Harsh Sood

Senior Vice President & Head of Human Resources & Center of Excellence Union National Bank – Head Office UAE

Harsh is a business focused senior HR professional with more than 26 years’ experience across industries such as Banking, Telecom Services, FMCG, Oil / Lubricants and Automotive sectors. His strengths lie in formulating & implementing HR Strategy, Organization Design, Hiring and driving initiatives focused on enhancing individual and organizational capability viz. Competency Mapping, Development Planning, Career & Succession Planning, etc. He has driven development of HR Systems & Processes and has worked on building employee engagement & organizational alignment in multi cultural environments across different industries.

Conference Day One: Monday, 21 October 2019

9:20 AM Trailblazer Panel: Using immersive technology and gamification for training engagement and collaborative learning

With approximately 2.5 billion headsets being purchased last year, the emerging market creates huge opportunities and great potential for businesses looking to improve their learning and development departments. Virtual reality can help solve real-time business problems to create competitive advantage by providing better, faster and safer training. In regards to the gamification in the corporate environment, it can help create a progressive reward system into training, which will keep learners interested and motivated to increase their skills, knowledge and improve learning experience.

Key question – How do you facilitate the successful adoption of gamified training?
  • Exploring game changing immersive learning technologies
  • Elevating soft skills and immersively connecting people with virtual reality
  • Revealing the opportunities which gamification creates in the classroom

Conference Day Two: Tuesday, 22 October 2019

2:00 PM More accurate and efficient engagement with your employees with a HR software

Employment engagement is a workplace way which is designed to enhance the worker`s feelings and emotional attachment to the company, their position, job duties and responsibilities, relationship with their colleagues and the company culture. What HR departments are required is to use different employee engagement strategies more than ever to increase wellbeing and productivity across all departments and sectors within the organization.

Key question – How do you maximize the efficiency of the workforce?
  • Getting in depth and improving employees performance with the use of performance management software
  • Developing HR strategies to boost your employees engagement with employee engagement software - Collecting feedback, analysing data and creating personalized goals

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Harsh.

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