PRFOILE OF JAMES OH AS AT AUG 2018

JAMES OH Chartered Accountant (registered with Malaysia Institute of Accountants), BA (Accountancy) LLB – University of London (UK) Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK), PSMB Certified Trainer Competent Communicator with Toastmaster International. James Oh comes to you as a financial, wealth and mindset specialist. He is an avid thinker, mind-explorer, leader and intensive researcher with more than 30 years of professional working experience in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation, movies investment and distribution. He is richly exposed to both local and international businesses, especially in the negotiations 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 companies that he had served. His track record includes nurturing a growing company with its founder and obtained a listing for the company on the stock market. He also helped turn the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1996-1997. James has been featured in numerous media several times. The media include top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Homefinder, FlyMe360, Property Insight, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Malaysian Institute of Insurance, Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. His articles have been selected and published for the consecutive year in Mira's limited copies of investment supplements for 2016 & 2017. As a writer and researcher, he has also published eight books, specialising in financial literacy, value creation and thinking skills. He has sold his books both locally and internationally through E-Sentral, Smashwords, and Lulu.com. James is a leading authority in the area of business strategy, sustainable growth and innovation.

SHORT WRITE UP - LETTING GO AND MOVING ON

Letting Go and Moving On - short write up

This book chronicles the true but sad tragedy that has befallen the author's wife who was more than 30 weeks pregnant at that time. Coincidentally she was staying at the renowned private hospital where their eldest child (aged 1 year old was warded). While she was there she experienced labour pain. We would have thought that since she was already in the hospital, it would have resulted in a smooth and safe delivery. However, it was not meant to be. She had to undergo tests after tests for reasons best known to be the hospital resulting in the baby being born still born. Dear readers, can you feel the injustice and trauma that the author and his family has to undergo as a result of the hospital irresponsible action!!!!! Imagine the anguish and grief experienced by the author until it caused him to lose his purpose in life and passion in his profession. He was trapped by the injustice and his failure to seek justice for his son. He tried many avenues and every time when there appeared a glimpse of hope the next day it would be washed away by the waves. Was there no way to see that justice is served? He even read law to defend himself but again it met with failure. He was reduced to desperation until one day he was awakened by a bright light urging him to surrender himself to His mighty arms. It was then he decided it was time to let go of the past and move forward. He was recently dealt another bigger blow when he was diagnosed with stage 3 stomach cancer. He has removed 60% of the infected stomach and undergone 12 courses of chemotherapy all in the spate of 9 months. He now looks forward to fulfilling a larger purpose of his life by making a difference in other people’s lives.

OFFICIAL CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENT

official announcement Grace to everyone, Pleased to announce that my joint venture with the renown training provider, Quantum Leap is still in existence despite being diagnosed with the big C.. and undergoing treatment for it. For more information on this joint venture, please click on the link below: http://www.quantumleap-seminar.com/?s=James+Oh My grateful thanks and appreciation to Mr. TK Chan for giving me an opportunity to promote my enterprise through this platform. This also signals the start of a long lasting business relationship and I am indeed privileged to have Mr. Chan as one of my collaborators. I am indeed blessed to be able to focus on developing new courses to cater for the needs and demands of potential customers. As such, I am seeking more collaborators to help market these training programs. This is a much needed income as I need to generate income to support my family especially my two kids who are currently pursuing tertiary courses. Grateful if anyone can contact me should there be any interest in my programs. Cheers and look forward to hearing from you, With unconditional love, James Oh

JAMES OH'S PROFILE

JAMES OH Chartered Accountant (registered with Malaysia Institute of Accountants), MIPA AFA, BA (Accountancy) LLB – University of London (UK) Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK), PSMB Certified Trainer Competent Communicator with Toastmaster International. James Oh comes to you as a financial, wealth and mindset specialist. He is an avid thinker, mind-explorer, leader and intensive researcher with more than 30 years of professional working experience in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation, movies investment and distribution. He is richly exposed to both local and international businesses, especially in the negotiations 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 companies that he had served. His track record includes nurturing a growing company with its founder and obtained a listing for the company on the stock market. He also helped turn the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1996-1997. James has been featured in numerous media several times. The media include top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, FlyMe360, Property Insight, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Malaysian Institute of Insurance, Journal of Wealth Planning and Management and. As a writer and researcher, he has also published eight books, specialising in value creation and has sold his books internationally through Amazon.com, Smashwords, and Lulu.com. Aside from his vast work experience, he was also an Associate Trainer with Kaplan Institute, Singapore conducting trainings and talks on finance, business, value creating and lean finance management. James is a leading authority in the area of business strategy, sustainable growth and innovation.

