential to making intelligent decisions to finance, manage, sell or buy real estate assets. And in the Gulf region, the thriving property market provides considerable opportunities for real estate development and investment – but only for those who are well-informed and make smart business decisions, which is exactly what this course is designed to help you become and achieve.

The course will address all the actual elements of real estate development, from research and planning through to development and marketing. It contains numerous case studies from the Gulf and worldwide to focus on all the key issues real estate stakeholders need to know.

The Institute’s Nine Steps to SuccessTM a framework is the basis of the course, where the emphasis is on shared participant experiences, lessons learned, and best practice. Small-group exercises are used for each step in the framework to reinforce the lectures, and YOU are encouraged to bring your organization’s strategic planning material to share with the class and receive instructor feedback offline as time permits. Topics covered by the course include:

• Basic concepts of the Balanced Scorecard and how it can be used to improve your organization’s performance
• How the Balanced Scorecard applies to different types of organizations
• How to build and implement a Balanced Scorecard using the Institute’s award-winning nine-step methodology
• How to develop meaningful performance measures and targets
• How a scorecard system can drive your performance-informed budget and accountability
• How to get performance information throughout the organization to better informed decision making through scorecard automation
• How to cascade the scorecard to all levels of an organization
• How to design and implement a scorecard where other frameworks have already been introduced
• How to revise poorly designed scorecard elements
• How to overcome obstacles and real world challenges
• How to evaluate planning documents and processes

In today’s business climate, companies are striving for business excellence and customer excellence requiring a strong support from their IT services; more often to fuel the required transformations of the business.

Serious challenges impact our organisations while placing a high demand on the business. Information Technology provides the potential to cope with these challenges and further helps to utilise them to your advantage; thereby strengthening your company’s external position in the market. However, a shared agenda by the business and the IT disciplines is essential to cope with these challenges, leading to demands placed on senior managers from both domains.

The main objective of this course is to help both the business and IT departments co-create a shared business improvement agenda. This course will help you understand how a sustainable, strong and agile organisation can only rise on the basis of agreed internal standards, using a shared architectural vision as the beacon. The course will teach you how to jointly develop such a vision, help you create ownership of the vision, and enable you to implement this vision, combining short-term achievements with longer-term aims; thereby reinforcing and leveraging the unique strengths of your organisation.

Although it is perfectly feasible to attend the course just by yourself, its effect would be even greater if you would bring your colleague or senior manager from the business/the IT side along. This would give you the shared experience from the start.

As the business world gets more complex, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted operations coupled with long-term relationships with all parties is extremely critical. Contracts are now considered vital as they not only instill high levels of confidence in the organisation one deals with, but also save the time and effort one might face in dealing with unpredictable concerns and arguments. This course will guide you through a step by step process to understand, draft and negotiate a successful contract and at the same time ensure that the interests of your organisation are well protected. You also will strengthen your expertise to build sound contractual relationships.