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Dear Friends and Partners of Honour (Singapore),
My grateful thanks to you for your enduring support and encouragement as we continue to promote a culture of Honour and Honouring for the well-being of Singapore and Singaporeans. As we approach National Day, we are reminded of what keeps Singapore safe, secure, peaceful and successful. We each want to do our part for Singapore to continue to be HOME: filled with much HOpe and MEmories, not only for the current generation but for the generations to come.
We believe that Singapore managed to survive and progress since independence because we were a nation built on honour:
- We honour our word, by being trustworthy and dependable, delivering on our promises;
- We honour each other, by appreciating and respecting one another, being united despite all our diversity of race, language, religion, talents and abilities.
Singapore became something out of ‘nothing’ by building and maintaining a strong ‘nation brand’. Honour, backed by competency and unity, makes for long-term survival and success. Thank you for being with us through our journey.
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| Everything we have been able to do has been possible only with the support and encouragement of many donors, partners and organisations. I am happy to announce the creation of 'The Honour Roll' on our website to publicly acknowledge and thank all of our generous donors and supporters who have helped us so much over the years. Every donation is important while we take the opportunity to also specially recognise our Founder Donors who have joined our cause with a donation of a million dollars and more. We continually welcome donations from both corporates and individuals, with the donations qualifying for tax deductibility as we are recognised as an Institution of Public Character (IPC). Sponsorship donations are also welcome for the Honour Film Initiative and our other activities and events. We are so grateful for your support, both morally and financially.
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I am also happy to announce a new scheme of partnership with corporates where we find common ground in advancing our agenda of promoting Honour and Honouring in daily living, whether as individuals or institutions. This is the appointment of Corporate Partners, of whom our first is QED Consulting who describe themselves as a private think tank that shapes the perspectives and decisions of senior leaders through research, dialogue, connections and interactions across public and private sectors for a positive collective future. If you should like to consider becoming a Corporate Partner of Honour (Singapore), please write me at LimSiongGuan@honour.sg.
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| The Honour Champions Community |
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For Honour to go beyond talk and head-nodding into daily life and practice, it has to be a natural part of the beliefs and behaviours of individuals, families, society, organisations/companies, and the nation. This in turn requires direction and encouragement by the leaderships, hence our focus on the influencers and multipliers, the leaders and changemakers. The Leaders Forums and the Honour Champions Community with its component Honour Champions Groups are important vehicles for our outreach to leaders. We welcome all who are prepared and convicted to lead as Honour Champions in their respective organisations and other spheres of influence. Our belief is that the culture of Honour promoted through Honour Champions will not just be critical for Singapore’s continuing survival and success as a nation, but also is critical for the survival and success of our businesses and families, and our effectiveness as leaders and workers for the future. The fundamental question we all have to ask ourselves is: are we doing what we are doing for the long-term survival and success of our endeavours, or just the short-term. If for the short term, many compromises may be made in our thoughts and actions. But if what we wish is for the long term, we cannot escape from having to be trustworthy as individuals and as team members. I share more about the Honour Champions Community in the paragraphs below.
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Let me now share with you updates on our various programmes and initiatives.
LEADERS FORUMS: The Leaders Forum is a regular forum that we organise to bring together leaders of organisations, big and small, to discuss how Honour may be embedded in their organisations for long-term survival and sustainable success. We successfully organised the last forum in April 2023 where we were privileged to have Ms Wong Ai Chiat, Head of Governance and Client Relations, GIC Private Limited as our guest speaker sharing on ‘Trust and Teamwork for Business Survival and Success’. The forum was attended by some 100 senior leaders and feedback from the session has been invariably positive.
Our next Forum will be held on 6 July 2023. Our guest speaker is Mr Chandran Nair, CEO of AEM Holdings, who will speak on "Trust and Integrity for Sustainable Business Success: Honour for SMEs and beyond” to help and encourage CEOs and leaders as they lead their organisations forward. We are oversubscribed for this session and thank you for your overwhelming support.
The Forum thereafter will be held on 14th September. If you are the CEO or a C-suite Leader, and would like to attend one of these Forums, please get in touch with me at LimSiongGuan@honour.sg to express your interest.
HONOUR CHAMPIONS COMMUNITY: Honour (Singapore) is acutely aware that if the world of family, society, business and government is to benefit from greater trust and care and concern between people, the virtue of honour has to become a habit and a natural part of our lives. This will not happen unless there are significant numbers of people who undertake to be “Honour Champions”, as meaning they believe so much in the value of Honour for life and living that, whether it be social or business circles, they will champion the idea and practice of Honour as best they can.
Honour (Singapore) enables and encourages this through the formation of Honour Champions Groups, these being groups of people who decide to come together to share their personal thoughts and experiences on promoting Honour at home, in the neighbourhood and at the workplace. We welcome all who are prepared and convicted to identify themselves as Honour Champions to join this movement of the Honour Champions Community comprising Honour Champions Groups where each Group has a point of focus that serves the particular interest of its members.
We currently already have a number of Honour Champions Groups comprising HR professionals, young professionals, sustainability advocates, SMEs, Agility practitioners and others. We will be happy to create any number of new groups to meet the needs of more Honour Champions. Please contact us so we can meet to discuss how you can join or lead an Honour Champions Group, and succeed as leaders, influencers and multipliers of Honour. Our belief is that the culture of Honour promoted through Honour Champions will not just be critical for Singapore’s continuing survival and success as a nation, but also critical for the survival and success of our businesses and families, and our effectiveness as leaders and workers for the future. Should you wish to learn more about the Honour Champions Community, please visit our website at https://honour.sg/community/.
“WHAT NEXT?”: We continue with our "What Next?” programme where we run workshops to elicit participant consensus on what they think would make a sustainably successful Singapore decades into the future. We should want future generations of Singaporeans to continue to find Singapore as the place which offers them the opportunity to be the best they can be according to their talents and abilities. The workshop seeks to help participants think for the long-term without being side-tracked by the challenges and difficulties they face today in their personal lives. We need to have the confidence and gumption to deal with the Unknown Unknowns and to Expect the Unexpected.
Some needs for the long-term may well take 20 or 30 years to bring about. So if as a people we do not think with that longer timeframe, we will miss out on creating conditions which will allow our children and grandchildren to thrive in their time. We have conducted “What Next?” workshops with university undergraduates and young working adults, educators, and community leaders. We hope to also reach out to business leaders, religious groups, and other communities this year who are interested in the longer-term development of Singapore as society and nation, so that they also can position themselves and their organisations better for the future. Should you wish us to conduct a “What Next?” workshop for your social group or workplace, or simply to attend such a workshop, please get in touch with us at admin@honour.sg.
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THANK YOU |
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I continue to speak about Honour, on an invitation-only basis, at schools, companies and community groups. In the last quarter, I had the privilege of sharing with several organisations the criticality and cruciality of Honour and Honouring for sustainable success. These occasions inspire and energise me while I also hope they inspire and energise the audiences. If you believe such a session could be a boost to the vision and morale of people in your sphere of influence, do let me know your interest at LimSiongGuan@honour.sg.
Thank you very much for your continued support, help and encouragement for Honour (Singapore). We look forward to your continued moral and financial support as we seek the well-being of Singapore. Should you have any ideas and feedback on what we can do better, please get in touch with me at LimSiongGuan@honour.sg. My very best regards to you and your family. I wish you good health, much happiness and great satisfaction in all of your undertakings, and offer you early best wishes for a memorable National Day 2023.
Lim Siong Guan
Founding Chairman
Honour (Singapore)
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