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Two-day leadership intensive · Kuala Lumpur

The Decisive
Leader

You were promoted because you were the best at the work. Nobody handed you the playbook for leading the people who now do it. In two days, Marcus Lim hands it to you - the exact system for making the call, setting the standard, and getting your team to move without you in the room.

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40+
Companies trained
4.9/5
Average rating
100%
HRDC-claimable
Marcus Lim, corporate leadership trainer, arms crossed and confident
HRDC-claimable

Who this room is for

Built for the newly in charge and the quietly stuck

Just-promoted managers

You were the top performer on Friday and the boss on Monday. Nobody taught you the difference.

Leads drowning in escalations

Every decision routes back to your desk. You are the bottleneck, and deep down you already know it.

Manufacturing & retail supervisors

You manage shifts, targets and tempers. You need moves that work on the floor, not in a textbook.

Founders leading a growing team

You built the thing. Now you have to lead the people who build it with you, and that is a different game.

The honest problem

Competence got you promoted. Nobody trained you to lead.

  • You are working 11-hour days because your team escalates every decision to you, and you keep saying yes, so it never stops.

  • You watched a peer with half your technical skill take the senior role, because they could hold a room and you froze in it.

  • Your best people are quietly updating their CVs, and you will find out the day they resign, because no one taught you to read a team before it breaks.

The two-day map

Six shifts that turn a boss into a leader

01In the room

Decide without flinching

A repeatable decision framework so you stop stalling and start calling it, even with half the information.

02Live practice

Delegate so it stays delegated

Hand off work that does not boomerang back to your desk by Thursday. Ownership that actually sticks.

03Hands-on

Run the hard conversation

A word-for-word structure for feedback, conflict and underperformance, minus the dread and the drama.

04In the room

Set the standard once

Define what good looks like so your team self-corrects, instead of waiting for you to catch every miss.

05Live practice

Lead the room, not just the work

Command presence you can actually learn: how to walk in, hold attention, and be followed.

06Day 2

Build your 30-day rhythm

Leave with a weekly cadence of one-to-ones, standups and reviews that runs your team without running you.

Marcus Lim leading a live leadership session

Your trainer

18 years on the floor before he taught a single slide

Marcus Lim spent eighteen years leading teams in manufacturing and retail, from a 12-person production line to a 140-strong regional operation. He has hired, fired, turned around failing shifts, and rebuilt teams nobody wanted to touch. Today he trains managers at over 40 Malaysian companies to do the same, faster and with less scar tissue than he collected getting here.

  • HRDC-certified corporate trainer
  • 18 years leading manufacturing & retail teams
  • Trained managers at 40+ Malaysian companies
"I do not teach leadership theory. I teach the exact calls I made on the floor, the good ones and the ones that cost me, so you can skip the years it took me to learn them."
In the room

Day 1 - The decision drill

Live practice

The hard-conversation role-play

Cohort moment

Cohort 11 - Kuala Lumpur

Hands-on

Delegation board, mid-build

Day 2

Day 2 - The 30-day rhythm

What managers say

From bottleneck to backbone

"I stopped being the bottleneck in my own team. Two weeks after the workshop, my supervisors were making calls I used to make, and getting them right."
Operations lead, Penang manufacturer
"The hard-conversation module alone was worth the fee. I finally handled an underperformer I had been avoiding for six months."
Retail area manager, Klang Valley
"I came in thinking I needed more authority. I left realising I needed a system. Marcus gave me one I still run every week."
Production supervisor, Johor

Two-day seat, one honest price

Choose how you invest in leading

Self-funded

RM1,288

Pay your own way. Two full days, all materials and lunch included. No SST.

  • Both full days, live and in-person
  • The Decisive Leader playbook + templates
  • Certificate of completion
Book self-funded

HRDC-claimable

RM1,488

Claim it through your HRD Corp levy. We handle the paperwork end to end.

  • Everything in self-funded
  • Full HRDC (SBL-Khas) claim support
  • Priority seat + 30-day follow-up call
Book HRDC seat

If day one does not change how you lead, tell us at lunch and we refund your seat in full. No forms, no friction.

Only 24 seats

Another year of winging it, or two days that fix it

The room holds 24 managers on purpose, small enough that Marcus works with every one of you. When the countdown hits zero, early-bird pricing closes.

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Before you ask

Questions, answered

Is this really claimable under HRDC?

Yes. The HRDC-claimable seat is eligible for HRD Corp levy claims under SBL-Khas, and our team prepares and submits the paperwork with you from start to finish.

I have never had formal leadership training. Will I keep up?

That is exactly who this is built for. We start from the fundamentals of leading people and give you a system you can run on Monday, no prior theory required.

What do I actually walk out with?

The Decisive Leader playbook, ready-to-use templates for one-to-ones and feedback, and a 30-day operating rhythm you can drop straight into your team.

What if I need to reschedule?

Message us before the date and we will move your seat to a future cohort at no cost. Full terms are shared on booking.