Products
TRAINING
Training in most soft-skills areas to improve people and leadership skills
FACILITATION
Facilitation, brainstorming, motivation, ice-breaking and teambuilding
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
Subject-matter-experts for talks, seminars, technical training
STUDY TOURS
Seminars & study tours to Malaysia and South East Asia in any areas of interest
About
SkillFocus Consultancy is an international management and training consultancy operating out of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with more than 20 years of experience in the domestic and global arena.
The company provides highly professional and customised consultancy services to organisations and nations cutting across all sectors – corporate, government, international organisations and civil society.
SkillFocus networks with several organizations in various countries and partners with a team of highly qualified and experienced consultants and specialists both in Malaysia and outside, to provide optimal programmes for capacity-building, training, study tours, and consultancy interventions.
Because we have trained on-site in more than 35 countries around the world, we understand cultures betters and are able to better customize our training to suit the local needs of our clients and are also able to expose participants to a broader global perspective!
Furthermore, we are small and lean outfit and we do not incur overheads that most other training firms do; we therefore are able to provide our services to our clients at very affordable rates without all the other built-in costs!
OUR TRAINERS
IVAN KUMAR
KENNY TAY
DR. BILL DANT
SHANTA NAGENDRAM
Testimonials
We consistently achieve very good to excellent evaluations and ratings in all our training sessions based on participants’ feedback and evaluation!
Training Courses
Negotiations Skills
Everyone negotiates, but many of us have not learnt or been trained in the art of negotiations! We just do it on a trial and error basis. This is where we as individuals, our organisations and even nations may pay a very high price for the lack of knowledge and skills in negotiations. Every negotiation Read more about Negotiations Skills[…]
Teambuilding
High Impact Teambuilding is a fun filled experiential journey about people working as a team to meet the organizational deliverables. Teams will be exposed to ideas and concept of working professionally despite the differences and staying focused on the big picture. The program incorporates interesting outdoor and indoor team challenges that will take participants through Read more about Teambuilding[…]
Leadership Skills
The nature of leadership in the 21st Century is changing. Societies and organizations are demanding leaders who can generate trust, empower and inspire others, find innovative answers to problems and challenges and produce tangibly positive results. Increasingly, individual leaders and organizations face challenges that are dauntingly complex in scale. Helping them lead effectively in this Read more about Leadership Skills[…]
Presentation Skills
Good information, great ideas or the best proposal only gets you half way – to be a successful professional presenter you need to be able to capture your audience and take them on your journey using effective presentations. Positioning yourself and your ideas in a consistently positive and professional manner enables you to make a Read more about Presentation Skills[…]
Leadership Empowerment for Women
Ever wondered why some women don’t reach their full potential, despite the best training, skills, support and effort? They know what to do and how to do it and they’re out there doing it — and still not achieving the desired results! Clearly there’s more to success than skill, knowledge and action! This is the Read more about Leadership Empowerment for Women[…]
Communications Skills
Communication skills are important to your success because it influences what we understand about you as well as how we respond to you and support your views. Knowing how to communicate effectively, without criticizing or offending others, is an important key in any environment. A team-player with good communication skills can potentially help create a conducive Read more about Communications Skills[…]
Teamwork, Organisational and Leadership Skills
We all live and work in groups in our personal, professional and community life. Any organisation benefits if the group of people working in it, can be transformed into self-managing teams whereby every individual knows their role, responsibility and contributes towards better organisational effectiveness, performance and productivity. Personal effectiveness of each member of the team Read more about Teamwork, Organisational and Leadership Skills[…]
Train-the-Trainer
This workshop is designed to be an introduction to training and is suitable for anyone who has to deliver training on a one-to-one and small group basis. It aims to equip participants with the skills to design and deliver short training sessions. You will gain an understanding of how people learn and increase your confidence Read more about Train-the-Trainer[…]
Facilitation Skills
