Team Building for Asian Business Teams
Overview of our services including Margerison McCann TMS Asian Profile Service, Team Building in Asia tutorial, and team building articles
The new winning Asian management team
Great changes are taking place in Asian organizations as they are
around the world. Global competition, the opening up of local
markets, and increased communication and learning between
organizations in different countries means that large slow
moving organizations may not be able to compete in the Asia
Pacific Century ahead.
Traditional career paths in organizations are being shortened and employees need to learn faster, be able to take on new information and technologies, and be flexible in the face of opportunities and threats.
The old ways, where one person was the repository of all wisdom in an organization is coming to an end. No man is an island, and the most productive companies are moving to a flexible team structure where more information can be processed and better decisions made.The "team" is now the basic unit of the flexible organization and is replacing the "cult of the individual".
However,
there is a great difference between winning teams and losing
teams. As on the sporting ground often a "group"of
talented champions can be defeated by a "team" of
more modest players. Teamwork is a skill that must be trained
and does not come naturally. It is a mixture of good leadership
and motivation skills, ability to absorb new information,
to solve conflicts, and to understand the management style
and personalities of others in the team. It is also the ability
to pick and develop the Creator
Innovator, as well as nurturing and encouraging the Thruster
Organizer and the steady and sure Concluder
Producer. All types of people are required in an organization
but not all organizations nurture all of them.
As the center for Team
Management Systems in Asia, Orient Pacific Century
can provide all the training and materials necessary for
you to develop a specific team or a whole organization.Asian
companies already benefiting from Team Management Training
include the Hong Kong Bank, Jardines, the Hong
Kong Jockey Club, Malaysian Airlines, Maybank and Petronas.
Click here to see the places
in Asia where Team Management Systems have been used. Orient
Pacific Century can work with you to develop winning teams
in your organization by a variety of measures.
- Half day to three day courses to train your staff in practical team techniques run by local and internationally accredited TMS trainers. Rod Davies, who has worked with the authors for many years, is now based in Asia and has run many TMS workshops in Asia, Australia,and the UK. Dr. Paul Temporal who has worked with many banks and financial institutions in Asia is also active in the region, as well as Barry Smith with many years experience in Human Resource Development. Many other accredited trainers with experience in applying Team Management Systems to Asian organizations and proficient in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, and Thai are available. The Team Management Index itself has been translated into several Asian languages.
- Working with your top management team on a retained basis to develop a team-based organization.
- Alternatively,your training staff can become accredited themselves to use TMS and introduce it into your organization by attending a public accreditation workshop or completing the Distance Accreditation Modules.
The full resources are available here, including the Margerison-McCann Team Management Index, for profiling of individuals, the Types of Work Index, for re-engineering and job redesign, and the Team Performance Index, for analyzing strengths and weaknesses of teams. The Linking Skills Index has helped many improve their leadership, communication, and time management skills. Instruments have been developed using samples of over 25,000 managers worldwide, including groups from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand. The Team Management Index is available in eight languages including Mandarin and Japanese.
Read some articles about Team Management in Asia
Examples of team building being used in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, with comparative data on management style
If you are in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, PRC or Indo China, email us to make an appointment for us to visit you personally. We can answer inquiries relating to the profile service in Asia, custom-designed programs for your organization, information evenings, and accreditation via distance modules or workshop.
