Sunday 28 February 2016

ACCELERATE YOUR VALUE CREATION

We write to invite you to join us in XXXX, PJ or KL for our Accelerate Your Value Creation kicking off in May, 2016. Discover solutions to unleash 6Ps (Performance, Process, Profit, People, Purpose and Planet) to achieve Sustainable Value Creation. See dates and details »
Entrepreneurs are persistently searching and building edge. What new products or services or solutions can we create? How can we strengthening our belief, pushing the boundaries, crossing the borders, overcoming the barriers and to be (5Bs) align with what we were created in the first place?
Making incremental changes may not be good enough, what matters most is how can you turn breakthrough ideas into reality?
In my first book Better Than The Best, I discuss how can we craft our ingenious path by connecting deeply to our inner selves to inspire cutting-edge ideas, just like Noah the Ark.


Friday 26 February 2016

LEAN FINANCE WORKSHOP

LEAN FINANCE COURSE OUTLINE
Day I
Ice breaker

MODULE: 1
Lean Principles and Practices

What are lean principles and practices?
How do they work?

Direct, drive and deliver Value creation through 5Rs

MODULE: 2

 Fin, Non- Financial Ratios and Lean Performance Indicator

Numbers are the language of Business Improvement
Story beyond the numbers
Lagging and leading indicators
Value Stream Mapping
“Plain English” Statements


MODULE: 3
Holistic Approach -6Ps

Cause and consequence
How to unleash your potentials?


Transformational plans
Learning and growing

MODULE: 4
Lean Accounting, Qualitative aspects and essential skill

What is Lean Accounting?
Quality aspects in term of needs, gaps and culture
Shape team purpose and productivity
Adopt best practices
Metric measurements shape behaviour
Apply new strategic tools to create value for the company by looking beyond financial statements
New strategic tools and technique, easy and simple to understand 


FORUM :     1 HOUR

Day II
MODULE: 5

Qualitative aspects

 
Integrity
Lean thinking 
In pursuit of perfection
Culture of empowerment
Conscious to unconscious competencies
Dynamic, enthusiastic, energetic
Innovative, multi- dimensional perspectives
Culture of empowerment



MODULE: 6
Big picture of the organization Success



Use key performance indicators aligned to value creation
Business acumen
Enhance Shareholders’ value
Understand their role in the big picture
In pursuit of Perfection



MODULE: 7

Economic & Business Outlook


UVCA
Change  is certain 


Focus on new opportunities & priorities
Unlearn and relearn

MODULE: 8
Focus Area, Key opportunities & Priorities
Key challenges and opportunities
Mastery departure and making transformation
Redefine your destination
Lean is a journey  as per se
Challenge Mastery and making a contribution



GAME

Key take-back messages


END OF DAY 2

LEAN FINANCE FOR IN HOUSE COURSE

TOPIC                                   :  Lean Finance
DURATION                          : 2 Days
VENUE & FACILITY         : TBC
NO. OF PAX                         : 15 - 20 pax per session


INTRODUCTION:

A 2-days interactive program is design to equip participants with know how in applying lean
principles to improve the finance function to next level of success by leveraging this platform &
structure to enable finance activities that involve data aggregation and analysis to support decision 
making. Hence, this course is also design to develop intelligent financial skills and capabilities.


What You Can Safely Obtain From This Workshop

In today’s uncertain, volatile, complex and ambiguous world, CEOs and their management teams are more involved in formulating their own strategic plans and paths to accelerate company growth, innovation and prosperity. However, recent Deloitte survey shown more than 75% of senior executives have found it challenging to effectively develop, direct and deliver such sustainable growth strategies.

This comprehensive yet interactive 2-day program is specially designed for those senior executives who aspire to formulate their company’s own uniquely crafted powerful innovative growth strategy to that effect.  

