NLGIC conducts workshop on effective leadership

MUSCAT: National Life & General Insurance Company SAOG (NLGIC) conducted a 4-day workshop for its mid-level managers from various functional departments and is part of the company’s objective to identify and develop talent and prepare business leaders for the future.

NLGIC’s ongoing training and development programme was conducted in 3 phases, the previous 2 were held in June and October 2018.

The attendees consisted of 25 members from various departments of the company and provided insights on various management techniques, operational efficiencies, customer behaviour as well as data management and analytical skills.

The leadership development workshop is aimed at creating new business leaders in its fastgrowing business expansion plans in the future and had remarkable reactiveness from the participants which promises a tangible impact they will mark as business leaders by applying the skills they have acquired to ensure easy and swift workflow.

“Effective Leadership workshop is a part of NLGIC’s mission and objective of identifying inhouse talent across our various departments and develop future leaders by reinforcing leadership and administrative skills.

“This helps us to promote talent with a fast track mechanism and also enhance productivity and performance and these workshops will go a long way in our journey towards a promising leadership future for the Company,” said Badar Salim al Marzouqi, AGM-Business Development, NLGIC.

“I certainly believe we will touch upon a major change for what we have seen of strong interaction and positive reactiveness during the workshops,” he added.

National Life and General Insurance Company SAOG is the leading insurer and a dominant health insurance provider in Oman, with a market share of more than 65%. The company is a pioneering insurer in UAE as well, with two branches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Its operations in Kuwait are also catching up fast and marking growth.

NLGIC has a state-of-the-art technology for policy issuance and customer care and also has digital media capabilities in policy renewals and payments for the convenience of their customers.

Recently, the company bagged the number 1 spot as the “Best Performing Company in Large Cap Segment” in Oman and S. Venkatachalam, CEO was adjudged the “CEO of the Year 2017” across all listed companies.