Teambuilding Facilitator

When one thinks of a team building activity, images of participant competitions through games, puzzles, pulling ropes etc come into mind. These are always effective opportunities to “break the ice” and bring good physical activity among the learners while having fun at the same time.

However, one of the most important yet sensitive portion of any team building activity is the proper facilitating and processing; of what should be carefully selected tasks/ games for the participants to achieve their team goal.

The main advantage of the One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines)  team is that they can link the relevance of observed participant and group behavior back into their organizational settings. This is always an added benefit due to the strong management experience of the facilitators. After all, the bottom line is for the learner to emerge as a more positive and productive employee in his own organizational setting.

The One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) team spend time meeting with key client contacts to get us much information about the group. Current personnel issues are presented on the table so the best activities may be selected to address group as well as individual challenges.

Apart from making sure behavioral concerns are tackled; One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) also understand budget constraints of some clients so their professional fees are very reasonable. The One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) team usually takes care of its own transportation logistics if the venue is just within Cebu to free up additional logistic preparation on the part of the client.

Facilitating quality and cost-effective team building activities for companies from multiple industries is what One Core Business Innovations is all about; but there is always a touch of customer service along with it to leave the client energized, inspired and satisfied after tapping One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines)

Sourcing and Executive Search in Cebu

A Cebu-based multinational company recently commented on the advantages of tapping a local companies which specializes in sourcing and executive search services. In the past, when new offices set up shop in Cebu; Manila headhunters were asked to take care of employee placements.

As former members of corporate senior management teams, the people behind One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) understand the major advantages in using locally based sourcing and executive search companies. The search is faster and oftentimes more efficient.

For the past year, One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) have successfully endorsed employees to their clients coming from different sectors of the Business Process Outsourcing industry. What has been noticed is the growing need for qualified employees in the non-voice category of the BPO, like software development and programming. Many of those who have the necessary Information Technology experience tend to seek employment outside the Philippines; so it is hoped that the academe will be very pro-active in making their course offerings updated and relevant to the needs of the market.

One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) works closely with their Sourcing and Executive Search clients in making sure that the candidate profiling is accurate. All applicants go through One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) to undergo the pre-qualification and initial interview processes. If they pass both processes, One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) endorses the shortlisted candidates to the client for final interview. Clients can save time on pooling as well as conducting the initial steps in the application process.

If your company needs help with employee sourcing and upper management search, contact One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) :

email: info@onecorebusiness.com/ mcdm@onecorebusiness.com

One Core Business Innovations – Cebu based HR and Training Consultancy Firm

A few years back, local businesses relied on engaging the services of human resource and or training companies outside of Cebu. This meant additional cost in terms of professional fees, air fair, hotel accommodation etc. so in the end, only the larger companies can afford these human resource or training consultancy activities.

The team of One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) is passionate about providing quality human resource consultancy and training services to companies, large or small in the Visayas and Mindanao areas. The response of this goal is evident with the diverse types of clients One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) have; engagements range from manufacturing companies with less than 50 employees, to business process outsourcing companies ( voice and non-voice) with 2,000 agents or even a brand new entrepreneur with his newly hired team of 10 employees; the list goes on.

One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines), continues to get requests for multiple human resource and training services engagements. What makes their clients satisfied with One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) is the flexibility and customized approach to the unique challenges of every organization; the satisfaction is further enhanced by the reasonable consultancy and training rates it arranges with their clients. OCBI understands budget constraints for some companies so the team oftentimes work around the alloted human resource and training consultancy fees without compromising quality.

The passion to help is still a strong objective for the team behind One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines); quality human resource consultancy and training services need not be beyond Cebu.

Personality Development Training

Personality Development, Image Enhancement, titles might differ but the goal boils down to helping participants enrich their overall persona.

Every time One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) is requested to run either a Personality Development or Image Enhancement training, more in-depth activities during the workshop takes place. It has been observed that many of the participants, regardless of industry do not have a very good self-image. The lack of self-confidence is very common, so the training hurdles several internal, self-image issues.

