As part of the Bank’s assiduous efforts to develop talent and promote knowledge and continued education for all of its employees, Kuwait Finance House – Bahrain announced the roll out of several virtual and e-learning training programs delivered year round. The programs are aimed at promoting continued education using the Bank’s “Baytik Virtual Academy” state-of-the-art in-house training platform which was developed early this year, along with the adoption of other state of the art digital solutions implemented over the course of 2020 to provide opportunities to all of the Bank’s employees for effective training and development. 

Baytik Virtual Academy in-house platform provides various training and education programs, including e-learning and virtual learning programs in different fields. The platform also provides in-house training programs developed and delivered by experienced KFH trainers, as well as outsourced external training programs arranged with speakers and trainers from various local and international training institutions.

In addition, KFH Group has recently partnered with LinkedIn Learning to provide more education opportunities to all employees across the group. This partnership enables KFH employees access to unlimited digital e-learning content and diverse educational and learning solutions.  Moreover, employees can use the LinkedIn Learning platform to customize their educational experience by selecting the training content, duration and level based on each employee’s individual requirements and preferences.

Commenting on this, Ms. Sara Zainalabedin, the Head of Human Resources, said: “The adoption of state-of-the-art technology and digitization play an essential role in all business fields and domains, and this includes the investment in and development of human talent. Therefore, we have been keen on integrating such technology as part of the bank’s learning systems with a focus on the development and career advancement of all employees. We firmly believe that educational and professional development are fundamental to the success and progress of the Bank and its team members, and this is what we aspire all KFH employees will continue to achieve without any hindrances.

The bank has always been pre-emptive to provide an enabling and supportive work environment which promotes the growth and development of all its team members. Through the implementation of such digital training solutions, we have aimed to provide greater learning flexibility, and allowing all employees to benefit from greater and wider-ranging training opportunities, while eliminating barriers of distance and time, in addition to enabling employees to tailor their own learning experience by selecting the most suitable content, duration, level, place and time of training programs”.

KFH–Bahrain adopts several professional standards in the assessment of training needs and the development of short and long range training plans for the Bank’s employees, in addition to using state of the art technology to assess training needs and submit and approved training requests.