Led by James Oh, Lean Financial Petitioner, this paradigm-changing workshop will provide you with refreshing perspectives on how to effectively execute such strategies that is aligned with your company’s purpose. By identifying and eliminate those wastes, you will learn how to embrace and anticipate changes, evolve and adapt your business strategy to foster faster growth, profitability and sustenance through innovation. You will also discover how to build an organization that keeps learning, adapting and growing over time so that you can execute faster and better than your competitors. You will also embark on a personal transformational journey that will re-define your leadership capabilities daily, build a dedicated and committed team that can help you materialize your vision.

Packed with real-life practices, principles and interactive discussion sessions, this program will impart you with the required practicable know-how and insight on how to formulate such effective strategic plans that will create a new level of success and scale for your organization 


                        
TRAINING OBJECTIVES:

By the end of this training, participants will able to:

§  Provide highly competitive competence in their performance  
§  Use the tools and techniques in their day to day operational tasks
§  Understand the unprecedented pressure to cut costs, boosting efficiency and freeing up capacity
§  Eliminating non-value added activities and cultivating a mind-set of continuous improvement
§  Learning the Value of Creation
§  Add value to their daily task


TRAINING METHODOLOGY:

ü  Pre- Training Questionnaire for Participants
ü  Notes of Course Outline
ü  Power Point Presentation
ü  Real World Cases
ü  Video
ü  Actual Situations Related Issues and solutions
ü  Interactive Group Participation
ü  Games

MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION:

English 

Thursday 25 February 2016

NEW BOOK COVER FOR MY EXISTING BOOK, FINANCIAL LITERACY AND WISDOM


After deep consideration, I decided to change my existing book, Financial Literacy & Wisdom for Financial Independence, Freedom and Richness to the latter, as shown below.


This is mainly because the latter is more appropriate as the book comprises of a series of simplified and easy to understand orderly organised packets of data, tips, techniques and wisdom for the reader.

Moreover as we enter into the un-precedented world, ( Uncertain, Volatile, Complex and Ambiguous world, well reflected by the black background which even major policies' makers have no clue as how to resolve the present global financial crisis. Some countries still stick to old ideas of Quantity Easing and negative interest rate which have been proven to be not working. This may appear that they have no clue as how to fix the root of the problem.

Therefore, the main intention of this book is to encourage reader to create his own personalise strategic path to find bright and workable ideas to achieve his priorities in life so that he can live his life to do what he love.
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AAfter deep consideration, I decided to change my existing book cover to the latter. This is mainly because the
latter is more appropriate as the book comprises of a series of simplified and easy to understand orderly
organised packets of data, tips, technique and wisdom for the reader

Tuesday 23 February 2016

CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT TO ENHANCE BUSINESS GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY

Objective

In the one day of hands-on, real case experience, interactive sessions, this program provides you with a unique opportunity to deepen your expertise of finance and accounting for better cash flow management and decision-making capabilities. This program features sessions on the role of accounting, key concepts of managerial and financial accounting, cycle times, ratio calculation, and analysis of the company under study.

A hallmark of this program is a hands-on detailed financial analysis of an existing company’s financial statements, discussion of the importance of each number for the company’s business and knows how to tell its business based on the figures, assessing strengths and areas for improvements.

At the end of the day, you will gain comprehensive knowledge key finance and accounting concepts and understand the relationships among profitability, cash flow, liquidity and growth. What to look for, especially in regard to identification the red flags, weaknesses and unlock its potentials which matters most in the current ambiguous, uncertain, complex and volatile environment.


For detail please visit a complete program schedule. 


ABOUT THE CHIEF FINANCIAL STORIES TELLER

James Oh is a financial, wealth and mindset specialist, thinker, leader and intensive researcher with nearly 30 years of professional working experiences in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation, movies investment and distribution. He is richly exposed in both local and international levels particularly in negotiating with the world leading aviation financiers, insurance and reinsurance brokers.

In the course of his practice, James had held senior specialist, supervisory, managerial and leadership positions by providing success oriented strategic and operational plans to nurture the company he had worked with. His track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and get it listed and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7.

James has been featured in media multiple times such as the top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), FlyMe360, Hospitality Asia, Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation.  4 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and beyond. Moving beyond the Horizon is the mind skill course he has conducted for in-house program with the Non-Profit Organization.

