September 1, 2010: Interview with Arnaud Julienne of ST Micro

Arnaud Julienne, Senior Director for ST Microelectronics, was interviewed on ClarkMorgan Corporate Training's Spark China TV, at iTV-Asia. 

Spark China TV is a collection of interviews with China-based thought leaders from the fields of environment, humanities, business, and science together and discusses innovative solutions to real problems facing China and the world. Each thought leaders presented at Spark China, in either Beijing, Hong Kong or Shanghai. All conference videos are available for free download at www.sparkchina.cn.

August 18, 2010: Great leaders 'Care'

Caring, considerate and sensitive are the most important qualities of a top leader, according to a recent survey conducted by ClarkMorgan Corporate Training.

The survey, which surveyed 169 Chinese employees working for a mix of multinational and international Chinese firms, including Huawei and Lenovo, is an interesting snap-shot at the values of Chinese workers today. Respondents were based across the country, in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tianjin. Powerful, intelligent, charismatic and open minded made up the top 5.

Morry Morgan, director of ClarkMorgan Corporate Training and coordinator of the study, said that as the survey asked respondents to list 5 qualities of a great leader, without providing multiple choice answers, there was a large number of qualities listed.

  "The respondents used both Chinese and English to answer, and both languages have many synonyms for the same word. For this reason we grouped a few words together, such as caring, considerate and sensitive. However, even after grouping similar words, we still identified over 75 distinct qualities of leadership," says Morgan.

Interestingly, some of China's traditional values were low down on the list. Diligent just made it into the top 40, and humility, was out of the top 50.

"This was a very interesting result, as while both qualities are no doubt important, a lot of foreign text books on China may be attaching too much importance to these qualities," says Morgan.

ClarkMorgan Corporate Training plans to survey at least 250 Chinese employees, before releasing all the data, after which, they will be applying the results to about 50 China based companies.

"Once we know confidently what the top 10 qualities of a top leader are, according to Chinese employees, we are planning to anonymously test approximately 50 China-based leaders, both Chinese locals and foreign expatriates. We will then interview the top five, and find out what it is that they do on a daily basis that makes them so well received by their staff," says Morgan.

The findings of these interviews will support ClarkMorgan Corporate Training management training programs.

July 31, 2010: Jeff Lunz appointed new GM

Long term employee, and former North China Regional Manager, Mr. Jeff Lunz, has been appointed the new General Manager of ClarkMorgan Corporate Training.

Mr. Lunz joined ClarkMorgan in 2005, and worked in the Shanghai marketing department before being transfered to Guangzhou where he served as Regional Sales Manager for two years. He was later transfered to Beijing, where he managed a larger team and oversaw rapid expansion of the northern training market.

Jeff's appointment to the role of GM allows former ClarkMorgan General Manager, Mr. Morry Morgan, to focus on the promotion of his new book, 'Selling Big to China - Negotiating Principles for the World's Largest Market" as well as his 'Needs Based Negotiations' training program.

July 12, 2010: New Interview on ClarkMorgan Spark China TV

China-based advertising guru, Jan Van den Bergh, is the latest Thought Leader interviewed on ClarkMorgan Corporate Training's Spark China TV, at iTV-Asia. Jan has been based in China since 2006 and is connecting the Chinese consumer to consumer products through innovative web-based surveys and the power of peer-to-peer (P2P) referral marketing.

Spark China is a ClarkMorgan initiative which brought 34 Thought Leaders together from the fields of humanity, environment, business and science, with the focus on increasing innovation in China. In 2009, three conferences were held in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing, and all videos are available at www.sparkchina.cn.

June 23, 2010: Network HR issue #27 Published

The latest issue of Network HR is out now! Network HR is China's largest bi-lingual human resources industry magazine, and is read by over 6,500 HR professional across mainland China. Articles are written by industry experts as well as ClarkMorgan's trainer-consultants.

This issue focuses on leadership, with articles from general manager, Morry Morgan, titled 'China's Leaders - New and Improved?' as well as ClarkMorgan newcomer, Paul Kearns, who talks about how leaders should develop other leaders in his article 'Leaders Beget Leaders'.

Network HR includes articles on training & development, recruitment, real estate and relocation, HR legal issues, workplace technology and general lifestyle. The magazine is now in its 5th year of publication.

May 31, 2010: ClarkMorgan co-founder announced as finalist in Australian Awards

Co-founder and General Manager, Morry Morgan, has been announced as a finalist of the Australia China Alumni Awards. The event, now in its second year, recognises successful alumni of Australian universities, both Chinese and international, and the contributions that they are making to China’s society and economy in a variety of fields. Fifty-four finalists were announced in nine categories, ranging from entrepreneurship, research and innovation, banking and finance, to women in leadership, and development. The winners will be announced, and presented with their awards, on July 10th 2010 at a gala dinner hosted by the Australian Ambassador to China, Dr Geoff Raby.

