Empower Your Workforce with Tailored Training Anywhere
Based in Southeast Asia, Olive Employee Training Consultants are a team comprised of highly skilled and experienced Training and Education professionals with experience living and working in numerous global locations, particularly within Southeast Asia.
We understand how effective training solutions positively affect an organization’s revenue, wellbeing and people development and our team takes a comprehensive approach to individual client needs.
Consultative Approach
At Olive Training Consultants, we understand the unique challenges businesses face in today’s global and diverse work environments. Our bespoke corporate training solutions are designed to address these challenges, helping organisations enhance leadership, improve cross-cultural communication, and foster a culture of inclusivity.
The Challenges We Solve:
- Leadership Gaps: Struggling to cultivate strong leaders in your organization?
- Communication Barriers: Facing issues in cross-cultural or multilingual team settings?
- Team Dynamics: Need to improve collaboration across departments or geographies?
Our Core Services:
- Employee Development Training: Equip teams with essential skills through programmes in corporate English, leadership, and DEI initiatives.
- Cross-Cultural Training: Build strong multicultural teams with pre-departure and onboarding programmes and enhance communication skills.
- Cross-Cultural Consulting: Resolve communication challenges between expatriates and local staff to foster collaboration.
- Professional Development Resources: Access customized tools to support employee growth and organisational development.
Call-to-Action (CTA):
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Colin Harlow
Director & Lead Consultant/Trainer
Colin has lived in Thailand since 1994. He has worked as a training and development expert in the mining, energy and security sectors in South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa for over 20 years. Colin is also the Senior Cross-Culture trainer and is a licensed partner with the UK’s CultureActive, a part of the world renowned Richard Lewis Crossculture group and you can see his full bio and CultureActive profile here.
He holds an MBA in International Education from Keele University in England and as well as English, speaks Thai, Indonesian and has a working knowledge of Laotian.
Lidya Vilencia (Indonesia)
Lidya graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English Education from Klabat University Manado, North Sulawesi, her hometown. She has over seven years’ experience in teaching cross-cultural programmes and Bahasa Indonesia to expatriate employees within Indonesia’s resources and energy sectors. She is also a highly experienced English teacher.
As well as Bahasa Indonesia, Lidya speaks various Indonesian dialects, English and Spanish.
Henri Mohammad (Indonesia)
Henri is from Jakarta and graduated from the Teacher Training & Education Faculty in Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. He has delivered cross-cultural training to expatriates and Indonesian employees in numerous sectors across Indonesia, as well as Train-the-Trainer programmes within vocational settings.
He is also an experienced English teacher and speaks English, Bahasa Java and of course, Bahasa Indonesia.
Training Methodology
Our Training and Development Methodology
and Principles of Programme Development
All our training and development programmes are 100% bespoke solutions for our clients. We gain a detailed and comprehensive understanding of your challenges and culture and then design solutions which address your specific business objectives and maximise return on investment through measurable performance evaluation.
Tailor-made Programme
Design and Content:
• Developed based on client needs and realities to achieve desired objectives.
• Materials are contextualized to ensure relevance and a connection with all Participants. We recognise people have different preferred learning styles and therefore we ensure all these are catered for at the design stage.
• Utilisation of research, studies and experience of other programmes of similar nature to strengthen the programme’s design and content.
Experimental Learning
Approach:
• Highly participative and hands on approach, allowing participants to internalize the learning experience.
• Staged learning process, of which earlier stages are sustained and serve as the bases for further learning and enhance retention.
• We aim to facilitate growth among all participants by engaging them emotionally in the training. Only by doing this will retention be maximised.
High Quality Facilitation
Process:
• Facilitation process that builds participants’ understanding gradually and in a nonthreatening way.
• Trained facilitators who are able to create rapport, connect and translate the learning process to participants’ realities and ‘language’.
• Contextualised activities and personalised feedback ensure all training is meaningful and relevant.
