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Kenexa Delivers Emerging Market Leadership Program To Strengthen Managerial Efficiency At Vodafone Qatar
Published Jun 23, 2010
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Kenexa a global provider of business solutions for human resources announced it is delivering a leadership program for 65 senior managers of Vodafone Qatar to strengthen their operational efficiencies in line with the company’s goal to become one of the most admired organisations in Qatar.
The Leading and Succeeding in Emerging Markets program provides guidelines and practical examples to help the managers, several of them expatriates, to embrace diversity, improve working relationships, create a more conducive work environment and drive higher levels of performance.
Grahame Maher, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Qatar, said: “This is an incredibly useful and enlightening program. It’s about embracing and celebrating differences and it shows how expats and local nationals can build bridges and work together more effectively. It not only gives our leaders the tools to lead in an emerging market environment, but also reinforces the importance of diversity and inclusion in our business.”
Leading and Succeeding in Emerging Markets highlights the different values and backgrounds of employees, and explains the implications of these differences and shows how leaders can achieve greater impact and manage their teams more effectively.
Kenexa is also running a complementary workshop, on what it means to work for a multinational, for non-managerial staff at Vodafone Qatar, who have limited corporate experience. The workshop highlights issues around work performance and examines the expectations, operational realities and what it takes for individuals to succeed.
“Out of 300 staff here, we have 40 nationalities so our employees have different needs, different personal values and different expectations about leadership and performance,” said Rachel Laws, Head of Culture & Leadership at Vodafone Qatar. “We asked Kenexa to design two programs for us that would encourage our employees to understand, respect and work with these differences. Kenexa is a global specialist in employee-related issues and they have extensive experience in emerging markets and leadership.”
Laws continued, “We’re evolving from a start-up to a stage of operational excellence. The Kenexa programs are playing a part in helping us to manage this transition, by changing people’s perspectives, and we believe Kenexa will help us to be even more successful in our marketplace.”
Tommy Weir, Head of Leadership Solutions at Kenexa, said, “These programs have a commercial benefit beyond improving leadership skills and fostering harmonious working relationships through better understanding. The bottom line is that they’ll enable higher performance.”
For more information:
Kelly Home / Meral Hassan
ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller
T: (+9714) 3344550
E: m.hassan@asdaa.com
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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