SEXY FINANCIAL TRAINER - ELEVATION PITCH

Very happy morning 

I am James Oh from "Lift You Up Plt. ! " I am a mobile professional trainer who have great passion in numbers. (put my heart on my heart)

A sexy financial account is like a sexy lady :-

- Huge revenue (put my hand on my chest) 

- small expenses (put my hand on my waist) 

And 

- Big Profit (put my hand on my bump). 

Basically, I help my clients to shape their companies into "sexy" ones!

Please refer me to companies that have such a desire. 

Let me be your Sexy Financial Trainer!

- in 40 seconds

PREDICTION VS CONTROL SITUATION

'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.' F. Scott Fitzgerald 

THINKING & INNOVATION - ENHANCE YOUR MENTAL INTELLIGENCE AND CAPABILITIES

COURSE OUTLINE

Icebreaker

MODULE: 1

Introductions and Expectations

The Scary Situation of Statistics findings

Bloom Taxonomy’s Thinking Skills

What is Innovation?

How to cultivate thinking and Innovation?

What are the tools and techniques?

Direct, drive and deliver Value creation through 5Rs

What are 5Rs?

How those 5Rs are being employed through Innovation Implementation?

MODULE: 2

Higher Think Skills

How to develop 5Cs

What are they?

Critical thinking skill

Creative

Collaborative

Communication &

Character

Useful Tips through 5Bs

What are the 5 Bs

-       Strengthening Belief

-       Overcoming Barriers

-       Pushing over Borders

-       Crossing the Boundaries

-       To Be

MODULE: 3

Adapting Growth Mindsets

How they are different from Fixed Mindset

Prof. Carol Dwech’s findings

How to adapt Growth Mindset

Why it is important in today’s business landscape?

MODULE: 4

How to make access to Higher Faculty

What are the Higher Faculties?

Reasoning, Intuition, Will & Imagination

How they work?

Why this is important in today’s environment

Games/Activities

Day II

MODULE: 5

Essential Soft skills

Effective Communication

Analytical and Evaluation Skills

Problem Solving Skills

How to effectively employ the new strategic tools and technique? 

Games/ Activities

Sum up / Q & A / Discussion

MODULE: 6

Stay Focus on the Main Purpose

Setting the appropriate priorities to cope with the dynamic situation

Proper alignment to the main purpose

Pursuit of Perfection (concept and uses)

Through 5 Vs

What are they?

Vision, Values, Virtues, Voices + Versatile

How they work

Video + Discussion

MODULE: 7

Key Opportunities, Challenges & Priorities

What are the Key challenges and opportunities in this Uncertain, Volatile, Complex and Ambiguous situation.

How to Master, depart and making transformation?

How to redefine your thinking process to accelerate growth?
Challenge Mastery and to have breakthrough results

Creative imagination

What are the key drivers?

What need to be done in this;

Change is certain & how to embrace change mind-set? Discussion

Why and how to focus on new opportunities & priorities
How to learn, Unlearn and relearn

MODULE: 8

A Plan to Take Home

This session will challenge the participants to think about Roadblocks & Pitfalls to implementation

Redefine your destination

Shape your character

How to bring these learned lessons into the organization

Sum Up/ Q & A

Key take-back messages

END OF DAY 2

ENTREPRENEUR THINKING SKILLS

SYNOPSIS

The world is changing at a much faster pace than ever before. Global connectivity, smart machines, new media and the evolution of governance are just some of the key drivers reshaping the expectations of all stakeholders on every business owner and finance function. It is a must to play a critical and strategic role in bringing the much required stability to business and society.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After the end of this program, the participant will be able to:-

•    Demonstrate entrepreneur mindset, know-how and required essential key skills that can support business and personal goals
•    See the big picture by constantly communicating their purpose / ideas clearly, compellingly and passionately

•    Have good and deep understanding of what it takes to be successful entrepreneur;  

•    Craft and formulate a more agile and productive team by employing creative solutions
•    Understand what key decision makers are looking for

•    Practice Continuous learning by pursuing perfection
•    Have Ownership and accountability for their team through leadership by example
•    Identify the key drivers for success in line with his goals by responding to the external changes

•    Ascertain what action is needed by the organisational decision makers in challenging the status quo

•    Describe the ways in which entrepreneurs perceive opportunity, manage risk, and organize resources and add value.    

COURSE OUTLINE

Day I

Icebreaker

MODULE: 1

Introductions and expectations

What is entrepreneurship?

