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The good gets better
The old adage 'When the going gets trainees focus on learning and challenges. He also showed his pleasure
tough, the tough gets going' is understanding the business processes for the senior executives like Mr. Ilyas
particularly appropriate for starting from business acquisition to Sajjad for being at Descon's Trainers'
today's engineering & construction handing over of the project to client. Panel.
industry. During the ongoing financial
crisis it is important that the companies
should continue to invest in training of
Graduate Trainee Programs Effective Communication
The combined closing ceremony of Skills
their employees so as to enhance Graduate Engineers Training Program – Effective communication, whether
productivity and ensure optimum GETP (Batch 22) and Project Engineers written, verbal or non-verbal, is the life
utilization of resources. Skilled, motivated Leadership Program – PELP (Batch 3) blood of any organization. A two-day
people capable of delivering both held on January 23, 2009 at DHQ. The training program on Effective
performance and profitability give Chairman Mr. Abdul Razak Dawood Communication Skills was conducted on
organizations an edge. At Descon we participated as Chief Guest. Souvenirs February 3 – 4, 2009 by Mr. Zafar Ali Khan
believe that training increases the worth were distributed among trainers and (In Charge Training & Development). A
of not only the employees but company trainees of GETP-22 and PELP-3. Ms. total of 25 Descon employees were
as a whole. Bushra Sajid of PELP-3 and Mr. Ariel trained on this course. The course was
Descon's Corporate Training & Ocampo of GETP-22 were declared the conducted like a workshop where
Development (T&D) department has trainees-of-the-batch. lectures, case studies, communication
taken several initiatives in order to In his address to the audience, the games, self evaluating exercises and other
ensure intellectual development of Chairman advised the Trainee Engineers such techniques were used to make the
Descon Engineering Limited. One of
these initiatives is “In-house Training
Administration & Customization
Capacity Building Program”. Under this
program, T&D has adopted a focused
approach towards enhancing the
organizational capacity to design,
administer and deliver in-house training
programs through internal trainers. To
provide due support to this program,
another program titled “In-house Faculty
Development Program” has been
designed, so that potential trainers from
within the company are identified and
groomed.
To provide a continuous stream of fresh
graduate engineers who will become part
of our future leadership, various fresh
graduate training programs are organized
at DEL e.g. GETP (Graduate Engineers
Training Program) and PELP (Project
Engineers Leadership Program).
In these training programs, trainer and
to prepare themselves for future
By Agha Khalid Ameen
Uzma Nadia
Inhouse Training Encouraged
Descon News Spring / Summer 2009