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We run corporate training for Hong Kong SMEs, start-ups and overseas companies with a team here. When new joiners take months to settle in, when communication between teams breaks down, when a newly promoted supervisor has never been taught how to coach, or when a workshop is forgotten three weeks later, we design the programme around your industry, team size and the actual problem, run it with our own trainers, and leave you with follow-up actions you can use the next day.
Corporate training is the key to the success of a business. Staff and employees are the driving engine of all enterprises to go forward. As such, equipping employees’ knowledge and increasing professional skills not only promotes teamwork, improves the performance of employees and teams, but also promotes the business image and development of the enterprises.
According to the latest survey published by the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management, nearly half (47%) of the 100+ organizations surveyed in 2021 believe that upskilling and reskilling was crucially important.
The top three benefits of employee upskilling and reskilling are:
These are the eight situations we see most often. If two or more sound familiar, the programme usually needs redesigning rather than repeating.
Nothing changes after the workshop
The session goes well, everyone goes back to their desk and works exactly as before. Three months later nothing is left of it.
Content has nothing to do with the job
Generic material and abstract theory that never mentions your industry, so participants switch off and decide it is not relevant to them.
Supervisors were never taught to coach
Strong frontline staff get promoted and are left to manage by instinct, so every supervisor leads differently.
New joiners take too long to settle
No structured onboarding: culture and process pass from colleague to colleague by word of mouth, and the first three months are guesswork.
Communication breaks between teams
Frontline and back office, or two departments, each work to their own assumption; issues surface only once they are expensive.
Difficult conversations keep being postponed
Performance issues, resignations and conflicts sit unresolved until they need damage control.
The budget gets cut first
Training has to prove its value, but with no baseline before and no measurement after, next year's budget is the easiest line to remove.
Two locations, two working cultures
Hong Kong and mainland or overseas teams work differently, and management has no starting point for aligning them.
We, with experienced and skilled trainers, provide tailor-made corporate trainings which include:
Building Corporate Culture
Company culture is the foundation of every business and it also determines the success of the company. With great and strong company culture, employees will work in harmony and drive better organizational outcomes. Company culture training refers to the process of increasing awareness among employees to acknowledge and appreciate every unique culture in the workplace.
Change is inevitable whether it is in personal and business life. In the business world, change comes in the form of personnel, organizational hierarchy, or processes. Leading change requires leaders to understand why the resistance comes from and have a process for managing change structurally. This course will help you undertake change management and set the stage for implementing change. It will provide strategies for overcoming resistance to change and steps to help lead your team through the change process.
Talent development is a series of processes designed to attract high-potential candidates and motivate and retain members of your workforce. It involves the efforts that foster learning to build upon employees’ existing skills and identify new skills and opportunities to enable effective execution of business strategy. Through the thoughtful career path planning and assessment tools of talent to provide a comprehensive view of all individuals, teams and organization.
Team Leadership
Team building is important because it helps your teams communicate and build collaboration, which are needed to work together and meet common goals. Good teamwork can enhance trust, improve performance and help resolve internal conflicts.
In business circumstances, coaching is a common way of developing people’s skills and abilities, and of boosting performance . This course is designed to equip managers with the techniques and skills needed to coach their employees and become effective coaches thus enabling them to achieve higher standards of performance in the workplace.
NLP gives you the skills to communicate and feedback effectively, so enabling your team to move forward. This NLP program provides practical ways in which you’re guided on how to self-reflect, work past personal emotional triggers, and develop the courageous kind of patience. You can also use NLP skills to motivate and improve your team’s performance.
When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, what would you do? This training is based on the book of Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. It gives you the tools you need to step up to life’s most difficult and important conversations, and achieve the positive resolutions you want.
Personal Growth
Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between different activities even when time is tight and pressures are high. This training will provide practical ways to us how to manage our time effectively.
The DISC model describes four main behavioral styles and everyone is a mixture of one or two main styles. By understanding our own DISC and others, this can provide an effective way to communicate with others with different styles. DISC model can also be used to analyze the job arrangement with the potential candidates and select right teammates for special projects.
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the process of managing people in organizations in a structured and thorough manner. It includes employ people, train them, compensate them, develop policies relating to them and develop strategies to retain them. This course will give an introduction of what HRM is.
This training provides some basic concepts about cashflow, capital assets, liquidity assets and etc. It also involves looking at the client’s entire financial picture and advising them on how to achieve their short- and long-term financial goals. From saving for education and planning for retirement to effectively managing taxes and insurance.
Workshops are built around small-group discussion and realistic scenarios, so participants apply what they learn on the spot.
