Training Creates Relevance at the Workplace

Dubai : The importance of training and certification as an essential tool to remain relevant at the workplace came under the spotlight at a workshop organized by UAE’s leading executive training and management firm, Blue Ocean Academy, recently. The workshop titled: “Increasing Measurable Effectiveness of Training” got together heads of...

Make Competition Irrelevant

In a post-recession economy, when major companies are looking to reinvent the industry and create a whole “new market space” to conquer competition and push profit margins, they are increasingly adopting the “Blue Ocean” mantra advocated by Harvard professors W.Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. First published in 2005 the Blue...

Bridging Gaps between Infrastructure and Knowledge

UAE is fast becoming the logistics hub of the world vying with Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Manchester for top honours. What the country needs today is a new generation of logistics leaders: dynamic, skillful, innovative and tech-savvy whocan effectively bridge the existing gap between knowledge and infrastructure in the...

Int’l Certification on UAE SCL Professionals

Blue Ocean Confers Prestigious International Certification on UAE SCL Professionals As per the release, Blue Ocean Academy recently held its first convocation for the year 2013. Blue Ocean Academy is the UAE’s leading management training and consulting company. There were celebrations galore as 150 students drew from different areas of...

Be Assertive to Advance in your Career

In competitive workplace conflicts, anger and hurt egos have punctuated multi-tasking, peer pressure and dynamic role plays, it is important to learn to be assertive to advance in your career. There is a cliché: “If you don’t stand up for something, you will fall for anything-” and it rings true...