HR GAZETTE

What is inside

Abudawood Highlights 3

What are other people up to 6

The HR Voice 1

Moving people, moving business 4

Teamwork leads to dream work 5

CLD in focus

The HR voice

HR Gazette | Volume 33 1

Welcome on board!

Muhammad Hassan – CS&L Supervisor, PIR MAHALMustufa Nasir – Section Supervisor, KHIAteeq Ashraf – Section Supervisor Sub D, KHUSHABSalman Ahmed – Supplier Supervisor, LHRMohammad Faheem – Accounting Supervisor, SUKKURImran Haider – Supplier Supervisor, FAISALABADMuhammad Khawar Iqbal – Section Supervisor, OKARAAbdul Rehman Shaikh – Branch CS&L Manager, HYDKamran Iqbal Siddiqui – Branch CS&L Manager, KHIUsama Abdullah Qureshi – Manager Business SolutionSyed Ali Mohsin Naqvi – Section Manager, KHITamoor Khalid – Section Manager Sub D, FAISALABADMuhammad Ramzan – Section Supervisor, CHISHTIAN

Farewell!

Adeel Khalid Jelani – District Manager CBD, LAHOREKhawaja Adnan Umer – Section Supervisor, FSBGohar Bashir – Regional Manager CS&L, ISBSuleman Arshad Pall – Unit Manager MR CBD, LHRJamshaid Mughal – Section Manager, HYDMuhammad Ahmed Sajjad – Section Manager, LHRRafael Amjad – Regional Hub Accountant, ISBFaisal Najeeb – Section Supervisor, ISBArslan Rasheed – Supplier Supervsior, GUJRANWALAUsama Ibrahim – Regional Hub Accountant, KHINoman Butt – Section Manager HFS, KHI

Supplier Supervisor Sub D– ISLAMABAD

Supplier Supervisor – ISB & KHIRegional Hub Accountant – ISB & KHI

Section Supervisor – PESHAWAR

Warehouse Supervisor – LAHORE

Education Officer (Wella Business) - LAHORE

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The month of December saw the successful transfer and completion of the HR files at the FB Areabranch. The brightly lit rooms with clean floors and newly set up rooms were a sharp contrast to thedusty storage rooms previously stacking all the files and folders. The HR team set to work adorningthe immaculate shelves with files, and important branding materials. Everyone came clad in casualsready to get down and busy! Preparations were at their max with stationery, labels, cartons all sentover a day in advance. Kudos to the Purchase Department for readying the neat filing roomsseparate rooms for each function. And last but not least three cheers for Hasnan Ali (AdminExecutive at FB Area) for providing the much needed surgical masks to make the job much moredust-free and breathable!

HR Highlights

File away!

Educational Awareness SessionThe Educational Awareness Sessions that was being conducted in liaison with Virtual Universityhave now successfully been completed across KLIM. The program offerings were well received byall those who attended and we look forward to seeing our employees gain from this endeavour.

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CLD in focus

The first half of the fiscal year 15-16 has been great in terms of learning and development inAbudawood Pakistan. Despite of major changes within the function, efforts were continued todevelop organizational capabilities and strengthen ADP operations. So far 289 learners from 22locations have been provided learning opportunities across the market with an aim to ensuremaximum coverage across regions.

With a direction to develop talent from within, CLD has been actively partnering with all functionsto strengthen their teams by focusing on developing their skill set.

Following are some technical and soft skills covered as per the learners:

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Communicating Effectively

Planning & Priority Setting

Facilitation School

SAP for Field Accountants

Merchandizing Module

CS&L School 1

CS&L School 2

Sales School

New Employee Orientation

Number of Participants per Module Title

The Learning Calendar shared in October entailed 59 sessions, which were a result of the LearningNeeds Assessment outcomes that were derived after an extensive exercise conducted at the startof the year. We have achieved our targets and hope to continue our success with the same passionand zeal in the months to come.

The highlight of first half of the fiscal was developing a pool of internal Facilitators from variousfunctions to inculcate the learning culture and maximize CLD outreach. So far, 50% of ourFacilitators have independently lead learning events Pan Pakistan. Three of our facilitators are nowattending a learning event on Sales Simulation in Bahrain to assist us deploy it in Pakistan!

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CLD in focus

A round of applause for our awesome professors!

