Training & Seminars
HRD&R provides on-the-job training and seminars tailored to improve performance. We assess the needs of your organization and we provide the right recipe by tailoring special workshops to suit your needs. Standard workshops conducted are listed below:
- Building Innovation
- Managing Your Time
- Creativity
- Communicating with Impact
- Developing Yourself
- HVAC Competency
- Improving Teamwork
- Safety
- Attitude
- Customer Relations
- Leadership
- Hire To Retire
Building Innovation
A story, worth sharing, demonstrates the "out of the box" Thinking
A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of soap that was empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem permanently to avoid any reoccurrence. The engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty.
No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast. But a rank-and-file employee came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
Clearly, the engineers worked hard, but the rank-and-file employee worked smart.
So what's better than merely working hard? It's working smart. However, it is still important to work hard. If you could combine both working hard and working smart, you would possess a major factor toward success.
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
Useful Documents:
- Simple Ideas Can Resolve Major Problems (pdf - 24.6 KB)
- Creativity Overview (Word doc - 30.5 KB)
- View the HRD&R training manual on Building Innovation. (pdf - 357 KB)
Managing Your Time
As you begin today, remember that your temporal bank account has just 86,400 seconds in it.About 28,000 of those seconds you will spend in bed.
Maybe 10,000 or so will be squandered watching TV.
Take out the precious seconds spent washing and eating and you can see how the daily 'overhead' soon mounts up.
In fact, you may only have 30,000 useful productive seconds available to you today.
When I look at it that way, I am determined to make each one count. Time is far too precious to waste.
How are you going to spend yours?
Useful Documents:
- Managing Your Time (pdf - 418 KB)
Communicating with Impact
Useful Documents:
- Read a document on communicating with impact (pdf - 755 KB)
- View the Communicating Through Listening workshop evaluation (pdf - 47 KB)
Self Development
Useful Documents:
- View a PowerPoint presentation about Self Development (HTML format)
- View an Arabic PowerPoint presentation called Get Organized (HTML format)
- View Self Development Course Material (pdf - 1.25 MB)
- View an Arabic PowerPoint presentation called Learning to Learn (pdf - 176 KB)
Teamwork
What Is a Team and Do We Really Need One?
In spite of the popularity of “team-based organizations,” many leaders struggle with creating, managing and motivating their teams. Team members are often frustrated with both the process and results of working in teams. Others complain they are on so many teams that they can’t get any work done. One of the first steps to improve teams is to better understand what a team is and when to use one.
Getting Started: Putting the Team Together
Teams quite often fail to meet performance objectives, yet most of the pitfalls they encounter are predictable and preventable. How a leader puts the team in place has considerable impact on the team’s fate.
Do No Harm: Avoid the Top Team Destroyers
Destroying or sabotaging a team is infinitely easier than nurturing and strengthening teams, notes CCL’s Robert Ginnett. “Just ask around. Some leaders have a personal theory about how to create teamwork, but almost all leaders can cite an example of how to destroy a team.”
Support Matters: Team Success Depends on Others
When a team fails to operate at its full potential, team members and sponsors often cite interpersonal conflicts and tension as the reasons. But more often than not, the real causes of failure lie outside the team, in the system that fielded and is meant to support the team.
Teams: Start Smart by Setting a Clear Direction
Effective teams begin with a clear purpose, or mission. A well-defined mission acts as a funnel – gathering energy, skill and knowledge – and concentrating these resources for maximum effect. Without shared focus, a team’s energy and effort is dispersed, or even conflicting.
Useful Documents:
- Teamwork (pdf)
Safety Topics
Useful Documents:
- View a PowerPoint presentation on Safe Driving (HTML format)
- View a PowerPoint presentation on Driving in Fog (HTML format)
- View a document discussing Fire Safety in the Office (pdf - 33.5 KB)
- View a movie on Gas Station Fire Safety (Gas Station Fire Hazard.avi - 1.66 MB)
- View a PowerPoint presentation on Ergonomic Tips for Computer Users (HTML format)
- View the best Safety Movie in 2011 (safety2011.mpg - 8.99 MB)
Formula to Success
A small truth to make our Life's 100% successful..........
If A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is equal to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
L+O+V+E=12+15+22+5=54%
L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%
(None of them makes 100%)
...............................
Then what makes 100%
Is it Money? ..... No!!!!!
Leadership? ...... NO!!!!
Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change our
"ATTITUDE"
It is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes
OUR Life 100% Successful..
A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
Don't you think so?!?!?!?!
Useful Documents:
- View a powerpoint presentation about Attitude (LaPalabra.pdf - 618 KB)
Customer Relations
Useful Documents:
- View a powerpoint presentation about Customer Relations (customerrelations.pdf - 0.98 MB )
Leadership
Useful Documents:
- View a powerpoint presentation about Customer Relations (leads.pdf - 21.5 KB )
Hire To Retire
Useful Documents:
- Download Overview (Recruit-Retain-Young-Saudis.pdf - 28.7 KB)
- Download Excel for more details (HAVC-CMap.pdf - 74.1 KB )





