Managing a workforce as baby boomers age is becoming increasingly important to many companies. Those who manage it well can reap great rewards by reducing their labour costs, enhancing their retention and succession planning and improving their employees' productivity.

The Active Life Planning (ALP) services can help you achieve those goals while guiding your employees to highly fulfilling options as they move into the next phase of their lives. The people who have participated in this service have started businesses, landed consulting roles and changed careers while adding flexibility to their lives to devote time to family, explore creative passions and pursue nascent dreams.  

Looking at the importance of increasing the number of public healthcare facilities, governments of today will need to immensely tap into the private sector for healthcare financing and delivery of building new hospitals or expansion of the existing healthcare facilities. Countries can assure an effective integration of the healthcare system that not only provides international standards services but also efficient and affordable for the society only through large-scale contracting.

This conference will discuss the challenges and issues when engaging private partners to deliver public benefits.  Under the PPP Healthcare Infrastructure, Design and Construction approaches, this conference will look at many different perspectives of various players involved and thus provide articulate solutions to serve the people in the long term.

The quarterly Sustainable Business Networking event is organised to focus on topics such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, water, waste, transport and green logistics marketing and smart grid technologies. Presentations will be delivered by industry experts and key stakeholders on business opportunities that improve environmental performance, updates on the latest sustainability news and opportunity, best practices case studies and grant, funding and award schemes available.

An excellent opportunity to meet and network with participants who are environmentally committed to share ideas and build working relationships.  In addition you will have the opportunity to meet and network with like-minded government agencies and organisations interested in sustainability.

In attendance will be the MIDA team that include: En.Mohamed Zuhari Mohd Nor, Executive Director, Services Development 1; En. Ahmad Khairuddin Adb Rahim, Director, Clean Technology & Environment Management.

Limited seat available. Sign up now! 

Renowned Global Event That’s Even Bigger Bolder & Better than before

The second year of 2nd Global Logistic and Cargo Symposiumwill take off on 20th, 21st and 22nd August2013 at Holiday Inn Glenmarie Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The second annual event organized by Mice Vision this year will discuss and focus on the current issues faced by logistics and cargo industry around the globe as well as the demand, planning and forecasting in this industry. This year, more interesting topics will be discussed and speakers will share their thoughts and minds on the issues.

As previous years, 2013 will not be an easy year. Economy instability and price hike for the services is something that could not be avoided by companies in this industry. The symposium will act as a knowledge platform to address the trend, issues and forecast the demand and what to plan ahead to be prepared on what to expect on the coming years and share the knowledge and experience by experts around the globe.

Key Features:

• Analyzing the current issues surrounding the industry.
• Identifying the effects of the changing economy towards logistics and cargo industry.
• Exploring the approaches to overcome the economy turbulence to enhance the industry.
• Sharing ideas and solutions from experts on managing the current hurdles and obstacles faced by companies involved in the industry.
• Identifying the latest trend and technology with regards to this industry.
• Discovering the green technologies which assist to ease the cargo and logistics process.
• Determine the issues that can assist to capture new business, increase job opportunities and enhance revenues.
• Planning and forecasting for cargo and logistics industry for year 2014 and ahead.

Please continue to visit the website for the programme updates.

Understanding the GST

Since the first official announcement in 2004, GST has been in and out of the news over the last few years. Whilst it is generally acknowledged as something necessary, an air of uncertainty has loomed over whether it will actually be introduced in Malaysia. In a brave move, the BN Government specifically included GST implementation in their Election Manifesto. With the elections over and Government receiving a fresh mandate, this provides a strong signal that GST will finally come.

In a recent news article, the Second Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah ha indicated that the Government is still engaging with politicians, the private sector and the general public on the introduction of the GST. Whilst no deadline has been set, the statement is in line with earlier indications that a timeline of 12 to 18 months will be provided for businesses to prepare for GST.

With this in mind, this talk aims to provide you with insights on the following:

• An update report on the status of the proposed GST implementation in Malaysia 
• What should companies focus on now in preparation for GST
• Some lessons learnt from GST implementation projects todate

This "apero and hors d'houvres networking session will take place a short distance away from your office, in a unique and relaxing atmosphere at The Mix @ holiday Inn Glenmarie in Shah Alam.

"Logistics and Supply Chain in Malaysia : Issues & Challenges" will be the topic presented at this event.

Join us for an evening of networking with some key stakeholders and other senior professional colleagues from the local and international players in shipping, logistics and a few large FMCGs that have large stakes in the logistics and supply chain in Malaysia.

MITRANS, Malaysia Institute of Transport will join us to share ideas and explore the latest issues in Malaysian logistics.

Sign up now! Seats are limited to 30pax only!   

The 12th edition of this annual event organised by EUMCCI, together with the European Bilateral Chambers of Commerce and Business Councils, provides companies the opportunity to showcase products and get in contact with European and local guests, from the diplomatic and business community, while enjoying a good glass of European wine, beer, cheese and other European delicacies.  Aptly named the Tastes of Europe Fest, all companies are given the opportunity to promote their products by presenting samples to an estimated 500 participants. The companies and their products at this event will be detailed in our e-booklet here on our website (coming soon).

This year we aim to be bigger than previous years as we strive to acquire more exhibitors and participants.  Following the success of our 2 educational workshops last year, we are proud to bring you 2 new workshops this year at only RM80 per workshop right before the Main Event on that day:

• 4:00pm - 4:50pm Romanian Wine Appreciation Workshop

• 5:00pm - 5:50pm Ouzo Appreciation Workshop

As part of our effort to attract more participants, there will be many interesting lucky draw prizes at the Main Event to be won, including a roundtrip economy class ticket for one on Qatar Airways to any destination in Europe where Qatar Airways services.

See the event page on Facebook.

Click here to view the products exhibit!

Learning Objectives:

RECOGNIZE the early behavioral clues that indicate possible future personality conflicts

BENCHMARK against human conflict dynamics in your workplace

DISCOVER the difference of impulsive and predatory acts of human behavior

OVERCOME the possible escalation of incidents in your organization

GAIN INSIGHTS on techniques to defuse hostile and angry employees in a safe way

Sometimes problems arise also with employees that have been employed with the company or organization for a longer period. Dealing with direct or passive-aggressive behavior in the workplace is a demanding task even for most experienced professionals. We will also explain the difference of affective and predatory behavior models and how to deal with both situations. The ultimate goal of any work related conflict should be the ”win-win” solutions, but this often requires much work and knowledge of the best practices.

Executive board, directors and managers, HR, employee relations, training and development, security, corporate communications and other sections of the organization need to understand the basic concepts predicting problematic behavior and have tools to peacefully confront the employee in question.

In this training session the participants will also learn the principles of conflict negotiation, basic steps of conflict resolution and how to control your own natural responses. We will also go through common errors and oversight as well as various methods to respond to a threatening or troublesome behavior. What are the individual (static risk factors) as well as situational factors.  How to formulate a threat response teams, how to initiate the threat response programs and what types of response strategies can be used. How to monitor and follow-up the case later on.