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CELEMI is a comprehensive business learning solution, specifying in helping employees to look at any challenging situation from a bigger picture thus helping them to make better sense of their day-to-day tasks. The flexibility of CELEMI exercises enables it to either be a part of your corporate training program or to stand alone as a workplace learning session.   WHAT IS CELEMI BUSINESS SIMULATION? Business simulation can be considered as the bridge between classroom learning and real-life learning challenges. It comprises of hands-on learning method which imitates the real world thus allowing learner to practice and improve their business acumen in a safe, risk-free environment. For CELEMI business simulations specifically, it make complex information easy to understand in 3 ways which are: The principle behind CELEMI is about a significant and long–term change which often needs to start with the people first. This strongly justify why CELEMI exercises revolve ar...

The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly spread worldwide within the last few months. In Malaysia alone, we are witnessing an alarming number of deaths and high number of COVID-19 cases daily. In order to curb the spread of COVID-19, the Malaysian government had officially announced the execution of Movement Control Order (MCO) on 18 March 2020. This order is estimated to last until 28 April 2020 and only specific essential services such water and electrical supply, food supply, medical providers and few others are allowed to operate at the moment. This also means the halting of various non-essential industries and businesses operation across Malaysia. With majority of our human capital working from home, this brings the discussion on the fate of our small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs) to the limelight. The ongoing MCO and various SMEs businesses are forced to stop operations, therefore what are the challenges that SMEs are facing amidst this COVID-19 s...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia cover a wide range of sector including services, manufacturing, agriculture, construction as well as mining and quarrying. From all of these sectors, businesses are divided into three categories namely micro, small and medium.  SMEs are undoubtedly important to the growth of Malaysia’s economy. Since SMEs are divided into three different categories, let us take a look at some of the statistic based on their respective sector and state. Based on SMEinfo.com: The tabulation of SMEs by percentage is as follow: 76.5% are microenterprises, 21.2% are small enterprises and 2.3% are medium enterprises. The tabulation of SMEs by sector is as follow: 89.2% are service, 5.3% are manufacturing, 4.3% are construction, 1.1% are agriculture and the remaining 0.1% are mining and quarrying. 20.6% of SMEs are woman-owned. The 3 states with the highest number of SMEs establishment are Selangor (19.8%), Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lump...

Malaysia Bumiputra Training Provider Association (MBTA) would like to congratulate Encik Shahul Hameed Dawood for his appointment as the new Chief Executive Officer for the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF). Shahul Hameed who is also the President of My Events International has an extended leadership and business experiences in the service event management industries as well as the corporate world. He had previously worked with various big corporations both locally and internationally which included AirAsia, Prasarana, Tenaga Nasional, PetroVietnam and many more. We are hopeful that with his immense experience in the corporate arena, he will be able to inject valuable and new perspectives towards the Learning and Development of the Malaysian workforce. We also believe that he will be bringing significant contributions in making the training and development of the human capital focus towards improving performance and achieving results.