May 6, 2010: ClarkMorgan and Fifty Lessons form strategic partnership

ClarkMorgan Corporate Training and Fifty Lessons have formed a strategic alliance in China. Fifty Lessons, which is headquartered in Boston, owns the world’s largest digital library of business learning content, featuring 1,200 short, high-impact video lessons from Chinese and global CEOs. ClarkMorgan will be delivering Fifty Lessons content as both a stand-alone product and as a supplement to live training courses, providing more real-life expertise into the areas of leadership, sales & negotiation, communication, and overall business management.

"We are delighted to work with ClarkMorgan,” said Fifty Lessons China GM, Tim Sarchet. “Under the new partnership we will be able to increase the support for existing clients of Fifty Lessons, and utilise the professional expertise of ClarkMorgan’s award winning training courses.”

ClarkMorgan’s GM, Morry Morgan, concurred. “With this new partnership, ClarkMorgan has deepened our commitment to provide local and international expertise to our clients around China. We are looking forward to welcoming the 50Lessons China direct sales team to the ClarkMorgan family and believe the synergies of the combined team will provide unbeatable value to our clients."

Fifty Lessons is available via the ClarkMorgan Corporate Training website. For more information, call the ClarkMorgan free call number 800 820 5501.  

April 16, 2010: New interviews on ClarkMorgan's Spark China TV

The Library Project founder, Tom Stader, the Principal of Arc8X, Stephen Protz, and the Deputy Head of Marketing of WWF, Linnet Kwok, are the latest subjects interviewed on ClarkMorgan Corporate Training's Spark China TV, at iTV-Asia.

Spark China is a ClarkMorgan initiative which brought 34 Thought Leaders together from the fields of humanity, environment, business and science, with the focus on increasing innovation in China. In 2009, three conferences were held in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing, and all videos are available at www.sparkchina.cn.

April 5, 2010: 'The World is Yours' available to the world

'The World is Yours', written by ClarkMorgan co-founder Andy Clark, is now available for purchase via Lulu Publishing. Clark, who has lived in Greater China for over 10 years, wrote the book to assist Chinese employees working for multinational companies (MNCs). Since publishing, the book has been snapped up by HR departments who are including the guide in orientation packs for new staff, as well as existing employees.

 "These are the rules that the most successful business people follow on their way to success," says Clark.

March 17, 2010: ClarkMorgan launches web TV channel

ClarkMorgan Corporate Training has joined forces with iTV-Asia to produce Spark China television. The channel, which is hosted by ClarkMorgan general manager, Mr. Morry Morgan, includes in depth interviews with China-based 'Thought Leaders',  who previously spoke at Spark China in 2009. Current interviews include Gregory A. Perez of Microsoft, Taras Wankewycz of Horizon Fuel Cells, an innovative startup company that won Time Magazine Invention of the year in 2006, and Managing Director of Boyden Global Executive Search (China), James K. Yuann.

Spark China is a ClarkMorgan Corporate Training initiative that saw 34 speakers, in the fields of humanity, environment, business, and science, talk about innovations in their areas that have solved real problems in 2009. The three-city conference was hosted in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing, and videos of the speakers can be found at the Spark China website. All money raised was donated to China-based charities and plans for Spark10 are currently underway.

March 3, 2010: ClarkMorgan helps build another rural library

Thirty-three students from Jiu Jian Elementary School now have books in their school library for the very first time. The books, consisting of 300 new and 200 used, were collected as part of ClarkMorgan's monthly book collections which is a joint effort with the charity group, The Library Project. Tom Stader, founder of The Library Project, congratulated the ClarkMorgan team, saying, "ClarkMorgan has made a huge difference in the education that the students receive at Jiu Jian Fang Elementary School and on their behalf I'd like to thank you."

ClarkMorgan began collecting books as the 'fee' for attending monthly training demonstrations. With the help of the HR community in China, 16 under-funded rural schools have been assisted. For more information on how your company can assist, please call our free call number, 800 820 5501.

February 26, 2010: New Spark China website announced

Spark China has a new home at www.sparkchina.cn. The move is timed with the announcement that further Spark China events will be run in 2010, thus making the old website (spark09.org) irrelevant.

"We are excited about running Spark China at the Shanghai Expo site later this year," said ClarkMorgan General Manager and founder of Spark China, Mr. Morry Morgan. "We received a lot of attention last year from our three conferences in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing, and want to continue developing the practice of innovation in China."

Spark China was a full day ideas conference, conducted over three Chinese cities, and which featured presentations by Thought Leaders on the four topics of humanity, environment, business and science. The broad audience included CEOs, managers, movie stars, environmental activists, and other Chinese and international attendees who were concerned with what is happening in the world around them.

Spark China is a not-for-profit organisation which also raises money and awareness of charities based in China.

