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Ajman: HR dept of Thumbay group wins talent management award
- Tue, May 20 2014 12:29:13 PM
Media Release
Ajman, May 20: The HR department of the Thumbay group won the prestigious best talent management practice award in the 6th annual MENA HR excellence awards held here.
The award was presented as a part of the 9th annual Human Asset Expansion Summit MENA 2014 which was held on May 14 and 15.
The award was bagged by the Thumbay group UAE for setting a standard for innovation and strategy in talent management. The precise criteria for this award category was the effective employee onboarding, ongoing training and development, coaching, mentoring, assessing and developing leadership capabilities, monitoring and measuring talent management, designing effective compensation and recognition system within the organization.
His Excellency Dr Omar A Al Nuaimi, the assistant under-secretary of policies and strategies, ministry of labour UAE, presented the awards. Suraj Padmanabhan, the assistant manager, learning and development and Sidhiq, the assistant manager HR Thumbay group received the award.
The summit connected HR professionals from leading organizations in the Middle East and North Africa regions.
Leading HR professionals and organizations were awarded and recognized for their achievements in the past 12 months. This specific platform was organized exclusively by the French business information group named Naseba.
The crucial features of the summit were keynote addresses, panel discussions, workshops for the professionals to facilitate knowledge-sharing regarding the most pressing issues faced by the HR professionals in the region.
A problem solving round table conference called 'Think Tank' was also the part of the agenda along with the networking sessions for the outstanding HR professionals who were present in the summit.
The summit also featured the 6th MENA HR excellence awards to recognize the outstanding achievements by individuals and organizations in advancing the HR function in their respective organizations.
Some of the award categories this year were HR professional of the year (for private and public sector), distinction in healthy workplace strategies-corporate wellness, distinction in employee engagement, distinction in learning and development employer of the year, HR champion of change, best nationalization initiative and best talent management practice.
The Thumbay group UAE is an international business corporation with its headquarters in Ajman, UAE. It has over the past decade spread its wings of excellence in various fields of social and business endeavors. It was started in 1998 with the establishment of the group at Ajman by its founder, a visionary and third generation entrepreneur from India, Thumbay Moideen and blossomed into a diversified group with myriad line of businesses in UAE and overseas.
For over a decade the group has been quite successful in growing its business while utilizing a decentralized approach to managing its diversified workforce. Among the growing competitors it has taken a number of disciplined steps that have enhanced its capabilities for developing talents while ensuring management continuity throughout its systems. Talent development, succession planning and employee engagement and retention are the top HR priorities leading the group to cultivate a practice of talent development.
Suraj Padmanabhan thanked the founder president Thumbay Moideen for his vision, constant encouragement and support.
“ Without the president’s support, we would not have achieved this milestone. Thumbay Group workforce has been proactive in supporting the ‘run the business’ and ‘change the business’ management for organizational growth. Our employees take change as a rule and not as an exception. This mindset fosters the high performers to raise the bar higher and achieve the newly set benchmark, “ said Sidhiq.
About Thumbay Corporate Learning Centre:
Thumbay Group launched the Thumbay Corporate Learning Centre for employees of the group to accelerate their professional growth and employee satisfaction. Thumbay Moideen referred to TCLC as a ‘one stop source’. He stated that new technologies and inventions can attain real meaning only when they touch the lives through the support of knowledge that is shared by the organization.
He encouraged expertise in professional development and innovation for 360 degree professional development of the workforce which apparently is an integral part of the Thumbay Group. “In the race for excellence there is no finish line,” he said. Thumbay Corporate Learning Centre would host key programs like elearning, instructor led organizational and leadership training, employee best practice sharing, discussion boards and knowledge management programs.
TCLC delivers intensive management training programs to effect enduring impact in the mindset and performance of people resulting in sustainable competitive advantage for the organizations. The training programs address specific challenges faced by the organizations to help the participants devise appropriate solutions as takeaways while they learn. The learning center help businesses develop and retain high performing teams by collaborating among themselves to transform knowledge into action that help achieve business objectives. It offers a wide range of courses, programs and workshops, devised uniquely that will embark the employees on levels of business ease, efficiency and effectiveness beyond anything that one has ever experienced. Proficient personnel who are experts in identifying the core learning objectives, developing and delivering dynamic individualized courses and workshops that meet specific corporate training needs lead the centre.