A survey was conducted of 54 respondents at the HR Summit on 24-25 April 2013. It assessed the training needs and practices of various organizations. The majority of respondents' organizations hire external speakers for events and engage external trainers for in-house programs. Most organizations spend between 10-50% of their budget on external training and speakers. Respondents find speakers through personal contacts/networks, referrals/word of mouth, and online/the internet most often. Few respondents had heard of the Asia Professional Speakers organization before taking the survey.

1. Training Survey
Conducted during HR Summit
24-25 April 2013
Survey size: 54
1. Industry
 Consulting - 6
 Education - 6
 Banking - 5
 Executive search - 4
 Health care - 4
 Hospitality - 3
 Manufacturing - 3
 Training - 3
 Finance - 2
 IT - 2
 Media - 2
 Military - 2
 Airline - 1
 Automation -1
 Construction - 1
 Electronic - 1
 Energy - 1
 Entertainment - 1
 ERP - 1
 Event management - 1
 Government - 1
 Language - 1
 Marine/Offshore - 1
 Modeling - 1
 Retail - 1
 Software Development – 1

2. APSS Training Survey 2013
Asia Professional Speakers – Singapore (APSS) Page 2
2. Staff strength
No info <100 101-500 501-1000 1001-5000 >5000
Singapore 4 22 12 5 8 3
Regional 33 11 3 1 3 3
3. Does your organisation…
Yes No
a. Hire external speakers for company events? 40 14
b. Engage external trainers for in-house programmes? 43 11
c. Engage facilitators for company retreats? 34 20
4. Are you responsible for selecting external speakers/trainers for your organisation?
Yes No NA
26 8 20
5. In the past 12 months, which were the 3 events for which you hired speakers/trainers?
 Coaching session
 Customer service training
 Environmental health talks
 Family talk
 Government grant talk
 Learning fest
 Lunch talks
 Management and leadership conference
 Mental wellness talk
 Motivation talk
 Personal grooming talk
 Social media training
 Staff training
 Team work training/team building

3. APSS Training Survey 2013
Asia Professional Speakers – Singapore (APSS) Page 3
6. In the next 12 months, for which events will you be hiring speakers/trainers?
 Financial and health talk
 Management retreat
 Interpersonal communication
 Safety awareness
 Mind mapping
 Personal mastery
 Employee engagement
7. What is the percentage of expenditure on external training and hiring of speakers?
 NA – 24
 10% - 3
 20% - 6
 30% - 2
 40% - 1
 50% - 10
 > 50% - 8
8. How do you find speakers?
Nil Contact/Network Referral/WOM Online/Internet Internally
13 14 12 9 5
9. Have you heard of APSS before this survey?
Yes No
13 44
Acknowledgements:
1. David Lim CSP – Initial feasibility studies on training industry survey
2. Tim Wade – Compiling questions and designing survey forms
3. Devina Kinze – Compiling survey results
4. Andrew Chow – Analysing the results and presentation
5. Volunteers for conducting the survey during HR Summit:
Thaddeus Lawrence Scott Friedman CSP
Ken Wong Nishant Kasibhatla CSP
Darren Chua Raymond Thomas
Devina Kinze