Here are four types of employee training designed to strengthen corporate culture and enhance communication between employees and supervisors:
This training aims to help new employees understand and integrate into the corporate culture. By introducing the company’s core values, mission, and vision, employees can better grasp how the organization operates and reflect these values in their daily work. This training can also deepen employees’ cultural identification through case studies and group discussions.
This training focuses on improving employees’ verbal and written communication skills. The curriculum includes effective feedback techniques, active listening, conflict resolution, and non-verbal communication. Through role-playing and simulation exercises, employees can learn how to communicate more effectively with colleagues and supervisors in real-life scenarios, thereby enhancing teamwork.
Emotional intelligence training helps employees recognize and manage their own emotions while understanding the emotional needs of others. This training emphasizes self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills, enabling employees to better cope with stress or challenges and maintain positive work relationships, fostering a harmonious work environment.
Targeted at potential and current managers, leadership development training aims to enhance their leadership abilities and team management skills. The curriculum includes topics such as motivating employees, effective decision-making, change management, and goal setting. Through case studies and group discussions, participants can learn how to build high-performing teams and unlock employees’ potential, thereby improving overall organizational performance.
We start with your industry, headcount, any training you have run before, and the one or two problems that hurt most.
"We want the team to work better" becomes something observable, for example each supervisor holding one feedback conversation a month.
Cases, exercises and role-plays are rewritten around your real situations rather than read from a generic manual.
Run by our own trainers, built around small-group discussion and scenario practice, with theory kept to what is needed.
You receive an action list and notes for supervisors, so participants know what to do differently on the job.
We compare after-session observation against the pre-course measures, then adjust the next programme or extend it to another team.
These are the companies that benefit most. If your situation is not listed, message us on WhatsApp or call and we will talk it through.
We do not publish a fixed price list, because team structure, headcount and objectives differ too much between companies. A quotation depends on seven factors:
We do not publish fixed service prices. We look at your objectives, number of participants and delivery format first and quote individually; the quotation sets out the number of sessions, hours, materials and follow-up arrangements, with no hidden charges. The initial consultation and quotation are free of charge. To talk it through now, message us on WhatsApp at +852 6364 6395 or call +852 3998 1080.
A fast-growing education group on the mainland hired more than 20 teachers in Hong Kong to internationalise its teaching staff, with frequent travel across the Greater Bay Area. Its HR team was unfamiliar with the Hong Kong Employment Ordinance, MPF and tax rules, and compliance risk was building. We designed an eight-hour online programme, "Hong Kong Employment Law in Practice", for the HR teams in Guangzhou, Foshan and Shenzhen, covering employment contracts, pay and benefits design and cross-border employment, with compliance pitfalls broken down through case studies.
This is the same team that runs our HR outsourcing and HR compliance advisory work, so the training reflects the rules as they are applied, not as they read in a manual.
A frontline promotion is backed with coaching skills, team building and crucial conversations first, so the new manager does not simply repeat how they were managed.
The Employment Ordinance, MPF and your internal process are combined into one fixed programme that new joiners and existing staff attend together.
Frontline and back office run scenario exercises together, build a shared vocabulary, and only then take on the process change.
Thirteen tailor-made courses in three directions: corporate culture (company culture, leading through change, talent development strategy), team leadership (team building, coaching for excellence, NLP leadership, crucial conversation) and personal growth (time management, DISC behavioral style, human resource management, financial planning 101). They can also be combined into onboarding, supervisor or annual compliance programmes.
Tailor-made by default. We run a needs interview first, then rewrite the cases, exercises and role-plays around your real situations. If you would rather trial one standard topic first, such as time management or team building, we can deliver an existing course as is.
Cantonese, Putonghua or English, depending on the team. Cross-border teams can be run in Putonghua or bilingually, with materials in traditional Chinese or English.
Before the course we agree one or two observable measures with you, such as how often each supervisor holds a feedback conversation. Afterwards we review through questionnaires, supervisor observation and completion of the action list, and adjust the next programme if needed.
There is no fixed price list. It depends on the number and length of courses, the number of participants, how much is tailor-made, trainer seniority and language, delivery format, depth of evaluation, and venue and materials. We quote individually after understanding your situation; the initial consultation and quotation are free.
Yes. Workshops run at your premises or online. If you also outsource recruitment, payroll or compliance to us, the training maps directly onto the processes and documents you already use instead of creating a separate set.
Longer HR and employment law guides are published on our blog (Chinese).
Tell us your headcount and the one thing you most want to improve. We will suggest a course mix, hours and delivery format; the initial consultation and quotation are free.