HR GAZETTE

What is inside

HR Highlights 2

What are other people up to 7

The HR Voice 1

Moving people, moving business 5

Teamwork leads to dream work 6

Abudawood Highlights 3

The HR voice

HR Gazette | Volume 35 1

Welcome on board!

Waqar Ahmed Shaikh – Unit Manager Sub D, HYDERABAD

Taimur Alam – Section Supervisor, PESHAWAR

Raheel Nasir Butt – Supplier Supervisor, ISLAMABAD

Zeeshan Mahmood – System Administrator, HO

Farewell!

Faisal Abdullah – Group Internal Audit Manager, HO

Muhammad Khurram – Unit Manager (Designate), GUJRANWALA

Amjad Mehran – Section Supervisor, KARACHI

Usman Ishtiaq – Section Supervisor, LAHORE

Muhammad Hanif – Section Supervisor Sub D, GUJRAT

Section Supervisor – GUJRAT

Section Supervisor – ISLAMABAD

Section Supervisor – ABBOTTABAD

Section Supervisor – CHAKWAL

Warehouse Supervisor – SIALKOT

Warehouse Supervisor - SARGODHA

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In line with conducting Recruitment Drives in top tier universities in Pakistan, the second drive washeld at Karachi School for Business and Leadership (KSBL). The HR Team along with CountryManager, Nael Ahmed and Head of HR, Kiran Ali received a warm welcome by their CareerPlacement Manager. Nael Ahmed, Kiran and the Chairman of KSBL exchanged light conversation in aquick session before the interviews and Guest Speaker Session began. The Management TraineeInterviews were held successfully and like past years, the quality of resource did not fail todisappoint us.

HR Highlights

KSBL Recruitment Drive

KSBL Guest Speaker SessionThe Guest Speaker presentation conducted by Country Manager Nael Ahmed at KSBL garnered a lotof interest by the students, Chairman and leading faculty alike, who attended the hour long session.An overwhelming majority of students attended the session exhibiting a keen interest in what Naelhad to say about Abudawood. Upon the end of his presentation, Nael was presented with acertificate to acknowledge the time he spent to speak with the students.

The idea of the session was to share the workings of Abudawood and expose students to the culture.HR was accompanied by KSBL alumni – now serving as Abudawood employees – who shared theirexperiences of working at ADP.

The Recruitment Drive and Guest Speaker Session was an extremely enjoyable experience and thehospitality we received was par excellence.

Many students also revealed in the interviews that the impactful presentation put Abudawood intheir consideration set of top companies to work for owing simply to the Country Manager’spresentation and based on the understanding they had formed of the culture!

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Abudawood Highlights

Multan : Hulla Gulla without bordersThe Multan District organized the engagement activity with much fanfare. The entire District, sansdepartmental borders of being part of CBD, CS&L, or Admin celebrated as ONE with an outing toHarappa for all employees. The bus departure from Faisalabad was followed by a fun-filled daypacked with a Museum visit along with all sorts of activities ranging from a cricket match to sackrace, tug-of-war, spoon race and tyre race. To polish off the work out, there was a grand lunchenjoyed in the outdoors amidst much celebration and sportsmanship spirit.

It was a one of a kind activity to bring everyone together for a day packed with much hulla gulla!Good Job Multan for pulling off an activity which united everyone and rejuvenated the entiredistrict.

Islamabad : Cricket Gala

Contributed by Shahid Nadeem

In keeping with the tradition of engagement activities, the Islamabad team exhibited a great displayof team spirit and healthy competition by organizing an exciting cricket gala which was held betweenNorthern CBD and CSL departments where both teams played a enjoyable game of cricket againsteach other. Teams from all Units demonstrated enthralling sportsmanship, with the Rawalpindi Unitcoming out on top as the indisputed winner.

Employees’ participated enthusiastically in the day-long sports gala, where food, refreshments andother fun-filled activities were also provided for participants. The healthy competitive spirit betweenthe ADP North Team was refreshing and provided for a good day’s entertainment and unwinding.

Contributed by Shakeel Ahmed

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Abudawood Highlights

Head Office : Anger Management SessionA session on Anger Management & Prioritizing was conducted at the Head Office for allManagement Staff by Ijaz Nisar, who is the Founder & President of Pakistan's Best Selling BusinessMagazine, Manager Today and CEO of Leading Edge OD & Training Consultancy in Lahore. He gave atalk where he shared his inspiring thoughts in an entertaining session, leaving everyone withconsiderable food for thought.

CS&L : On to newer groundsAs per our tradition of pursuing highest quality warehousing standards in CSL, new Warehouseswere inaugurated at Hyderabad. and Larkana. After detailed planning and close coordinationamongst all members, the transition to both branches has been seamless and successful. Aninteresting point to be note was that not a single day of operations was missed in the shiftingprocess which is quite a feat!

