Forum International is an HR consulting firm that helps organizations in the GCC region meet their business goals by providing professional talent recruitment and development services. They are expanding their services to include strategic HR consulting, learning and development, and have partnered with Seabourne Leigh, an international management consulting firm. Through this partnership, Forum International can offer support in areas such as HR strategy development, learning and development strategy, talent acquisition and retention strategy, performance management transformation, and more. Their approach involves listening to client needs and developing bespoke solutions rather than offering off-the-shelf products.

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2. About Forum International
Since 1997 Forum International, through its subsiduaries including Gulf Bankers and Gulf Managers, has
been helping organisations across the GCC region flourish by locating and sourcing top quality
professional talent to help them meet their business goals. Having helped thousands of professionals find
the right position, we are now expanding our services to developing their skills and professionalising the
HR operations that support them.
To support our expansion into strategic HR Consultancy and Learning & Development, we are
supplementing our existing team of seasoned experts and partnering with Seabourne Leigh, an
international management consultancy who share our commitment to excellence in customer service and
will work with you to develop bespoke solutions to the HR issues you face today.
Managing Director Tim Seabourne has over 30 years’ experience operating at a senior level across a range
of business sectors in Europe, U.S. and the Middle East. Awarded a Fellowship by the Chartered Institute
of Personnel and Development in 2013, Tim was based in Abu Dhabi through 2014 advising one of the
UAE’s leading investment and development companies on HR Strategy, before setting up Seabourne Leigh
in 2015.
Forum International, through its partnership
with Seabourne Leigh, can offer support in the
following:
• HR Strategy Development
• Learning & Development Strategy
• Talent Acquisition and Retention Strategy
• Performance Management Transformation
• Talent Management Initiatives
• Organisation Design and Development
• HR Policy Development
• Group Facilitation and Training Delivery
At Forum International you will be working with
seasoned professionals who commit to not
arriving with pre-conceived ideas and
off-the-shelf solutions. Instead, we will listen to
your needs and partner with you to find the right
solutions for your business.
E-mail: info@forumintl.com
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3. HR Strategy Development
• Understand the business strategy of the ̣ ̣ 
̣ company
• Create a mission statement
• SWOT analysis of the organization
• Human Resource analysis (people, culture, 
̣ organization and HR systems)
• Identifying the areas of focus
• Developing solutions
Learning and Development Strategy
• Alignment of L&D with other strategies
• Identification of L&D needs in the company
• Addressing L&D needs
• Implementation of the strategy
TalentAcquisitionandRetentionStrategy
• Awareness of legal aspects in employment
• Designing a talent acquisition strategy
• Crafting a recruitment plan to attract top talents
• Implementing assessments for success rate ̣ 
̣ enhancement
• Creating retention culture
PerformanceManagementTransformation
• Management vision and strategy
• Establishing optimal resource placement
• Date governance and management practices
• Improvement of performance management 
̣ processes
• Defining performance goals
• Installment of analytics

4. Talent Management Initiatives
• Acquisition and sourcing of top talents
• Performance management
• Implementation of compensation/rewards
̣ systems
• Career management
• Planning of the workforce
• Leadership development
Organisation Design and Development
• Creating vision and priorities
• Understanding the organization structure and 
̣ roles
• Performance measures and incentives
• Implementation of effective and efficient 
̣ support processes and systems
HR Policy Development
• Drafting and developing policies most suitable 
̣ for the company
• Implementing best practices
Group Facilitation and Training Delivery
• Implementation of structures procedures
• Effective task behavior encouragement
• Effective relational behavior encouragement
• Training

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www.forumintl.com
Suite 403 Jumeirah Bay,
Tower X2,
Jumeirah Lakes Towers,
Sh. Zayed Road
P.O.Box 31372
Dubai - UAE
E-mail: info@forumintl.com
Tel: +971 4 4179600
Fax: +971 4 4179610