Articles on Training

ENTREPRENEURS ARE A SPECIAL BREED – they are a brave lot who are willing to take risks and face an uncertain future, to start and manage their own companies. Perhaps they want out from the big corporation; perhaps they have ideals on how a company should be run and want to try their hands at [...]

Beijing in October is a lovely place in so far as the weather is concerned.Not the traffic.Not the pollution. CPT* grad Kevin from Singapore dropped by at the hotel and took me and our Country manager Joelynne out for dinner. We had hotpot ….the thing to do in the nice cold weather. The joke is [...]

Companies are spending money on training, but on haphazard and poorly planned training activities with little results to show in terms of enhancing the quality of the workforce and their performance. However, management cannot be totally blamed for this. We attributes this gap to the people who understands training, people such as training managers, trainers [...]

There is a wonderful example given by Edgar Tham, our Coaching guru during his class on Certificate in Coaching where he got his coachee (yuks!) to do research on what is the normal time length between someone taking up a certain sport competitively and when they become championship material. The common answer is 8 to [...]

So what is a professional trainer? I guess any one who call himself a professional trainer implies two things. One is that he has achieved certain standards. These standards could either be set by industry groups as in professional bodies or by legislation if any. There is no one organisation in the world that sets [...]

I met Jean in Shanghai. He is a French guy attending my Stand up and Speak program, done in house for a large multinational in China. Great responsive participant (although I don’t always understand what he is saying); the type that all trainers look for. He came to me at the end of the seminar [...]