SINGAPORE FACILITATION CONFERENCE
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62 Ubi Road 1, #07-26 Oxley BizHub 2, , , Singapore View Map
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Premise
Does an organization need to know what the future is that it needs to fit and adapting now by designing the best road map. Technologies and updated business models are disrupting and impacting organizations and sectors as a whole. Isn’t it critical for stakeholders to know what impedes change? To facilitate a conference for organizations and professionals to be future ready.
Key Learnings
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To identify what the future is that we need to fit
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To initiate and embed leader-led conversations in the organization
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To create an engaging collaborative environment for learning and change in the organization
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To raise your self-awareness of who you are and your communication style.
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To understand the Principles and Practices of getting large groups to do real work together
Format
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Topics and agenda
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1. Sociometry & Future Map
Conference Opening | 45 Minutes
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2. How do we future fit our organizations?
Large Group Plenary 1 |We will explore what the future is that we need to fit and how we adapt what we do now to start that journey. We will discover what impede changes and what future changes can we anticipate.
How do we identify what the future is that we need to fit? and how do we adapt what we do now to start that journey?
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3. Stay Future Fit, Connected and Inspired
Energiser session | 30 MinutesThis unique interactive experience encourages clear and empowered self expression, enhances vitality and reduces stress.
Rejuvenate, enliven, unify and harmonize
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4. A1 | Change the Conversations, Change the Culture
Concurrent Sessions A | 30 MinutesMost leaders acknowledge the importance of organisational culture and its direct impact on performance and success. A future-fit organisation requires a future-fit culture to support it.
The importance of conversations, the type of conversations to co-create future-fit organisations and how to initiate and embed leader-led conversations in the organization
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5. A2 | Navigating Change for a Future-Fit Organization
Concurrent Sessions A | 30 MinutesEmployee engagement goes beyond employee satisfaction. It’s is a challenge to create employee engagement, motivation or satisfaction without employees making decisions and choices about...
Understand how to create an engaging collaborative environment for learning and utilizing the facilitative process in a change program that will enable participants to navigate change effectively.
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6. A3 | The 3Cs of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes
Concurrent Sessions A | 30 MinutesJohn Maxwell once said that “trust is the foundation of leadership”. How trustworthy are you in the eyes of your participants, clients, your partners and your family?
Understand the Comfort Zone & Iceberg models applying to Self, Identity & Culture and to learn the “Trust Equation” from The Trusted Advisor to enhance relationships with Self, People & Organisations
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7. B1 | Visioning Co-Creation
Concurrent Sessions B | 30 MinutesCo-creating is a great way to achieve innovation. Although process can sometimes be taxing and frustrating, co-creating taps into questioning our core reason for being and can lead to deep fulfilment
Appreciating a visioning process through a new set of lens. Witnessing an inter-generational team in action and understand the role of intellectual humility in the co-creation process
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8. B2 | Building a Team Culture that Achieves Breakthrough Results
Concurrent Sessions B | 30 MinutesA team culture that can achieve breakthrough results in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world is one that not only excels at communicating with key stakeholders...
To raise your self-awareness of who you are and your communication style and to learn practical techniques for speed reading other people’s communication styles.
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9. B3 | The Organizations Zoo approach for Cross Cultural Conversations
Concurrent Sessions B | 30 MinutesEvery facilitator knows how critical it is to create a safe and engaging environment for participants to maximise
learning outcomes. This is especially true when dealing with political, social and...To introduce the power of creative metaphor using an experiential learning activity. It is for facilitators engaging in
professional development involving culture, behaviour, engagement, stakeholder..
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10. B4 | Creating an Innovative Climate
Concurrent Sessions B | 30 MinutesPresence, power and intuitive intelligence is the marker for the company that not only keeps abreast of new innovations, but leads the way. Innovations can come from anybody within your team.
Be empowered in authentic communication and expression skills, understand active listening awareness and develop true authority and presence
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11. C1 | Design Thinking for Innovation and Excellence
Concurrent Sessions C | 30 MinutesAs our society grows and matures, the operating environment has become more challenging due to more diversity and a more vocal and demanding clientele.
Understand the main stages in Design Thinking and appreciating how Design Thinking has been used in various contexts
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12. C2 | La-Salle Product & Service Innovation Matrix
Concurrent Sessions C | 30 MinutesIn all businesses, understand the values you are delivering, and how people will relate to your offering is most essential.
To understand the concept of La-Salle Product & Service innovation Matrix and as a group , be able to use the matrix to generate innovative ideas on a given topic
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13. C3 | Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship Camp
Concurrent Session C | 30 MinutesThe workplace is getting increasingly competitive, and the only way to survive in this brutal environment is to innovate continuously.
To promote creativity among staff, cross pollinate ideas across functions/ departments and to equip staff with innovation techniques to apply in their workplace
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14. C4-1 | Transforming Personality to Competency
Concurrent Sessions C | 45 MinutesPeople should know who they are. We must know who we are and it is important to know who we are working with together. The word of personality came into alive when we think of competencies in work
To get the Insights of Different Personality and Association With Competencies and get the Sense of Integration in Personality to Enhance Cooperation in Team
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15. C4-2 | Enabling Collaboration for Future-Fit Teams
Concurrent Sessions C | 45 MinutesTo be effective and productive in a dynamic, fast-changing environment, a future-fit team needs to quickly establish a climate for understanding and accepting diverse viewpoints within the team...
Get insights on how psychometric instruments and mobile app technology can enhance facilitation of diverse views, establish understanding of different viewpoints, and enable consensus building
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16. D1 | Building an organization that survives in uncertainties and surprises
Concurrent Sessions D | 30 MinutesThe cycle of change is shortening and dynamic of change is become more complex. The environment we operate in has become more interconnected and more susceptive to global influences...
To understand the key elements for building an adaptable organisation and the ingredients for building a strong team that survives difficulties and tough times
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17. D2 | Accelerating Change for Future Success
Concurrent Sessions D | 30 MinutesToday’s organisations are full of projects of various kinds, bigger ones such as M&A, strategic transformation, smaller ones like process improvement and initiative implementation.
To understand the important role that facilitation can play in managing organizational projects and identify the taches in a project where agreement/alignment is crucial
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18. D3 | Creating Game Changers
Concurrent Sessions D | 30 MinutesThe workshop will create awareness to the biggest obstacles to changes. Participants will discuss methods to overcome resistance and explore how to bring all stakeholders on the journey.
To understand the biggest obstacles to change, discuss case studies of missed opportunities, to understand exploiters and explorers and to learn to challenge status quo and create game changing ideas
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19. Circling the Circle
Energizer Session | 30 MinutesEnjoy high energy prop-less activity while learning Collaborative Communication and Innovation
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20. Designing and Facilitating with the Whole System in the Room
Large Group Plenary 2 |To be Fit for the Future, it is not enough for a single organisation to plan in isloation from the rest of the system they are part of. In a more inter-connected world, there are times when...
To understand the Principles and Practices of getting large groups to do real work together, have a template to help design large group interventions and to learn facilitation tips for large groups
Professionals

CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles
PJ is the Chief Architect of Learning Circles and creator of Wiztango.com a Digital Facilitation Technology Platform for Content Originators. He is an American with a global background as an entrepreneur in technology and education management.
In 2002, he founded and for fourteen years successfully managed an in-residence corporate university for Japanese employees of Hitachi Corp, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Yokogawa, Panasonic and 30 global Japanese corporations. The Singapore-based company achieved $8.9M revenue at its peak and had 1,000 Japanese graduates from 25 global-skill development programs.
In the past 25 years, PJ has had pioneering leadership roles in the digital transformation of multiple industries including Pre-Press (Israeli-based Scitex Corp), Photography (Boston-based Leaf Technologies), Printing (Dutch-based Indigo Corp) and Advertising (Boston-based Engage Technologies)

Organisation Development: Training, Facilitation & Consultancy
Co-create social change initiatives through facilitation and consultancy.
Build capacity and competencies for sustainable social changes through training.

Prabu Naidu, CPF, CMF, holds a Masters in Organisational Behaviour (Birkbeck College, UK) and gained 19 years of MNC experience (1980-1999) with Philips, AT&T andCompaq which spanned diverse functions in Engineering, Materials, Project Management, TQM, HRD, Managing Change and Supply Chain Re-Engineering - these set the foundation for his current fourteen years (2000-2014) of training, facilitation and consulting work in organisational development. He has designed and delivered numerous OD interventions for MNCs, SMEs, Government departments and not-for-profit organisations in Singapore and regionally for MNEs and SMEs.
He is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and an INIFAC Certified Master Facilitator (CMF). In 2013 he was nominated as a board member of INIFAC to oversee development of facilitation in Asia. He co-founded the Facilitators Network in 2004 to upscale the competencies of facilitators in Singapore and the region. His lectures at professional institutions are always well received by the students as all his lectures are very engaging and facilitative. He co-authored SPOT on Facilitation in 2011.

