Standard Chartered Bank Corporate Lunchtime Grooming Talk Series: Rotary Engineering Limited
Posted by: lionel
on Oct 21, 2010 
Tagged in: grooming
What do Standard Chartered Bank and Lionel Lim have in common? At first sight, they will appear like odd bedfellows. One’s an international bank and the other a one-stop lifestyle service provider. But on hindsight, the commonalities they share exceed the differences. Simply put, we are both in the business of wanting to look good.
I’m happy that Standard Chartered Bank has chosen to team up with me in this unique collaboration that speaks win-win for both of us. This partnership will see both of us sharing our expertise to StanChart’s corporate clients in a one hour session. First up was corporate client Rotary Engineering Limited.
Rotary Engineering Limited is one of the region's leading oil and gas infrastructure services companies with an extensive international experience offering fully integrated engineering design, procurement, construction and maintenance (EPCM) services to the oil and gas, petroleum, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Yesterday’s StanChart Corporate Lunchtime Grooming Talk Series was held at Jurong Island (which I visited for the very first time) and today’s session held at its Tuas office.
With the majority of the men dressed in their company overalls and the ladies in their office wear, it was comforting to see an equal number of both genders.
Speaking to the staff on the importance of personal grooming in a condensed half-hour timeslot is challenging but not impossible. After all, it is meant to be an eye-opener to the staff during lunchtime and an opportunity for me to promote my full-day workshops to them, prior to StanChart using the remaining 30 minutes to promote its newest banking services to the employees.
Like a magician who amazes but does not reveal all his tricks immediately, I spoke about image destroyers (which the staff really enjoyed as I could sense the energy level go up significantly) and body shapes (for the first session) and face shapes (for the second session). If you think it was just me talking all the way in this short 30-minute slot, you are definitely mistaken. The participants got to engage in meaningful discussions with their partners as well as do hands-on to find out about themselves better.
Personally, this unique bank-entrepreneur partnership is exciting as it is novel in its inception and effective in its execution. I’m so looking forward to the next series next month. From the west, we'll be moving to the town area next :)
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