Our Vision

Our vision is to build a culture of learning at NBAD that supports the delivery of our strategic business objectives whilst enabling the personal growth and career development of all our employees.

Our focus is not just for today, but seeks to identify and build capabilities to ensure our delivery against our customers’ requirements for tomorrow, so that we build up a pipeline of talent for future leadership positions. Emiratisation is a key objective of the Academy to provide opportunities for UAE Nationals to realize their career aspirations and be key contributors to the success of NBAD and our competitive advantage.

We deliver a range of customized programs across the Bank, in addition to working with external training providers, both locally and internationally.

The NBAD Academy plays a key role in furnishing our people with the skills they need to enable us to achieve our vision of being the number one Arab bank. We want to realize this goal through a strong presence of UAE Nationals at every level in our workforce and across all Divisions.

NBAD Competency Framework – Our Model for Superior Performance

At NBAD we have identified and communicated to our people exactly what is expected of them and the NBAD Competency Frameworks identifies the knowledge, skills and behaviors required for superior performance within the Bank.

Here there are our four competency areas that define our Performance Model:

• Business Leadership Business thinking and management e.g. Customer Focus and Market & Competitor Awareness
• Managing Others People leadership & management skills e.g. Attraction & Retention of Talent, and Coaching & Developing Others
• Personal Effectiveness Personal capabilities e.g. Communication, Planning & Organization and Self-Awareness
• Professional & Technical Expertise Banking-specific needs e.g. Risk Management, Compliance & Security and Credit & Corporate Lending

These four areas are integrated into the cohesive NBAD Competency Framework: our vision for the success of our people.

NBAD uses these competencies to attract, retain, develop and deploy the right people, at the right time, with the right capabilities:

Recruitment & Induction

ensuring selection of the best candidate for the role (e.g. using Competency-based Interviewing) and optimizing performance as quickly as possible

Development

Personal Development plans are built around the relevant competencies for improvement within the current role. We also support our people in planning their career moves within the bank.

Talent Management

we use competencies to identify and manage our High Potential pool and optimize their talents and special contributions throughout our business.

Career Development Planning

competencies enable us to help our people to develop their self-awareness about their motivation, wants, strengths and development needs to assist career management conversations.

Assessment for Promotion

we use competencies to assess suitability for promotion, using a range of assessment exercises that give candidates an opportunity to demonstrate their potential.

• TALENT MANAGEMENT

  

  NBAD Academy provides support to all employees by identifying and developing talent, benefiting both the Bank and themselves.

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• AL MANARA

  

  Our Retail Certification Program, the Al Manara project is the result of integrated commitment and effort by the Domestic Banking Division…

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• EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

  

  NBAD Academy offers Executive Leadership Development of world class quality. We provide development for our leaders…

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• MY DEVELOPMENT

  

  NBAD Academy supports our people in managing their individual performance in a variety of innovative and leading edge ways.

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• LEARNING STYLES

  

  NBAD invests considerably in people development. There are a number of actions Line Managers and individual learners can take to ensure…

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