February 4, 2010: Co-founder speaks at PRISM conference

Over 80 senior managers from the Professional Records & Information Services Management (PRISM) attended a sales workshop conducted by ClarkMorgan Corporate Training co-founder, Morry Morgan. That training, which lasted for just after one hour, introduced concepts from Morgan's book 'Peng! Negotiating with Chinese Characteristics'. 'Peng!' is being published by international publishers John Wiley & Sons.

PRISM is a not-for-profit trade association for the commercial information management industry. This industry is made up of outsourcing partners that provide their clients with physical and digital information protection, access, retention, storage and disposal.

January 19, 2010: "The World is Yours" now available

Andy Clark, co-founder of ClarkMorgan Corporate Training, has published "The World is Yours" - a comprehensive guide to working within a multinational company (MNC) in China. Clark, who took three years to complete the book, has worked across  China, including Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and his 10 years of experience is cleverly formatted into bite-sized anecdotal chuncks. "The World is Yours" is ideal to complement any orientation program for MNCs operating in mainland China.

Books can be ordered by contacting ClarkMorgan Corporate Training on our free call number, 800 820 5501. 

• 10 – 50 copies = RMB 85 per copy
• 50 – 200 copies = RMB 80 per copy
• 200+ copies = RMB 75 per copy

January 15, 2010: ClarkMorgan founder's Spark presentation available

The Spark presentation, by ClarkMorgan Corporate Training co-founder, Andy Clark, is now available for viewing and download. Mr. Clark's presentation, titled "What does China need to do to rule the world?" was presented at Spark09 in Beijing on November 23rd, and this week was uploaded to the Spark China website.

Spark China is a charity event that encourages innovation in the fields on environment, humanity, business, and science, with a particular goal of raising awareness of China-based innovation projects and 'sparking' new ideas amongst the participants. All profits are donated to charities.

ClarkMorgan Corporate Training sponsored three Spark China events in 2009, in the cities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Spark10 plans are currently being drawn up.

January 13, 2010: Alumnus Honoured by the Australian Alumni Association

RMIT alumnus, Morry Morgan, has been honoured as a finalist in the inaugural Australian China Alumni Association Awards. Morry was shortlisted for the Austrade Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship for his work as founder of ClarkMorgan Corporate Training and Network HR, the most widely read bi-lingual human resources magazine in China. Announced at a gala dinner in Beijing, nominees were an exceptional group of Australian university alumni, notable for their remarkable diversity of careers and experiences as much as for their successes. The Australian Ambassador to China, Dr. Geoff Raby, was on hand to congratulate nominees and winners.

December 13, 2009: ClarkMorgan Corporate Training becomes The Library Project corporate investor

Tom Stader, founder of The Library Project charity, formerly thanked ClarkMorgan Corporate Training by making the firm an official 'corporate investor. The charity donates books and libraries to under financed schools and orphanages in the developing world and throughout 2009 ClarkMorgan Corporate Training has assisted in collecting books that have been distributed to 15 elementary schools in Baoxing County, Sichuan province.

ClarkMorgan has also raised awareness of Stader's charity across China.

"Ever since ClarkMorgan started doing book collections, our requests from companies based in Shanghai and Beijing have spiked in a big way requesting to do book collections in companies," said Stader.

ClarkMorgan's co-founder, Mr. Andy Clark said, "ClarkMorgan's involvement with the Library Project is in line with the company's corporate values and motto of 'Evolving People'."

December 4, 2009: ClarkMorgan finalist in 'Training Firm of the Year'

The 12th annual China STAFF Human Resources Awards ceremony, where some of the most coveted awards in the Chinese human resources industry are given out, was held yesterday at the Westin Chaoyang in Beijing. The China STAFF awards honored companies that have, in the last year, put forth the greatest effort in improving the HR industry as a whole. Attendees this year included Siemens Ltd., China, UPS, IBM, Career International, Kelly Services, and China Talent Group. Winners were selected by a jury panel with more than 50 years' combined experience in human resource management.

David Kelly, Managing Director of CCH North Asia, host of this year's event, said, "I am pleased to be a part of honoring all the work my fellow colleagues have done in furthering the growth of this industry."

Winner of 'Training Firm of the Year' this year was awarded to EasyFinance, beating other finalists Achive Global, Auralog China, China Team Leadership Academy, and ClarkMorgan Corporate Training.

"While we didn't win for a third time in a row this year, we were very happy to be selected as a finalist amongst a very high calibre group of training firms," said ClarkMorgan's National Sales Manager, Mr. Mike Joseph. "I would like to congratulate all of the finalists in our category, particularly for their effort in developing the training industry in China. "

First held in 1998 in Hong Kong, the China STAFF HR Awards expanded to Mainland China in 2003 in acknowledgement of the country's rapid economic development. ClarkMorgan Corporate Training was awarded 'Training Firm of the Year' in 2007 and 2008.