Designing Better HR Processes with Amin Sorour, Egyptian Banking Institute

In this episode, we consider reinventing performance management and how positive psychology can help organizations rethink, reimagine and reinvent performance management and leadership practices.

The guest is Amin Sorour, Director of Human Resources at the Egyptian Banking Institute

Amin is a frequent conference speaker, contributing to many global and regional HR and Leadership events across different countries. He has been recognized recently as one of the most influential HR Leaders from the Middle East by ETHR World Middle East. Amin is a founding member and part of the advisory council of the Intelligent Leadership Hub (ILH).

Questions for Amin include:

• Tell us about your role at the Egyptian Banking Institute
• Why do organizations need to rethink their performance management?
• In today's post-digital era, BANI world and with chat GPT penetrates almost all aspects of our life; how should organizations, leaders and employees perceive the impact of such a powerful technology? Is it a threat or a blessing?
• What other factors should we consider as design elements for a more modern, agile and flexible performance management system? 
• The ongoing performance conversations and coaching have been some kind of a buzzword for reinventing performance management over the past decade at least, but some might complain it doesn't make much difference, what are your thoughts about and how does it fit in the basic constructs of positive psychology?

More About Amin

Amin stands at the forefront of the fast-changing Organization Development, Psychology & Human Resources development sector, known for his tireless work ethic and hands-on transformative approaches to reinvent performance management and leadership practices in today’s hyper-competitive world of work.

As Director of Human Resources at the Egyptian Banking Institute (the training arm of the Central Bank of Egypt), Amin bringing up more than 18 years of experience in multiple industries (e.g. Pharmaceutical, Higher Education, Consultancy, and Banking) with both regional and global experiences as he was appointed the Regional HR Manager for the Middle East and North Africa for an international European pharmaceutical company, whilst being assigned a global project to implement a modern and agile performance management system across overseas sales offices in Europe, Asia and Africa.


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