1. Excellence Through Talent
Management
Eyad Ramlawi
Dubai – December 12, 2013

2. Agenda
• What is excellence?
• A challenge facing organizations?!
• Improving performance with talent management “Mentoring”
• Alturki Model

3. Increasing strategic impact
What is Excellence?
Redefine industry
expectations by giving the
company an operations
advantage
Best in
industry with
“Best Practices”
Making the company
as good as its
competitors
Holding the
company back
Stage 2:
Adopt best
practice
Stage 3: Link
strategy and
operations
Stage 1: Fire
fighting mood
Increasing operations capability
Stage 4:
Competitive
advantage through
operations

4. People, People, People
Formula of Success= People + Culture + Processes +
Reward system
There is a demonstrated relationship between better
talent and better business performance.

5. A challenge facing all …… Talent
- The gap between demand and supply of “Talent” will continue to
increase in the next coming years.
- 40 something people Vs 20 something people
- Lots of knowledge and experience will be lost with more experienced
people leaving organizations and work force market.
- The context in which we do business is more complex and dynamic.
-
Transformation of knowledge should be managed properly between
new and young talent and experienced talent
- Organizations can save time and money if talent management
techniques are applied effectively

6. What is Mentoring?
- The word 'mentor' comes from Homer's Odyssey. The term itself means
a 'wise or trusted counsellor'. It comes from ancient Greek mythology
that tells the story of Odyssey, written by Homer.
- Voluntary relation between experienced employee and less experienced
employee
- The aim is to accelerate learning to transform knowledge to help
- So its important part of organization balance score card in order to
achieve its goals.
- So effective mentoring will definitely lead to higher productivity and
employee retention. Talent management

7. CFOs as Mentors & Talent Managers
- CFOs, beside other leaders, are well positioned to become good mentors
due to the exposure and experience they gain dealing with different type
of transactions
- CFOs are strong candidates to head strategy offices for corporates and
SIA process.
- Most of the time, finance employees are good in what they do but don’t
really have the full picture which it comes to value creation.
- CFO need to invest time with staff and direct reports to explain the
strategic direction of the company and transform knowledge within the
organization
- CFO is also positioned to exercise mentoring with his peers throughout
facilitating various concepts such as investment strategy and capital
allocation plus providing insights

8. Value creation strategy - Alturki
Business
control &
target Setting
Strategy and
portfolio
management
Parenting
approach
Shareholders
returns
Financial
Structure
Governance
& compliance
People and
Talent
management

9. Capital allocation model - Alturki
Shareholder value
Portfolio Growth
Talent efficiency
Increase returns from
business units
Attract dividends
People performance culture
Attract – Develop – Retain talents
Capital efficiency

10. Thank you