# ABP Consulting Singapore

> ABP Consulting is a French management-training and coaching firm delivering professional development programmes in Singapore.

Training and coaching are delivered in English, French, Spanish.
The website is published in English (/en/) and Arabic (/ar/).
Services are invoiced by ABP Consulting, France.

## Training categories

- [Management training](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/): Managing in Singapore often means leading five nationalities in one office, all fluent in English and each raised on different rules about disagreeing with a boss — plus the team in Jakarta you mostly see on screen. Our programmes start there, not from an imported model.
- [Sales training](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/commercial/): Selling in Singapore means selling to buyers who are relationship-driven and rigorous at once: a family-owned distributor who wants to know you before a second meeting, a regional headquarters that scores three proposals side by side. Our courses train for both.
- [Interpersonal communication and self-awareness](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/communication/): Understanding how you operate before trying to adjust how anyone else does, with DISC and the Enneagram. The programmes rest on the DISC certification and Enneagram training of the firm's founder, Alain Palacios — which is what makes the technique genuinely usable.
- [Seminars & team coaching](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/coaching/): Team coaching does not deliver content: it works on a team's real situation — cohesion, how people work together, a shared vision. Team coaching and seminars, in person in Singapore or online for regional teams.

### Management training courses

- [The manager-leader toolkit](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/manager-leader-toolkit/): The firm's core programme. Three days to stop settling everything case by case and to have tools that hold: set a frame, correct without humiliating, delegate for real, and adapt how you work to each person. Duration: 3 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Non-financial motivation levers and team coaching](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/non-financial-motivation/): When your best person gets a better offer from a competitor or a regional headquarters, the rise you can authorise does not compete. Two days to organise motivation differently: twelve concrete levers, mediating a conflict, and a team vision people take on as their own. Duration: 2 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Hybrid and remote management](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/hybrid-and-remote-management/): Managing at a distance is not doing the same thing through a screen. One day to set clear rules from the start, install rituals you genuinely keep, and learn to recognise and to correct without body language to lean on. Duration: 1 day. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Visual management — first level](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/visual-management/): A badly designed team board becomes a noticeboard nobody looks at after a month. One day to choose indicators that genuinely serve, a ritual you can hold, and rules that stop the tool turning into surveillance. Duration: 1 day. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Managing with the Enneagram](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/managing-with-the-enneagram/): The same piece of feedback produces useful reflection in one person and a month of withdrawal in another. One day to recognise the nine Enneagram bases in your team and adjust how you set a frame, delegate and motivate. Duration: 1 day. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Leading change with the Kotter method](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/management/leading-change/): In Singapore, change often arrives from a regional headquarters and has to land in a team that rarely objects out loud. Two days on Kotter's eight steps, applied to your own project, so buy-in is built before the rollout rather than discovered missing three weeks after it. Duration: 2 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.

### Sales training courses

- [Consultative selling](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/commercial/consultative-selling/): Two days on selling by asking better questions rather than reciting better arguments. The programme works on discovery, on the real qualification of a deal, and on reading the person across the table. Duration: 2 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.

### Interpersonal communication and self-awareness courses

- [DISC and Driving Forces](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/communication/disc-reading-and-adjusting/): Two days on two complementary instruments: DISC describes how someone behaves, Driving Forces describes what drives them underneath. Each participant receives an individual report and leaves with a relationship strategy for the people they find hardest to work with. Duration: 2 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Self-awareness and positive communication](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/communication/self-awareness-and-positive-communication/): Understand why you communicate the way you do before trying to change any of it. Two days: an Enneagram questionnaire to place how you operate, then concrete techniques for asking, refusing and criticising without attacking. Duration: 2 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.
- [Knowing yourself, communicating better, standing your ground](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/communication/self-awareness-and-assertiveness/): The long format, with a third day some weeks later. Three days to place your profile, understand where your way of communicating comes from, and acquire concrete answers to aggression and manipulation. Duration: 3 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.

### Seminars & team coaching courses

- [Team coaching](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/training/coaching/team-coaching/): For a team that has stopped deciding, two departments passing responsibility back and forth, or a group rebuilt after a reorganisation. The work starts with a diagnosis, and it may conclude that the problem is not where everyone thought it was. Duration: 2 days. Delivered in English, French or Spanish.

## Individual coaching

- [Executive coaching in Singapore](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/coaching/): About twelve hours of one-to-one work on a real situation, over roughly six months. You choose your own coach from two or three certified profiles, the objective is written down before the first session, and everything said in the room stays there.

