Representing all levels of HKBN’s business, from senior and middle management to frontline Talents, our 84 newly promoted Talents, including pictured above (top row from left to right) Iris Chau, Mo Ngan, Michelle Yiu, and Apple Chan; (bottom row from left to right) Yan Wong, Flora Lau, Stella Ko, and Karis Fong will play an integral part in driving our future success.

Dear Friends of HKBN

HKBN Growth Mode Part 1 of 3: Gladly Promoting Talents Based on a Different Criteria

In case you’re wondering why so many promotions despite such unprecedentedly challenging circumstances – in times of crisis there is opportunity. At HKBN, this means there will be entirely new commercial opportunities for us to help our customers become digitally-empowered. And so, we’re voraciously hungry to meet such demand by finding and promoting elite Talents who stood out not just for outstanding job or sales KPIs, but much more so for their leadership strengths. This month, we just promoted 84 Talents from Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia.

Unlike most companies, meeting KPI and sales targets only scratches the surface of what we seek. Delving deeper, the aim of our unique promotion assessment process identifies exceptional Talents based on attributes like leading disruption, empowerment and purposeful leadership.

Identifying leaders for promotion starts with top performing Talents who have shined through a range of attributes (exhibiting qualities like empowerment, leading disruption, and purpose) mirroring our purposeful profit vision. In short, merely exceeding targets will get Talents paid handsomely via commission or year-end bonuses, but it doesn’t guarantee advancement at HKBN. For that to happen, we’ve embraced a highly transparent process wherein nominated Talents are asked to undergo an assessment from 2 unrelated senior executives. We’ve done this to ensure bias is removed, and importantly, that our promoted Talents truly possess the mindset qualities to accelerate our competitive inertia in a changing digital world.

“As our company continues to expand rapidly, opportunities are abound and we’re very flexible to make space for Talents to grow and excel. To recognise outstanding Talents, we’re rewarding those who live and truly exemplify our core values. Through our performance-based sports team culture, “eliteness” plays a fundamental role in driving growth of our business and capabilities!”
Janet Yeung, our Co-Owner and Director – Talent Engagement

See what our newly promoted Talents are saying:

“During the coronavirus outbreak, our team played a key role in quickly enabling HKBN Talents to work remotely and efficiently from home. As a coordinator between management and our front-line Talents, I always give my all, putting myself in others’ shoes and encouraging the team to optimise the use of resources and think big. Looking ahead, I am eager to learn more about human resources management as IT professionals should not only focus on technical expertise.”
Charlie Ng, newly promoted Officer, Information Technology