New Addresses

HyderabadPlot # A/10A. Near Premier Agency. Behind Boulevard Mall. Industrial Area. HYDERABAD

LarkanaOpposite Sindh Green Motor Naodero Road, Luhur Colony Larkana

It was a team effort but we would like to recognize the contribution of Nawaid Ali Khoso & Adnan at the Larkana Branch as well as Nadeem Baig & Abdul Rehman Sheikh’s contribution at the Hyderabad Branch for spearheading the shifting process. Good work Team CS&L!

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Setting goals I target HFS stores to achieve my targets I was also assigned two new MM stores

this month so that helped increase sales Good PR with customers is very important

to achieve success in market

Motivation My FLM is very encouraging My family has been supportive in spite of

the sometimes long work hours The company takes care in aspects;

financial, family support, employee care -that becomes motivation to work hard

Business as usual I do a proper brand call and inform

customer about all schemes and promotions as this generates the customer’s interest

I maintain good relations with all my customers hence they respect me as an Abudawood employee. They assist me in meeting my KPIs and I use persuasion for the same so it’s a two way mutually beneficial relationship

For those of you who don’t know Abdul Sattar…Hometown: Dera Ghazi Khan, MultanPresent location: MultanReporting to: Mohsin AbbasBeen with Abudawood since: 2010Favorite personality: Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis& Shahid Khan Afridi when he plays wellFavorite food: Turai and Kaddoo. I am a great cook and I learnt how to cook from my father

Moving people, moving business

Abdul Sattar……Had to say this about himself

Samad SabirPeshawar

Abdul SattarMultan2

Abdullah KhanKarachi FB AreaHFS & WS

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Peshawar Unit Team Lead by Unit Manager, Hassan

Zeb Hassan’sTeam Comprises of 3

Section Heads : Umair Ahmed (138% IYA) , Ayaz Ali (148% IYA) and Taimur Alam (132% IYA) and 25 Sales representatives.

Peshawar UnitWhat Hassan Zeb (Unit Manager) had to say about his team.

Lahore MR

Islamabad MR

Peshawar 1

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Teamwork leads to dream work

Team Achievements• Enthusiasm & Commitment • We strongly believe on competency and creativity • Proactive approach and out-of-box think is our key

strength• Integrity and honesty is the core value • Trust and be trusted is the belief of every team

member• Sharing contagious positivity is our daily routine

Team Faith• Team work is the secret that

makes common people achieve uncommon results

• A team who never gives up will never lose

• We strongly believe that constrains inspire creativity

• Small opportunities are the beginnings of great achievements

• The heart and soul of Peshawar unit is creativity and new ideas

Famous personalities belonging to Peshawar

Ahmad Faraz (Famous poet) Jehangir Khan Jansher Khan Shahid Afridi Karnel Sher Khan (Nishan-e-

Haider)

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What are other people up to

Fiza Farhan

It is time that we engage global leadership and galvanizepolitical will to scale actions with measureable impacttowards women’s economic empowerment

“Co-Founder & CEO of Baksh Foundation

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Source: http://groopic.com/

Fiza Farhan is a name on the 30under30 list by the prestigious Forbes Magazine for SocialEntrepreneurs and is also Pakistan’s youngest entrepreneur and the only Pakistani to be featured inthe coveted Forbes list in 2015. Having a Master’s degree in Business Administration from WarwickBusiness School and a Bachelor of Science from LUMS, she is the Co-Founder and CEO of BukshFoundation. In 2008 she co-founded both Buksh Foundation and Buksh Energy (Pvt) Ltd in March2009 with a vision of impacting investment and creating demand driven solutions in the renewableenergy and development sectors.

Buksh Foundation works to bring clean energy projects to the remote and rural areas of Pakistan. Inthe 4 years since its inception, the Buksh Foundation has trained 135 women as energyentrepreneurs and has brought solar-powered lights to 6,750 households. The foundation hasextended business and clean energy loans to as many as 12,000 entrepreneurs!

Recently, she was appointed ‘Future Energy Leader’ at the World Energy Council, received the 11thannual Environmental Excellence Award for the ‘Best Performance in Renewable Energy’ and wasappointed co-chairperson of the Italian Development Committee, Lahore chapter.

Fiza has consistently represented Pakistan’s development sector at the regional and global stage as aspeaker across multiple conferences and forums including the UN Foundation’s SE4ALL forum andthe Annual Global CSR Summit to name a few. She also continues to represent her company andcountry at the World Energy Council, UN Foundation Practitioners Network, ADB-Asia Clean EnergyForum, Gender and Energy Network and more!

The soft image of Pakistan that she has portrayed will take us miles as a nation. We only hope thatthe other thousands of people working hard and creating such opportunities are also recognizedinternationally to help promote the more real side of Pakistan.

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from – if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated

- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinnoy

Source : www.forbes.com/fiza-farhan-28/