Strategic, Leadership and Succession Planning (for SFCCA members only) (CET159)

Synopsis

This one-day course is designed for participants from non-profit organizations, NGOs, VWOs, and associations seeking to enhance their strategic planning, leadership and succession planning efforts. The course will introduce the fundamentals of strategic thinking, environmental scanning, and internal assessment specific to the nonprofit sector, equipping participants with the tools needed to formulate and implement effective strategies. In addition, the program will dive into the evolution of non-profits and volunteer-based organizations to explore strategic and leadership planning. Through a combination of lectures and discussions, participants will develop a comprehensive understanding of strategic and leadership best practices to drive organizational sustainability

Who Should Attend

Participants who are involved in strategic and leadership succession planning and those who want to learn the systematic approach towards their organizational strategic and leadership planning.

Topics

1. Strategy for Non-profits, Strategic Planning process and Framework
2. Environmental Scanning
3. Internal Assessment
4. Formulating and Evaluating Strategies
5. Implementing Strategies and Goal Setting
6. Evolution of NGOs and VWOs
7. Myths and Assumptions of Leadership and Youth Engagement
8. Theories and principles relating to Community Leadership
9. Theories and principles relating to Volunteer Engagement for Succession Planning
10. Ethics of Leadership
11. Leadership, Succession Planning and Learnings 

Objectives

By the end of this course, 

• Understand strategic planning frameworks: Develop a clear understanding of strategic planning processes tailored to the nonprofit sector, including the importance of environmental scanning and internal assessment.
• Analyze and formulate strategies: Learn how to evaluate internal and external factors that impact their organizations and use this data to create effective strategies.
• Implement strategies and set goals: Gain practical insights into translating strategies into actionable goals for organizational growth and sustainability.
• Explore leadership evolution and challenges: Examine the evolution of leadership in NGOs, VWOs, and clan associations, understanding common myths and assumptions about leadership and youth engagement.
• Learn principles of community and volunteer leadership: Grasp key leadership theories related to community organizing and volunteer engagement as foundations for strong succession planning.
• Recognize the ethical aspects of leadership: Develop an understanding of the ethics that should guide leadership within non-profit organizations.
• Prepare for effective succession planning: Gain knowledge and practical insights into planning for leadership transitions and engaging the next generation of leaders.

A. Knowledge and Understanding (Theory Component)

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Imbibe the know-how and considerations for strategy, leadership and succession planning in not for-profit/ membership organisations      

B. Key Skills (Practical Component)

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Formulate the strategic, leadership and succession planning framework for their organizational implementation

Schedule

Assessments

• Group Presentation

Requirements

• Work or community experience in engaging staff or public audiences

About the Trainer

Lucas Jiang

Lucas helps late-stage startup founders, family business owners, and senior executives to take their personal and business growth to the next level. With first-hand experience building a tech unicorn, Lucas offers a unique perspective on growth, adaptability, and transformation to his work with clients. Lucas's approach is both supportive and challenging, empowering clients to examine their limiting beliefs, explore unconventional alternatives, and adopt new ways of being and doing. He encourages clients to experiment with pragmatic and creative micro-actions that form new habits, unleashing the hidden potential of both clients and their businesses.

Lucas is an experienced business and people leader from the tech industry. His career spans SE Asia and China in a variety of sectors, government agencies, management consulting, and a tech unicorn. Lucas was an early member and a senior executive at Sea Group (NYSE: SE), playing a significant role in growing the company from a thirty-member start-up into the largest tech company from SE Asia with 30,000 employees in ten years.

As the VP of the Group CEO’s office, Lucas worked directly with the founder on strategic initiatives, including capital raising, strategic planning, and critical partnerships. In the capacity of Singapore and Malaysia’s CEO, he improved the profit margin by 16% while growing the top line of the business. Lucas also founded the company’s management associate programme, and groomed more than one hundred young talents, some of which have since taken on key leadership roles such as country heads. At the game business unit, he revamped the management and people processes by aligning the leadership team, aggressive hiring and restructuring, and strengthening the core values. This led to a record one-billion-dollar EBITDA in one year.

Lucas holds a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Cambridge. He is trained as an executive coach with the ICF accredited Neuro-Leadership Institute and Bailey-Balfour, and is certified to deliver Hogan assessment. Lucas is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Application Procedures

Please submit the following documents to [email protected]:

1. Coloured copy (back and front) of NRIC for Singaporeans and PRs, or "Employment"/"S" Pass for foreign applicant
   
2. Application form
   
   

Course Fee

¹ Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy: Singaporeans aged 40 and above may enjoy subsidies up to 90% of the course fees.
² Enhanced Training Support for SMEs: SME-sponsored employees (Singaporean Citizens and PRs) aged 21 and above may enjoy subsidies up to 90% of the course fees.

• Participants are required to achieve at least 75% attendance and pass any prescribed examinations/assessments or submit any course/project work (if any) under the course requirement.
• Participants are required to complete all surveys and feedbacks related to the course.
• The course fees are reviewed annually and may be revised. The University reserves the right to adjust the course fees without prior notice.
• Singapore University of Social Sciences reserves the right to amend and/or revise the above schedule without prior notice.

For the various payment modes, please refer here.

Course Withdrawal and Refund

Request for withdrawal from a course must be submitted to SUSS Academy formally in writing.

• Course Withdrawal before Application Close Date: No charges.
• Course Withdrawal after course confirmation: 50% of the full course fee with an administration fee imposed.
• Course Withdrawal after the course commences: Full course fee applies.

For clarification, please contact the SUSS Academy via the following:

Telephone: +65 6248 0263
Email: [email protected]