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September, 2022
#1. Clearly define roles for all talent management functions and a well-
coordinated competency-based system
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Challenges encountered – Serious HR shortage highly affect so as to
implement this particular initiative as per the time frame allotted.
#2. Rebuild all dual reporting lines, starting with most important
business decisions
The current status of the initiative – The current status of the initiative is
about 62.25% level of accomplishment up to date.
Delayed activities – This initiative lags behind the schedule due to delay in the
implementation of N-3 and below positions.
Delayed activities – Even though most of the activities were completed as per
the time schedule there are some activities delayed due to HR Shortage.
The current status of the initiative – The current status of the initiative is
about 90.94% level of accomplishment up to date.
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Organizational structure was redesigned by considering customer facing
teams along key customer segments for retail and wholesale banking
business units;
New Customer Experience division with Product Development and CX
teams was introduced;
Credit management activities were consolidated into a single credit
division;
All second line of defence activities being carried out by the QMC were
transferred to Risk and Compliance division;
Document produced and wait for approval – Updated Organizational
Structure up to N-2 was introduced and implemented.
Delayed activities – Even though most of the activities were completed as per
the time schedule, however, N-3 and below positions are not yet completed.
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Delayed activities – Updating EMC and Sub-Committees’ charters.
The current status of the initiative – The current status of the initiative is
0.00% level of accomplishment up to date since it is not started.
Major deliverables - Inception date for this particular initiative will be October,
2022.
#7. Introduce value based KPIs and upskill staff with product and
customer service by creating capability development program.
Objective - The major objective of the initiative is to introduce business metrics
used by Divisions, Department and Units to track and analyse factors deemed
crucial to the success of Division, Department and units and thereby link
individual objectives with Units, Departments, Divisions and Corporate objectives
and measuring progress toward meeting strategic goals and performance targets
with a focus area on core business functions of the Bank.
Focus Area- As the focus area of the initiative is on core business functions of
the Bank, a gap is observed in finalizing the role clarity of the divisions especially
on wholesale divisions and its integration with Credit, IBD and IFB Divisions.
Furthermore, despite the HR Divisions initiation to finalize the initiative within
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the action plan, the divisions commitment highly affects the initiatives level of
accomplishment.
Delayed activities – the major delayed activities are related to Wholesale, IFB
Risk and Compliance and Digital Banking Divisions. While all the other Divisions
of the bank has finalized and under validation in the presence of their respective
divisions Vice presidents, this Divisions performance objectives and associated
performance measures setting is highly delayed due to lack of commitment on
the Divisions side.
Revise performance goal and targets of all roles of the bank in alignment
with the revised strategic directions, business model;
Ensure individual employee performance will be tracked in relation to the
targets or goals given to the respective place of assignment; and
Link reward and recognition with the performance management system.
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Observed gaps - The major gap in this regard is the timeliness issue. Gap is
observed in finalizing the role clarity of the divisions especially on wholesale
divisions and its integration with Credit, IBD and IFB Divisions which highly
affects to continue with the next task of the initiative based on the initiative
action plan.
Current Status -The current status of the initiative – 86.86% age level of
accomplishment up to date
Delayed activities – the major delayed activities related to the initiative is the
delay in the validation process for IB and Credit Division despite the initiative
owner readiness.
Gap – Like that of initiative No.1, the major gap for this initiative is the
timeliness issue. While most of the Divisions except Wholesale, Digital, IFB and
Risk and Compliance, have finalized the performance objective revision, delay is
observed in the validation process to make sure the revised Objective (goal and
target) is SMART and be able to link with reward
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Current Status -The current status of the initiative - 89.73% age level of
accomplishment up to date. The low performance compared to the above
initiative is due to the delay in the validation process by some Divisions and the
delay in performance objective setting for Wholesale, Digital, IFB and Risk and
Compliance
Delayed activities – the major delayed activities related to the initiative is the
delay in the validation process for IB and Credit Division despite the initiative
owner readiness.
Objective - The major objective of the initiative is to set KPI’s for the
department and ensure the performance objective is representative of the
Division as well as the Department objective.
Current Status -The current status of the initiative - 98.03% age level of
accomplishment up to date and 66.8 5 from the overall activity plan of the
initiative.
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Delayed activities – Migration of revised performance objectives of the division
in to the Oracle PMS System due to the delay in the validation process.
Gap – The SP&M program requires the final structure and workflow structure,
approved job role list and associated establishment since these are the major
inputs to design SP&M program. Furthermore, the time it takes to finalize the
SP&M program has its own impact.
