Dubai Drums was founded in 2002 to unite people through the universal language of rhythm. Since it’s inception, Dubai Drums have drummed interactively with thousands of people in corporate team buildings and community events and hundreds of children in educational instituitions. ‘Drums of the World’ sounds are a convergence of many musical personalities that delve deeply into the powerful rhythms of cultural world music. Drums of the World unite together, in the universal langugage of rhythm, to make something wonderful happen and to show how what you can achieve together is always greater than what you can achieve alone.

We are living an earned life when the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with an overarching purpose in our lives, regardless of the eventual outcome. Know more about discovering the steps to earning your path to fulfillment and living without regrets - from the world-renowned executive coach and New York Times bestselling author himself.

While the path adopted by most organizations is to arrive at the right rewards strategy so as to ensure monetary, and developmental benefits to employees who achieve specific business goals, the reverse too often holds true - by keeping employees motivated to do their best, every team member feels more inclined to do whatever it takes to achieve business goals. Know more about how organizations can implement a future-proof engagement strategy.

As HR leaders gear up to be strategic partners to the business, the need to accelerate mission critical skills, and build the digital and leadership capabilities of employees rank very high. The future belongs to organizations that capitalise talent, innovation, and industry challenges to become global market leaders. This session details how this is a vivid possibility by tapping into diverse talent pools for business success.

The workforce, and the workplace, are changing at a pace faster than ever before, and to deliver maximum impact on results and effectively align teams and talent with the organization's strategic plans, leaders must deeply understand the business, focus strategically, understand how to influence change, and play a key role in solving business problems. Join this session to be able to thrive in the business environment of the future by exploring progressive ways to evolve and disrupt traditional business practices, while building the relationships and influence necessary to gain approval and executive support.

Building an effective EVP has been at the centre of organizational focus over the past few years. The technological advancements, the new hybrid workplace, and the pandemic have all impacted the employee experience and the way employees perceive value in the organization. With increasing competition in the market in the age of the great resignation, differentiating your business through a unique EVP is critical to ensure your future success. Join this session to hear from senior organizational leaders on how having an attractive EVP is helping their businesses attract and retain top talent, now and in the future.

In the hybrid workplace, new technologies and rapidly evolving work demands arrive at a dizzying pace. New employment arrangements and global platforms for work are now the new normal. Salary, scheduling flexibility, interactions with teammates and supervisors to ensure more cohesive teams, and access to paid leave are among the factors that impact our work experiences, which then impact organizational performance and outcomes. This session examines the massive transformation that has come to influence the HR landscape, which in turn will be a critical variable for future business success and growth.

In the GCC, the workforce has traditionally been cosmopolitan and mostly made of expats. This trend has been challenged over the past few years where GCC governments have taken a firm stand on nationalization efforts to ensure that the native population is not overlooked. Join this session to see how you can optimize your workplace to attract local talent and shift the mindset in your organization from seeing nationalization as a compliance mandate to seeing it as a socially responsible role to build the local talent and give back to the local communities as well as being a key competitive advantage and a driver for the economy.

In the new world of work, where capital is abundant, and competition is global - all that matters is talent.
According to research, 1 in 2 candidates in the GCC region said that they intend to change jobs in the next 12 months. The war for talent is here and it warrants a discussion on the talent landscape now!
The session is a 'crystal ball gaze' into understanding the talent imperatives of the region while laying a framework to reimagine your approach to integrated talent management.

Moving forward takes innovation. Advancing our profession takes creative minds. Bringing creativity to life takes resources. SHRMLabs, powered by SHRM, is hosting the 3rd annual workplace tech search for the most pioneering, ground-breaking, solutions that are solving critical workplace challenges.
Join the launch of the 2023 Better Workplaces Challenge Cup.

Understandably, managers are the greatest drivers of engagement for their direct reports. People join companies, but leave managers. With the Great Resignation raging on, modern management is all about empowering teams and retaining top performers. Providing for superlative employee experience while ensuring ample avenues for career progression hold the key to long tenures in organizations. In this session, you'll learn how to build a high-performing and engaged team that can tackle any business challenge, any day.

