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Building a Strengths-Based Organisation

As we transit to the fifth industrial revolution, many organisations find that their competitive advantage is their people and the talents of their people. This is especially true of organisations that are composed of mainly knowledge workers. Yet, survey after survey report that employees are disengaged, with little opportunity to do what they are best at. How can leaders transform their organisations into workplaces where their employees apply their strengths to their jobs and contribute their best work to the organisation? What can leaders do to transit from their current organisational cultures to a strengths-based organisation?

Objective

• Understand what is a strengths-based organisation (SBO)
• Understand the benefits of transforming to a SBO
• Learn what are the steps in transforming to a SBO
• Learn what are the possible obstacles or pitfalls, and how to avoid them

Outline

Module 1: Understanding Strengths-Based Organisations (SBO)
Understand what is a SBO and how it differs from other organisations.

Module 2: Advantages of SBOs
Discover the advantages in today’s market of becoming a SBO for your organisational and team performance.

Module 3: Organisational Assessment
Assess how strengths-based your organisation currently is and where is the gap between your organisation and a true SBO.

Module 4: Creating SBOs
Know the culture change process necessary to transform into a SBO.

Module 5: SBO Case Studies
Apply the culture change process to a series of different organisations based on real case studies.

Module 6: SBO Transformation Roadmap
Map the transformation to a SBO for your organisation.

Who should attend

- Senior leaders
- HR

Methodology

Experiential learning, classroom learning, individual reflection, group discussion, class discussion, practice, roleplay, case study, lecture, presentation

Profile of Serene Seng

Strengths-Based Organisations Expert

With over 20 years of experience, Serene specializes in driving strengths-based transformations for organizations and teams. Her expertise lies in fostering culture change, talent development, and coaching to unlock organizational potential and enhance team performance.

Serene is adept at aligning an organization’s strategic direction and core values with a strengths-based approach. By leveraging this alignment, she empowers leaders to harness their teams' unique talents, delivering impactful results and driving sustainable performance.

As an international speaker, Serene captivates audiences with actionable insights on building strengths-based organizations. She outlines practical, transformational steps to achieve a future-focused vision, inspiring leaders to embrace a culture of growth and empowerment.

In her last position as General Manager for an overseas management consulting firm, Serene specialised in organizational development for healthcare, wellness, fitness, and education industries as well as government ministries.

She also designs and facilitates customized experiential programs and has been invited to speak by Singapore Telecoms, Land Transport Authority, Citibank, NTUC Income, and Ogilvy as well as interviewed by MediaCorp Radio and Singapore Press Holdings.

Previously, Serene was Business Development Manager for a distribution company, developing the regional market for them. Prior to that, she was a Business Development Manager at an electrical engineering firm developing new initiatives for business opportunities in labour supply to be based in India. Her main focus on both assignments was building new markets for strategic operational development and business ventures in South East Asia.

As an entrepreneur, she had her own consultancy seeing clients for health management issues. She also set up from scratch a consultancy company and brought its sales to seven figures in four years.

Certifications:

• Master’s in Human Nutrition, Deakin University
• Bachelor’s in Business Administration, National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist
• Graduate Diploma in Comprehensive Psychology, Association for Psychology
• CPR and AED Certified, American Heart Association
• Workplace Health Consultant, Health Promotion Board, Singapore
• Practicing Management Consultant (PMC), Certification Board
• Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA), Workforce Development Agency of Singapore
• Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
• Certified StandOut Strengths Coach
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Belbin Team Roles Coach
• Certified Action Learning Coach, World Institute of Action Learning
• Certified Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Coach
• Certified Saville Wave Coach
• Professional Scrum Master
• Certified Scrum Master