acumen.sg is a site focused on assisting business people enhance their personal and business performance.
It hosts topical discussions about business effectiveness taken either from internet discussions or personal observations from the experience of the partners of acumen.sg
acumen.sg is also a business consultancy primed to assist business people in the areas of commercial effectiveness and efficiency especially related to consumer connection and trade channel enhancement. The foundation of this is over fifty years combined experience amongst the partners.
In addition we are well versed in assisting people with self management, team dynamics and organisational development, as a result of both experience and external tools.
Learning and Development
Our point of view is simple, we have to understand the business environment your company is working in, and how strategy, corporate culture and leadership acts within this frame work. Only by understand all four elements will you be able to transform performance.
acumen.sg is skilled at learning and development of team members using university level training skills. By using real life case studies, your team members think through various situations to learn important business lessons.
Dr. Les Buckley is an affiliated staff member of Singapore Management University (SMU), Strategic Management Department, and has contributed to many executive education courses with SMU, and directly with many large International multinationals and local SMEs.
Typically, each session is half a day, enabling concepts to be introduced, using one case study to explain these concepts and a second more in-depth case study to test attendees on their understanding and application of concepts, testing their learning. As follow up, Dr. Buckley provides attendees with a range of “Monday morning takeaways” useful templates and processes to immediately implement ideas to benefit your business.
Dr. Buckley is also available as a business speaker, and is able to stimulate discussions on a range of business topics.
Our priority is to offer the following facilitated in-house training and development topics for your team members ;
1. What’s Successful Strategy in Asia
– “What to sing in the karaoke?” – how to understand and effectively work with different national cultures within your organisation
– “Asian divorce is nasty, and vindictive” how to manage business partnerships in Asia effectively