His recognition goes beyond the organization as he was invited to be one of the speakers at the Secretarial Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2 & 3 2015, a conference event organized by Camfori Training Provider that featured comprehensive secretarial and financial strategies and solutions featuring 10+ thought leaders and speakers.
He is actively involved in financial training programs for various local professional institutions, and economic updates with an international business club.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the London of University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK) & PSMB Certified Trainer and Competent Communicator with Toastmaster International.




Thursday 18 February 2016

Wednesday 17 February 2016

UNDERSTAND BUSINESS BEYOND THE NUMBERS

Introduction

Learn to deal with numbers comfortably, intelligently and wisely especially from the Financial Statements and correctly understand the story behind in line with the saying “Business is a right numbers game.” It covers fundamental principles, functional techniques and useful tips to correctly understand your business deeper and better so as help you navigate your business to next desired level by focusing on the Big Picture.

Take away for the audience

·         To have good and sound understanding of numbers (Facts), accounting (Means) and business (Big Picture); their relationships and appropriate interpretation.      

      To understand the importance of the Main Components of Financial Statements, their relationships and their limitations.
·         
     To equip yourself with the 9 Powerful Pointers which serve as your GPS that navigates you in reaching your goals with ease.
·        
     To habituate yourself with use of your mind faculties to explore the opportunities and turn ideas into actionable plans to achieve your desired results.
·        
     Alert to the external changes and respond appropriately to achieve sustainable business growth and profitability;
·        
     Craft own strategic path and plan respectively based on its own strengths and weaknesses;
·         Able to detect opportunities and the challenges of its current financial performance and position together with its insightful information.
·        
     To unleash the business potentials by focusing on 6Ps (People, Profit, Purpose, Performance, Process and Planet)

About the Chief Financial Stories Teller

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James Oh is a financial and mindset training expert, thinker, leader and intensive researcher with 20 years of professional working experiences in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation and movies distribution with extensive exposure in both local and international levels. 

In the course of his practice, James had held senior specialist, supervisory, managerial and leadership positions and provided successful and effective strategic and operational plans to nurture the company he had worked with. His track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and got it listed and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7.

James has been featured in media multiple times such as the top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation and he is the living proof in this aspect.  3 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and beyond.

With his passion in sharing his know-how, experience and knowledge in both the financial and mindset fields, he was appointed as a trainer and speaker with various local professional institutions, and had shared economic updates with an international business club.

His recognition goes beyond the organization as he was invited to be one of the speakers at the 3rd Annual Elite Secretarial & Administrative Conference 2015 in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2 & 3, a conference event organized by Camfori Training Provider that featured 10+ though leaders and speakers.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the London of University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK) & PSMB Certified Trainer.

James Oh can be reached at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk



  



Monday 15 February 2016

ESSENTIAL FINANCIAL AND MIND-SET FOR ENTREPRENEURS

"SO, YOU WANT TO RUN YOUR OWN BUSINESS - BUT ARE WORRIED THAT YOUR FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE AND MIND-SET WILL LET YOU DOWN?"


LISTEN, I know where you’re coming from!
At university I specialized in Accounting. I was always interested in owning my own business, but given a choice between entrepreneurship or performing exciting practical experiments in financial analysis, establishing sound integrated  system and business model to grow the business, I’m afraid the entrepreneurship won every time!
But when I left university and realized I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I knew I’d have to polish up my financial skill, wealth and mind-set. This course is the labour of my love from more than my 30 solid years of professional and personal experiences.  
So I explored, borrowed or bought every possibility to entrepreneurship I could lay my hands on, and spent many hours alone in studying, exploring and experiencing them whenever there are opportunities.
And even though nowadays I’m a successful freelance writer, trainer and entrepreneur, I’m still fascinated by financial know-how. I love nothing more than explaining in simple terms the intricacies of financial stories, wealth and mind-set to aspiring entrepreneurs.
...And that’s EXACTLY what I’ve done in my brand new training program ESSENTIAL FINANCE AND MINDSET FOR ENTREPRENEURS!
But before I tell you about that, let me introduce myself...















