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Q&A session with the audience was arranged after closing for adopting and exhibiting Uniform Behaviors in their
The Great Debate - Uniform Behaviors the debate. Several thought-provoking questions were personal and professional lives, as behavior is the basis of
asked and some good suggestions also came up as key every culture. He appreciated the guest speaker and the
points of discussion. Towards the end, the CEO insisted on Interloop Way – People team for all the effort they put in for
1. Challenges in Implementing Uniform Behaviors the importance of honest contribution by every employee making it a true learning experience.
2. How to reward good behaviors and challenge bad
behaviors?

Two teams, ANGEL’s ADVOCATE & DEVIL’s ADVOCATE
were invited and briefed for debating, challenging and
identifying risks and proposing solutions in support of and
against the defined topics. The idea was enticing and
engaging the audience in a healthy discussion.

ANGEL’s ADVOCATE team comprised of Saeed Ahmed,
Head of Plant 5; Muhammad Shahzad, Head of Plant 2;
Faryal Sadiq, VP Hosiery & Marketing and Brig. Ahmad
Riza Siddiqi (Retd), Executive Director. The DEVIL’s
Hasnain Abbas, Head of Interloop Way - People briefing the purpose of ADVOCATE team consisted of Aqeel Ahmad, AVP People
the Great Debate to the audience & OD; Tayab Masood, Managing Director IL Apparel;
Kamran Akhtar, DGM Marketing and Quratulain Shahid, Sr.
Manager Corporate Communication. Faryal Sohail, Manager Travel & Protocol asking a question at the event Navid Fazil, CEO Interloop, in his closing comments emphasizing on
Interloop Way - People team has been working on improving practicing the Uniform Behaviors
the organizational culture following the launch of Uniform Both teams put forward strong arguments and discussed
Behaviors (UB) manual in Jun 2019. This manual has been key areas such as employee resistance in accepting
developed as a complete guide for six behaviors about Uniform Behaviors, communication challenges at different
conducting business across the organization. For levels of the organization, the role of top management in
implementing these behaviors as a sustainable roadmap,
‘The Great Debate’ was an interactive session, organized
at Interloop Executive Club on Sep 28. Company’s higher
and middle management was invited for attending the pilot
session. Navid Fazil, CEO Interloop Limited, Muhammad
Maqsood, Group CFO and Tariq Rashid, President Yarns &
Sourcing were also among the audience.

Setting the mood of the session, the guest speaker, (Retd)
Athar Sajid; an Aeronautical Engineer, advancing as a
professional motivational speaker, deliberated the
importance of Uniform Behaviors impacting personal &
professional growth. He established that practicing Uniform
Behaviors leads to mutual trust, measuring success,
performance management, succession planning,
continuous learning & improvement. Guest Speaker Athar Sajid, CEO Ethos Learning explaining the Interloop Senior & Middle management at the Great Debate
importance of Uniform Behaviors in an organization
Hasnain Abbas, Head of Interloop Way – People,
moderated the next segment by introducing the two topics
chalked out for discussion: multiple scenarios, over rewarding and discouraging bad
behaviors in an organization.
Interloop Wins PUMA Sustainability Award

Interloop won the PUMA Sustainability Award 2018 at the suppliers who won this award for outstanding performance
Annual Puma Round Table Meeting (RTM) held on Sep 5, in Social Compliance and Sustainability for 2018, out of the
2019, in Indonesia. Interloop Limited was one of the two 34 suppliers who attended the RTM.

Saeed Ahmed, Head of Plant 5 from Angel’s Advocate team putting forward an argument on implementing Uniform Behaviors in an organization Ghulam Qasim Shaheen, Head of EHS receiving award
PUMA Sustainability Award 2018
on behalf of Interloop Limited

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