Date: Tuesday, 23rd April
Time: 8.30 am – 4.30 pm
Venue: Sheraton Oman Hotel

The 4th edition of OER’s Finance and HR Summit will bring in international experts and business leaders from Oman to discuss issues pertaining to Finance and HR. These two critical functions are the backbone of every company and they can make or break an organisations economic fortunes.

Given their primacy, there is a constant need to learn and adopt best practices in Finance and HR. OER’s Finance and HR Summit will do a deep dive into issues impacting these verticals.

OER’s Finance and HR Summit: Finance

Topic of the panel discussion: Negotiating financial challenges and disruption in an adverse economic environment

Companies and the financial services industry has been impacted by multiple disruptive forces like:

• A challenging economic environment
• Regulatory changes
• Fed tightening and a strengthening dollar
• Digital and technological changes
• Rising interest rates and the need to raise capital
• Debt recovery
• Cash flow management
• Ratings pressure
• Changing customer expectations, Data-driven marketing and the rise of personalisation
• Increasing efficiencies and reducing costs

The panel discussion and session on Finance will train the spotlight on these for a quest to derive ideas, suggestions and solutions for Oman’s corporate sector.

OER’s Finance and HR Summit: Human Resource

Topic of the panel discussion: Leveraging technology for HR Transformation
Surprisingly HR departments are always inundated with routine paper work. A closer look at these functions reveals that a great chunk of HR professionals is consumed in repetitive, mundane and transactional activities.

Technology is an enabler that can simplify complexity of HR functions and remove non-value adding chores. The panel discussion will focus on using technology for HR Transformation.

Key components:
• Building an HR transformation plan
• Key drivers and enablers of an HR transformation exercise
• Leveraging technology to enable HR transformation
• Employee engagement and HR transformation
• Calculating return on investment (ROI) on HR projects

Post Conference Workshop

Boosting Employee Engagement through Mindfulness & Happiness

1. Employee engagement why it’s important: Statistics & Benefits.
2. Key Pillars of Employee engagement: Formula by Happy Minds Life.
3. Science of Happiness at work by Delivering Happiness.
4. Aligning higher Purpose and Values- Practical solutions, Zappos case study.
5. Neuroscience of Appreciation. Activities.
6. Kindness and Empathy at work. Practical solutions.
7. Compassionate Leadership, LinkedIn Case Study.
8. Return on Investment of Happiness at work.
9. Mindfulness at work the How and the Why.
10. Mindfulness based Emotional leadership (developed and tested at Google).
11. Benefits of Mindfulness at work, Return on Investment, SAP case study.
12. Productivity at work: Multitasking mode vs. Mindful working.
13. Mindful Listening and Meetings: Activities.
14. Building Resilience at work, Reframing-Practical solutions.
15. Autonomy and link to Engagement, Google case study.
16. Engagement at work Blue Print– Key take-aways.

About the Workshop Facilitator

Zhuldyz Koshpanova is a Chief Happiness and Mindfulness Officer of Happy Minds Life and International Speaker.

Zhuldyz is:

• Mindfulness teacher by Shamash Alidina training (100 hours), accredited by Society of Holistic Therapists and Coaches.
• Happiness coach by Berkeley Method of Well Being, California
• Completed Chief Happiness Officer Academy by Woohoo Inc., Denmark.
• Completed Delivering Happiness Bootcamp by Zappos.
• Teacher in training at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute developed at Google, backed by Neuroscience and Emotional Intelligence

She shares her insights based on:

• 17 years in senior roles in the corporate world
• 14 years of yoga and mindfulness practice.
• Childhood passion to learn the secret of happiness.