A skilled facilitator enables a group to deal with a problem or develop a plan for delivering results in less time than it would take without this professional’s expertise. This course will teach participants how to act as facilitators who can draw out and process audience input for the purpose of moving a discussion forward. Read more about Facilitation Skills[…]
Cross-cultural Competence
In the international marketplace and workplace, the globe becomes ‘smaller’ and boundaries ‘disappear’, different people from different cultures will be forced to live side-by-side, work and play together, and do business with one another. The more this happens, the awareness of cultural difference is vital for success. Cultural Competence helps you to understand how and why people Read more about Cross-cultural Competence[…]
Customer Service/Service Delivery
In today’s globalized environment, where organizations must survive the changes or get left behind, managing customers’ expectations is one of the most important aspects of having a successful operations. It doesn’t matter whether you are selling something or providing a service, you aren’t going to get far if you don’t have effective customer service. It Read more about Customer Service/Service Delivery[…]
Conflict Management
Organizations today operate in an increasingly challenging and dynamic environment. Individuals in organizations also increasingly have to balance personal and professional needs in a highly competitive environment. It is imperative that management recognizes the significance of conflict and the need to manage conflict which arises due to situations and decisions involving allocating limited resources, differing Read more about Conflict Management[…]
Protocol and Etiquette
Want to know how to manage a visit of a high-level delegation to your organization? How to treat dignitaries? How to handle formal written communication? How to navigate a formal dinner? How to be aware of the sensitivities when placing guests? What is the right order of precedence and which guests rank most highly? After Read more about Protocol and Etiquette[…]
Creativity at Work
We are living in a sea of discontinuous changes, bringing in its wake, fresh and new challenges and opportunities. Among the numerous challenges brought about by change are increasing product competition and customer expectations. Indeed, to survive in this brave new world requires that we adapt to the changes or invent the future. To invent Read more about Creativity at Work[…]
Leading Performance through Behavioural Change
There are many ways to improve a team performance in achieving organizational aspirations. Some organisations tend to manage through hiring the right people, streamlining processes, technological innovation, training and reskilling and reallocating resources through load balancing. All of these take a considerable time to design and execute. In this course, we will discuss one very Read more about Leading Performance through Behavioural Change[…]
Financial Skills for Leaders
In today’s competitive global economy, the role of Leaders has expanded, demanding a dynamic blend of leadership skills, strategic thinking and finance expertise. Increasingly, the top executives of organisations are required to be forward-looking, with a broadened perspective that goes beyond financial literacy to encompass enterprise-wide concerns. Financial Skills for Leadership provides senior executives with Read more about Financial Skills for Leaders[…]
Planning and Managing Projects
This course has been created for the project manager and team lead in any project team. If not familiar to proper processes and techniques, then this is the project management course for them. It introduces sufficient know-what and know-how from the basic and intermediate levels of the methodology. With the workshops taken from their own Read more about Planning and Managing Projects[…]
Grow Your Talent to Grow Your Business
Attracting and recruiting talent is vital to any company’s success. Vast amount of resources go into getting this right. But many companies miss out on a more holistic approach to talent retention and thus, fail to see the need of their new employee’s personal development. While much effort is put into hiring, companies miss out Read more about Grow Your Talent to Grow Your Business[…]
Consultative Selling
Consultative Selling is a skill where selling is made easy. It’s a concept and process that turn an ordinary salesperson to an Influential Advisor. An Influential Advisor does not “sell”, they “influence” customers to buy. Equipped with this skill, one doesn’t need to “sell” anything anymore! The scope of the training covers the sales process, Read more about Consultative Selling[…]
Sales Coaching
Developmental Sales Coaching is a program that increases one’s effectiveness as a leader and manager. The Manager will learn how to achieve results through the team, how to have performance-related conversation and create an accountable culture within their team. The scope of the training covers sales coaching framework and techniques, identify and remove obstacles that Read more about Sales Coaching[…]