The workforce population demographics are changing rapidly in the Middle East, as Millennials and Gen Z segments are becoming part of the workforce. However, little is known about Millennials, and Gen Z professionals in the Middle East since research has primarily been conducted outside the region. In this session, konow findings from first-hand research on the priorities and work preferences of Millennials and Gen Z professionals in the Middle East, and how these two generational segments are changing the workplaces in the region.

Diverse, Digital, & Distributed workforces are the future. And in the absence of a culture of ownership, grasping success can be challenging. It is important to bring objectivity to subjective ideas in terms of what an ownership culture entails. Every workplace has Owners, Renters, and Vandals. Owners make big commitments, continually increase value, reach for responsibility, include others, and see the big picture. Shaping an environment, whether in-person or remote, where everyone wants to invest their best daily, transforms culture! This session will equip you with language, understanding, and tactical next steps towards achieving success.

The classic performance appraisal process has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Shifting from a once-a-year review process to make pay decisions and disciplinary actions, the performance management system is now a business driver and an employee retention tool. Some organizations have abolished the performance appraisal but still have a performance management process. This session underscores the shift of the performance management system to a more productive, versatile, value contribution process that pleases employees, their managers, and top executives.

While technology is undoubtedly among the leading factors impacting business disruption, it often takes a lot more than technology alone to ensure business success. Organizations need to also consider the human side, to make digital transformation succeed. Leaders need to foster the right digital culture and enable the right technological tools and empower people for digital success. This session will explore actionable insights for leaders to improve digital leadership and culture in their organizations.

Most people are inclined to put their energy into dealing with what's right in front of them-that is, what needs to be done today. But when it comes to the future workforce, prioritizing the here and now is not the optimal strategy. To keep pace with the anticipated demands and priority shifts of the next decade, organizations must start actively engaging in developing workforces today, and technology plays a major role in ensuring this transformation. In this session, know how leaders can leverage the best of WorkTech with key leadership skills in order to engage their current workforce and motivate them to up their game.

Even before the pandemic, the new workforce was eager to be at a workplace that would improve their overall life. Organizations are in a unique position to improve lives and performance simultaneously. Creating innovative reward programs for employees based on their health and well-being with an objective to enhance productivity, is at the core of this talk.

While referring to Technology and the Future of Work, it's only fair that organizations ponder over which path to adopt. Some experts predict a dystopia with high employee dissatisfaction caused by technology overdose, while others foresee a utopia where technology plays the role of a saviour in our lives. The determining factor would be how the world of work and its support system would respond to the ever-changing scenario. This session discusses perspectives associated with the ramifications for HR leaders – both from a business and employee perspective.

Energy is everything. It is the spark that brings hope, joy and the ability to express who we truly are so that we may share our unique gifts with the world around us. Once we discover what energizes people, we must then create a space for their interests and passions to be nurtured, developed and shared. When this occurs, magic is born - especially when their story is aligned with that of the organization they work for. In this inspiring session, you will learn how to awaken the energetic potential of your workforce as a catalyst for sparking creativity, innovation and extraordinary career stories.

Know more about key report findings & highlights:
Study conducted with 9,464 workers from 12 countries about the state of workplace culture

In today's and future workplaces, organizations are under pressure to compete and sustain the growth of the business and its continuity. Leaders can no longer afford to rely on 'comfortable' hiring decisions and need to challenge their existing paradigms when it comes to empowering women, youth, and people of determination. Join this session to see how you can shift this paradigm in your business and leverage these exceptionally capable diverse groups to help support your organization's vision, strategy, and business continuity.

Mental health is overlooked by many people and stigmatized by even more. But attitudes are changing, and the pandemic has accelerated that shift. When employees open up, the overall feeling is that they felt worn down, burnt out and irritable at the end of the workday. As organizations scamper to implement innovative EAPs encompassing mandatory, incentivized mental health days, mental health scheduling support, and subscription services for mental wellness, this session discusses how selfcare needs to be made the new norm to deal with the issue before it snowballs into an all-new pandemic.