## Frequently asked questions

- **What languages are ABP training and coaching delivered in?** English, French or Spanish — not Mandarin, Malay or Tamil. This site can be read in Chinese, but the sessions are not delivered in Chinese, and we would rather say so here than in a first meeting. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#languages)
- **What does ABP Consulting do in Singapore?** ABP Consulting is a French management-training and coaching firm working in Singapore. It runs management, sales and communication training, facilitates team seminars, and provides one-to-one coaching for managers and business owners. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#general)
- **How long are ABP training courses?** From half a day to three days depending on the course. Any course can also be split into half-days spread over several weeks, which usually suits managers who cannot leave their team for consecutive days. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#training)
- **Where do sessions take place in Singapore?** At your own premises anywhere in Singapore, at a venue you book, or online. Participants elsewhere in the region join online; an in-person session outside Singapore is discussed case by case. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#singapore)
- **Can training be delivered at our own offices?** Yes, and it is the most common format — often the more effective one, because participants work on real situations from their own organisation rather than on generic case studies. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#logistics)
- **How many participants can attend one session?** Most courses run with six to twelve participants, so that everyone works on a real situation. Team coaching is sized to the team itself. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#logistics)
- **Do participants receive a certificate?** Participants receive an attendance certificate from ABP Consulting naming the programme and its duration. These are professional development programmes, not accredited qualifications. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#training)
- **Should we book training or coaching?** Training teaches a shared method to a group and suits several people needing the same foundation. Coaching starts from one person's specific situation, has no curriculum, and suits a manager stuck on something particular. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#coaching)
- **Is coaching confidential when my employer is paying?** Yes. The employer agrees the objective at the outset and receives progress against that objective, never the content of sessions. What is said in a session stays between coach and client. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#coaching)
- **Can I choose my own coach?** Yes. You meet two or three certified coaches before the work starts and pick the one you want. Nobody is assigned a coach, because the fit between the two people is what determines whether the engagement produces anything. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#coaching)
- **How much does ABP training cost?** Our courses run in-company only, so fees are quoted per group and depend on duration, group size and location. Ask us and we will send a firm figure. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#pricing)
- **How many sessions does a coaching engagement take?** About twelve hours in total, in eight to ten sessions of sixty to ninety minutes, two to three weeks apart — an engagement of roughly six months. The volume is fixed before the first session rather than extended as it goes. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#coaching)
- **Does ABP Consulting have clients in Singapore yet?** Not to date. ABP is opening the Singapore market and says so rather than letting it be assumed. Case studies and named references will appear here only once each client has agreed in writing to be named. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#singapore)
- **Can ABP training be funded through SkillsFuture?** Do not count on it. SkillsFuture course-fee funding generally applies to courses approved by SkillsFuture Singapore and run by providers registered with it, and ABP holds no such registration. We would rather tell you that before you book. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/faq/#singapore)

## Glossary

- **Code-switching**: Moving between languages or varieties inside one exchange — in Singapore, between formal English, Singlish, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil — according to who is present, the subject, or the formality intended. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#code-switching)
- **Delegation**: Handing over a task with the level of autonomy decided in advance — from "do it and report back" to "decide alone" — rather than handing it over without saying which you expect. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#delegation)
- **DISC**: DISC is a behavioural model describing four preferences — Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness — used to understand how someone tends to communicate and decide at work. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#disc)
- **Enneagram**: The Enneagram is a model of self-understanding describing nine bases, each defined by a core motivation and by what it seeks to avoid, rather than by visible behaviour. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#enneagram)
- **Professional co-development**: A structured six-step method in which a group of peers helps one of their own with a stuck situation, forbidding advice until they have questioned and understood it. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#professional-codevelopment)
- **Situational leadership**: The principle that the right management style depends on how autonomous the person is on the task at hand, rather than on the manager's temperament or on a style they have adopted. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#situational-leadership)
- **Team coaching**: Work with a collective that is not functioning, beginning with a diagnosis — individual interviews and observation of a real meeting — before any working session. (https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/glossary/#team-coaching)

## Articles

- [The yes that does not mean yes](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/blog/the-yes-that-does-not-mean-yes/): Leaving a meeting with everyone's agreement is more often a bad sign than a good one. It is almost never bad faith: it is a problem of process.
- [One language, many rulebooks: what a shared English hides in a Singapore team](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/blog/one-language-many-rulebooks/): A shared working language makes a multinational team look more aligned than it is. Four gaps that survive fluency, and what a manager can do about each.
- [Keeping your people when the next offer is one MRT stop away](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/blog/keeping-your-people-in-a-tight-labour-market/): When a competitor can always outbid you, retention stops being a salary question. What a manager can do in the year before the resignation letter, not after.
- [Managing a regional team from Singapore when the working day is split across time zones](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/blog/managing-a-regional-team-across-time-zones/): Regional teams run on a narrow window of shared hours. What to decide without meeting, which rituals to keep, and how to stop the people outside the hub feeling second-class.
- [Flexible work requests: what the manager decides, and what belongs to HR](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/blog/flexible-work-requests-what-the-manager-decides/): Formal flexible work requests now follow a defined process in Singapore. What that process leaves to the line manager, and how to decide without it becoming personal.
- [DISC or the Enneagram: which one, for what](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/blog/disc-or-the-enneagram/): Both are used in self-awareness training and they are often confused. They answer different questions, suit different situations, and share one firm limit.

## Contact

- [Contact](https://www.abp-consulting.sg/en/contact/)
- Email: commercial@abp-consulting.com