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Singapore Management University Launches Financial It Academy @Smu To Train It Professionals In The Financial Services Industry, Singapore Management University Oct 2013

Singapore Management University Launches Financial It Academy @Smu To Train It Professionals In The Financial Services Industry, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases

Singapore Management University (SMU) has launched the first-of-its-kind academy in Singapore to provide training programmes targeted at the financial services IT segment. The Financial IT Academy @SMU (FITA) will equip financial sector IT professionals with enhanced IT capabilities that are critical to the growth of banking and financial services in Singapore, and also with the essential knowledge of the business needs and processes of financial institutions so that business and IT initiatives can be more effectively integrated for competitive advantage.


Dancing To The Rhythm Of The Role-Play: Applying Dance Intelligence To Conflict Resolution, Nadja Alexander, Michelle Lebaron Apr 2012

Dancing To The Rhythm Of The Role-Play: Applying Dance Intelligence To Conflict Resolution, Nadja Alexander, Michelle Lebaron

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The article presents information on effectiveness of dance and movement in negotiation teaching and training programs regarding conflict resolution particularly in multiple repeat mediations. Death of the Role-play, a publication, fosters enhanced creativity and methodological diversity in conflict management and mediation training. It depicts dance intelligence as useful and requisite components of conflict resolution education.


Death Of The Role-Play, Nadja Alexander, Michelle Lebaron Jan 2009

Death Of The Role-Play, Nadja Alexander, Michelle Lebaron

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Setting someone up to fail does indeed sound unfair. In fact it could be described as an ambush – outlaw facilitators lying in wait for unsuspecting students. Not only is this unsettling in a training environment, we can ask whether this lack of transparency runs counter to the behavior expected of negotiators and mediators. Far from being a figment of our fertile imaginations, this short vignette is drawn from a real life learning situation at which both authors were present. Participants were asked at the beginning of the postgraduate workshop about their learning preferences. While most replied enthusiastically about learning …