Debrief on the 16th IIRME Compensation & Benefits Forum – Day One

So… Two weeks ago I was at the 16th Annual Compensation & Benefits Forum organised by IIRME in Dubai. First of all, kudos to Ramy Bayyour for organising a great event with quality speakers and an engaged audience. For this session, there was a nice mix of practitioners and consultants speaking. The event was chaired…

Catch up on the Human Assets Middle East Summit 2012

I was honoured to be one of the speakers at Naseba’s 7th Annual Human Assets Expansion – Middle East Summit. The conference turned out to be one of the best I have ever, attended in the region. The speakers were knowledgeable and entertaining, the audience was very active and engaged, there was enough time for…

2 more tips to prepare your files for submission to compensation surveys

Third post in my monthly theme around Compensation Surveys. So far I have covered Why you should participate to compensation surveys as well as 4 habits to simplify your participation to salary surveys. Today let me give 2 more tips to help you prepare your submission. Employee identification In a survey you should always strive…

4 habits to simplify participating to compensation surveys

This week’s instalment of my monthly theme includes a few habits that I developed to make my life easier when comes the time to participate to compensation surveys. Right now in the UAE, you must be thinking about collecting the data and preparing it to submit to the various providers that you have selected as…

GCC pensions special – April 2012

In the past few weeks, there has been a flurry of articles on the topic of pensions in the GCC. I have selected for you the most informative of these articles so you can get a helicopter view. GCC general Pensions schemes for Nationals in the GCC should diversify their investment approaches in order to…

Why you should participate to compensation surveys

Today marks the launch of an experiment in my blogging. As you know, I post 3 times per week, with some topics coming on a regular basis. I want to try something out and introduce a Theme of the Month. Through this new approach, I want to provide a bit of consistency to my posts,…

Earth Day – Will you care ?

It’s Earth Day today and this won’t be my usual post on Compensation & Benefits related topics. Caring for the environment – a family affair You see, I believe that we should all look for sustainability- the world population is now more than 7 billions, and we need to ensure that we can all live…