Albatha Group Celebrates Learning Culture for 7th year during Albatha Learning Festival 2018.

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Albatha Group Celebrates Learning Culture for 7th year during Albatha Learning Festival 2018.

Continuous learning and training among employees were celebrated by the Albatha Group, among the largest conglomerates in the UAE, throughout the recently held Albatha Learning Festival (ALF) 2018, a unique means of imbibing a 'learning culture' within the company. The annual occasion, got involved by 7,000 workers, highlighted the company's accomplishments for successfully educating 96 percent of its team and hailing 50 training champions among them throughout the year, based on the Albatha Understanding & Growth calendar.

The festival has developed from initially three days of activities considering that it introduced in 2012 to virtually 2 months of festival, which began on January 19, 2018 and finished on March 17 at the Exposition Centre Sharjah to celebrate the year-long discovering accumulated by workers. The themed tasks consisted of the Albatha Knowing Week for office and staff management, the Albatha Knowing Advocate front-line staff members, the Albatha Leadership Forum for the executive management team, and finally the 'Celebrating Understanding With Each Other' ALF 2018 for all personnel and administration.

The company strives to fulfill its concepts as one of the finest learning organization in the Middle East by continuously improving its leadership, business procedures, framework and most notably, its human resources.

Ishaque Noor, Group Managing Director, Albatha Group, said: "Albatha Group has successfully held an additional year of discovering festivities which showcased the company's deep ethos in personnel development. This one-of-a-kind effort has sustained the company's growth and has helped us extremely in keeping a competitive advantage. We have always highlighted to all workers to live by our core worths and continually acquiring knowledge and skills is extremely important if we intend to boost every aspect of our business. Our target is that every employee has to develop and keep pace with patterns in their field by training a minimum of annually-- and we are pleased to have an effective turnover this year."

Via the company's own Albatha Learning Centre, which make up a group of over 50 'Training Champions', under the management of Sabiha Kazi, Group Understanding & Advancement Manager, Albatha organizes in-house training courses, ranging from management growth programs to imagination, top quality, health and safety for employees. Greater than 250 volunteers, plan, arrange and execute the 'Albatha Understanding Festival', which has ended up being a signature occasion of the company, which signifies learning and growth for every single employee.

The center holds 1,463 training courses offered throughout the year with 1,179 training programs or nearly 81 percent provided inside. It has also educated 1,166 employees through an innovative training system, the Albatha Knowing on Tires. It also uses on-line training via the Albatha Learning Management System (LMS) which has released with 6,000 individuals. The company has delivered an overall of 38 online programs during the first phase of its implementation.