Babar Shabbir – CS&L SchoolAmna Farooq – Communicating EffectivelyMunyba Khan – Planning & Priority SettingSaad Baig – Sales SchoolKamran Haider – Planning & PriorityCh. Bilal Hasan – Planning & PriorityFatima Ahmed – Communicating EffectivelyMuhammad Asif – Communicating Effectively

We would also like to name a few other individuals apart from our facilitators who have beenactively involved in conducting critical learning events during this period:

Talha Ahmed – CS&L SchoolMushtaq Ahmed & Operations team – Merchandising ModuleMuhamad Saad Yusufi & Hub Accountants team – SAP FI For field accountants

We would like to extend our gratitude to the managers of our facilitators for cooperating with usand making the trainings possible.

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Setting goals I focus on the Display at the point of sale I ensure that all variants are available for

sale because customers are enticed by schemes thus importance of availability is of high value

Business as usual I believe that hard work is the key to

success There are no shortcuts and in the end

hard work pays off.

Motivation I am motivated to grow for myself and my

family The fact that everyone in the market knows

about Abudawood is a matter of prestige and makes the job easier – we just have to sell the products, the name sells itself!

For those of you who don’t know Shakir Hussain…Hometown: LarkanaPresent location: GujratReporting to: Usman UmerBeen with Abudawood since: 5 monthsFavorite personality: Younger sister who is pursuing a degree in PharmacyFavorite food: Anything that fills the stomach! I am not picky so its easy for my wife!

Moving people, moving business

Shakir Hussain……Had to say this about himself

Kashif SarfarazLahore

Hashim IftikharLahore

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Shakir HussainGujrat

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Gujrat Sub-D Team Lead by Section Supervisor

Muhammad Hanif Muhammad Hanif’s Team

Comprises of 2 section supervisors and 7 Sub D supervisors.

Team Attributes New, young and energetic team

with a passion to grow. THE Gujrat Sub-D Team

understands that in order to be successful, strong planning is required. Strong planning requires stronger follow up. And stronger follow up requires the strongest corrective measures.

Team Achievements Dec-15 Closing at 128 IYA Ehtasham Ahmed (Section

Supervisor Sub-D Business) for Sialkot closed with the highest growth at 140 IYA

Teamwork leads to dream work

Gujrat Sub-DThis is what the team had to say about themselves…

Islamabad MR

LahoreSub D

Gujrat Sub D

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Famous personalities belonging to Gujrat

Raheel Sharif Major Aziz Bhatta (Shaheed) Anwar Maqsood (Poet) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi Chaudhry Shujat Hussain Arif Lohar

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What are other people up to

Shazia Parveen

It is believed that women only start fires. I havedisproved this old adage and now I extinguish fires.“

Pakistan’s first female Fire Fighter

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Source: http://groopic.com/

Jumping off a red truck and darting into a blazing building while wielding only a water hose andsome fire-retardant clothing as cover, is an image that is traditionally associated with men in theSubcontinent. But Shazia Parveen has changed that by becoming not only Pakistan’s, but Asia’s firstfemale firefighter.

Twenty-five year old Shazia, hails from the Vehari District in Punjab and joined the Rescue 1122emergency services as a firefighter in 2010. For Shazia, the job had always been a dream despite itsinherent dangers. So when the Rescue 1122 Women’s Department opened up, she jumped at thechance. The prospect of working along with men did not phase her enthusiasm.

Nonetheless, it has not been an easy journey. After recruitment, she had to undergo extensivetraining at the Punjab Emergency Service in Lahore. Amongst the 600 people there, she was the onlywoman who completed the training which included excessive exercising, swimming and fighting fire.She faced adversity from fellow friends and neighbours for whom this was an unlikely profession totake up, that too in a predominantly patriarchal society where women’s roles are cut out for themby elders.

“At the outset, people laughed at me when they saw me working with male co-workers but when Isaved precious properties during fires, they started admiring me”. I was once told that if I completedthe training I could become Asia’s first female firefighter. That fuelled my passion to persevere and Ididn’t stop until I accomplished my dream”. Shazia encourages women to not be deterred by theidea of a man’s world and stresses that determination to succeed will always achieve results.

Shazia has received positive feed back from her Supervisors at Rescue 1122 and is a driving force inthe Unit. “Through her determination, she motivates the men to perform better as it becomes afriendly battle of egos” says her instructor. Pakistan needs more women like Shazia who are a sourceof positivity and pride.

Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/04-Oct-2015/shazia-pakistan-s-first-female-fire-fighter

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