The Global HR Trends Summit Beirut, Lebanon's first ever international HR event, took place on the 3rdand 4thof November at the Mövenpik Hotel in Beirut, gathering HR gurus from Facebook, Gazprom International, Hug Digitaland Emirates NBD who addressed the latest HR trends and their hands-off experience in global HR practices.
The two day HR Experience opened with a keynote presentation by Ramakrishna Movva from Emirates NBD, UAE on developing high potential teams and also featured presentations on the new rules of working by Rob Veeresma, Director, Training and Development at Gazprom International, corporate social media guidelines by Hussein Dajani from Hug Digital in the UAE and social media recruitment by Georgina Ibrahim from BESST, as well as presentations on leadership by Ania Jakubowski, Former General Manager at Coca-Cola in Poland and Youssef Salloum the former HR director for Middle East & Africa at Goodyear.
Delegates attending the event were also able to benefit from two workshops on creating a burn out free environment run by international HR guru Barbara Wright Avlitis from Greece and on the best strategies to create a high performance workplace led by Ravi Singh the general manager of Bluefin Consultancy from Australia.
"Our aim with the Global HR Trends Summit is to give the opportunity to the HR community to exchange knowledge, best HR practices and provide our Lebanese colleagues with insights into the latest global HR trends and challenges with special focus on talent management, social media recruitment to leadership and stress management. The event is the first ever HR event in Lebanon to include a presentation by Jeff Turner, Learning and Development Director, EMEA at Facebook who discussed Facebook's strategy on increasing the effectiveness of the people managers for the overall success of the company.", said in her statement Sanja Popovska, Event Director of the Global HR Trends Summit Beirut.
The Global HR Trends Summit Beirut is organized by P World, the proud organizer of the Global PR Summit Beirut and the Marketing Kingdom Beirut, with TRACCS as an exclusive event partner.
The first ever edition of the Global HR Trends Summit was held in Zagreb in 2011 and since then the event is annually hosted in 12 different countries including Jordan, Qatar, Serbia, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