Who is an entrepreneur?

How to be a successful entrepreneur?

How Strategic Planning and Management link with entrepreneur?

How entrepreneur think

Effectual and Causal Reasoning

What they mean?

Direct, drive and deliver Value creation through 5Rs

What are 5Rs?

How those 5Rs being employed through Innovation Implementation?

MODULE: 2

What it takes to be Effective Entrepreneur

Effectual reasoning and not casual reasoning

What are their differences?

How they work

Ready, Fire, Aim

What successful entrepreneurs are looking for?

What strategic questions that must be answered?
How to develop new skills and competencies to deliver increased value?

5 Cs (Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity & Character)

How they work

Qualities of effective entrepreneur

Leadership by example,

Metric measurements, how to develop and use them?

Video/ Games

MODULE: 3

Setting Strategic Direction

What is Mission?

What is Vision?

What is Strategic?

What’s the link and relationship between all these key ingredients?

What are the 5 steps approaches?

What are they?

What are the factors that caused the strategy fails?

Games

MODULE: 4

What are the New Skills and Competencies required in 21st centuries?

Excellent analytical skills in terms of financial, market, statistical and sophisticated modelling techniques

Use of multi-discipline team approach

To integrate inputs from diverse sources

Back by strong commercial acumen characterised by strong product, process and market knowledge
Adopt best practices

Sound, solid and sane problem solving skills
Key metric measurements that shape behaviour: how to set

How to apply new strategic tools to create value for the company by looking beyond financial statements
How to effectively employ the new strategic tools and technique? 

Video, activities and group discussion

Sum up / Q & A / Discussion

Day II

MODULE: 5

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Bloom Taxonomy’s theory

What are higher Thinking Skills?

Why it is important

How can it help?

What is Creative?

What is Innovation?

How are they related?

Evaluation and control

How much progress has been made in accomplishing the task?

What is preventing us from moving forward?

What adjustments should be made to the initial strategic and operating plans?

Is there a need to revise the strategic objectives?

Games

MODULE: 6

The Strategic Focus

What are the strategic involvements?

The challenges and opportunities for entrepreneur

How the entrepreneur in directing, driving and influencing organizational strategy

Entrepreneurship and decision making in:-

a.     Enhancing Shareholders’ value,

b.     Understanding their role in the big picture

c.     Pursuit of Perfection (concept and uses)

Games

MODULE: 7

Key Challenges and Opportunities

What needs to be done in this Uncertain, Volatile, Complex and Ambiguous World?

The links Characteristics of Fixed and adapting mindsets with 4 key ingredients of growth;

Dr Dwech’s findings

How they link

Change is certain & how to embrace change mind-set? Discussion

Eight steps to successful change -Kotter’s model

How to reinvigorate growth and prosperity?

Why and how to focus on new opportunities & priorities
How to learn, Unlearn and relearn

MODULE: 8

Focus Area & Priorities

Higher order thinking skills;

How to develop Adaptive mindset

Set the appropriate priorities

Developing healthy coping strategies
Challenge Mastery to have breakthrough results

Employ creative imagination

What are the key drivers?

Activities/ video

Sum Up/ Q & A

Key take-back messages

END OF DAY 2

3 DAYS COURSE OUTLINE - LEAN FINANCE

LEAN FINANCE - ENHANCE YOUR FINANCE INTELLIGENCE SKILL AND CAPABILITIES                                                                   

SYNOPSIS

Bring your finance function to the next level of success with lean Finance! Discover how you can provide management with daily performance information needed to support continuous improvement to your organization’s practices and processes. By applying Lean principles, you can provide real-time quantitative insights to the performance of business processes, thus enabling management to take corrective actions and be in control of the processes.

With this, you can reap the benefits that lean finance generates in the form of better quality, shorter lead times as well as the added capabilities gained from personnel, equipment and space.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES:

This programme seeks to enable you to:

  Understand how Lean Finance will lay a Foundation for Success

  Understand the Critical Roles of the Finance Function

  Provide highly competitive competence in your performance,  

 Apply the tools and techniques to provide real time quantitative insight into performance of processes,

  Understand the unprecedented pressure to eliminate waste, boost efficiency and freeing up capacity,

  Eliminating non-value added activities and freeing resources to accelerate lean journey,

  Cultivate a mind-set of continuous improvement

  Do it right the first time and every time

  Use metric to shape behaviour

  Make real improvement by aligning operations to value stream 

COURSE OUTLINE
Day I

Icebreaker

MODULE: 1

Lean Principles and Practices

What are lean principles and practices?

