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cycle.  Ms.  Lubna  A.  Tiwana  m   building  activity  was  carried  out   organizations.  New  developments
           Country  Risk  Manager,  Standard   using San Tzu’s philosophy of Art   in  the  functioning  of  HR  systems
           Chartered  banh  held  a  daylong   of War, involving target based team   and  processes  have  altered  the
           session  on  internal  controls  and   paintball shooting activity in Nathia   nature, extent and scope of people
           risk  management  at  branch  and   Gali,  KPK.  This  also  helped  the   management.   Effective   people
           centralized  levels.  This  first  week   participants  apply  their  strategic   management  is  considered  as  an
           further featured sessions on hands-  planning  skills  as  part  of  a  team.   essential  quality  for  current  and
           on business planning delivered by   The  tenth  day  of  the  program   aspiring  leaders  who  aim  to
           Mr. Wasimullah, SVP, NBP through   featured  a  thought-provoking  and   improve workplace communication
           group     assignments    and       insightful  session  on  “boosting   and  building  trusting  relationships
           presentations  in  the  second  week   your leadership skills” by renowned   with the fellow colleagues. In view
           to build on the knowledge acquired   speaker  and  corporate  trainer  Mr.   of the importance of the topic, four
           from  the  session.  A  brief  session   Kamran Z. Rizvi.              days’  program  was  designed  in
           was  also  conducted  on  the      The   training   program   further   collaboration with the management
           Overview  of  Payment  Systems  in   included   daily   quizzes   and   of  the  bank  and  organized  at
           Pakistan and the latest updates in   previous-day  group  synopsis  by   NIBAF-Islamabad from October 12-
           the   payments    space    in      the  participants  and  ended  with  a   15, 2022, in which 40 mid to senior
           collaboration   with   Digital     comprehensive  one-hour  exam.      level executives participated. Apart
           Innovations   and   Settlement     Group  presentations  were  also    from classroom activities one of the
           Department,  SBP.  A  brief  session   delivered by participants on the last   highlights  of  this  program  was
           on  “Banking  on  Equality”  was   day and adjudicated by an expert    outbound activity titled “The Art of
           delivered by Mr. Shahid Iqbal. The   panel chaired by Mr. Saif ul Islam -   War for Managers” designed on the
           first  week  ended  with  a  day-long   Ex. MD & CEO, Bank of Khyber. A   basis of famous Chinese book sun
           session  on  International  Trade   vote  of  thanks  was  given  to  the   Tzu (The Art of War).
           Operations by Mr. Aamir Nadeem,    participants, the training team and
           Senior  Manager  Treasury,  Gas  &   management  of  NIBAF  by  Mr.          Foreign Trade
           Oil Pakistan Limited who also has   Muhammad  Sohail  Khan,  Training     Certificate Program
           extensive  banking  experience  in   Manager,  NIBAF.  The  program
           branch operations and trade.       ended  with  a  closing  note  by  Mr.
           The  second  week  featured  a     Sardar  Shah,  Additional  Director,   Increasing  volume  of  international
           session on conceptual foundations   NIBAF  who  emphasized  on  the    trade  and  regulatory  complexities
           and the advent of islamic banking,   importance   of   such   training   of the global economy has made it
           delivered by Mufti Muhammad Abu    interventions  for  the  improvement   imperative  for  the  banks  to  have
           Bakar Sirajuddin, Resident Shariah   of  financial  intermediation  in  the   well  trained  staff  in  foreign  trade
           Board Member, Silkbank. This was   country and wished the participants   operations,   documentation
           followed by a day-long session by   for rewarding professional careers.   procedures, trade finance products
           Mr.  Shahid  Iqbal  on  tools  and                                     and  local/international  regulatory
           strategies for “Creating & Leading     People Management               requirements.  NIBAF  and  Foreign
           High  Performing  Teams”  which                                        Exchange  Operations  Department
           touched   upon   internationally             Program                   (FEOD),  SBP-BSC  developed  a
           proven  models  for  team  roles,                                      customized certificate program on
           survival team building simulations,   Good  implementation  practices  of   Foreign Trade for the trade officers
           and movie screenings for practical   people management strategies can   of  Bank  AL  Habib  which  was
           personality  style  assessments.  To   make  all  the  difference  between   conducted  at  NIBAF-Karachi  from
           build  on  the  acquired  knowledge   bad,  mediocre,  good  and  great   October 17-22, 2022.
           and  skills,  an  outbound  team   employee     experience    in
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