Founder, visual thinking strategist
I use visual strategies and tools to guide and reflect group discussions and learning outcomes.

Leadership, Mindset & Culture
Swee Heng specialises in leadership, mindset and culture improvement. He is a solution-focused Professional Certified Coach, bringing results & change in 3 areas:
1) Coaching leaders and teams to acquire effective mindsets & become Integral Leaders
2) Engaging leaders and teams to be effective in managing performance and relationships
3) Nurturing leaders to develop a positive team and organisational culture of solutions and achievements
Many leaders benefited from Swee Heng’s 31 years of practical organisational experiences at both the Regional Management Board and ground levels, bringing with him essential breadth, depth and wealth of experience and expertise to each discussion.
Swee Heng trains and coaches in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia for clients that include the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Ernst & Young, Singtel, Reed Exhibitions, Elsevier, Grohe-Lixil Group, DBS Bank, Jebsen & Jessen Group, Damen Shipyards, Biomin, Sto SEA, Institute of Internal Auditors, Changi Airport Group, Civil Aviation of Singapore, National Arts Council, Polytechnics and National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre. He was also previously a business school faculty member at the SP Jain School of Global Management.
Swee Heng was, from Year 2000 to 2010, the regional Human Resource Director for Reed Business in Asia Pacific, a division of Reed Elsevier plc. He led Deloitte Singapore’s HR from 1997-2000. Swee Heng had also held key strategic and operational positions in the Ministry of Defence (Air Force) from 1980 to 1997.
Swee Heng is a Professional Certified Coach with International Coaching Federation (ICF), a Senior Member of Enneagram in Business, an Action-Reflection-Learning Coach, Stakeholder Centred Coach and Vice-President of the Enneagram Association of Singapore. He has been coaching, facilitating and consulting professionally since 2010.

Managing Director
EVAN has has had over 15 years of intensive experience in both the Education and Training industry. Being engaged frequently as an engagement specialist, he has also worked extensively with a wide range of clients in various industries for GLCs, TTLCs, MNCs and SMEs to deliver various sessions on team, leadership, personal enhancement and organisation developmental change interventions.
The highlights of EVAN’s corporate training include designing and implementing talent management modules, creating leadership development solutions for high potentials, engineering coaching modules and, designing and implementing modules for High Performance Culture for teams. EVAN’s energy, enthusiasm and the personable nature that he exudes are instrumental in making his training sessions interesting and effective. He creates a highly dynamic and energetic

Executive Director
c.j. is the world-class leadership and experiential learning consultant who have helped international companies achieve quantum improvements in business performance in Asia. c.j. has helped:
• Leading automotive companies such as Fiat-Chrysler, BMW and Delphi Packard etc. to improve their cross-culture leadership, teamwork and decision-making capabilities.
• International chemical conglomerates such as Evonik, DSM, and Air Products to develop sales competencies and improve sales performance with their sales teams
• Global industrial leaders such as TE, GE and Schneider to improve their technical managers' leadership and communication abilities so as to excite their people to exceptional performance
Managing Director
My name is Mr Pyi Sone Nyein. I am a Managing Director of Myanmar Development Professionals. We provide capacity building training and consultancy services for individuals and organizations. I am one of the Certified Competent Facilitators from INIFAC. My professionals is from human resources management and organizational development. I got the Master of Development Studies from Yangon Institute of Economic from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. I have more than 10 years of experiences in the capacity building sector in Myanmar.
Facilitators Network Singapore Pte Ltd (FNS)
Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS) was formed in 2003 with the mission of promoting and supporting the art and practice of professional facilitation in Singapore and the region through methods exchange, collegial networking and support services.
As a social enterprise, FNS operates with the agility of a private enterprise with a non-profiteering intent, managed by a non-remunerated volunteer team.
FNS provides professional facilitation training and services for effective corporate retreats, strategic planning, group decision-making, board meetings, stakeholder focus group consultation/engagement and OD consultancy services for corporations at affordable professional fees.
FNS manages certification for the Certified Competent Facilitator (CCF), endorsed by the International Institute for Facilitation (INIFAC). Trained facilitators from FNS often volunteer their services. FNS organises regular learning and development activities for local and regional network of facilitators.