Business and Money Tips

The past one week of mourning for Singapore's founding father and first prime minster Lee Kuan Yew teach us one thing: never order people to do anything. Get them to volunteer instead.  To manage the big crowds of people queueing to pay their last respect to Mr Lee when his body was lying in state at the Parliament House from Wednesday to Saturday (25 to 27 March 2015), the government did not: Issue orders to the SAF soldiers to work overtime  Ask the private sector to donate food, drinks and umbrellas to the people in queue Get any ministers to speak to ask people to come out and help Ask people to queue up orderly for 10 hours Issue any rule on how to behave while in queue (like what clothes to wear, not to take pictures or videos etc) Instead what we saw were: Non-stop queues of people forming 24 hours since Wednesday 25 March 2015 until Saturday 28 March 2015 Many thousands in queue for more than 10 hours just to pay less than 10 seconds of respect No one...

As mentioned in our previous blog ("It's the Profit, stupid!") at here , from now onwards, we only do profit training, not just training. Profit training means what we taught in the course (be it sales, management or executive skills) will be related to the trainees' work.  The trainees will be given time to write a PAP (Profit Action Plan) on how they will apply at least one idea to their work.  They will also compute the increase in profits that application will give rise to.  From here, the profit increase will be compared to the course fee, and if that figure is negative, the trainee will be given extra tuition to write another application of the idea until the end figure is positive.  In short, this is real profit training determined during the class, not after the course.  Profit will come in 2 major ways: increase in sales and decrease in cost.  From here there will be hundreds of ways that one can design for his work.  Anyway our Train...