Burgan Bank Kuwait the First Bank to Adopt 'The Leadership Challenge' Complete Model

Burgan Bank, a dynamic and progressive organization, supported by a growing Learning and development department, recently incorporated The Leadership Challenge® (an evidence-based global leadership development program) internally to address the evolving needs of its leaders. Recognized as a prominent brand that consistently adheres to growing leadership development demands, the new program aims to improve leadership behaviors and competencies of its middle and senior management to sustain Burgan Bank’s position as a performance powerhouse.

Now known worldwide as the most practical model of leadership development, and the associated central psychometric tool (LPI) as the most benchmarked for research purposes, The Leadership Challenge® is being successfully offered to forty leaders at Burgan Bank who are actively involved in the initiative. The leaders who attended so far provided positive feedback recognizing the evident results that the model is delivering.

As leadership requires dedicated practice to ensure exemplary results are achieved in everyday operations, Burgan Bank’s Learning and Development department places emphasis on behavioral change on the ground and follows up on outcomes through various methods, while also implementing coaching sessions.

Ms. Halah El-Sherbini, Group Chief Human Resources and Development Officer at Burgan Bank said,” We are delighted to bring in a new initiative that embraces change and falls in line with the transformation strategy being implemented in the Learning and Development department. Investing in the long-term growth of our employees is key to the foundation of any success story, starting with our leaders, who are tasked with leading the new generation workforce and business decisions to better serve the needs of their staff and customers.  Aligning our business leaders with these ground-breaking solutions will also further enrich and equip the internal culture to address a complex banking and regulatory environment with agility and confidence.” 

Approaching leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors, The Leadership Challenge® framework grew out of rigorous research in 1982 to understand the driving factors of highly proficient leaders. Emerging from the many interviews and case studies conducted were five fundamental leadership practices common to ordinary people achieving extraordinary leadership achievements. Today, The Leadership Challenge® continues to prove its effectiveness in cultivating and liberating the leadership potential in everyone—at any level and in any organization.