What an action packed November in the UAE ! Formula 1 and the Airshow held centre stage with stars of the music world delighting us at Yas Arena. We would like to wish the UAE a happy 40th in advance of the celebrations you won't be able to miss this week.

ISM Training held two  packed public training courses, Finance for Non-Finance and Negotiation Skills as well as of course in-house training . Feedback from both public courses continues to encourage us that we are offering our clients a quality product with skills they use immediately in the workplace to improve their performance. Feedback is tremendously important to ISM and we use it to fine tune our courses or administration constantly  and keep our instructors on their toes to deliver each and every time. 

Fayez Abou-Assaly from Fujitsu Technology Solutions gave us this feedback following the  Negotiation course .

Fayaz is on the far left of the group photo.

  
The ISM blog has had good visitation and now has growing numbers of subscribers. We are proud to have the only training blog with regular relevant posts in the UAE. In November we asked some of our Instructors to cover training topics. Those of you that have been on Bill Levell's Marketing or Negotiation courses or attended Philip Parker's Strategic Planning or Business Coaching courses will be interested to  read their articles. Don't forget that our instructors are always available to you post-course if you have more questions. You can also post questions to them or our community of  ISM'ers on our Facebook Business page. Last month articles included: 

CSR- Alive and Kicking in the UAE? 

Whilst critics may argue that some companies pay lip service to  CSR or that it detracts from the core business, other companies are finding that it creates shared value between their business and society, gaining them competitive advantage....Read more 

Market Research or Marketing research? 

Choose the most appropriate research programme and design appropriate methods so you will be able to make critical marketing decisions with absolute confidence...Read more 

Business Coach or Life Coach?

Self interest............self improvement. We are besieged by any number of self help tracts designed to give us an edge as we seek to improve our personal lives or our performance in the workplace....Read more 

Strategic Planning-buy in...

It is when the future is most uncertain that a strategic plan can become the bedrock of an enterprise...Read more 

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