The good thing about these workshops, is that the participants are oftentimes very excited to help themselves improve. They are participative, ask may questions and can be very candid about their inhibitions and insecurities which are the stumbling blocks to confidence.

When the discussion and workshop on packaging ( corporate dressing, how to properly wear the uniform, shoes, make up etc) takes place, One Core Business Innovations will always take into consideration the budget constraints of the participants. For example,before  giving a make-up demonstration to the participants, the team always checks with the client on the salary brackets of the participants. If majority of the participants only earn a bit higher than minimum wage, then the One Core Business Innovations team will not be using expensive make-up. The materials used must be something the participants can also use after the training. After getting the salary range or bracket from the client, the One Core Business Innovations trainer purchase make-up materials within the budget range of the participants and also recommends these affordable but good make-up brands as well.

The whole Personality Development Training package must include polishing and highlighting the inner beauty of every person…the saying that a SMILE is the best make-up still holds true. Once a person feels good about himself, it will naturally exhude through a nice and sincere smile; his tone of voice will be confident and friendly, his total aura will be so positive that the clean and well-pressed clothes that she wears and the right amount of make-up are simply the icing on the cake. The whole package will truly represent a well developed personality and an enhanced image.

For customized Personality Development or Image Enhancement Trainings, please contact:

One Core Business Innovations

info@onecorebusiness.com

(32) 255-2209

telefax (32) 412-4650

Training Hotel Employees

Cebu was a different world when I was growing up, I remember taking the barge to cross the Mactan Channel if you want to hang out in the beautiful beaches of Mactan. Now, you conveniently have two bridges to take you to and from the island.

For more than two decades, Cebu has seen an extraordinary increase in new hotels from mid-size to 5-star categories. This is indicative of the growth of tourism and the types of tourists who come and visit not only Mactan but Cebu City and its neighboring cities as well.

The increase of hotels has also helped stimulate more employment opportunities for the community; many of the hotels however do not want to rest on their laurels. As they add more employees, they are constantly finding ways to improve workforce efficiency and quality through continuous trainings.

A large and upscale hotel recently sought the help of One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) provide back to back trainings to all their departments. They saw the need for their hotel employees to improve their overall image; they also wanted to hone down on polishing conversational skills. It is important for any hotel employee, whether frontline or behind the counter to possess an almost natural friendliness when talking to guests and improve confidence when exchanging pleasantries.

Filipinos by and large are naturally friendly but that can be easily masked by shyness; so it was important for  One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) as the hotel’s communication training provider to conduct confidence boosting activities in the workshop. Also, since it is a given that guests come from different parts of the world, intercultural communication modules were included in order for the hotel employees to better understand why people from other countries act the way they do.

With the hotel management’s training direction and with its continued collaboration with One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines), employees will be better skilled; upgraded skills can then be translated into better customer service behaviors and more importantly…loyal customers!

Image Enhancement Training – Beyond How You Look

Have you ever experienced visiting a corporate office, welcomed by a well-dressed Executive Assistant only to be disappointed because she has poor interpersonal skills?  What a waste to have someone take the time to neatly press her uniform, polish the shoes, put on nice make-up…the outward appearance is undoubtedly pleasing until the person starts to talk. This somehow is just half of the package.

One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) recently conducted a series of Image Enhancement Trainings for several companies in the Cebu business community. The type of training rolled out by One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) came as a pleasant surprise to the participants.

The training not only covers activities on how to properly package oneself; through teaching the correct make-up application to the correct choice of make up shade; many of the modules present workshops on how participants can improve their conversational skills when interacting with co-workers and especially with clients.

It was noted by the One Core Business Innovations training team that the Image Enhancement training was very well received since it tackled both the inner and outer challenges of each participant as they pursue to project not only an acceptable external appearance but exude a calm and confident inner charm.

