About CapitaLand Institute of Management and Business (CLIMB)

Established in July 2006, CapitaLand Institute of Management and Business (CLIMB) is an internal corporate learning institute established for CapitaLand employees to promote continuous professional and personal development. CLIMB supports the Group’s talent development to realise its vision of being a world-class entrepreneurial, prosperous and lasting real estate company, one that is led by people with core values respected by the business and social community. CLIMB aims to instill in all employees CapitaLand’s core values so as to forge a unifying culture and direction; help employees excel by equipping them with the right knowledge, skills and attitudes so as to make distinguished contributions to the Group's businesses and the community; and develop business leaders to shape the future.

CLIMB (Singapore) has a dedicated campus on Singapore’s Sentosa Island. The learning and development facility is a wireless campus set against a backdrop of lush greenery to provide a conducive learning environment. It also houses a library with a modest but growing collection of some 2,000 holdings which include books, e-books, magazines and VCDs.

CLIMB (Singapore) was awarded the Building and Construction Authority (BCA)'s Green Mark Gold Plus Award in 2011 for its green efforts.

Our Mission

To build people by promoting core values alignment, strategic workplace learning and management-leadership development.

Our Vision

To be the leading real estate corporate learning institute.

Our Goals

1. To imbue our employees with CapitaLand’s core values, corporate principles, and mission and vision to forge a unifying culture and direction;
2. To equip our employees to achieve corporate performance objectives to make distinguished contributions to our businesses and the community in which we operate;
3. To grow business leaders to shape the future of CapitaLand;
4. To foster networking to explore strategic partnerships; and,
5. To support organisational change to stay ahead.

The Programmes

To realise these goals, CLIMB organises a wide range of programmes.

• To reinforce CapitaLand’s values in our employees, CLIMB conducts programmes such as the CapitaLand Immersion Programme,  CapitaDNA and ICE (Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship) Programme
• To equip our employees with an understanding of the real estate industry, CLIMB conducts programmes such as the Real Estate 100 and Fundamentals of Real Estate.
• To sharpen the workplace skills of our employees, CLIMB offers various competency-based programmes in communication, business writing, negotiation, presentation skills, systems-thinking, and problem-solving and decision-making.

Management and Leadership Programmes

Having a talented pool of managers and leaders is critical to CapitaLand’s business success. Therefore, CLIMB has a Management-Leadership Trek to offer the following programmes to equip these managers and leaders:

eLearning Courses

To complement the programmes offered by CLIMB, CapitaLand’s iCampus offers eLearning courses which staff can enrol in and learn at their own pace.

Networking Events

CLIMB provides strategic networking opportunities for CapitaLand's international staff, overseas and local business partners, and students from overseas universities.

CapitaLand’s People

CLIMB’s primary target audience is CapitaLand’s employees (both local & overseas) who seek to grow both personally and professionally to enhance their work performance, while business partners are its secondary target audience. Opportunities abound for bonding and networking across countries and strategic business units.

Trainers comprise CapitaLand's senior management, business domain experts, leading professors and practitioners, all of whom are proven professionals with a great wealth of knowledge and experience to share.  Involving CapitaLand’s staff as trainers is also one way to institutionalise knowledge and propagate its core values as well as unique ways of doing business across the Group. Strengthening Core Values, CapitaDNA, Fundamentals of Real Estate, and Personal Effectiveness are just some of the programmes that are facilitated by CapitaLand’s internal trainers.

The Process: Engage. Empower. Equip.

The process aims to engage, empower and equip CapitaLand’s learners to perform at greater heights through the acquisition and development of new knowledge, skills and mindset.

At CapitaLand, learning and development is a joint responsibility between the Company and staff. Staff are encouraged to be proactive in charting and directing their own learning and development plans, while the Company commits to provide the necessary resources to create a conducive learning environment.

Learners are empowered to explore solutions that work. Through problem-solving, creative thinking, and reflective learning, learners’ capabilities are enhanced, and they  adopt new and relevant behaviours that produce results, as well as apply what they learn in their workplace.

Our Partnerships

CLIMB collaborates with faculties from leading institutions such as Harvard University, INSEAD, Chicago Graduate School of Business, Centre for Creative Leadership, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore and Tong Ji University in Shanghai, China.

CLIMB also invites CapitaLand’s business partners and government organisations to participate in some of our programmes.  They not only share their business expertise, but also offer a balanced perspective of the real estate business and environment.