About the Speaker


James Oh is a financial, wealth and mindset specialist, thinker, leader and intensive researcher with nearly 30 years of professional working experiences in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation, movies investment and distribution. He is richly exposed in both local and international levelsparticularly in negotiating with the world leading aviation financiers, insurance and reinsurance brokers.

In the course of his practice, James had held senior specialist, supervisory, managerial and leadership positions by providing success orientedstrategic and operational plans to nurture the company he had worked with. His track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and get it listed and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7.

James has been featured in media multiple times such as the top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), FlyMe360, Hospitality Asia, Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation.  4 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and beyond. Moving beyond the Horizon is the mind skill course he has conducted for in-house program with the Non-Profit Organization.

His recognition goes beyond the organization as he was invited to be one of the speakers at the Secretarial Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2 & 3 2015, a conference event organized by Camfori Training Provider that featured comprehensive secretarial and financial strategies and solutions featuring 10+ thought leaders and speakers.
He is actively involved in financial training programs for various local professional institutions, and economic updates with an international business club.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the London of University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK) & PSMB Certified Trainer and Competent Communicator with Toastmaster International.





Sunday 14 February 2016

PROFILE OF JAMES OH AS AT FEB 2016

AS AT FEB 2016

James Oh has nearly 30 good years of total experience in the financial management, business development, operation and strategic plans that help his then employer and personnel to have several breakthroughs like growing a newly start-up company into a publicly listed company and turning around the company during the Asian Financial Crisis. These valuable experiences in several disciplines and environment have provided him with a sound integrated financial, intelligence, and business acumen. 

James is also an analytical thinker and a hands-on entrepreneur with innovative leadership and people management skills by combining both 'science' and 'art' skills. His sound foresight coupled with his core competencies in learning & understanding the market dynamics enabled him to translate ideas into actionable plans to achieve the desired business objectives.


James has been featured in media multiple times namely Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First (MFPC) , Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Journal of Wealth Planning and Management (MFPC), FlyMe360 and Hospitality Asia magazine. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation. 3 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and beyond.

With his passion in sharing his thoughts and knowledge in both the financial and mindset fields, he was appointed as a trainer and speaker with various local professional institutions, and had shared economic updates with an international business club.

His recognition goes beyond the organization as he was invited to be one of the speakers at the Secretarial Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2 & 3 2015, a conference event organized by Camfori Training Provider that featured comprehensive secretarial and financial strategies and solutions featuring 10+ thought leaders and speakers.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the University Of London (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with MPMA (UK) & Train the trainer from Human Resources Development Bhd. (PSMB). His rich experience, broad exposure, diversified experiences, passion, and commitment are definitely assets that set him apart from others.

Check it out at jamesoh or you may reach him at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk

Wednesday 10 February 2016

THE SIMPLEST WAY OF MIND CHANGING ILLUSTRATION

During a robbery, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: “Don’t move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you.” Everyone in the bank laid down quietly. This is called “Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking. 

When a lady lay on the table provocatively, the robber shouted at her: “Please be civilized! This is a robbery and not a rape!” This is called “Being Professional” Focus only on what you are trained to do! When the bank robbers returned home, the younger robber (MBA-trained) told the older robber (who has only completed Year 6 in primary school): “Big brother, let’s count how much we got.” The older robber rebutted and said: “You are very stupid. There is so much money it will take us a long time to count. Tonight, the TV news will tell us how much we robbed from the bank!” This is called “Experience.” 

Nowadays, experience is more important than paper qualifications! After the robbers had left, the bank manager told the bank supervisor to call the police quickly. But the supervisor said to him: “Wait! Let us take out $10 million from the bank for ourselves and add it to the $70 million that we have previously embezzled from the bank”. This is called “Swim with the tide.” Converting an unfavorable situation to your advantage!