More companies have been reaching out to One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) to help their employees from the frontline staff to operations. Companies coming from different sectors from the hospitality, service and business process outsourcing all the way to government institutions are clamoring for this type of training.

However, even if the Image Enhancement Training is given to multiple types of businesses, One Core Business Innovations still works closely with the company’s training department to find ways to customize the Image Enhancement Training to better help the participants achieve a greater improvement on their inner and outer image.

The One Core Business Innovations team always feel good at the conclusion of each training event; especially when they get heartfelt thanks from the participants and knowing that somehow a two-day training made a difference in their lives.

Corporate Training Provider in Cebu

Despite many cost-cutting measures, some Cebu-based companies still see the value of employee training. However, the choice of training providers goes beyond the types of modules but a major deciding consideration is COST.

One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) designs customized training programs to the organization, and since OCBI is Cebu based, clients do not have to worry about  additional logistics expenses of flying out non-Cebu based training outfits. The usual additional cost for engaging trainers outside of Cebu are airfare, hotel accomodation and usually slightly higher professional fees.

Another advantage which One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) offer to its local clients is the ease of interacting with the company HR or Training Departments; this is to ensure that the training design is customized enough to address the specific gaps of the target learners. Setting up pre-training discussions are managed well since the One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) team can easily visit the department onsite for collaborative meetings. ” We look at business training relationships, not just a one-time, goodbye and good-luck encounter with our clients”, quotes OCBI Managing Director, Claudette Manus.

For companies who still cannot afford in-house trainings, One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) offers monthly Public Trainings (see www.onecorebusiness.com for training schedules). These are ideal for the small and medium size businesses who can only send less than 5 people for trainings. Most public trainings cover communication and management series ( Conversational English to Management Essentials etc).

The local business community welcomes the opportunity to continue providing quality trainings to its workforce at a lesser cost. So the next time your company plans on any training from communication, supervisory to an outdoor teambuilding activity, call the One Core Business Innovations team at (32) 2552209/ (32) 4124650 or visit the website at www.onecorebusiness.com or send an email to info@onecorebusiness.com.

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Customer Service Training PLEASE!

It was a pleasant surprise when One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines)  was chosen to run a series of customer service trainings for some key government and quasi government agencies.

While private organizations maintain trainings to equip their workforce with the skills to better serve their clients, you don’t often hear such types of programs on the government side. So when the opportunity came; the One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) team took on the project with both excitement and anticipation.

At least 80% of the participants have not attended a customer service training for the past three years and the rest have not attended one at all! However, the One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) took the situation as an opportunity to make the group appreciate the need for excellent customer service skills in the government service.

The attendees came from different departments, multiple functions, rank and length of stay in the government. But regardless of their employment profile, they took the customer training seriously with  many “aha moments”, candid sharing of challenges with their multitude of customers (especially the irate ones!) and the never-ending stereotyping of government workers as being synonymous with sloppy service.

The discussions and sharing during the 2-day Customer Service Training also became a chance for One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) to introduce global customer service best practices for the group to hopefully consider gradually integrating into their own organizations or departments.

One of the clinchers of the customer service training was when the One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) training team urged the participants to realize that each person inside the training room is a taxpayer; and every taxpayer in this country deserves a decent amount of customer service from the government.

After all, excellent customer service is not just expected from every government employee but it is ultimately a responsibility. Now, if the message during the training was heard and applied back at work, the worry about stereotyping government employees to not having superior customer service skills might just be a thing of the past.

Using the Most Out of Company Downtime

It is of course old news when we say that the furniture industry has been badly affected by the global economic crisis. Some of these companies have taken a positive approach to the slow production months as an opportunity to prepare before the global market is ready to furnish their homes and offices once more with world class furniture. 

One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines) was asked to conduct a Teambuilding workshop for an established furniture company. The participants were comprised of managers from the Administration side and the supervisors and lead men from Production . It was quite an extraordinary decision for the company to step out of their comfort zone and request for a teambuilding activity; as this was going to be their first time after almost twenty years of operations!

