Targeting 2,400 beneficiaries

Tamkeen: Saturday, December 3, 2011: Tamkeen has signed Training agreements with five training providers for the Tamkeen Talent Management Programme. The agreement stipulates that the training providers will provide professional certificates of international standards and extensive workshops to be delivered in both Arabic and English for leadership management and human resources to support private sector enterprises in these functions. The programme will see the participation of current company owners and executives.

The training providers will conduct the programmes to engage beneficiaries including, supervisors, managers, and business owners to benefit from these talent development programmes and to meet their businesses' needs. The programmes will lead to competency enhancement and productivity improvement with an ultimate return on individuals and corporate development. 

The training providers will be the Bahrain International Retail Development Centre W.L.L. (BIRD) in collaboration with Wilson Learning and SHRI Singapore; Third Wave International in collaboration with Deakin Prime Australia; Al Moalem Institute in collaboration with Al Bateel Institute for Training and Consultation and the American Association for Management & Consulting; and the Bahrain Institute for Banking & Finance (BIBF) in collaboration with the Institute of Leadership and Management and the Chartered Management Institute; and Golden Trust Institute in collaboration with the Human Resources Teaching Institute of the USA. All training providers are among the top leading training and consultation providers who have a proven track record in the field and are well recognised academically and professionally in providing advanced employment and training services.

The programme's cost is BD 2,895,000 and will run over a period of  four years. It targets 2,400 current employees and will commence in early 2012.  It is a multi-faceted programme focusing on Corporate Management, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Leading and Managing People, Marketing and Decision-making Management, and Challenges Solving. It also includes many disciplines in the field of developing human resources management like Performance Management, Training and Development, Recruitment and Screening, and Employees Compensations. The Programme will also shed light on how to deal with the Bahraini Labour Law alongside Quality Systems of Human Resources Management. 

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About Tamkeen
Tamkeen is a semi-autonomous yet independent authority which formulates strategic and operational plans to use the fees collected by the LMRA in order to enhance the overall prosperity of Bahrain by investing in Bahraini employability, job creation, and social support.

Tamkeen's main objectives are to support Bahrainis to become the employees of choice, and to support high quality private sector job creation and helping the private sector cope with the impact of labour market reform.

To achieve these objectives, Tamkeen will invest in the cost and quality competitiveness of Bahrainis (e.g., reduction of cost of employing Bahrainis relative to expatriates, investment in skill and attitude improvement programmes of Bahrainis) and tackle employment barriers on both employer and new market entrants sides through a combination of financial incentives and capability building; and in supporting the private sector's adjustment to new cost structures by providing access to capital to alleviate short-term cash constraints or improve productivity, and in know-how initiatives that support improvements in productivity and decreased reliance on expatriate labour through spreading management and technical knowledge.

Tamkeen has invested more than BD 140 million in more than 70 projects that targeted more than 50,000 Bahraini nationals and organisations.

The development of programmes is continuing as Tamkeen's strategy to increase the number of beneficiaries on an ongoing basis, which reflects the kingdom's economic development in general.

For more information about our programmes, please call:
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Tamkeen
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