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Building and Leading High Performance Teams

  • Innovation & Business Improvement
  • Leadership & Management
Next Intake: 26 May 2025 (Mon)
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Next course starts on
26 May 2025 (Mon) See Full Schedule
Fee
SGD2,180* (as low as SGD254 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 days

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

Entrepreneurs, Team Leads, Supervisors, Managers and Business Professionals who are keen on understanding their unique strengths within the context of a team, as well as the strengths of their team members.

 

 

Overview

The ability to build and lead high performance hybrid teams in the new normal is key to professional and organizational success. This 2-day course aims to help entrepreneurs and business managers understand their unique strengths within the context of a team, as well as the strengths of their team members.

Through experiential exercises and 360 evaluations, participants will be introduced to techniques that will help them discover, develop and motivate the talents in their team to enhance collaboration, productivity and drive business growth in their organizations.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 2-day course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand their unique strengths within the team and their team members' strengths
  • Build and lead high-performance teams with established coaching toolkit and resources
  • Use a strengths-based methodology to build team dynamics and activate team collaboration
  • Instill energy and synergize efforts that fuel team performance to achieve organizational goals and business growth

Topic/Structure

Day 1: Strength Based Self and Team Development

  • Discover your unique talents and personalized leadership strengths
  • Adopt the language and vocabulary framework that facilitates better communication and understanding with diverse audiences
  • Employ your leadership strengths to build connections

Day 2: Team Dynamics

  • Lead high-performance teams with Gallup coaching toolkit and resources
  • Instill energy and synergize efforts that activate team collaboration and fuel team performance
  • Recognize and optimize your Team’s DNA

Assessment

Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and have to complete all assessment(s) required by the course. Only upon meeting the minimum attendance and passing the assessment will participants be issued a Certificate of Completion.

Participants who fail the assessment will be given a chance for re-assessment at a fee of SGD100.00 (excluding prevailing GST). Each participant is allowed 1 re-assessment. The re-assessment has to be taken within 7 calendar days from the end of the course date.  It will be held on a weekday specified by SMU Academy and conducted during office hours. Please note that re-assessment fees are not supported by SSG Funding.

Participants who meet the minimum attendance rate but do not achieve a pass for the assessment will be issued a Certificate of Participation.

Participants are required to bring their laptop to access the course materials, class exercises and individual assessment(s). 

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

DR NINA TAN
Managing Director
Business Intelligence and 8nalytics Pte Ltd.
DR NINA TAN
Managing Director
Business Intelligence and 8nalytics Pte Ltd.
Dr. Nina is Adjunct Faculty at SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) and Managing Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics Pte Ltd. With over 25 years of experience in multinational corporations, she held senior management positions and is also a successful serial entrepreneur. Nina has extensive transformational leadership experience in various industries and has authored syllabi used in ASME’s Pmax and Skillsfuture programmes. Additionally, she wrote topics on leadership behaviours posted in academic journals. She is also a certified PMC business advisor, and a Gallup coach. Nina is also a Chartered Accountant with dual fellow membership in ACCA London and ISCA, holds an MBA from the University of Leicester and a PhD in General Management from SMU LKCSB.

Testimonials

Action-oriented course that marries theory with a practical simulated exercise. The content is dense but Dr. Nina Tan has simplified it and given us tools to help us, help me, build my high performing team!
Ang Tiat Leong
Partner
Clover Group LLP
The course broadened my perspective and provided detailed insights into my strengths. It established a framework and equipped me with tools to enhance my thinking and transform into a successful leader. The course struck a good balance between theory and simulation, allowing for practical application. Additionally, SMU offered excellent and conducive facilities that contributed to a comfortable learning experience.
Ivan Adrianto Widjaja
Technology e-Apps
AXS Pte Ltd
I would recommend this course to new business leaders who have been appointed to lead teams. This course provides valuable insights for leaders into how to utilize the talent and strengths within their teams to maximize the team's potential.
Tan Juen Jin, Lionel
Manager
Avago Technologies International Sales
This course provides the essential tools and appropriate activities to Build a High Performance Team! Definitely a MUST-attend course for all leaders out there.
Annie Kazia Chua
CEO
ICF International
The course is extremely useful with valuable knowledge and experience from the trainer. The exercises are very interesting and really helps to build up team work. The trainer thoroughly walked through how to name strengths, how to target and claim goals.
Tran Minh Hang
Program Manager
Grab

Additional Details

*Applications will be reviewed by our Programme Admissions Committee. The decision made by the committee is final and no request to review the decision or reveal the considerations leading to the decision would be entertained.

 

Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM)

This programme is part of Certified Professional Business Manager. Participants who successfully complete 6 courses/modules with a minimum of 15 training days, from a list of qualifying programmes (terms and conditions apply) within 5 years will receive the Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM). For example:

Please click here for CPBM details and list of qualifying programmes.

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