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Strategic Enterprise Risk Management

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Strategic Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for Company Directors and Stakeholders.

Organizations face rapidly changing internal and external fctors that puts acheiving their organizational objectives at risk.

The responsibility to identify, analyse, evaluate and mitigate risk is the responsibility of all key decision holders and stakeholders. By law, company directors on the board MUST exercise diligence in performing this statutory task or risk enquiry.

This two day course is designed for busy management executives who want to adopt the powerful ISO 31000 framework as a starting point to fulfilling their enterprise risk management obligations.

The workshop adopts a rigorous lecture and discussion approach for participants where the end documentation can be collated and submitted as a working document on the organization’s strategic ERM submission. The methodology marries the ISO 31000 framework together with the GroomTalent PINCES strategy development approach. Topics covered in this comprehensive program include:

Relationship between risk management principles, framework and process
Principles of effective risk management
The Framework for Managing Risk
- Mandate and commitment
- Design of framework
  - Organization and context
    - External context
    - Internal context
  - Establishing risk management policy
  - Accountability
  - Integration into organizational processes
  - Resources
  - Communications- Internal and external
- Implementing risk management
  - Framework for managing risk
  - Risk management process
- Monitoring and review of the framework
- Continual improvement of the framework
The Risk Management Process
- Communication and consultation
- Establishing the context
- Risk assessment
  - Risk identification
  - Risk analysis
  - Risk evaluation
- Risk treatment
- Monitoring and review.

Corporate Storytelling

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:32:07 +0000

Corporate Storytelling

This module on Corporate Storytelling is a facilitated workshop aimed at helping organizations understand the power of story in developing an authentic corporate brand.

It is part of the GroomTalent.com curriculum of critical training courses for developing leadership competencies and management talent.

Approach for Corporate Storytelling workshop:

Branding as a corporate wide activity
The essential components of Story
The company core story
Gathering authentic raw material for storytelling
Storytelling in advertising
Creating storytelling dialogue
Seeking authentic alignment

Recommended materials

Around the Corporate Campfire: How Great Leaders Use Stories To Inspire Successby Evelyn Clark (Jul 2004)
Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management by John Seely Brown, Stephen Denning, Katalina Groh and Laurence Prusak (Sep 2004)
The Elements of Persuasion: Use Storytelling to Pitch Better, Sell Faster & Win More Business by Richard Maxwell and Robert Dickman (Aug 2007)
Storytelling: Branding in Practice by Klaus Fog, Christian Budtz, Philip Munch and Stephen Blanchette (Oct 2010)

For more information, please contact wooner@groomtalent.com to customize a premium management course in Singapore drawn from GroomTalent’s cutting edge knowledge base

STORYTELLING: Branding in Practice. By Klaus Fog. Oct 2010

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There have been other good books of late about Corporate Storytelling– the Elements of Persuasion by Maxwell comes to mind— but few remotely touches the key function of story telling for corporate branding like Storytelling.

In its second edition, this book has only improved with richer examples and case studies. Highly recommended for organizations seeking to raise itself above mediocrity by simply looking honestly at itself through the authentic stories across the board.

Content includes:

Branding through storytelling
The four elements of Storytelling
Storytelling in business
The company core story
Authentic raw material for storytelling
Storytelling as a management tool
Storytelling in advertising
When storytelling becomes dialogue
The media as a storytelling partner
Tearing down the walls

GroomTalent.com recommends this book for:

A logical and very user-friendly list of steps to harnessing the power of story-telling in a corporate setting
Rich case studies

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For more information on Corporate Storytelling, please click HERE.

CHANGE BY DESIGN: How design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:32:26 +0000

The basic difference between Design and Design Thinking is that the latter tends to be micro and product-focussed, in the traditional sense of the word. Moving into the realm of the latter, Design Thinking, we open ourselves to a totally new level of macro thinking and systemic consideration.

This significant difference is well captured in Change By Design by Tim Brown. The book describes well the Shimano project where IDEO, the organization Tim Brown heads went beyond the design of a new bike to reconceptualizing the essence of biking and its current limitations to arrive at the successful Coasting bikes.

Organizations tend to be too siloed in the majority of situations. Having Design Thinking to align such diverse views cannot be a bad thing, especially from a holistic and touchy feely perspective of Design Thinking.

Content includes:

Getting under your skin- How Design Thinking is about more than style
Converting need into demand- Putting people first
A mental matrix- “These people have no process”
Building to think- The power of Prototyping
Returning to the surface- The design of experiences
Spreading the message- The importance of storytelling
Design thinking meets the corporation- Teaching to fish
The new social contract- We’re all in this together
Design activism- Inspiring solutions with global potential
Designing tomorrow- Today

GroomTalent.com recommends this for:

Actual case studies of Design Thinking by one of the foremost expert on the topic
An unwillingness to make a hard topic out of what should be a soft topic

THE GAME CHANGER: How you can drive revenue and profit growth with innovation

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:22:49 +0000

The term ‘a little pregnant’ has its equivalent in the business context. If you are ‘a little misaligned’ with customer, you would already be in a black and white zone of missing the customer boat completely. This is especially the case with business innovation- the management competency that seeks to allow organizations to edge closer to market needs and to edge out the competition.

