October 2007 - Singapore

"As our pool of trainers grew from five to more than 20 trainers in less than 12 months, we needed to ensure the quality and consistency in our programmes. In addition to implementing a rigorous and disciplined approach in instructional design of training programmes, we now have a competency framework that each trainer can use to enhance their training capabilities," says Carl Thong, managing director.

"Each trainer brings their own personal charisma and style into a programme, and clients enjoy that dynamic variety. However, in order to ensure consistency in the quality of training delivery, we now have implemented a competency standard that we use for professional development of our trainers. These competency standards will also be used in future recruitment and selection."


October 2007 - Taipei, Taiwan

macsimize has added two team members: Lynette Chen joins macsimize Taiwan as an Associate Director. Lynette brings a wealth of experience with her, having previously held HR and management positions with multinationals such as Citibank and Apple Computers. In addition to providing executive coaching to senior executives, Lynette conducts strategic workshops and soft skills trainings including consultative selling, communication effectiveness and leadership programmes.

Andrew Treharne is our new Associate Director based out of Sydney , Australia . "We've added Andrew into our team for two reasons. We are getting more and more requests from existing clients with offices in Australia . Further, Andrew brings strong sales and key account management training skills, therefore, strengthening our pool of high-end sales trainers, which is one of our fastest growing solutions," said Carl Thong, managing director.