Leadership and the EQ factor

Tweet Type of Training: Emotional Intelligence: EQ and the Workplace
Client: DMCI Homes
Date: April 26, 2013
Venue: DMCI Homes Training Room, Makati City

Urgent vacancy: Training Consultant (my replacement)

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I'm looking for my replacement. Send your application or share this with your friends who are qualified. Thank you.

DMCI Homes is looking for a TRAINING CONSULTANT that will handle management trainees under its Management Development Program (MDP). As part of the company’s succession planning, the MDP is composed of on-boarding, technical, behavioral, and on-the-job trainings.

Functions:

* Ensures the motivation and engagement, and monitors learning and performance of management trainees who are top graduates of top universities and are being groomed for leadership positions.

* Coordinates with internal and external mentors and trainers.

* Markets the MDP to top management for internal buy-in and to top universities to stimulate interest of candidates for graduation and alumni.

* Creates MDP materials (mainly training modules and handouts)

* Conducts management and behavioral trainings to equip Management Trainees with effective work-life habits and skills.

* Provides regular updates to management.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor’s degree in human resources, psychology or business related course. Masters degree/units are a plus.

* With at least 3 years experience in training (can perform all facets of the training cycle and with excellent platform skills) and talent management.

* With strong leadership skills (achievement orientation, communications, creativity)

* Can work with minimum supervision.

* Willing to work on project basis.

* 35-40 years old.

Please send your application to trainingconsultantph@yahoo.com ASAP.

Training on listening - a key communication skill

Tweet Type of Training: Leadership Training (Day 6 of 10)
Client: DMCI Homes, Inc.
Date: March 7, 2013
Venue: DMCI Homes Corporate Office, Makati City

The value of time (Time Management Training)

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Type of Training: Time Management Training (Day 4 of 10-day leadership training)
Client: DMCI Homes management trainees
Date: January 16, 2013
Venue: DMCI Homes Corporate Office, Makati City

Leaders-in-training (Day 3 of 10 Days)

Tweet Type of Training: Management Trainees' Leadership Training (Day 3 of 10 Days)
Client: DMCI Homes, Inc.
Date: December 9, 2012
Venue: DMCI Homes Corporate Office 

Priming the young for leadership

Tweet Type of Training: Leadership Training (Day 2 of 10 days)
Client: DMCI Homes - Management Development Program (Management Trainees)
Date: November 28, 2012
Venue: DMCI Homes, Makati

This: My 54 (and counting...) management trainees

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I am now co-responsible for the futures of 54 management trainees under DMCI Homes' Management Development Program (MDP). The MDP is implemented by the HR Department in coordination with the company's Design and Construction Department, Property Management arm, and  Project Development Department. As Training Manager-Consultant, I act as program manager, which requires me to conceptualize, oversee and continually improve MDP implementation.

With much care, thorough preparation and heart-stopping anticipation, we started in January 2010 with 15 management trainees (MTs) for the Design and Construction Department. Six months later, in August 2010, we opened the Property Management Program to 11 MTs.

In July 2012, simultaneously, 20 MTs started as Batch 2 of the Design and Construction track and 8 MTs came in as Batch 2 of the Property Management Track. Just the logistics organizing - training rooms, speakers, supplies and materials, schedules, among others - was very challenging and very educational as well.

Last week, November 5, 2012, two MTs were welcomed as the pioneer MTs of the Project Development Track.

Of the 56 MTs, two have exited the program on well reasoned grounds.

Coming from the best schools in the Philippines, these MTs are intellectually brilliant, technology savvy, dynamic, idealistic and ooze potential for future success. In dealing with them, as well as with the other stakeholders of the program, I have learned additional lessons in leadership, inter-generational management, flexibility and humility. I am required to report to the office 18 hours per week, which I subdivide to three 6-hour workdays weekly. It is a learning process - I always learn something new along the way. I am contemplating writing case studies that will add to the body of knowledge on management development programs.

In May 2013, five MTs will be recruited to form Batch 3 of the Property Development track (2-year program) and five MTs as Batch 2 of the Project Development Track (2-year program). In June 2013, five MTs will be recruited for Batch 3 of the Design and Construction Track (3.5-year program). Watch out!

Track 1-Batch 1 MTs with the 5th richest Filipino and founder of DMCI, Engr. David M. Consunji, who is seated in front. (From left: me, Engrs. Dennis Molina (Mapua), Jasmin Morales (UST), Janessa Maligaya (Mapua), Enhart Tolentino (Mapua), Joan Veronica Uy (University of the Philippines - Los Banos), Louiemar de Jesus (UPLB), Brian Paolo Benitez (UP Diliman), Tessa Tiongson, DMCI Homes Senior HR Manager, Mazel Ann Melo (Mapua), Christiane Joy Castillo (Mapua), Reginald Florentino (Mapua), John Carlo Morales (UP Diliman), John Cel Tuquero (Mapua), Mark Loie Villanueva (Far Eastern University) and Philip Gregor Ramos (Mapua)