There is a direct and measurable relationship between employee engagement and an organization's success. Employees who know that they are working towards goals that drive business outcomes, as well as their own goals for professional growth and learning, develop ownership in the organization's success that boosts employee engagement. Join this session to connect the dots from organization goals to job descriptions to individual goals, learn the different goal types and measures, and see how ongoing coaching and feedback leads to a more effective performance review process.

We are entering the greatest period of global transformation the world has ever known, enabled by rapidly evolving technology and destabilizing demographic changes. The constant state of disruption mandates a new level of professional courage and influence in order to effectively impact our organizations and those around us. How has leadership, strategy, organisational culture changed in the Connected Age? How can we use knowledge and connectivity to manage vast amounts of information, maximize organizational relationships and optimize talent utilization creating competitive advantages in an increasingly uncertain global economy? Know more in this session.

With the huge amounts of data that is available to businesses nowadays, it has become imperative for HR professionals to master the language of data; data analytics. Understanding and implementing People Analytics will be a key competence for the future HR professional. Join this session to know more about People Analytics, why it is important, what it entails and how HR professional can utilize it to impact business objectives.

In an era of increasing competitiveness for top talent, a well-managed recognition program can provide valuable help for employers that must use every available means to attract and retain the best employees and keep them engaged and productive. Know more about what works and what does not, when it comes to identifying the right Rewards & Recognition strategy for your organization.

The world of work has changed - how we work, where we work as well as the tools we use to work. Organisations are continuing to evolve to meet the tectonic shifts happening in the workplace, they are realising an urgent need to help their people develop new and different skills, improve their workforce readiness and create significant changes to how work gets done. In this session, know why organisations need to rethink how they manage and grow their workforces to thrive in today’s modern work environment.

The road to talent transformation is always challenging, more so in our current uncertain world that is changing at a very high pace. As employees seek new opportunities and reconsider their work lives, the most successful organizations will test a variety of strategies, welcome feedback and constantly iterate. This session discusses why and how organizations can embark on a successful talent transformation journey.

All organizations seek to optimize their people performance, but most leave money on the table by implementing off-the-shelf solutions that fail to address the specific and underlying issues hindering performance, resulting in diluted impact. Implementing a robust and agile diagnostic of performance issues, benchmarking each aspect of people operations and developing bespoke and scalable interventions that directly address the issues leads to significant savings in investment and marked improvement in results. This can be accomplished by pragmatic gathering and analyzing data and inputs and developing a blend of mini-solutions that zoom onto the problem areas.

The road to workplace transformation is always challenging, more so in our current uncertain world that is changing at a very high pace with an overload of information and the continual rise of technologies. This session discusses why and how organizations can leverage a digital mindset to ensure innovative ways to leverage disruptive technology for sustainable workplaces.

The Future of Work has arrived early, and the post-pandemic workplace has presented new realities for employers and employees alike. Organizations and specifically HR, will need to evolve to support in building talent and leadership that will help business respond to current challenges and discover future opportunities. In this seminar we talk about the future of work, the new normal for HR and how HR communities need development that builds a shared business perspective. This is our opportunity to show how we navigate the future of work!

Employees with Peak Performance will enhance the overall productivity of the organization and hence the profitability. Join this seminar to know more about proven BIOHACKs for sustainable peak performance.

Building the right performance measurement and management culture in the organization is a crucial step towards driving organizational transformation and adaptation in response to the dynamic environment. Therefore, the Human Resources Department should understand the organizational strategy and ensure its alignment with the HR department’s objectives, activities, initiatives and KPIs.

The HR department should develop the right Human Capital KPIs that provide objective evidence of progress on achieving the strategic objectives and these KPIs will help to inform better decision making.

HR Professionals should use the right tools to identify the right KPIs to measure the intended results and create strategic alignment.

Research reveals that human capital data is more difficult to come by and there is an acute lack of standardization around social metrics. ISO 30414 Global Standard on HUMAN CAPITAL DISCLOSURE provides the first and most widely accepted roadmaps for voluntary, strategic and systematic processes that improve outcomes and experiences. The primary focus of the human capital disclosure is to determine the long-term health of a business, thus mitigating the risk for the shareholders as well as all stakeholders including donors, regulators, employees, compliance agencies, customer, public and the community. This seminar covers key components of global standard on human capital analytics.