Current Status -The current status of the initiative - 62.36% age level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables –
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Challenges encountered – The approval process of the five-year SP&M
program was one of the challenges since some of the initiatives activities
requires the Board direction.
Gap – Like that of the SP&M program, the career management program requires
the final organizational and workflow structure, approved job role list and
associated establishment since these are the major inputs to design SP&M
program.
Current Status -The current status of the initiative – 65.67% age level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables –
Delayed activities – The approval process of the CBE job list and associated
establishment
Challenges encountered – The approval process of the CBE job list and
associated establishment was one of the challenges since some of the initiatives
activities requires the approved CBE job list.
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Objective – To establish performance coaching culture through continuous
follow up and feedback, assist individual and teams to develop new skills and
improve performance and thereby enhance division overall performance. The
initiative is designed to curve the finding of the limitation on Credit and risk &
compliance teams performance coaching and feedback giving culture of
supervisors as coaches.
Gaps: As the initiative is linked to the enhancement of performance coaching
and feedback culture related to Credit and risk teams, their collaboration and
involvement in this regard is highly limited.
Current Status: The current status of the initiative – 86.15% age level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables:
Performance coaching feedback guideline get developed;
Developmental coaching guide developed
managerial KPIs and performance objectives get developed and included
in the performance objective list
workshop and training materials for coaching get developed;
Target groups/employees at different supervisory roles/get identified;
Delivering of workshop and class room trainings on fundamentals of
coaching get started (So far one high level workshop for directors as pilot
and 4 class room-based trainings sessions get conducted) in collaboration
with L&D
Procedure/ Guideline/Proposal –
Performance coaching and feedback part of the PMS procedure is revised
and submitted for EMC deliberation as part of the HR procedure;
Performance coaching and feedback practicing template customised
Delayed activities – The performance coaching and feedback training session
is delayed to align with the 2022/23 training plan.
Challenges encountered – The initiative is the joint initiative of PMS, Career
Development and Succession Planning, L&D Department and Credit and Risk
teams. However, it lacks the involvement of those teams
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#14. Enhance performance system through increased focus on coaching,
mentorship and on-going development for RBB
Objective – To establish performance coaching culture through continuous
follow up and feedback, assist individual and teams to develop new skills and
improve performance and thereby enhance division overall performance. The
initiative is designed to curve the finding of the limitation on RBB Divisions and
its Departments and unit’s performance coaching and feedback giving culture.
Gaps: As the initiative is linked to the enhancement of performance coaching
and feedback culture related to RBB Division, their collaboration and involvement
in this regard is highly limited like that of the Credit and risk teams.
Current Status: The current status of the initiative – 86.15% age level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables:
Performance coaching feedback guideline and Developmental coaching
guide developed;
managerial KPIs and performance objectives get developed and included
in the performance objective list
workshop and training materials for coaching get developed;
Target groups/employees at different supervisory roles/get identified;
Delivering of workshop and class room trainings on fundamentals of
coaching get started (So far one high level workshop for directors as pilot
and 4 class room-based trainings sessions get conducted) in collaboration
with L&D
Procedure/ Guideline/Proposal –
Performance coaching and feedback part of the PMS procedure is revised
and submitted for EMC deliberation as part of the HR procedure;
Performance coaching and feedback practicing template customised
Delayed activities – The performance coaching and feedback training session
is delayed to align with the 2022/23 training plan.
Challenges encountered – The initiative is the joint initiative of PMS, Career
Development and Succession Planning, L&D Department and Credit and Risk
teams. However, it lacks the involvement of those teams.
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#15. Enhance learning and development system by up skilling staff on
training processes and broadening KPI tracking:
Objectives of the initiative – The main objective this initiative is to address
the finding of; Learning and Development lacks clarity on implementation
processes and there is a lack of aliment on various roles for various roles for HR
within design process and outside of L&D.
Current Status - The current status of the initiative is 100.00% level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables: As part of the major accomplishment of this initiative, the
major deliverables/out puts among others includes:
Competency requirement of all the employees under the different
departments/functions of the human resources get revised and updated;
Human resources division employees training needs get identified, training
materials get designed and total of 159 employees under the human
resources division including district human resources teams get training
on strategic HR;
Learning and developing process cycle KPIs get identified and the
performance goals and targets of the Learning and Development
department employees updated/enriched accordingly;
Learning and Development Service delivery time (SDT) get
revised/developed;
Training impact assessment tools get revised and impact assessment
activities under progress as per action plan;
Level I impact assessment tool revised and is under
implementation;
Level II impact assessment (Knowledge transfer)- eligible
training courses identified and Pre and post exams get prepared;
Level III impact assessment (Behavioural change)- pre-
requisites get developed and actual assessment is under
progress in line with the action plan;
Level IV impact assessment (measure of training on return on
investment-ROI) specifications and necessary inputs get
developed and is under the process of procuring external
experienced consultant.
