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The year 2016 has undoubtedly put Rwanda on the world map as a top African destination for most prestigious global conferences. Rwanda being one of Africa’s fastest growing economies and most secure places in Africa, it is only natural for the capital to attract more world-class activities. KORA Associates Ltd, a company which relocated its offices from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has actively been promoting a new breed of professional Coaching practice in Rwanda. Its Kigali based entity was founded in order to meet exceeding need for efficient professional services in Human Capital Development. Its Managing Director, Mireille Karera stated that “Global Business Coaching industry is a multibillion dollar industry. Recent Market research studies on Business Coaching show a whopping figure of $12 billion contributed to the US economy.

Approximately $2 billion were attributed to Life Coaching and Self-Improvement markets. In the last three decades the Coaching industry has generated a new breed of entrepreneurs and multimillionaires.

Some high profile Coaches and Motivational Speakers include well known speakers such as Tony Robbins, John Maxwell, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Robin Sharma etc. just to mention a few. When comparing the Coaching industry in Rwanda to that of its African peers or developed nations, there is a great gap needing to be bridged.

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Nisreen Shocair, President, Virgin Megastore, Patrick Chalhoub, Joint CEO, Chalhoub Group, Marwan Moukarzel, Deputy CEO, Azadea Group, Srinivas Rajagopalan, Chief Human Resources Officer, Landmark Group, Kevin Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Start, UK, and Ulf Smedberg, Head of Marketing, IKEA, Asia Pacific are just some of the 20+ speakers confirmed to speak at the upcoming Retail Leaders Circle that will take place on 22-24th of March at the St Regis Hotel, Dubai, UAE – two full retail days and one day Leadership masterclass in partnership with Cass Business School, City University.

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The traditional 9-5 workplace will soon be a memory of the past. According to a study, 40% of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers by 2020. Instead of hiring full-time employees, organizations are becoming more and more dependent on outsourced transient talent. This evolving workplace, with contributors from all over the world, introduces new challenges for traditional organizations. IT Departments need to provide business users with tools that enable them to easily share information and meet and collaborate online – across organizational boundaries.

Perhaps more important, new behavior needs to be developed by employees within companies who want to thrive in this new economy. As with any change of human behavior, encouraging employees to adapt to a new work style is a huge challenge for many organizations.

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Focus on making connections to ensure smooth negotiation.

The use of force in ensuring successful negotiations today is overrated, says Professor Stuart Diamond, Google’s top negotiator.

Instead, the world-renowned negotiator says that it is better to focus on making personal connections to ensure a smooth negotiation.

Diamond, who is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, was speaking at an event at the Khaleej Times offices, ahead of his two-day workshop organised by events management company, Innoverto.

Diamond said that conflict models can be found everywhere today, even in cartoons, and that is responsible in part for the problems “we face in interacting with each other”.

“Conflict models are ineffective and the costliest way to solve problems. The most common tactics used in a conflict model include issuing threats and enforcing deadlines. Negotiations are very sensitive to the words you use, so be careful that what you say doesn’t become perceived as a threat. Force is overrated as a negotiation tool, and deadlines just reduce creativity,” he said.

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Author of the New York Times Bestselling book GETTING MORE: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life and one of the world’s most renowned and master negotiators is coming to Dubai this year.

Professor Diamond has advised and trained executives and managers from 220 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than 125 of the Global 1000 companies in addition to high profile consulting projects to the U.N., the World Bank and governments. He won a Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times, has a law degree from Harvard, an MBA from the top-rated Wharton where he is currently a professor and also teaches the Getting More class – which is the most sought-after by students over the past 20 years.

Professor Diamond has taught his Getting More negotiations course to more than 12,000 Googlers, for which it is estimated that for each $100 spent on Getting More training, the company brings in as much as $360,000, a return of 3,000 times, virtually unparalleled in business today. The GCC has also taken notice of these amazing results, and The Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank organized a Getting More negotiation workshop for 40 of its senior managers. Within 90-days, these managers reported making an additional $223 million in revenue using Getting More tools. This included improved client acquisitions, lucrative deals and favourable rates.

It is with this in mind that Initativez, in partnership with Innoverto, are delighted to announce Professor Diamond’s public workshop in the UAE on December 9-10th, 2015 in Dubai, UAE. The powerful, transformative 2 full day workshop is titled: GETTING MORE: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life” based on the New York Times best-seller heralded by leading experts, CEO’s and business leaders as “groundbreaking and innovative”.

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