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HEC Paris, a leading global business school, recently held two educational workshops in Qatar as part of ongoing initiatives to enhance the leadership skills of executives in Qatar. |
Designed for high potential professionals, the workshop on ‘Talent Management & Personal Career Decisions’ was conducted by HEC Paris associate professor Charles Henry Besseyre des Horts.
The second workshop, ‘Predictable Surprises - Common Problems in Judgment and Decision-making’ was attended mainly by senior executives and delivered by Dr Matthew Mulford, HEC Paris affiliate professor.
The workshops provided prospective master and EMBA participants, respectively, with a preview of the high quality of executive education that they could potentially benefit from with HEC Paris.
“The workshop on ‘Talent Management & Career Decisions’ described the main talent management issues likely to be addressed by companies in today’s highly competitive environment in the Middle East region,” Besseyre des Horts said.
During the workshop, participants raised very interesting questions about companies’ talent management strategies and challenged some of the traditional assumptions about individual career
decisions.
The workshop on ‘Predictable Surprises - Common Problems in Judgment and Decision-making’ tackled the recently emerging consensus in psychology of a two-system model of judgment and choice.
Dr Mulford covered some of the recent findings and explored how being able to predict shortcomings of the mind allows people to better design processes and systems to avoid predictable errors.
“With two different ways by which the mind processes information while contemplating a choice or decision, the integration of these two systems from within the same mind creates fascinating patterns of behaviour,” Dr Mulford said while adding that the implications from this rapidly evolving field are only now starting to be applied to
management.
