Leadership workshops with a difference from Flight Experience Singapore and McGallen & Bolden

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Flight Experience Singapore, Singapore’s first real flight simulator for the public in Asia, invites companies to organise leadership workshops at its premises in conjunction with consultancy McGallen & Bolden.

The Leadership Secrets at 30,000 Feet programme, targeting business leaders and executives, shares leadership concepts in an authentic cockpit environment. The four-hour customised training workshop features content derived from decades of aviation experience earned by Captain Michael Caston, who has piloted Boeing 747 and 737 jets for British Airways and Singapore Airlines and is a current air transport pilot license (ATPL) instructor at Cannes Aviation. The workshop is facilitated by Dr Seamus Phan, Head of Training, McGallen & Bolden.

“It all started when I became attracted to Flight Experience’s B737NG flight simulator, providing a realistic pilot experience for non-pilots, and subsequently took up the entire learning programme of License 1, Preflight Endorsement, and License 2 under Captain Caston’s team of pilot instructors,” says Phan. 

"A conversation with Captain Caston somehow started the idea that business executives and human resource development professionals are always looking for cutting-edge and powerful training and leadership development methods to up the ante for leaders and line managers managing and sustaining businesses in a tough economic climate. This unique flight simulator coupled with a facilitated programme seems like a perfect fit, especially with Captain Caston who is a 40-year aviation veteran with many real-world scenarios to share.”

The workshop extracts key learning points from aviation procedures and wisdom, and converges them with relevant business scenarios in communication, crisis management, standard operating procedures, partnerships, collaboration, competitive analysis, market conditions, and timing. Unlike traditional classroom training, or simple role-plays, Leadership Secrets at 30,000 Feet provides the participants the opportunity to experience an authentic commercial jet simulator, to equate takeoff, autopilot, crisis recovery, and landing procedures with parallel business processes and methods.

“Effective leadership skills are vital in commercial aviation and only come with dedicated training and experience. Other industries are looking at the discipline and education used by airlines. For example, the medical profession has already adopted crew resource management (CRM) skills into their training programmes and the results are showing a marked reduction in miscommunication and errors,” says Captain Caston. 

“It’s a great pleasure to partner with Seamus Phan and merging our experience and knowledge together to launch this exciting initiative here in Singapore. Our shared background means that we can offer a unique learning experience that is relevant and interactive, providing applicable and important leadership and communication tools for business executives in a challenging and ever changing environment. The use of aviation standards and the flight simulator offers an amazing opportunity for our learning partners to build real skills that can translate and enhance every day business situations and opportunities.”

Interested?

Each workshop is conducted at Flight Experience Singapore, located at Singapore Flyer, 30 Raffles Avenue, #02-06, Singapore 039803.

The program combines briefings, flight simulation sessions for the participants with common aviation and problem-solving scenarios, an integrative discussion to acquaint the participants with how aviation best practices can parallel situations and conditions business leaders face every day, and a question and answer session.

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CruCycle gives unique spin to Singapore fitness scene

Krewfit has launched the latest spin concept and studio CruCycle in Singapore to local fitness and fun enthusiasts. CruCycle's classes revolve around the mantra of 'Riding with the Pack' - encouraging friends to work out in a group, focusing on teamwork and fostering camaraderie with a Cru workout, and adapts very well to corporate bonding situations. 

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Founded, owned and operated by the Ding siblings - Valerie. Calvin and Beatrice - who took their inspiration for CruCycle from the Los Angeles (LA) community where they grew up, the 50 minute CruCycle spin class is an all-rounded experience for spinners. The signature class not only involves indoor cycling. but also incorporates exercises for abs and arms. 

Beatrice, Instructor and Co-founder CruCycle and also an Apparel Designer, conceptualised the idea with Calvin, Co-Founder & Managing Director of CruCycle, while they were studying in Los Angeles, where there are many fitness options available. Calvin picked up indoor cycling from the spin studios in Los Angeles, finding it a natural fit for his athleticism, having competed in rugby, tennis and bowling competitively in high school.

"Coming back to live in Singapore. we quickly realised that there wasn't a spin studio here that was anything quite like what we loved in LA," Valerie, Director and Co-founder of CruCycle said. "This realisation of what we enjoyed from indoor cycling classes in our LA experience spurned us to create the CruCycle brand of indoor cycling. In CruCycle classes, we want to share with the Singaporean community the LA vibe - one that is not only high-energy but also first and foremost, fun and community oriented. We want friends to come in a group to workout. to encourage each other and have a good time while keeping fit." 

The Ding siblings are highly involved in every aspect of the class by ensuring every bike is prior-fitted to each rider's unique measurements. They personally curate playlists for each class, setting the tempo and mood for the high-powered sessions, which target both mental and physical strength-building.

Cru's sessions are suitable for all levels, says the company. The 'pack' promotes togetherness as they ride close together in a dark room, in sync to the same beat at all times. Four types of rides are offered:

• Beginners: introductory rides that allows riders a chance to learn new methods and exercises involved in indoor cycling. 
• The Pack Ride: Ride with the Pack. This signature class is for riders of all levels who wish to challenge themselves by riding hard and heavy. Light weights and core exercises are incorporated into the 50-minute ride. 
• Charity Event Ride: welcoming riders from all levels of fitness, Cru will be organising charity events throughout the year, whereby proceeds go to a foundation of choice. 
• Private Rides, which are suited to corporate bonding events: PRIVATE RIDES - All levels Cru is open to private rides at your convenience with your own pack. Suitable for private events, birthdays and special occasions. 

Visitors to CruCycle may bump into Bandit, CruCycle’s Brand Ambassador and resident husky mascot. Bandit loves meeting new people and inspiring them to give it their best in each spin class. Together with the Ding siblings, Bandit helps champion awareness for Woof Infinity, a community project that Valerie founded to help support animal welfare in Singapore.

At Woof Infinity, Valerie aims to raise awareness for the many problems that exist within the industry of puppy mills – overcrowded housing, unsanitary conditions, inadequate food and water and no water nor veterinary care. Through Woof Infinity, she hopes to eradicate this problem, promote adoption of these abused animals and at the same time, help with donations in aid of medical bills needed to keep the pups in shelters happy and healthy, ready for adoption.

S$1 from the fees from each rider at CruCycle goes towards supporting this project. The money will be donated to a local shelter partner monthly to assist with their medical bills.

Valerie also co-founded Send A Light, which donates inflatable solar lamps to households in Myanmar and Ladakh, India without access to electricity.