How do they work?

Direct, drive and deliver Value creation through 5Rs

What are 5Rs?

How those 5Rs being employed through Lean Implementation?

MODULE: 2

Financial, Non- Financial Ratios and Lean Performance Indicators

Back to Basics

Why numbers are important?

Numbers are the language of Business Improvement

How to read the story beyond the numbers?

What are the lagging and leading indicators?

Value Stream Concept, approach and uses

What are the “Plain English” Statements?

Metric measurements, how to develop and use them?

MODULE: 3

Holistic Approach

What are the 6Ps?

How to unleash your potentials?

Cause and consequence
How to effectively transformation from Tradition to LEAN?

How to Learn and Grow?

Day II

MODULE: 4

Lean Accounting, Qualitative Aspects and Essential Skill

What is Lean Accounting?
Quality aspects in term of needs, gaps and culture; how to assess
Shape team purpose and productivity; how to
Adopt best practices

Metric measurements shape behaviour: how to

How to apply new strategic tools to create value for the company by looking beyond financial statements
How to effectively employ the new strategic tools and technique? 
Sum up / Q & A / Discussion

MODULE: 5

Qualitative aspects

The following issues will be covered:-

a.     Integrity

b.     Lean thinking

c.     In pursuit of perfection

d.     Culture of empowerment

e.     Conscious to unconscious competencies

f.      Dynamic, enthusiastic, energetic

g.     Innovative, multi- dimensional perspectives

h.     Culture of empowerment

MODULE: 6

Big picture of the organization Success

Use key performance indicators aligned to value creation; how to

Different perspectives and definitions:-

a.     Business acumen,

b.     Enhance Shareholders’ value,

c.     Understand their role in the big picture

d.     In pursuit of Perfection (concept and uses)

End of Day II

Day III

MODULE: 7

Economic and Business Outlook

What need to be done in this Uncertain, Volatile, Complex and Ambiguous World;

Change is certain & how to embrace change mind-set? Discussion

Why and how to focus on new opportunities & priorities

Adopting growth mindset
How to learn, Unlearn and relearn

MODULE: 8

Focus Area, Key opportunities and Priorities

What are the key challenges and opportunities

Mastery, departure and making transformation

Redefine your destination

Lean is a journey per se

How to bring those lessons to your organisation

Lean driver

MODULE: 9

A Plan to Take Home

This session will challenge the participants to think about roadblocks and pitfalls to Lean implementation

Sum Up/ Q & A

Key take-back messages

END OF DAY 3

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JAMES OH'S PROFILE AS AT APR 2017

JAMES OH

Chartered Accountant (registered with Malaysia Institute of Accountants), MIPA AFA, BA (Accountancy) 

LLB - London of University (UK)

Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK), PSMB Certified Trainer 

Competent Communicator with Toastmaster International.

James Oh comes to you as a financial, wealth and mindset specialist. He is an avid thinker, mind-explorer, leader and intensive researcher with more than 30 years of professional working experience in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation, movies investment and distribution. He is richly exposed to both local and international business, 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 companies that he had served. His track record includes nurturing a growing company with its founder and got the company listed on the stock market. He also turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1996-1997.

James has been featured in numerous media several times. The media include top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, FlyMe360, Property Insight, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Malaysian Institute of Insurance, Journal of Wealth Planning and Management and.  As a writer and researcher, he has also published eight books, specializes in value creation and sold his books internationally through Amazon.com, Smashwords, and Lulu.com. 

Aside from his substantial work experience, he was also an Associate Trainer with Kaplan Institute, Singapore conducting trainings and talks on finance, business, value creating and lean finance management.

James is a leading authority in the area of business strategy, sustainable growth and innovation.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILL

WHY GAMES IN OUR WORKSHOP

Why we use games in the workshop?

Games are used In Workshops as they are powerful, engaging and entertaining tools for participants to learn the concepts or principles as they creep into the games. They also can be used to stimulate thinking and teach a variety of skills and concepts–even if the game players may not realize it at the time.

During the workshop, participants played a variety of games that ranged from warm-up exercises and ice-breakers to longer interactions that taught in-depth concepts. These games required them to communicate effectively in verbal and nonverbal ways, collaborate with one another in teams to achieve desired results, collectively and individually create new concepts, and adapt quickly to change.

The workshop also provided opportunities for participants to debrief as a group and connect the activities to the learning outcomes. Debriefing these activities is of particular importance, as this is when the main learning occurs. It also enables participants to reference their past experiences and connect them to the activities as well as the course materials.