Dear DUSA Members and Friends,

As you may have noticed in previous DARE event communication, DUSA and its new annual partner, C_Life Lifelong Learners Community (CLLC), a not-for-profit community that advocates lifelong learning with a systematic methodology, will work together to jointly build a talent development platform to offer affordable talent development programs to young talents of DUSA member companies.

The first such program is named 'ACHIEFER Dares series' which echoes the DUSA DARE quarterly event as we expect the participating hi-po (high potential) talents, in addition to the learning in the course hours designed in the series, to also take on roles in DARE events to hone their soft skills. Another three important features of the series is that

1. despite learning resources are in a mixed English/ Chinese bilingual format, the instruction language is in Chinese;
2. unlike single, stand-alone training, this series spans a longer period of time and the hi-po talents' competencies development are made possible by work scenario PBL (project based learning); the C_Life coaches act as companions along the learning journey with milestones, giving individualized feedback and follow-up coaching & mentoring support;
3. the series consists 3 blocks of 1st block of 3 months, 2nd block of 3 months and a 3rd block of 6 months with an average of 8-10 learning hours per month (mix of online and offline); each block focuses on respectively one of the three competencies and in the order of - communication (1st 3 months), learning (2nd 3 months) and project management (3rd block of 6 months) - which are the foundational competencies for young talents; whether a participant proceeds to the next block depends on the appraisal at the end of each block.

Please refer to the attached PDF for more detailed descriptions. A comprehensive kit (as additional values to participating companies' CEO/GM) includes:

• a guide on how to select hi-po talents as an additional reference;
• an assessment tool for appraisal;
• a 2-hour workshop for the sponsoring CEO/GM on how to conduct coaching-like conversation with the sponsored hi-po talents, will be provided before the program commences in mid December 2023.

The discounted fee structure for the pilot batch of the hi-po talents will be RMB 900/ person/ month. If your company does not have the scale of economies to develop a similar talent development program and you do have a few hi-po talents to develop for your current and future business challenges, please fill the registration form by clicking the register button to provide your estimated number of participants you would like to sponsor to join this pilot program before 15th November 2023. We have only the capacity of accepting a total of 8 -10 participants and will try to allocate the vacancies fairly to interested companies.

Thanks, and with best regards,

DUSA Team