Sands China Highlights Local Talent Development Success at Graduation Ceremony
Sands China Academy training team members and locals
(Macao,
September
11, 2019) –
Sands China Ltd. held
its Diversified Local Talent
Graduation Ceremony for the Sands China
Academy Wednesday at
Sands® Cotai Central, to
celebrate the achievements of local team
members nurtured through Sands China’s
various human resource development
programmes.
At the ceremony,
Sands China Ltd. President Dr. Wilfred Wong
and officiating guests presented
certificates to representatives of
graduating team members, retailers and SME
suppliers.
The event also included a sharing session
featuring video, a quiz show and a
theatrical performance, highlighting the
successes of Sands China’s varied talent
development initiatives. Some of those
initiatives were the first of their kind in
Macao and are now being offered to those who
are not direct employees of Sands China,
such as those employed by Sands China's
partners. A total of 6,200 participants
graduated in 2018-2019, with over 700
representatives attending Wednesday’s
ceremony.
“Learning is a lifelong process,” said Dr.
Wong. “As a leading integrated resort
operator in Macao, Sands China is more than
pleased to provide a diversity of
initiatives for local talent, not only by
providing short-term courses, but by
offering a continuous, fruitful learning
experience. With more than 8.3 million
training hours offered to team members to
date, including more than 1.7 million
training hours delivered in 2018 alone, the
Sands China Academy will continue to help
team members grow along with the company. We
will continue to align ourselves with the
Macao SAR’s local talent-building strategy
to cultivate diverse tourism and leisure
talent for the industry, for Macao, and for
the Greater Bay
Area.”
Three key areas of the company’s focus are
horizontal and vertical management
talent development,
professionalism training,
and development of industry
professionals outside of Sands
China.
Horizontal and Vertical Management
Talent Development
Sands China offers an abundance of
horizontal and vertical career mobility
options to its team members through a
variety of trailblazing talent development
initiatives, of which more than 20 talent
development programmes are specifically
designed to cultivate senior management team
members. The first large-scale horizontal
development programme in Macao, the
MyWay programme launched in
2016, with more than 2,200 team members
having joined the programme to date.
Diversified management development
programmes have helped over
1,600 team members to advance their careers
since 2016, by completing more than 30
programmes.
Professionalism Training
Launched in 2016, the company’s
professionalism training
programme is the first
programme in Macao co-organised with the
Labour Affairs Bureau and the Macao
Federation of Trade Unions, and has since
trained over 5,100 team members from 19
departments. And various initiatives since
2016, such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao
Greater Bay Area Visit, have helped enhance
team members’ knowledge of the latest
developments in mainland
China.
Development of Industry
Professionals Outside of Sands
China
The Sands Retail Academy is
the first training programme of its kind in
Macao for retail professionals, and has
provided over 37,000 training hours for more
than 9,000 participants to date. And the
Sands Procurement Academy
was the first such programme in Macao for
local SME suppliers, and has graduated five
cohorts to date, comprising more than 140
representatives from local
SMEs.
New Initiatives
Sands China continually explores additional
avenues for nurturing local talent, and is
introducing five new programmes:
Sands China considers these and other human
resources initiatives as an essential part
of the company’s commitment and
determination to nurture local
talent.
Sands China created the Sands China
Academy as a platform to give
team members the training for their career
development, and to help foster professional
talent in the wider Macao community. One of
the major training venues of the Academy is
the Adelson Advanced Education Centre at The
Venetian® Macao, which works to
equip team members and locals with skills to
help achieve their career goals. The academy
works in concert with the Macao SAR
government’s efforts to raise Macao’s
profile as a world centre of tourism and
leisure.
Photo caption: Dr.
Wilfred Wong, president of Sands China Ltd., delivers a
speech at Wednesday’s Diversified Local Talent Graduation
Ceremony at Sands Cotai Central.
Photo caption:
Officiating guests present certificates to representatives
of graduating team members, retailers and SME suppliers at
the Diversified Local Talent Graduation Ceremony for the
Sands China Academy Wednesday at Sands Cotai Central.
Pictured: Zhu Hong (seventh from right), deputy director
general of the Economic Affairs Department of the Central
People's Government Liaison Office of the Macao Special
Administrative Region; Dr. Wilfred Wong (eighth from left),
president of Sands China Ltd.; Dr Shuen Ka Hung (sixth from
left), director-general of the Macau Productivity and
Technology Transfer Centre; Cheng Wai Tong (fifth from
right), acting director of the Macau Government Tourism
Office; Anthony Leong (fourth from left), deputy director of
the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau; Cheung Wai
(third from right), head of the Vocational Training
Department of the Labour Affairs Bureau; Fong Ieok Mui
(second from left), head of the Department of Administration
of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau; Teng Sio Hong
(right), head of the Department of Higher Education
Institutions, Higher Education Bureau of
Macao.
Photo caption:
Officiating guests congratulate over 6,200 graduates at the
Diversified Local Talent Graduation Ceremony Wednesday at
Sands Cotai Central.
Photo caption: Sands
China Ltd. holds the Diversified Local Talent Graduation
Ceremony for the Sands China Academy Wednesday at Sands
Cotai Central, to celebrate the achievements of local team
members nurtured through Sands China’s various development
programmes.