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Learning and Development department’s procedure as part of the human
resources procedure has revised and updated/enriched to incorporate the
changes in line with the initiative out puts.
#16. Introduce value based KPIs and up skill staff with product and
customer service skills by creating capability development programs:
Objectives of the initiative – The main objective this initiative is to curve the
gap identified with respect to the low productivity of employees across the
major/core business functions of the bank such as Wholesale, Retail and Branch
Banking, International Banking, CBE Noor and the like leads to the finding that
CBE Lags competitors in quality and speed of service. Hence, the mere outcome
of this of this initiative is to design and develop learning and development
programs which critically prioritize and address the strategic priorities and
business operating model of the bank via proactively identifying, analysing and
designing the business units’ capability development areas vs the respective
target groups of employees.
Current Status - The current status of the initiative is 91.94% level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables: The following outputs are among the major deliverables
under this initiative so far.
Competency requirements of the impacted business units get identified;
Capability development needs and requirements of all the impact divisions
due to the transformation implementation strategy road map and change
to the business operating model get identified and incorporated as major
part of the bank’s grand capability building program;
Type of training service provides for transformation initiative-based
training courses get identified;
Training course curriculum and materials for 32 training courses get
revised/developed and ready for execution.
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#17. Enhance performance management system through increased
focus on coaching, mentorship, and ongoing development:
Objectives of the Initiative - This imitative is designed to curve the finding of
the limitation the bank that it lacks a culture of coaching and feedback as well
gaps to the managerial roles to fill their roles as coaches.
Current Status - The current status of the initiative is 96.97% level of
accomplishment up to date.
Major deliverables: The following outputs are among the major deliverables
under this initiative so far.
Coaching and mentoring guideline get developed;
Managerial KPIs get developed/revised
Workshop and training materials for coaching get developed;
Target groups/employees at different supervisory roles/get identified;
Delivering of workshop and class room trainings on fundamentals of
coaching get started (So far one high level workshop for directors as pilot
and 4 class room-based trainings sessions get conducted)
In general, working manuals, guidelines and procedure have been under revision
and update to incorporate the changes as a result of the different initiatives as
briefly explained above. Moreover, different workshops and discussion sessions
have been conducted to different stake holders mainly focusing on creating the
alignment and clarity of the Learning and Development initiatives and activities
with the different business units and SPTO Divisions different work streams.
Among others, the transformation initiative-based capability development
programs identification and the course curriculum and material development can
be mentioned as productive and value adding workshops conducted among the
Learning and Development, respective business units and SPTO.
Challenges: Lack of qualified external consultant to procure training impact
assessment Level III and IV service was the major challenge that forced to
revise the specification and to re-float the bid especially for Level IV impact
assessment. For Level III initiative is taken to conduct it by internal capacity and
dedicated team of experts is already established started work.
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#18. Review the Position of HRBP Team
Objective of the recommended initiative - review the potential and
reposition HR Business Partnering through analyzing current role and outlying
desired HRBP role, designing and executing strategic objectives, and enhance
integration among HR programs and alignment with the business strategies and
goals.
The current status of the initiative – The current YTD accomplishment status
of the initiative is estimated to 85.38% against plan to be accomplished up to
now.
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#19. Improving the recruitment process
The current status of the initiative – The current YTD accomplishment status
of the initiative is estimated to 88.69% against plan to be accomplished up to
now.
The current status of the initiative – The current YTD accomplishment status
of the initiative is estimated to 87.11% against plan to be accomplished up to
now.
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New organization and positions up to Director Level updated on Oracle
Test instance
Change field name Job Category and Employee Category- Correcting field
name which was transposed on the system;
HR Audit Report – get compiled report for Position, Grade and salary
changes for the specific period of time;
“HR Acting Assignment Status Report"- Upgrade the existing report for
employees assigned on Acting status with position and Acting assignment
dates.
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New Report “CBE Organization Location Detail Report”- Get compiled
report CBE Branches and head office address detail;
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