The supervisor says: “It will be good if there is a robbery every month.” This is called “Killing Boredom.” Personal Happiness is more important than your job. The next day, the TV news reported that $100 million was taken from the bank. The robbers counted and counted and counted, but they could only count $20 million. The robbers were very angry and complained:
 “We risked our lives and only took $20 million. The bank manager took $80 million with a snap of his fingers. It looks like it is better to be educated than to be a thief!” This is called “Knowledge is worth as much as gold!”

The bank manager was smiling and happy because his losses in the share market are now covered by this robbery.This is called “Seizing the opportunity.” Daring to take risks! So who are the real robbers here?

Monday 8 February 2016

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR - FIRE MONKEY


                                                          

CHIEF MONEY STORIES TELLER

May you be blessed with abundance of joy, peace, health , happiness and wealth.



Sunday 7 February 2016

A GREAT BLESSING TO JAMES OH

Awesome day to everyone,

I have more than 20 years of experience in broad industries of auditing, trading, construction, aviation movies investment and distribution. As such, I am having wide expose in both local and international market particularly in dealing with the world leading aviation financiers, insurance and reinsurance brokers. The aviation company I worked with offers me ample opportunities of obtaining external funding for its organic expansion programs and that’s prompted me to explore a wider range of financing products to lower down its financing costs and provides flexibility in term of collateral and terms. The hands on experience and insightful aviation knowledge prospered me with a very varied and valuable experience, which I later discovered to be so useful to part of my business.

Initially I developed in the key operational areas of the company and constantly redefine them through extensive search in accelerating the business progress of the services and the effective  implementation of the processes, taking to the practice many new tweaked processes and procedures with the purpose of reducing both the times and costs. 

In the process of vetting through the sales, leasing, charter, purchasing and financing agreements with the Providers / Clients; I have managed to make faithful and favourable long term business relationship with the clients / providers. Thus I achieved and established a win–win situation for all stakeholders.

I am always searching for new better ideas according to both the internal and external environment by keeping abreast of the rapid external changes that the company has to response in a timely manner. To redefine my thinking skills in securing both, the direct and indirect benefits are my trademark at all the relevant and material times that earned the respect and the full co-operation of all levels of staff.


I was also involved in the development of all the strategic and operational plans together with all the policy matters of the company, from the development to the implementation and armed with providers' networks.

The in-depth and insightful experience enables me to be an organized and effective person to align the strategies of the business, with its intended purpose. As a result, I am able to develop the required confidence, competency and credibility in establishing sound interpersonal relationship with the teams to deliver the desired results through sincere communication


Thursday 4 February 2016

ROAD SHOW OF MY NEW FINANCIAL PROGRAM

The Simplest Way to Diagnose Financial Statements

My heartfelt thanks to those who have taken off from their daily busy schedule to attend the 1st road show of my new program, The Simplest Way to Diagnose Financial Statements, trust I have delivered some useful tips, techniques and tools to accelerate their journey forward, as my reward to them.






I am deeply delighted to see such an encouraging level of attendance despite the heavy traffic some of you have to go through. I must say that there was very responsive engagement from many of you throughout the talk, truly drove me to feel and share easily the financial stories, instead of the usual dry, dull and difficult Financial Statements. You awesome guys truly boost up my confidence to another highest level.

Oh! Yup.The information and feedbacks I received immediately after talk were so overwhelming and I can’t thank you enough for your kind action.

I will definitely not only incorporate all these valuable feedbacks, but also take it one step further to conduct more frequent road show through institution or public, which I firmly believe will turn out to be another of my flagship financial product in the near future. Shoot me an email at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk for those who are interested/ keen to find out more about this program. 

You guys are really awesome and had made this talk a successful one. With this, I am wishing a Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it and Happy Holidays to those who don’t.




Thanks again and let me know should you need any type of training on financial, wealth and mind changing.

This is a good start for the year of 2016 and what matters most is to finish well and strong, which the Fire Monkey will provide us the required fuel for our desire.




With this, I look forward to fostering long term business relationship with you. 

James Oh 

CHIEF MONEY STORIES TELLER