Founder and CEO of WOW GROUP and international HR expert Goar Ananyan said that transparent experience exchange helps to develop economies of the countries.
Speaking at the WOW!HR GCC Conference, which was held in Dubai for the first time last week, she said that everyone had almost the same problems, but they apply different approaches to solve them.
“Transparent exchange of tools, knowledge and experience lets us achieve necessary results,” Goar, who is also host of the conference, said.
She also announced the beginning of application process for upcoming WOW!HR GCC Award later this year.
“We entered GCC market and brought our activities and events to support regional HR community. We believe that our products lead the way for further industry development. Today the application process for WOW!HR GCC Award begins.”
The event was attended by CHROs, HRDs and HR experts from GCC and CIS countries. Participants discussed latest issues within HR industry and exchanged their experience to find the best solutions for the challenges they are facing. JW Marriott Hotel Marina became a venue for the event.
A lot of deep insights and compelling ideas were announced during a panel discussion. Dinara Yarulina of Danone in Kazakhstan, Maan Fatani of Mepco Group in Saudi Arabia, Farooq Al Tubi of Al Rawahy Holdings in Oman) and Reema Akhtar from (Seer Solutions in the UAE took part in it.
They replied to several questions about adapting to technological changes, managing remote work, workforce diversity and those related to global HR challenges. They also delivered presentations and speeches on the most buzzing HR-questions.
Strategies Discussed
Speakers from Kazakhstan spoke about the situation in Central Asia. Dinara Yarulina pointed out two steps of building HR strategies in Danone: first to understand business strategy and only after that define people strategy. Anastassiya Kruch from ERG suggested creating strong educational basis for future talent development.
Farooq Al Tubi and Syed Farhan Aziz spoke about building corporate culture in GCC, but each had his own experience and opinion. Farooq uses in his practice perceptual intelligence, while Farhan said that the key was to set right company values to change its culture.
Namrata Bhatia from NMDC Energy shared effective strategies of employee retention strategies. One of the solutions she offered was to achieve a healthy work-life balance which was crucial for employee retention in the UAE and GCC.
Reema Akhtar touched upon the problem of women empowerment and spoke about causes of women discrimination at work and taught the audience how to overcome it.
Maan Fatani shared his knowledge on how to reach “HR WOW effect.”
According to him shocking and exciting people has the effect of attracting attention, but for development to really take place it must be complemented by decisive knowledge combined with experience.
P2P mentoring sessions gained ground and became a remarkable part of the event and they allowed guests to get individual consultations on their HR cases from top HR specialists and executive coaches.
WOW!HR GCC Conference became the space for transparent experience and knowledge exchange. It was of high value for both speakers and guests. Active networking helped people to get to know each other better and set up strong connections between the participants.
