What Latest Trends Do You See?
The big trend that I see is the trend towards learning independently. This includes eLearning, self-paced learning and instructor led learning online. Learning is now moving towards mobile devices.
I can also see a trend in moving towards learning journeys, which means we are not just looking at a single event now, but a complete development plan integrated throughout an organization.
Take Us Through A Typical Day?
A typical working day... well, for me there is no typical working day. Luckily, I get up in the morning quite early at around 5:30 and usually spend the first hour of my day checking in online, before going swimming.
I then come to the office and meet with some of our clients. We have an office in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. I interact with these offices on a daily basis as we have projects to plan.
Usually then, I have a few client meetings during the day and then towards the end of the day when the office becomes a bit quieter I focus on the strategic elements of my work to see how we can expand and move into different territories, how we can take new people on board and whom we are targeting and then at the end of the day I go to the gym.
How Can Our Readers Find Out Wilson ME?
Possibly give me a call, that's the easiest way or go to WilsonLearning.com for lots of information there. From the main Wilson Learning site, you can click your way through to Wilson Middle East.
You can also see all the different courses, find out more about the way we work and at the same time you can also find success stories and ROI studies that we post online from the work that we have done.
A Day In The Life Of...
program, that’s why I love what I get to do as CEO.
How Do You Spend Your Day's Off When You Are Not The CEO of Biz-Group?
If i'm in Dubai then on a sailing boat out on the water, which I enjoy. If I am outside of Dubai, my ideal scenario would be travelling on Safari, we have a beautiful place on the beach down in South Africa.
Even though I’m in the role of CEO, I thoroughly enjoy travelling and seeing new markets and meeting new businesses in new industries. My nickname is ‘What’s Next?’, as I’m always looking to find 'what’s next' in this industry. That may still be work, but I consider it 'playtime’.
What Advice Would You Give Our Readers For Training Success In The Middle East?
Great question. I think first of all train and develop people in a subject you are passionate about, that way it never feels like work.
The second thing, is to work extraordinarily hard as it’s an unforgiving industry, everyday is a new day and you need to be on your game, that is why passion helps.
We are spending a lot of time right now on return on investment and proving business impact. If you can find a subject that you are really passionate about and makes a difference in organizations, then you can do that day in day out .
Start proving those cases to clients and that will make you successful.
For us, our success and results got us ranked No.16 in the Dubai SME 100 list.
How Can Our Readers Find Out More About You And Biz-Group?
Just go to www.biz-group.ae and I suggest you get a sense of our culture by watching the biz happy video on youtube.
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