Case Study
REALIGNING
Tell US Your Name and What You Currently Do?
My name Is Paula Jane Cox, I am a Learning and Development consultant, based in the UAE, working across all GCC countries and Arab states.
Tell Us More About Your Background?
My Initial career was in Sales, with a great foundation and training from Yellow Pages, then British Telecom owned, in the UK. This training has stuck with me my whole career, and was certainly an inspiration for me later on. I stayed in Media and Publishing, working and living in varied global destinations and rising to Director Level.
I morphed into Learning and development solely some 15 years ago. Working predominately for myself and as a consultant globally.
I have had the benefit of working in so many industries, and ultimately soon became passionate about people. I have bought, run and sold Hotels, Restaurants and Publishing companies along the way.
Tell Us More About Your Company?
I have my own business here in Dubai, but I am also the official Lumina Learning Partner for the Middle East. I plan and facilitate Lumina Learning workshops and integrate against learning needs, also I am here to accredit other trainers and organisations to use the tool themselves.
What Is The Best Learning and Development Strategy You Have Implemented With Lumina Learning?
Lumina Spark is very much a development based tool, it is a fix all self-awareness personalised portrait, so it has had huge success across the globe in so many areas, but I have to say the outstanding one of many here in the Middle East was with a local finance organisation. The challenge was to realign V.P's who had arrived at their levels by various means, time served, and family name or wrongly placed. It was a very delicate situation, because how do we approach and realign a whole culture and create self-awareness?
BY STEVE RE
26 | TRAINING MAGAZINE MIDDLE EAST oct 2014
CULTURE