For this reason, The Game Changer is an eminently readable guide on how to craft and propagate innovation into the corporate DNA. It takes a firm and unequivocal stance on being anchored to customer centricity. Typical of Ram Charan’s lucid structuring, Game Changer creates a useful eight module approach to Innovation infrastructure for organizations seeking to unleash corporate and individual ideation.

Content includes:

How and why innovation at P&G changed its game
What P&G;s innovation transformation means for you
The customer is boss
Where to play. how to win
Leveraging what you do best
Organizing for innovation
Integrating innovation into your routine
Managing the risks of innovation
Innovation is a team sport
The new job of the leader
How Jeff Immelt made innovation a way of life in GE

GroomTalent.com recommends this book for:

The P&G Case Study on Innovation- learn from the very best
Powerful eight component Innovation framework for all organizations

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For more information on Innovation Course, please click HERE.

Innovation

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:01:01 +0000

Innovation Course

Whereas Creativity refers to the raw ability of individuals to generate new and pioneering ideas, innovation is the vital commercial ability to extrapolate that process into a competitive advantage of reinvention and redefinition.

This two-day course equips managers and policy makers within an organization with an understanding of process of innovation, focusing in particular on customer-centric innovation, and outlines the critical corporate elements the supports the innovation culture: strategy, core strengths, structures, systems, values and leadership.

Recommended materials

The Game-Changer: How you can drive revenue and profit growth with innovation. By A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan. April 2008
The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. By Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Sep 2010)

For more information, please contact wooner@groomtalent.com to customize a premium management training course in Singapore drawn from GroomTalent’s cutting edge knowledge base.

CFO Role Reinvention

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:46:37 +0000

CFO Role Reinvention

This module on Reinventing the CFO role focuses on the methodology of reinvigorating the CFO role. It is part of the GroomTalent.com curriculum of critical training courses for developing leadership competencies and management talent.

CFO Reinvented Role Competencies- the ability to:

Liberate managers from redundant systems and meaningless measures
Analyse financial measures to communicate knowledge across the organization
Cut waste and bureaucracy
Implement SMART measurement for essential-only metrics
Identify and mitigate risk areas
Champion change as a partner to business

Recommended materials

Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value by Jeremy Hope (Mar 2006)
Reinventing the CFO: Moving from Financial Management to Strategic Management by Henry Johanson, Thomas Walther, John Dunleavy and Elizabeth Hjelm (Oct 1996)
The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual (Wiley Corporate F&A) bySteven M. Bragg (Dec 2010)
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Feb 2004)

For more information, please contact wooner@groomtalent.com to customize a premium management course in Singapore drawn from GroomTalent’s cutting edge knowledge base

ePublishing

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:33:34 +0000

ePublishing

This course reviews the key issues for an organization seeking to understand ePublishing and implement and ePublishing strategy.

Course Objectives:

• Review the characteristics of ePublications

• Understanding the dominant ePublication platforms: pdf, ePub, etc

• Application vs Web document

• Pricing considerations

• Formatting principles

• Marketing. Marketing. Marketing.

Recommended Materials

ePublish: Self publish fast and profitably for Kindle, CreateSpace, iPhone and Print on Demand. By Steve Weber. (Apr 2009)
E-Publishing Success: How Anyone Can Write, Compile and Sell E-Books on the Internet (Chandos Information Professional) by Kingsley Oghojafor

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For more information, please contact wooner@groomtalent.com to customize a premium management course in Singapore drawn from GroomTalent’s cutting edge knowledge base.

REINVENTING THE CFO: How financial managers can transform their roles and add greater value. By Jeremy Hope. March 2006

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Unbeknownst to most non-financials, the powerful finance function constantly undergoes painful introspection about whether they are accountants plus-plus, or are they integral components of the executive suite, working in partnership with the chief executive function.

Jeremy Hope suggests in his timely book that CFO’s can and should opt for the latter. Drawing some interesting case studies and personal experience, he structures the neo-role of CFO’s into seven key areas. A nice wake-up call for CFOs that prefer to define their role into unambiguous routine excel spreadsheet generation. The strategic world is your oyster.

Content includes:

The CFO as Freedom Fighter
The CFO as Analyst and Adviser
The CFO as Architect of Adaptive Management
The CFO as Warrior against Waste
The CFO as Master of Measurement
The CFO as Regulator of Risk
The CFO as Champion of Change

GroomTalent.com recommends this book for:

A comprehensive checklist of best practice for the seven re-visioned roles of CFO
The seven re-visioned roles of CFO

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For more information on Reinventing the CFO courses, please click HERE.

ePUBLISH: Self publish fast and profitably for Kindle, CreateSpace, iPhone and Print on Demand

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:37:44 +0000

This little book, not even 100 pages of actual content, provides scant but up to date information on the major pointers on ePublishing. This book is best borrowed from a library to get up to speed quickly on a topic. Not worth the space on your library shelf.

Content includes:

Communities trump companies
Dive into electronic text
Publish to the Kindle Store
Target the Mobile Reader
Give it away to prosper
Ready, Aim, Format
Weave your web
Wag the long tail
Rise above the noise
Graduate to print
Write off your expenses

GroomTalent.com recommends this book for:

Basic overview of ePublishing on various formats
Simple layout and quick reading

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For more information on leadership and change management, please click HERE.