Developing Leadership Skills With Blue Ocean Strategy
22 January 2010
“You will be the best that you can be!”
Students tell one another in an exercise
during the module
Mr. Ting motivating students to boost
their confidence
Attentive: UCSI University PASS Leaders
and Writing Mentors listen to Mr. Ting’s
talk
Kuala Lumpur, 22 January 2010
- UCSI University’s Centre for Learning Excellence,
together with the UCSI Blue Ocean Regional Centre (UCSI-BOSRC)
are collaborating to conduct a Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS)
Workshop for Peer-Assisted Study Session (PASS) Leaders
and Writing Mentors. The 12 training modules that have
been developed will be delivered over the next ten months.
The first module kicked off today.
The workshop, conducted by Mr. Peter Ting, Director
of Marketing and Operations for the UCSI-BOSRC, is designed
to develop specific skills for PASS students, who lead
the study sessions. The first module opened their eyes
to what they want to be, and built their motivation
to attain excellence, and to assume their position as
a leader among peers. Future modules will also look
into developing their people skills, management skills
and ways to become effective mentors.
According to the Manager for UCSI University’s Centre
for Learning Excellence, Christine Wong Siew Kuan, the
BOS course is a huge benefit to the students in the
long run. “The PASS programme runs on a strictly volunteer
basis. Although the students are not paid, we want to
reward all of our PASS Leaders and Writing Mentors by
helping them build their existing skills, and develop
new ones. This gives them that extra edge when they
enter the job market.” At the end of the training session,
they will receive a certificate from both the UCSI-
BOSRC and the Centre for Learning Excellence.
Blue Ocean Strategy, developed by W. Chan Kim and
Renée Mauborgne is based on a study of 150 strategic
moves spanning more than a hundred and thirty industries,
to create “blue oceans” of uncontested market space.
The workshop conducted for the students will feature
Blue Ocean Strategy tools, giving them an insight into
tools that can be applied to the PASS programme.
Most of the students who joined the workshop are
excited at the prospect of improving themselves. “I
hope to be a more assertive leader, and gain the
confidence of my peers when I guide them, ” says
Leo Jinyi, a 2nd year Foundation in Arts student,
who has been guiding students for algebra and
trigonometry subjects for the past semester. Mbe
Fokam Pierre Antione, a 2nd Year Mechatronic
Engineering student, who has been leading his peers
in physics for the past semester, adds that he wants
to improve his management skills. “I want to be able
to manage my time and resources more effectively,
and the skills I will learn will help me, not only
in the PASS programme, but in other societies that I
am involved in as well, so that I can be an
effective leader,” he says.
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