SUSTAINABLE VALUE CREATION

A practical 1-day programme that goes beyond ESG and sustainability jargon to show you how to take care of people, improve performance, mana
About this Event

CREATE VALUE THAT LASTS

A practical 1-day programme that goes beyond ESG and sustainability jargon to show you how to take care of people, improve performance, manage risk and strengthen governance — at the same time.

PEOPLE × PERFORMANCE × GOVERNANCE = SUSTAINABLE VALUE

An organisation can be profitable today but unsustainable tomorrow. A public agency can achieve its immediate targets while exhausting its people and resources. A non-profit can create tremendous social impact but struggle to remain financially viable.

This 1-day practical course equips you with the People–Performance–Governance approach to Sustainable Value Creation, enabling participants to look beyond short-term results and make better decisions that strengthen their organisations for the long term.

Through case studies including the Pang Dong Lai utopia, discussions and practical exercises, you will discover that sustainability does not have to mean choosing between doing good and doing well. The goal is to Create Value That Lasts.

Why This Course, Why NOW?

Organisations today face an unusual paradox. They are expected to deliver more with less.

Businesses are expected to grow responsibly. Public-sector organisations must improve outcomes with limited resources. Non-profits must increase their impact while remaining financially sustainable. At the same time, employees, customers, regulators and society expect more from organisations than short-term results.

The challenge facing today's leaders is: How can we take care of people, deliver strong performance and maintain good governance at the same time?

This question has become even more important in the AI era. Technology can dramatically improve productivity and reduce costs, but sustainable organisations must still decide what value to create, whom that value should benefit, what risks are acceptable and how people should be treated along the way.

This course helps participants address these questions through a practical management perspective rather than a technical ESG perspective. You will leave the programme with 5 practical workplace tools and your own Sustainable Value Creation Blueprint: 3 priorities, 10 actions and 1 commitment.

Learning Outcomes

1. See sustainability beyond ESG, carbon and compliance — and understand what it means for your job and organisation.

2. Use the People–Performance–Governance (PPG) Framework to identify where your organisation is creating or losing sustainable value.

3. Apply practical strategies to improve employee contribution, stakeholder trust and organisational performance.

4. Spot how today's success, KPIs and assumptions can become tomorrow's risks.

5. Apply practical governance principles at Board, Management and Employee levels.

6. Leave with your own Sustainable Value Creation Blueprint containing actions you can implement immediately.

Course Outline

Question 1: What Does Sustainable Value Really Mean?

1. Sustainability without the jargon: why it matters to everyone

2. How today's success can destroy tomorrow's value: Span’s lessons

3. Four Dimensions of Organisational Value: Financial, Human, Social and Organisational

4. Shareholders vs stakeholders: who are we really creating value for?

5. The PPG Framework: People × Performance × Governance

Exercise: PPG Sustainable Scorecard: What's Your Organisation's PPG Score?

Question 2: Can You Put People First and Still Perform?

1. People vs Profits: why it may be the wrong question

2. Trust: the invisible asset behind sustainable performance

3. The Pang Dong Lai utopia: High Service + High Employee Rewards = High Profits

4. Cut costs without cutting hearts: the power of alignment

5. From Low Maintenance to High Contribution: 5 Levels of Employee Value Creation

6. Practical strategies for enabling employees to create greater value

Exercise: Your People-to-Performance Action Plan

Question 3: Why Do Good Organisations Become Unsustainable?

Success can sow the seeds of future failure.

1. The Success Trap: 10 reasons today's success can become tomorrow's failure

2. Why profits and KPIs don't always tell the whole story

3. Cash is Reality: why cash flow matters to organisational sustainability

4. Falling at the Peak: lessons from history and corporate failures (including Hyflux)

5. Purpose, people and culture as foundations for sustainable success

6. Imagine the Unimaginable: using scenario analysis to uncover hidden risks

Exercise: Success Trap & Hidden Risk Scan: Could Today's Success Become Tomorrow's Failure?

Participants identify three current strengths, successes or assumptions in their organisation that could become future vulnerabilities.

Question 4: How Can Good Governance Help Us Go Faster, Not Slower?

1. When things go wrong: the real cost of weak governance

2. Ethics beyond rules and compliance

3. Governance as the Brakes That Allow You to Go Faster

4. Governance at three levels: Board – Management – Employee

5. Turning governance into better everyday decisions

6. Practical governance strategies that strengthen trust, accountability and performance

Exercise: Design Your Governance Action Checklist

Question 5: How Do We Build Our Own Sustainable Value Blueprint?

1. Sustainability ultimately comes down to better judgement and better decisions

2. Identify where your organisation is creating, leaking and destroying value

3. Your biggest People opportunity

4. Your biggest Performance opportunity

5. Your biggest Governance opportunity

6. Turn insight into action: Now – Next – Later

Exercise: Build Your Sustainable Value Creation Blueprint

Each participant leaves with 3 priorities + 10 actions + 1 commitment

Who Should Attend?

This is not a technical ESG or sustainability reporting course.

Through real-world cases, practical strategies, discussions, self-assessments and workplace exercises, you will explore sustainability from the perspective of everyday organisational decisions.

You will leave with five practical tools:

PPG Sustainability Scorecard • People-to-Performance Action Plan • Success Trap & Hidden Risk Scan • Governance Action Checklist • Sustainable Value Creation Blueprint

This course is suitable for managers, executives and professionals from the private, public and non-profit sectors, including:

Directors, Senior and middle managers; business and functional leaders; finance, HR and strategy professionals; sustainability and ESG professionals; risk and governance professionals; public-sector officers; social-service and non-profit leaders; and professionals responsible for organisational transformation, performance or stakeholder outcomes.

No prior knowledge of sustainability or ESG is required.

Sustainability isn't another job to do. It's a better way to do the job you already have.
Testimonials from Past Participants about Andy Ng

· Trainer is knowledgeable and course is enjoyable

· I like the interesting sharing and examples from current happenings

· The concepts are a good reminder of what we can achieve

· Useful tips applicable at work

· This course has given us adequate examples to apply because sustainability is everyone’s job

· The workshop is well organized with easy-to-follow material

· The trainer is very lively and made the effort to engage us

· People told me sustainability is a technical subject, this course makes me realize it is part of our job

Profile of Speaker Trainer Andy Ng

A Chartered Accountant with MBA from UK, Andy is also a certified trainer with ActionCOACH and an Accredited Director from Singapore Institute of Directors. He has 40 years of work experience.

Before embarking on his business in Speaking, Training and Coaching, Andy was the Director of Finance, HR & Admin of the No. 5 network equipment company: Allied Telesis. Andy also has vast experience in KPMG, Deloitte, DBS Vickers and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Since 1996, the number of students taught by Andy exceeds 16,468 in 16 countries. They include SingTel, Sing Power, BDO, SATS, Ministry of Defence, People’s Association, Capitaland, NTU, ITE, WDA, Singapore University of Technology and Design, LHN, SGH, and over 500 organizations.

Andy, being bilingual, has created over 68 proprietary programs. They include the Ethics and Responsible Leadership, Love Intelligence Manager, Leading with LQ, Sun Tzu Art of War, 36 Stratagems, Effective Manager, Financial Intelligence, Great Boss, High Value Employee, Entrepreneurship, Sales and Effective Communication.
He is also the author of 12 books including Love Intelligence and Yijing Explained.

Andy was President of Lions Club of Singapore Beverly Hills. Since 2007, he is a Committee member of Association of Professional Trainers Singapore and sits on the board of Association of Trainers, Educators and Mentors.