Leadership

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP 

When we talk to individuals about their future, and we are proactive in keeping them moving in their development, we reap the rewards of a more engaged and higher-performing workforce.

Who is this for

Managers wanting to improve development conversations with their teams

Purpose

• Reflect on the development paths of themselves and others
• Explore the many hats of a manager and identify the importance of varying their approach depending on the situation
• Practice using questions to map out their future vision

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Listening seems such a simple thing, we’ve been doing it since birth haven’t we? In today's high-tech, high-speed, high-stress world, communication is more important than ever, yet we seem to devote less and less time to really listening to one another.

Who is this for?

Anyone looking to improve their focus to what is going on around them

Purpose

Unfortunately, listening is a critical skill that’s getting lost.

With our fast and chaotic pace and tendency to multitask, we’re all in danger of losing our listening skills. Hearing, the human’s primal alarm system, is the easy part. However, according the Seth Horowitz, an auditory neuroscientist at Brown University, listening is becoming more and more difficult to do in a world filled with digital distractions. “You never listen is not just the complaint of a problematic relationship, it has also become an epidemic in a world that is exchanging convenience for content, speed for meaning. The richness of life doesn’t like in the loudness and the beat, but in the timbres and the variations that you can discern if you simply pay attention.”

The good news is listening is a highly learnable skill. It appears to be a use-it-or-lose-it opportunity. If you want to be a better listener, you need to practice.

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Explore how to develop your discovery skills; identify the behaviours that inhibit innovation and how ways to overcome these.

Who is this for?

Anybody wanting to find ways they can innovate in their role daily

Purpose

Forget the big revolutionary idea. Small innovations that create continuous improvement lead to bigger results.

Innovation isn't just about a world-changing new product, it is also about continuous improvement, and seeking small and different ways to approach a problem and improve existing products, services, structures and processes. In this session we will explore how we can develop our discovery skills; identify the behaviours that inhibit innovation and how we can overcome these. 

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Experience the impact of silo mentality on productivity and explore ways we can identify opportunities to bridge those gaps and work across functions.

Who is this for

Anybody looking to improve their cross functional working practices

Purpose

Working in a multi-brand company can organically create a silo mindsets in the business. However, the strength of Chalhoub is in the Knowledge we share is the knowledge we build. In this session you will experience the impact of silo mentality on productivity and explore ways we can identify opportunities to bridge those gaps and work more effectively across functions.

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

It is often our own barriers that stop us from achieving our full potential. To truly push our boundaries requires us to identify opportunities that push us in to unknown territories.

Who is this for?

Anyone looking to explore ways they can become comfortable with being uncomfortable

Purpose

Often, without realizing, it is our own barriers that stop us from achieving our full potential. Often, we limit the goals we set ourselves to fit within our own comfort zone; what we know we can do and achieve. To truly push our boundaries requires us to identify opportunities that stretch us out of what we know into unknown territories. It is often our discomfort with not knowing that stops us from pursuing things which could catapult us forward. In this micro topic we will explore our own comfort zone and identify practical ways to push ourselves out of this. The session will introduce you to the process of becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable and using this to push your own boundaries to success.

FACE TO FACE WORKSHOP

Analyse your own level of self-awareness, identifying your strengths and how you can utilise them to overcome your limitations.

Who is this for?
Anybody who would like to build their own self awareness

Purpose

The one person we have spent the most time with in life is ourselves, however often it is the one person we know the least about. In the fast paced environment we don’t often take time to look in the mirror and observe our own behaviours, actions, limitations and strengths. In this session you will use a Discovery Insight report to find out your strengths and how to utilise these to overcome your limitations and build better rapport with others.

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

To seek feedback proactively (and knowing how to make the most of what you hear), means you'll never dread receiving it again.

Who is this for?

Anyone who would like to get the most from the feedback they receive 

Purpose

• Discover the neuroscience that explains why receiving feedback is such a daunting prospect
• Explore ways to get the right feedback which is pivotal to their development
• Uncover their personal blocks to receiving feedback, and learn how to overcome them
• Consider how to take feedback forward into positive actions

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Often the key to meeting the needs of others is about managing expectations. If we can manage expectations, we can also manage our own and others behaviour.

Who is this for?

Anybody who would like to improve their skills in managing the expectations of others

Purpose

This workout is designed to help us make implicit expectations explicit and manage them over time. This is important because our expectations affect our behaviour. Therefore, if we can manage expectations we can also manage our own and others behaviour.

The evolution of expectations is key because it helps us realise that expectations are not static but constantly changing over time and so our approach to them needs to reflect this.

FACE TO FACE WORKSHOP

Build greater UAE cultural awareness to help support the UAE build a strong future

Who is this for?

Managers who want to better understand the Emirati culture and how they can support our Emirati colleagues

Purpose:

• Build a better understanding of Emirati culture
• Explores ways you can support our Emirati colleagues
• Find out the benefits of supporting our Nationalisation programmes

Nomination Expedition

Emirati Cultural Awareness is a nomination-based expedition.  If you meet the above criteria and you would like to add this expedition to your learning journey, please discuss it with your direct manager who can send your nomination through to Chalhoub University team.

TOOLKIT

Part of our updated flexible working policy now gives you the opportunity to work outside Chalhoub offices - be that at Home, a cafe or even another country for a set amount of time.

In order for you to succeed with flexible working we are asking all employee's who wish to work from home to complete this learning journey. 

Also all leaders need to complete the journey so they can support their colleagues. 

Who is this for:

Anybody wanting to work out of Chalhoub offices and any manager who leads a team

Purpose:

Give you the tools and information required to be successful in this initiative.

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Only when we understand why embracing diversity is so difficult, can we really start to build a culture of inclusion.

Who is this for?

Anyone wanting to increase their Diversity and Inclusion Awareness

Purpose

• Explore what we mean by the term Diversity 
• Explore who you naturally connect with and why
• Open up to more people around you  – seeing them beyond their job role and what is obvious
• Unconcious Bias and how it impacts our inclusivity & how to avoid them
• Psychological Safety – what it is and our role and building it

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

To become better at managing upwards, it is important to empathise with and understand the individual in question. This micro-topic enables us to do this more effectively in two different ways: firstly by adopting the mindset of the individual in questions in order to understand what motivates and drives them, and secondly, by understanding the five different power styles people employ and the tactics to manage each of them more effectively. 

WORKSHOP

People who show resilience in the face of adversity, who refuse to fail despite challenges and who stick with things out of a sense of duty to reach long-term goals have true grit, and as a result are more likely to succeed and feel less stressed in situations.

Who is this for:

Anybody wanting to explore ways to build their resilience to reaching their long term goals.

Purpose:

People who show resilience in the face of adversity, who refuse to fail despite challenges and who stick with things out of a sense of duty to reach long-term goals have true grit, and as a result are more likely to succeed and feel less stressed in situations.

Everyone has different levels of grit, and the need to draw on it is dependent on the circumstances each individual finds challenging. The good news is that we can proactively build up our grit reserves for when we need to use them. If we consciously expose ourselves to a healthy level of challenge every day, we will get more used to facing adversities, and therefore become more confident in our ability to deal with them, adding to our grit reserve. Constantly exposing ourselves to challenge is hard, but if we can build up the right support network we can draw on them to help overcome these challenges, and we will feel more secure knowing others are there if we need them.