Developing Global-Thinking Managers

 

Overview

 

The business environment is getting more and more competitive and difficult every year.  Increasingly, executives are called upon to be ever competent “business managers” empowered with vision, strategic focus and operational know-how.  This is exacerbated when the company ventures overseas, firstly in and around Asia Pacific and later beyond.  The modern manager needs to quickly acquire the capabilities that make him/her an effective ‘global manager’, i.e. the ability and willingness to work across cultures, geographical boundaries and thinking paradigms. This executive dialogue session identifies and defines these capabilities and proposes several options on how to help managers acquire this ’global-thinking’ mind shift.

 

 

 

 

Administrative Details

Date                         : 12 July 2008 (Saturday)

               

Time                         : 9.30am to 11.00am

               

Venue                     : Malaysian Institute of Management

                                  Management House

                                  227 Jalan Ampang

                                  50450 Kuala Lumpur

 

Fees                        : MIM Members (Free)

                                  Non-Members (RM45)

Attendance             : Exclusive for Associates Members

                                  and above only. Group Members

                                  are advised to nominate senior

                                  members of the organizations to

                                  this talk.

 

Facilitator

Victor Foo MMIM, MIM-CPT, has professional experience with Shell Malaysia and Shell Singapore for 30 years in various managerial positions viz. technical engineering, marketing, sales, employee & industrial relations, HR policies and planning, recruitment & compensation. His life-work interest in people and organisational development shifted his focus from engineering (which was his academic qualification) to HR issues, particularly in learning and development.

 

Victor’s last posting was with Shell as Manager of the Asia Pacific Zone Learning Centre based in Singapore. Under his stewardship, the Centre is now an active self-funded business unit offering in-house learning programmes to about 20 Shell-operating companies within the Zone in the areas of Leadership and Management Development, Strategic and Personal Change Management, Business Strategy and Engagement Skills.  Specifically, Victor researched and developed the initial concepts for Shell’s now worldwide talent development system.

 

Outside Shell, Victor has been closely associated with MIHRM, MIM and SIM for several years. In MIHRM in the 80’s and early 90’s, he served as Director of Education & Training, Honorary Secretary and Vice President and is now a member of the Court of Fellows.  In MIM, he was on the faculty of their MBA programmes and he headed the organising council of an International HRD Conferences for the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). He has presented HR/OD strategy papers at national and international conferences.  He is currently an Associate Consultant of Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM).