1 Day Summit Programme, Wednesday, April 28, 2010

08.30

09.00

09.15

Registration

Opening remarks

Session 1:
Overcoming Challenges for Leaders in Economic BouncebackPeriod – How the Leadership Role is Even More Critical During the Economic Recovery Period Than Ever?

• Leading in a Dynamic and Unpredictable World
  
• Inspiring, Supporting and Guiding a Team During Challenges While Remaining Calm
• Leading the Employees Toward a Better Change
  
• Handling Crisis & Change Management
  
• Creating Followers Not Only Obedience

Mark Adams Chief Executive Officer
Gulf Care International

9.45

Session 2
The need of Transformational Leadership – This kind of leadership style would be ideal for time of crisis where changes continuously take place - in terms of organization structure or

• Developing the vision
  
• Selling the vision
  
• Finding the way forwards
  
• Leading the charge to drive a better business result

Nazneen Abdul Rahim Director
ORi International

11.00

Session 3
Leading & Innovating - How do leaders harness the power of diversity different Middle East Culture in order to release and enhance innovation? More than ever, sustainable competitive advantage calls for innovative business ideas and breakthroughs, which tend to occur at the intersection of separate disciplines and fields.

• Creating innovative mindset among team member through campaign
  
• Leading by setting examples of innovation
  
• Connecting diverse individuals to create new innovations

Neetan Chopra Vice President, IT Strategy and Architecture
Emirates Airlines

11.45

Session 4
Nurturing Potential Talents for Future Leaders

• The success of a leader is also determined by the of the team he/she led, as well as the successors who had received the talent, skills and knowledge transfer.
  
• Identifying the new talents at early stage, as early as the recruitment phase
• Providing effective talent, skills and knowledge transfer.
  
• Recognizing and rewarding best talents, to -
  Preparing a future successor to maintain
  business continuity and growth.

14.15

Session 5
Panel Discussion:
Achieving Excellency & Best Employer ship – How do we measure the success of leadership? No other through employee feedback or survey which is currently being conducted a lot by multinational companies through a 3rd party independent consultant.

• Thinking outside the box & adapting best practice from the market & region
  
• Creating Sincere Connection With Team Members
  
• Using 360 Degree Feedback Method as Opportunity for Improvements

Young Arab Leaders Organizations

Session 6
Widening Opportunities for Women in the Arab Region

• Identifying potential leaders at early stages
  
• Facilitating increased female participation in economic activity, as part of strategy for job creation and economic growth.
  
• Identifying concrete measure to remove gender-specific obstacles to entrepreneurship and employment

16.30

Session 7
Employee Engagement & Branding: A successful leadership reflects on the performance of the employees as well. The more successful the leadership, the more engage the employee are, and the more likely the business results will
improve.

• Reconciling Performance with Business Progress Result
  
• Reducing High Turn Over
  
• Increasing Employee Moral & Motivation
  
• Implementing Rewards & Recognition for Performance

Arthur Carmazzi
Author, Trainer & Founder
Directive Communication International (Asia)

Day 2, Thursday, April 29, 2010

Proposed itinerary - Gala Award Night

07.30

08.00

08.05

08.15

08.20

08.30

09.00

09.15

09.25

09.35

Registration & Welcome Cocktail

Doa Recital

Opening Performance

Welcome Remark by Organizing Chairman

Keynote Address by Guest of Honor

Dinner Served

Award Presentation

Malaysian Cultural Performance

Award Presentation (continue)

Award Winners Photography Session