Sun Tzu was a 500 BC Chinese general, military strategist, and author of The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient book on military strategy. Many great leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan studied his work and became legendary leaders. Even more corporate leaders paid thousands of dollars to attend courses to learn Sun Tzu secrets.

We at Asia Trainers believe that you too can master Sun Tzu secrets without spending thousands of dollars and many days. This is because we take the essence of Sun Tzu and compile them into a 1-day course that will leave you with just enough materials to lead your team to greater heights. Since October 2010, we have trained over 2,137 leaders coming from countries including Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar and even China.

The most valuable lesson out of his 13 chapter of 5,000 words must be found in the 3rd chapter: Win Without Fighting.

As translated from The Art of War: Generally, in war the best thing is to take the enemy state whole and intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. To capture the entire army is better than to destroy it. Hence, to win on hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.

To subdue the enemy without fighting is supreme excellence. In short, win without fighting is the best.

How does it apply to your leadership?

1. Enemy here refers to not your enemy but your team that you are leading.

2. Take the enemy state whole and intact means you must lead your team wholly with not just their bodies, but also their minds, hearts and spirits.

3. Never destroy the bodies, minds, hearts and spirits of your team. So you cannot over-work them for you will be destroying their bodies and minds. You also cannot break their hearts by not delivering on your promises and make them give up on you. Finally, you may destroy their spirits when you unknowingly make them a fool in front of others.

4. To win without fighting in leadership is to lead without your team knowing that you are leading them. A leader is at his best when people barely knows he exists, when the work is done, the team will say: we did it ourselves. This is because the leader has empowered the team so much and they have become so competent that they are mini leaders themselves, thus the leader is leading without actually leading them. This must be the highest form of leadership. Lead without Leading.

5. If you too want to be a great leader, learn from the master.

For the first time in this world, we simplified Sun Tzu's complex concepts into 5 Power Principles and 6 Killer Strategies. The highly popular "36 Stratagems" is used to apply Art of War Strategy easily and with much fanfare. Such new approach has won the media's attention (My Paper on 27 Dec 2010).

Whether you're leading your own organization or simply want to further your success, learn Leadership skills with Sun Tzu Art of War and 36 Stratagems...

Outline

1. Review of your current leadership challenges
2. What is Leadership and How everyone is A leader (but not The Leader)
3. Chinese philosophies and the background of Sun Tzu
4. Story of the Concubines: The 3 lessons that Sun Tzu taught the King of Wu
5. Myths and Truths of Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 Stratagems
6. Applying the Sun Tzu's 5 Elements of Mission, Climate, Leader, Ground and Methods
7. The 6 Key Strategies of Art of War: Win without Fighting, Inner Knowledge, Occupy the Right Ground, Right Timing, Being Efficient and Right Use of Deception
8. How to 'Know Thyself Know Others' - test on 'picking up an item in the room'
9. Use of Fire in Leadership
10. Waging War: what to do and what not to do when confronting people
- How to 'Scold' and be loved by your team
11. Use of Energy: how to harness the power of 'Ci' as prescribed in the Art of War
12. The Use of Spies: how to get real information from your team
13. The Ultimate in Art of War: Win to Fight and Win Without Fighting
14. The Use of Deception as Tactics in Art of War
15. Top 6 of The 36 Stratagems to use in applying the Art of War

Who should attend

1. Current leaders, managers and supervisors
2. Aspiring leaders, aspiring managers and section leaders
3. Self-employed people that want to lead the market
4. Salespeople and those in marketing to learn how to lead the company for their business success

Testimonial

- Trainer knowledgeable and enjoying

- Interesting Sharing and Examples
- Material Easy to read and understand, good reference material

- The concepts are a good reminder of what we can achieve

- Useful tips applicable at work
- Material easy to follow
- Informative and interesting with several examples and illustrations

- the course has given adequate examples to apply the stratagem to real-life leadership lesson
- The workshop is well organized with easy to follow material
- The trainer is very lively and make the effort to engage his audience


- Many life examples were given during the course for us to understand the content.
- With the good translation from the trainer Mr. Andy, it helps us a lot
- Clear explanation us with the example given
- Good Notes & knowledge shared by the trainer

Andy Ng's Profile

Master Business Coach and Trainer

Speaker, Trainer, Author, Coach and Presenter Andy Ng combines 36 years of work experience, all with the passion to help transform lives with training and coaching

Andy graduates from National University of Singapore with an Honours Degree in Accountancy (Bacc) in 1988. He also has a MBA from Heroit-Watt University of Scotland, United Kingdom, in the year 2000.

From 1997 to 2000, Andy was the Director of Finance, Human Resource and Administration of the world’s 5th largest network equipment manufacturer, Allied Telesis (Asia) Pte Ltd. Andy also has experience in management consulting at KPMG Consulting, audit experience in Deloitte & Touche and in the financial industry in JP Morgan Chase and DBS Vickers Securities.

From May 2001, Andy left his corporate job to become full-time in training and coaching. He was the Singapore licensee of ActonCOACH, the world’s number one business coaching team, in the period 2001-2006. Andy went on to establish his own training and coaching firm Asia Coaching Training from 2006 till now.

The training topics that Andy specialised in include Finance, Leadership, Management, Employee Effectiveness, WeChat and Personal Development. The top 10 most popular course of Andy include How to Be a Better Manager, Sun Tzu Art of War, Financial Intelligence, Cash Flow Success, High Value Employees, Take Charge and Lead, 3 Kingdoms Strategies, 35 Stratagems, Communicate with Power and Successful Sales Strategies.

The few hundred companies that have engaged Andy for in-house training include Singtel, Singapore Power, OCBC Bank, Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Siemens, Infineon, NTU Alumni, CPA Australia, Singapore University of Technology and Design, AIA, and many medium and small enterprises, plus non-profit organizations including Lions Club of Singapore, The Salvation Army and Guan Yin Temple at Waterloo Street.

Andy’s training style is always fun, interactive, light-hearted and use lots of videos to illustrate the concepts. He also incorporates games and exercises like lifting people with just 2 fingers, LEVERAGE Board Game, Cash Flow board game, Give it All Dance, Karaoke singing and many others.


At home, Andy has 3 grown-up children. His wife is the Senior HR Manager at YTL Power Seraya and Geneco Electricity. In the community, Andy has been a member of Lions Club of Singapore Beverly Hills since 2004, and has served as Club President, and District cabinet officers over the years. Andy is also a committee member of the Association of Professional Trainers (APTS). He also volunteered in Kwong Wai Siew Hospital, Lions Befrienders, Lions Home for the Elders and other organizations as and when needed.