Track 2-Batch 1 MTs with the President of DMCI Homes, Engr. Alfredo Austria (middle). From left: Anne Kristine Ong (St. Scholastica's College), Marisol del Mundo (University of Makati), Rose Diane Tolentino (Mapua Institute of Technology - Makati), Jan Edrick Padernal (De La Salle University College of St. Benilde), Crystal Lescano (Lyceum of the Philippines University), Kenneth Russel Migrino (UP Diliman), Ilyn Surisantos (Lyceum), Adah Eufemiano (St. Scholastica's College), Ivan Naval (DLSU CSB), Kevin Lloyd Dilan (San Beda College - Alabang), Ms Tessa Tiongson - DMCI Homes Senior HR Manager, Mark Ebarle (Adamson University)

Track 1-Batch 2 MTs
Behind, from left: Engr. Willord Agaloos (Technological Institute of the Philippines), Isid Cris Chiong (TIP), Von Castor (TIP), Engr. Christian Tuazon (Technological University of the Philippines), Engr. Erik Rodriguez (UP Diliman), Engr. Kit Ianros Carrera (St. Louis University), Engr. Justin Hero Espanol (UP Diliman), Engr. Bonn Carlo Gomez (University of San Juan de Letran), Engr. Jomar Paolo Obillo (University of Santo Tomas), Engr. Francis Angelo Cruz (UP Diliman), Engr. Jerome Katigbak (Mapua), Engr. Alvertte Alvero (UP Diliman), Jessica Vien Mandi (UP Diliman, will be taking the November 2012 Engineering board exam). Front, from left: Engr. John Christian Villareal (Mapua), Ian Ray Cezar Villarta (UST), Maria Eloisa Ramones (UST), Kristine Joy Gillera (University of Makati), Nico Castelo (University of Makati), Engr. Liano Jerico Zapata (De La Salle University Taft), Nicole Andrea Marie San Juan (UP Diliman), Charmaine Salting (St. Paul University Manila), Kyle Joseph Florendo (UP Diliman, will be taking the November 2012 Engineering board), me, Engr. Ghladys Mae Badilles (UP Diliman), Engr. Maria Katherene Sanchez (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila), Engr. Karen Sanchez (TUP), Engr. Carla Mae Delector (UST), Emgr. Myria Hertz Cernechez (UP Diliman)

Track 3

From left: Paolo Imperial (Ateneo de Manila University), Jhennie Neri (UP Diliman), me

Leading tomorrow's leaders: DMCI Homes Management Development Program

Tweet Type of Training: Opening of Batch 2 of DMCI Homes Management Development Program
Client: DMCI Homes
Date: July 18, 2012
Venue: DMCI Homes, Makati

Logo of DMCI Homes' MDP

Job ad used in recruiting Batch 2 applicants

28 Management Trainees (Batch 2)

Company growth - in terms of sales and projects - requires solid leadership and personnel readiness. With this perspective, DMCI Homes started implementing in October 2010 a Management Development Program (MDP), which is a succession strategy.

The MDP has two tracks: engineering (Track 1) and property management (Track 2). A third track - project development - will be introduced very soon. The two tracks already have two batches: 14 management trainees for Track 1 and 11 management trainees for Track 2. 

Capitalizing on the stability and success of Batch 1, DMCI Homes recruited Batch 2 aspirants. After a rigorous process, 20 management trainees in Track 1 Batch 2 and eight in Track 2 Batch 2 started in the MDP yesterday. Eight of them are from UP Diliman; 6 from UST; three from TIP; two each from Mapua, University of Makati and TUP; and one each from St. Louis University, Letran, PLM, De La Salle University and St. Paul University Manila. Being groomed to become future leaders of the company, they will undergo technical and behavioral training, interdepartment rotations, coaching sessions and site deployment. Track 1 is a 3.5-year course while Track 2 is a 2-year course.

I now handle 53 Management Trainees, with 10 more to be added when the newly minted Project Development Track opens. As Consultant, my responsibilities include training, strategic planning, budgeting, program management, curriculum development, recruitment, talent management and training academy management.

The MDP undergoes constant evolution as lessons are learned along the way. Its dynamism is one of its success factors. The other such factors include solid support from the company's management (the company President treats it as a pet project), adequate budget (Php26 M excluding salaries for this year alone), curriculum structure (developed by the company's pillars who have - to borrow a tired cliche - been there done that), thorough monitoring (which is what I do, in coordination with buddies and other partners), experiential coaching given by seasoned company officials, and the malleability of young minds, among others.

I love the MDP because I am its active parent. I treat my Management Trainees as children whose bright futures I am obliged to ensure. This is a commitment.

Non-conventional creative juicing

Tweet Type of Training: Creative Thinking: Personal Creativity for Business Innovations
Client: DMCI Homes
Date: May 25 & 28, 2012
Venue: DMCI Homes