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Amir A. Hamid

Consulting Director HR at Aljomaih Bottling Plants (PepsiCo)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Amir A. Hamid is a senior HR professional with over 25 years of working experience with leading global companies such as PepsiCo, Bank of America and IBM on highest possible HR roles. Presently, he is working as Consulting Director HR with PepsiCo's leading business partner.

He has designed and implemented multiple award winning Talent Development, Leadership Development and Employee Engagement projects by integrating business goals with human resource solutions.

He has done MBA in HR and has certifications in Coaching & Developing Talent, Strategic Thinking & Analysis, Organization Structure & Design, Job Evaluation & Total Rewards Framework and Psychometric and DISC Assessment.

Available For: Advising, Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Speaking Topics: Leadership, Total Rewards, Coaching, Talent Management, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion

Amir A. Hamid Points
Academic 5
Author 10
Influencer 0
Speaker 99
Entrepreneur 20
Total 134

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Business Unit: Human Resources
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Change Management 31.29
Culture 30.14
Diversity and Inclusion 30.47
HR 35.43
Leadership 31.68
Management 35.63
Customer Experience 30.03

Industry Experience

Consumer Products
Financial Services & Banking

Publications

1 Advisory Board Membership
Country Advisory Council Member
Publication
January 01, 2020
Pakistan Human Capital Forum (PHCF) is a professional association for HR professionals and those involved in the business of people management. It is the most organized and active platform in Pakistan to interact and share HR best practices by industry leaders. It has evolved to maintaining high standards of professionalism in human resource management and development.

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Tags: HR, Leadership, Management

1 Article/Blog
Are Your Employees Living Company’s Values?
LinkedIn
September 30, 2020
Almost every company, big or small, has company values. However, in most of the cases it is used to print it in annual audit report, display it on the office wall or show it on company’s website.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

2 Keynotes
Mastering Talent Management
Publication
December 08, 2014
Facilitated Mastering Talent Management workshop for selected group of employees with collaboration of Terrabiz.

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Tags: HR, Leadership, Management

Designing & Managing Rewards
Publication
September 10, 2014
Facilitated workshop on Designing and Managing Rewards for selected group of employees with collaboration of Terrabiz.

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Tags: HR, Leadership, Management

1 Panel
Service Punch Conference
Publication
May 22, 2014
Pakistan Human Capital Forum and & Activ8 Private Limited present to you the first service conference in Pakistan, The Service Punch 2014 contribute towards building a national service centric mindset for making Pakistan the most competitive service economy in Asia to start with!

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Tags: Change Management, Customer Experience, HR

26 Speaking Engagements
Trust
LinkedIn
October 05, 2020
Trust is the most important thing in business and in personal lives. The one thing that changes everything.

Trust is not given but it is earned, inch by inch and moment by moment. It is not a one-day or a month’s act rather a journey, we need to nurture it like a tree.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Change Management

Successful HR Function
LinkedIn
September 21, 2020
Why HR is failing?

Why other functions are given preference over HR?

How HR leaders can be part of Strategic sessions?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Measuring Success of Training Programs
LinkedIn
September 18, 2020
How to measure success of training programs?

Is it qualitative or qantitative or both?

What is the formula to calculate ROI?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Employee Engagement
LinkedIn
September 14, 2020
Are your employees engaged?

How to increase employee engagement at workplace?

What are the business benefits of employee engagement?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Coaching Skills
LinkedIn
September 11, 2020
What are the most important skills of a good coach?

What is a Coaching process?

Coaches should listen or talk?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Open Communication
LinkedIn
September 09, 2020
Do you have an open communication culture at your workplace?

Can you ask any question without fear of repercussions?

How to inculcate culture of openness?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

360 Degree Feedback
LinkedIn
September 07, 2020
Are your leaders self aware?

Do they know whether they are delivering on Leadership and Individual effectiveness or not?

How your organization can develop careers and build a future leadership pipeline?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Company Values
LinkedIn
September 04, 2020
Company Values - part of organization culture or for display purposes only?

Are your employees living company’s values?

Do you have values challenge in your organization?

Enjoy this video for the answers.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Manager Quality
LinkedIn
September 02, 2020
How many of you bullied by your Managers?

Is your Manager practicing good People skills?

Who is responsible for it and what is the solution?

Enjoy this video for the answers

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Diversity & Inclusion
LinkedIn
August 31, 2020
Inclusion is engaging people and bringing them together, make them feel being included.

Diversity is about appreciating and supporting people’s different backgrounds, experiences, and qualities.

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Tags: Management, HR, Diversity and Inclusion

Competency Assessment
LinkedIn
August 28, 2020
Competencies are defined as a combination of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other qualities.

A competency assessment is the assessment of someone’s capabilities against the requirements of their present or future job. Those requirements are defined in a competency model.

There are two broad competency models Behavioral and Functional.

Behavioral competencies encompass knowledge, skills, attitudes, and actions that distinguish high performers from others.

Functional Competency is related to knowledge or skill required to be master in a functional area be it Sales, Finance, HR so on so forth.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Change Management

Succession Planning
LinkedIn
August 26, 2020
Succession planning, we call it People Plan in PepsiCo, is the process of identifying high potential employees, evaluating, and developing their skills, and benchmarking them for future roles.

The objective is to:
• avoid vacancies in key positions to ensure stability and continuity of the business.
• foresee future organization structure and develop a pipeline of leaders.
• provide strategic development opportunities to high potential employees.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Strategic Role of HR - Leadership Development
LinkedIn
August 23, 2020
Is leadership a Rank or Position?

OR

Is Leadership a Decision or Choice?

How to develop leaders internally?

Enjoy this video for the answer.