Several pre-work activities had to be done by One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) to make sure that the activities selected for the Teambuilding workshop were targeted. Several meetings took place between the client and One Core Business Innovations (Cebu City, Philippines); discussions on challenges, issues and most importantly understanding what the client wanted to achieve for the workshop were top items on the agenda. It was noted that some members of the Production team were anxious about the activity; perhaps because this was their first time and didn’t know what to expect.

The day of the Teambuilding activity (which was definitely offsite!) proved to be a pleasantly surprising experience for the whole team. The targetted activities addressed their concerns and provided a healthy avenue to candidly discuss company challenges, concerns etc; and more importantly draw out realistic action plans to become a better and stronger organization.

Although the discussions were interspersed with physical activities (which made some heavyset participants think that they were in a reality show about losing weight ) , the day ended with a more inspired , cohesive and re-invigorated group.

The One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines ) would not have been able to conduct a successful teambuilding workshop without the full cooperation and willingness of the client to embrace change if it is for the best; this was definitely a team achievement. Now, this is literally and figuratively USING THE MOST OUT OF COMPANY DOWNTIME!

 

* If you want to have a customized Teambuilding workshop for your organization, you may contact:

One Core Business Innovations ( Cebu City, Philippines) 

email: info@onecorebusiness.com

             mcdm@onecorebusiness.com

(0116232) 4124650/ (0116332) 2552209

www.onecorebusiness.com

One Core Business Innovations Join IT-BPO Tripartite Council

Towards the last two quarters of 2008 saw an influx of displaced workers from the manufacturing industry to returning OFW’s (Overseas Filipino Workers). While all these layoffs were going on , the Business Process Outsourcing industry on the one hand have been continuously hiring.

Since One Core Business Innovations is a sourcing partner for several major Cebu based call centers, they saw the need to join hands with other sectors to give their share in helping any displaced worker interested to join the BPO industry.

One Core Business Innovations is the first Cebu based training center to join the IT-BPO Tripartite Council.

The IT & BPO Tri-Partite Council – Cebu was created as the mechanism and venue for displaced workers to find employment within the IT & BPO industry.  Part of the activities of the council are:

 1. To organize Job Fairs & General Orientation Sessions on the IT & BPO industry; as well as, provide related Career Re-orientation, Guidance, and Counseling Services, specifically benefiting the Cebu labor force displaced by the global economic downturn;

 2. To provide Individualized Pre-training Assessment and conduct Regular or Special Training to equip these displaced workers with entry level skills – both on communication proficiency and technical aspects – and thereby qualify them for employment in the IT & BPO industry; and,

 3. To source funding (as may be required) for participating providers that have been designated to conduct the relevant “near- and far- hire” (regular/special) training programs. OWWA, TESDA, DOLE, Provincial Government,  and other gov’t agencies, and even the private and non-government sectors that could be tapped to help provide these funding subsidies.

The following agencies along with their representives formed the pioneering group that composed the Council:

-  For the Provincial Government of Cebu – Hon. Gwendolyn Garcia (CEBU GOVERNOR)

- For the Department of Labor and Employment (Region VII) – Hon. Elias A. Cayanong (DIRECTOR)

- For One Core Business Innovations – Hazel S. Aguisanda ( Training Director)

- For CEDF-IT  (Cebu Educational Foundation for Information Technology)- Bonifactio Belen (President)

-  For Aegis People Support Aspire – Shiv Raj Palta ( Vice President)

-For CITE  (Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise) – Ruben A. Laraya ( Executive Director)

The momentus signing of the Memorandum of Agreement took place last April 21, 2009 at the Social Hall of the Cebu Provincial Capitol.

One Core Business Innovations will continue to be proactive in the business community while collaborating with multiple sectors in finding ways to better prepare the labor force through relevant skills and trainings.