Burgan Bank wins Best Employee Development in GCC award

Burgan Bank announced today that it has won the coveted ‘Best Employee Development in GCC’ award from World Finance, one of the world’s leading financial publications. Burgan Bank’s success was announced at the World Finance’s “Annual GCC Investment and Development Awards” and was published in its May issue.

This latest award for Burgan Bank is recognition of its employee development program, which is an extensive integrated and rigorous approach that consists of in-class training to define specific career goals, e-learning courses that address individual competencies, combined with on-job training that creates opportunities to apply theory in practice across the bank’s departments together.

Halah El Sherbini, Burgan Bank’s Chief Human Resources & Development Officer- GM said: “We are proud to receive this prestigious award which recognizes our continued efforts in training and developing world class bankers. Burgan Bank’s human resources & development system directly contributes to the bank’s sustained competitive advantage through facilitating and nurturing staff competencies that are specific to the bank’s strategic objectives and operations.”

“Our development program has been designed specifically to enhance and develop the skills set of our employees. This allows us to invest in our human capital –  is our most important asset. Our approach is based on helping our people achive their full potential through learning processes designed to increase capability and align skills to organizational needs,” added El Sherbini.

Excellence is one of the Burgan Bank’s key values, and the bank continually strives to maintain the highest standards in the industry. As a truly respected regional banking franchise, the bank excels in providing an employee oriented, high performance culture that emphasizes on quality, productivity, goal attainment as well as recruitment and development of a superior work force aiming at building the best team in the industry.