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Tags: Leadership, HR

Leaders - Develop or Parachute
LinkedIn
August 21, 2020
We should develop leaders internally or hire them from outside?

The best practice is to develop them internally. However, in case you do not have a right fit you can look outside but please, please, and please do not compromise just for the sake of doing it internally.

This is what kills the organization, which is compromises for the sake of our PDRs, to look good in the region, D&I agenda, or to please our bosses.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Who Moved my Cheese?
LinkedIn
August 21, 2020
This story is from a fantastic book i read “Who moved my cheese?” written by Dr. Spencer Johnson.

There are four characters in this story A, B, C and D. A and B are practical, decision maker and ready to take risk. While C and D are lazy and scared to move out of their comfort zone. They were in a maze with lots of delicious cheese. Each morning they race through the maze, eager to enjoy their cheese......

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

Strategic Role of HR - Coaching
LinkedIn
August 17, 2020
Main characteristics of Coaching is to listen, ask and provide guidance rather than tell; this is where most of the coaches get failed. They start telling about themselves, their products, their achievements and so on so forth rather than listen. They need to provoke thoughts rather than giving directions.

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Tags: Management, HR, Change Management

Strategic Role of HR - Performance Management
LinkedIn
August 14, 2020
Performance management process is a collaborative, communication-based process where employees and management work together to plan, monitor and review the employee's objectives, long-term goals, job trajectory and comprehensive contribution to the company.

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Tags: Management, HR, Change Management

Strategic Role of HR - Learning & Development
LinkedIn
August 13, 2020
A learning and development plan acts as a road map for employees and helps to support their career and personal development. It helps the organization identify key skills required and grow its talent to fill skills gaps.

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Tags: Management, HR, Change Management

Strategic Role of HR - Rewards Management
LinkedIn
August 12, 2020
Rewards management plays a major role in attracting, motivating and retaining employees. There are two kinds of rewards – cash and non-cash.

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Tags: Management, HR, Change Management

Strategic Role of HR - Talent Acquisition
LinkedIn
August 11, 2020
Talent acquisition is one of the most important process within HR function, it is the only door to enter your organization and if you have not done your evaluation correctly you may end up having misfit employees – misfit to your culture, values, and the job.

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Tags: Management, HR, Change Management

Role of HR - Strategic or Operational?
LinkedIn
August 10, 2020
HR is one of the pillar departments of any organization and plays a vital role in its success. Expectation from HR professionals is to play a combination of Strategic and Operational role for a sustained competitive advantage and long-term success of any organization.

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Tags: Management, HR, Change Management

Career Growth Puzzle
LinkedIn
August 06, 2020
This video is about joining all CAREER pieces together for a concrete career plan which can help in reaching planned destination.

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Tags: Management, Culture, HR

Career Growth Road Map
LinkedIn
August 05, 2020
Often, we get delayed or do not reach to our career destination. Major reasons are either wrong planning or we lost in the transition.

This video is about what step one should take to reach his / her career destination.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Change Management

Career Growth Responsibility
LinkedIn
August 04, 2020
This video is about Who is responsible to grow the career i.e. Individual, Managers or Organization. What are the roles each one of them needs to play to develop an employee.

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Tags: Leadership, Culture, HR

Career Growth Recipe
LinkedIn
August 03, 2020
This video is about what are the requirements for reaching your Career destination. Is it education, experience, networking so on and so forth.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Change Management

2 Videos
Career Growth Ingredients
Publication
October 23, 2020
Career growth is a journey not a sprint. One has to acquire all necessary skills and experiences for a long term successful career.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Change Management

Career Growth Journey
LinkedIn
October 12, 2020
What is the best approach to grow my career?

Shall I take a Straight Line or Web approach?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?

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Tags: Management, Leadership, HR

1 Visiting Lecturer
Visiting Faculty Member
Publication
September 01, 2010
Visiting faculty member for Strategic HR Management subject at PAF-KIET University.

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Tags: HR, Leadership, Management

Thinkers360 Credentials

2 Badges

Blog

3 Article/Blogs
Company Values
Thinkers360
September 16, 2020
Almost every company, big or small, has company values. However, in most of the cases it is used to print it in annual audit report, display it on the office wall or show it on company’s website. Values supports the vision of any company and help shape its culture. They are the essence of the company's identity, principles, beliefs, and philosophies. It educates clients and customers about what the company is about and clarify the identity of the company.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Change Management

Diversity & Inclusion
Thinkers360
September 15, 2020
Diversity is about appreciating and supporting people’s different backgrounds, experiences, and qualities; and Inclusion is engaging people and bringing them together, make them feel being included.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Diversity and Inclusion

CAREER GROWTH
Thinkers360
August 15, 2020
A career is an accumulation of challenging experiences over the course of many years – with each experience contributing to the growth of an individual. It represents the intersection between matching great talent with great opportunities. In the end, it is all about fit: • Fit between the organization’s needs and the employee’s aspirations • Fit between the role requirements and the individual’s strengths and......

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Tags: Management, Culture, HR

Opportunities

1 Speaker
Strategic Role of HR

Location: Virtual    Date Available: September 14th, 2020     Fees: 1

Submission Date: August 21st, 2020     Service Type: Service Offered

HR is one of the pillar departments of any organization and plays a vital role in its success. Expectation from HR professionals is to play a combination of Strategic and Operational role for a sustained competitive advantage and long-term success of any organization.

A strategic HR function aligns its initiatives and activities with the overall business strategy. Its focus is to attract, develop, motivate, and retain employees to achieve short- and long-term business objectives.

Operational side of HR function focuses on day to day activities to ensure quality service are provided at the lowest possible costs to the organization.

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