SLASSCOM forum focuses on new challenges

The sixth 'SLASSCOM People Summit', organised by the SLASSCOM HR Forum, was held at the Cinnamon Grand recently.

CEO, Sri Lanka and the Maldives for FranklinCovey South Asia, Ameer Ahmed

The sessions evolved around facing today's challenges with novel approaches that make HR more agile, forward thinking and bolder. It also provided some key HR insights and perspectives to industry leaders to guide them through the year and beyond. FranklinCovey Sri Lanka was one of the strategic partners of the 'Peoples Summit' and CEO, Sri Lanka and the Maldives for FranklinCovey South Asia, Ameer Ahmed shared new insights on 'Leading across generations'. The workshop was held in the afternoon for participants of the HR fraternity, business leaders and managers of the corporate world.

The workshop 'Unleashing the Potential in a Multi-Generational Culture' focused on how to tap into the contributions of all four generations. The traditional, baby boomers, generation X and Generation Y (also referred to as the Millenials).

Ahmed also shared some of the best practices and the word-class training from FranklinCovey on how to understand the specific differences between the generations in today's workplace and how leaders could cover these differences to unleash their true potential.

"In today's knowledge economy, it is important for us to understand the key differences in the generations which automatically leads to many points of friction in the working environment. These are similar to the challenges we face even in our family environment in our day-to-day life," said Ahmed.

"Without acknowledging these differences and resolving the same, it will be difficult to unleash talent in a multi-generational culture. This is the challenge we face today in the ever-changing environment," he said.