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Note: This programme is a full day training session. For the half-day virtual programme, please click here to view: MP172 : The Art of Coaching – for Finance professionals (Live Webinar)

Programme Objective

This programme is aimed at equipping finance professionals on how to be the next leaders and managers of changing times. Finance professionals get better clarity on the skills they need and the strategies to solve performance issues and build winning teams.

Programme Outline

Getting results as a coach to the team:
Framing what coaching is all about and what kind of results one can achieve if applied in the right situation. Coaching one-on-one is different from coaching in a team. However, this does not mean that coaching in a team is impossible to achieve. The platform is set to help participants get first-hand feel of what it is like to coach in a team.

Your coaching style:
There are three different styles that all managers will need to use at some point in their career. Would it be a coach? A mentor? Or a counselor? This section explores the styles that participants will find out for themselves and see where they are strongest and weakest at. Using their strengths to the best and look at ways to mitigate the weakness that they have.

Understand employees character and capabilities:
There are four effective techniques to learn more about employees’ character and capabilities. This section will look at the four techniques and using some forms and questionnaire to assist the coach to understand the employees better.

10 values as a successful coach:
The 10 values of a successful coach act as a guide for the coach in the day to day work. These are values commonly exhibit by people like Jack Welch, Sam Walton or even Anthony Robbins. These values underpin their successes, for example: respect, confidentiality, involvement, patience, risk, perspective, mutuality, confidence building, supportiveness and clarity.

Roles of a coach, mentor and counselor:
This section looks at clarifying the different roles that managers may play at each part of their career while managing their teams. There will tips, steps for effective interactions and having a go at what it is like to be a coach mentor or counselor.

Strategies to coach, mentor and counsel team members:
There will be sharing of strategies on how to coach, mentor and counsel team members with actual hands-on practice session/s.

Managing within the coaching model:
There are case studies for discussions and exploring various perspectives and possibly solutions on how to manage within the coaching context and brainstorming ways to foster better or enhanced team collaboration.

The wisdom of coaching:
Learning the wisdom from others and helping managers to harness this wisdom for their own success. An exercise to assist managers to distill the wisdom of coaching.

Training Methodology
Mini lectures, exercises, case studies, mini group discussions and role play

Closing Date for Registration
1 week before programme or until full enrolment

Intended For

Finance professionals who are team leads, supervisors or managers.

Schedule & Fees

Testimonial

Funding

1] SkillsFuture Credit (SFC)
Funding Period: Until 26 Nov 2023
Course Reference Number: TGS-2019500393

All Singaporeans aged 25 and above will receive an opening credit of S$500 from the government. You may wish to use your SFC to pay for partial/full ISCA course fees.

On 1 Oct 2020, the Government provided a one-off SkillsFuture Credit Top-up of $500 for all eligible Singaporeans aged 25 or above by 31 Dec 2020. Singaporeans aged 40 to 60 by 31 Dec 2020 will also receive an Additional SkillsFuture Credit (Mid-Career Support) of $500 which can be used for courses under: (i) SGUnited Skills Programme, (ii) SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Programme – Company Training, and (iii) Career Transition Programmes. This additional SFC (Mid-Career Support) is NOT applicable for use on ISCA courses. (For more information on the SFC scheme, please visit www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg)

If you wish to enrol for the course with SFC Funding, please proceed with the following steps:

Step 1: You will need to ensure that you have sufficient SkillsFuture Credits in your SkillsFuture Credit account in order to make a successful claim. Please check your SFC account balance here.
Step 2: Register for the course online via ISCA Portal.
Step 3: Upon adding to cart, the system will prompt a question “Do you wish to apply for SkillsFuture Credit?”, click “Yes” and input all required information.
Step 4: At the Cart page, please ensure that SFC funding is applied before clicking “Checkout”.
Step 5:Upon receiving an email that the programme status is confirmed, please proceed to submit SFC claim on SkillsFuture Portal within 60 days before the course start date and obtain the necessary approval. Please submit SFC claim via SFC portal (www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg).

Failure to submit claim application and obtain necessary approval before the course start date will result in topping up of the SFC indicated for use. Please note that there will be an administrative fee of $42.80 for any revision of invoice.

2] WDA Training Grant - SDF Funding
This course is approved for SDF funding ($2 per training hour) for Company-sponsored participants only (Eligibility criteria apply).

Funding Period: Until 26 Nov 2023
Funded Hours: 7 hours
Course Reference Number: TGS-2019500393

If you wish to enrol participants with SDF Funding, please proceed with the following steps (For Corporate enrolments only) :

Step 1: Register for the course online via ISCA Portal. Upon adding to cart, the system will prompt a question “Do you wish to apply for WDA Funding?”, click Yes and input all required information. At the Cart page, please ensure that SDF funding is applied before clicking “Checkout”.

For course run start date before 1 Nov 2020, submit training grant application in SCN until 30 Nov 2020.

For course run start date on or after 1 Nov 2020, Enterprises/employers are NOT required to log into TPGateway/SCN to submit training grant.

Remarks

• Step 2: After receiving email that the programme status is confirmed, please proceed to submit the Training Grant application via SkillsConnect Portal (https://www.skillsconnect.gov.sg/).

Employers of company-sponsored participants must submit training grant via SkillsConnect to obtain training grant for course fees. You may submit the Training Grant application within the period from 30 days before the course start date to 30 days after course start date.

The employee’s enrolment, attendance and assessment recordswill be submitted by ISCA onto TPGateway.

Please note that there will be an administrative fee of $42.80 for any revision of invoice.

Eligibility Criteria:

Company must be registered or incorporated in Singapore and;
Applicant is taking the course for the first time.
Applicant must be employed, and is either Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident of Singapore and;
Applicant must achieve at least 75% attendance, and pass all examinations /assessments and;
Applicant must be fully sponsored by the Company for all costs associated with the training and;
Payment has to be made via corporate means (e.g. corporate cheque, corporate GIRO, corporate credit card).

Programme Facilitator(s)