Media Release
Venue : The India Club, Dubai
Date & Time : May 9, 2015 (Saturday) at 6:30 pm
Registration :
Free for all members & their spouses.
Non-members will be charged AED 100 during
registration on the day of the event.
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When it comes to any business, communication is key. In a family business it is absolutely crucial to your success. Hence before you get involved in business with any family member it is critical that you discuss individual roles and responsibilities, clearly define expectations, and make sure everyone is in agreement.If you take any of these for granted then there will be conflicts down the road due to serious gaps in communication and expectations. While it is imperative in any business to be objective, it is often difficult to be so when a family member is involved. How do you overcome family emotions to manage your business objectively? How do you ensure that all family members contribute to the business in a professional manner and are rewarded based on their competence and not just genetics? How do you distinguish professional relationship from personal relationship and differentiate it at home and office? These are critical issues that need to be tackled efficiently by any family entrepreneur to manage his or her business successfully.
While many family businesses fail on account of such issues, there are several others that have been successful and thrived to grow into very large organizations. In the Gulf, we have very good examples of such successfully run family businesses.
This event is focused on presenting a case study on one of our own entrepreneurs who has taken the family business to newer heights overcoming regular challenges from being a woman in business, balancing between family and business priorities and building a brand in the hospitality sector.
About the Speaker :
Rochelle Lobo, is the General Manager of HAS Hospitality which runs hotel apartments under the brand name DUNES and IVORY GRAND in Dubai. Currently she manages four properties in Dubai and one property in the United States. She has been involved in this family business since the year 2002 and has been instrumental in building these brands over the last 13 years from managing a single property when she joined.
Her efforts bore fruit when HAS Hospitality won the ‘Best Hotel Management Company’ Award at the World Luxury Hotel Awards at Phuket, Thailand.
Both ‘Ivory Grand’ and ‘Dunes’ have been highly ranked by reputed travel & hospitality portals such as Trip Advisor and Booking.com.
She will put forward her case on how she transformed from being a professional to taking on the reins of her family business and taking it to where it is today.
About KE Global:
KE Global is a global, non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation founded by successful entrepreneurs to encourage, support and nurture entrepreneurship in individuals originating from the Kanara region. While fostering entrepreneurship amongst the expatriates from the Kanara region with chapters in the UAE and Bangalore, KE Global aims to expand its activities overseas through affiliations with individuals or associations with similar objectives. KE Global has signed memorandum or understandings with organisations such as Rachana in Mangalore, Christian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Dimensions in Mumbai to achieve these objectives with mutual co-operation.
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