New careers in HR - Learning Consultant / Leadership consultant

In Asia HR is often looking at the administrative side of HR. Upwards, HR will deal with fitting the workforce with the company strategic directions. It will involve various aspects: attracting, managing and retaining talents, ensuring the workforce is aligned with the strategic vision and ready for the challenges ahead. Being ready for such challenges imply training people - helping staff learn, unlearn, relearn - in a broad sense - is what these training need to bring to the organisation.

After many years working and experimenting in the field of experiential learning, we at OIA have developed special skills and sensitivity to HR-related corporate issues:

1- The laws of Engagement: today organisations need to keep their staff engaged. They need to attract them with attractive vision(s) and keep these alive so that staff keep motivated. Command and control may still be relevant (sometimes?) for specific aspects of the job but they surely do not suffice in attracting people (with the promise of just being paid) or retaining people (with the promise of having a job). Staff need to be engaged - day by day. This is the job of the managers - all the way up to the CEO. How does an company forster a culture of engagement?

2- Inspiring leadership: influencing behaviors while encouraging initiative : how does an organisation ensure that the workforce is moving towards the direction where the CEO want to lead? At the speed at which things change (economics, environment, technology, education paradigm...), companies need to evolve, transform quickly, while often managing large workforce, big teams, in many, various markets, dealing with various cultures, habits, patterns - all shaping hard-to-predict behaviors. Paradoxically leveraging on these behaviors is really what the company needs to do to move towards its goal.

3-Building teams: no project is undertaken without a team behind it. What does it take for teams to work well together? What does it take for teams to move into action as quickly as possible? to solve problems quickly? to adapt to change fast and smoothly? OIA offers a practical, proven framework for team-building solutions, starting from the basics: creating the right conditions for team work to happen: trust, openess, and ability to overcome conflict and understand each other across cultures. Moving on to more business-related aspects of the team work: focusing on vision-mission, accountability, commitment and motivation.

Career path: OIA offers unique exciting career path
- Start as Account executive / account manager all the way to Learning Consultant: you will learn to develop tailor-made training solutions fitting to customer requirements. Ultimately, you are exposed to various business cases and offer innovative approach for training and human capital development
- Leadership consultant:  In the meantime, you will be exposed to training delivery and if your profile allows, you will be coached into assisting our trainers and practicing facilitation skills. You will be exposed to a broad array of experiential learning solutions that will become part of the repertoire of training solutions available.