Bettr Fellowship: A community of leaders growing faster together.

Are you a social entrepreneur or leader of a purpose-driven organisation? If you worry about balancing profit and purpose, burning out, and want to be part of a community of leaders like you, then you're in the right place.

At Bettr, we’ve found that the best way to do good business, create impact, and keep going is to learn from those around us.

The Bettr Fellowship was created so that leaders and organisations can learn from each other and create better business and social outcomes.

Interested? Apply for the Bettr Fellowship 2023.

Why join the Fellowship?

For the people

This is a community you can talk to - people that understand your journey. Imagine what you could build together.

For the growth

Emotional development is the key to better business outcomes, greater resilience, and faster growth for you and your team.

For the learning

Learn first-hand from people like you who have faced the same challenges.

Benefits of Joining the Fellowship

You’ll learn from real-life examples and practitioners, linking emotional development to organisational and impact outcomes.

Learn from real experiences

You’ll learn how to build better leadership skills within your team through emotional intelligence, and more easily work towards common goals and outcomes.

Develop your middle management

You'll also have the chance to connect with peers in the sector and learn best practices through dialogue and sharing.

Connect with peers like you

WHAT OUR FELLOWS ARE SAYING

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What You’ll Get

Personalised emotional development plan

Based on the Six Seconds SEI Assessment, with actionable steps to implement in your business

Leadership development training

On conflict resolution, productive communication, and having effective performance conversations with your team

Peer-to-peer learning

Through various activities and events around key themes

A supportive community

Of social entrepreneurs and change-makers to share best practices, ideas, and challenges

Access to experienced mentors and coaches

For guidance and support - people who are already a few steps ahead with insights.

Ongoing support

Ongoing support and resources beyond the fellowship program

Access to resources

Including connections to other changemakers and organisations

Your impact, showcased

Opportunity to showcase impact through presentations and success stories

Structure of Programme

Capacity Development Training for Leaders

  • For: Founders/Senior Management Team, 2 person per organisation

    Objectives:

    • Learn the theoretical underpinning and challenges faced by beneficiaries

    • Implement policies that facilitates an inclusive workplace culture and safeguarding practises

    • Have performance management conversations with marginalised individuals

    What will be covered:

    • Define workplace problems and common mental illness

    • Understand the contexts of the marginalised community

    • Introduction to Six Seconds Model

    • Understand and navigate emotions

    • Unlocking EQ

    • Define inclusive and empathetic workplace

    • Define seven caring and seven deadly habits in workplace

    • Empathetic Listening Skills

    • Safeguarding in Workplace

    • Managing challenging behaviours

    • Providing better feedbacks

    • Post-programme Support: Consultation on implementing company policies

  • Objective:

    • Develop skill sets to manage themselves (emotional health, stress, compassion fatigue)

    • Learn how to receive feedback and empathetic listening for their colleagues

    What will be covered:

    • Identify, understand and manage your emotions effectively to increase work productivity

    • Self-awareness & how to be “smarter with feelings”

    • Importance of managing stress in the workplace

    • Articulating the link between stress and productivity in the workplace

    • Toolkits and role-play on receiving feedback and how to play a supportive role to their colleagues

Collective Meetings (For Fellows only)

  • Objective:

    Provide sustained support for the founding, leadership team to share challenges, best practises of implementing structures and policies learnt from the programme. This meeting functions as a forum for Bettr Trainers, Employees/ staff, and the Social Enterprise/ Non-profit Leadership Team. The goal is to build a community of practice

    Frequency:

    session/ month for a period of 3 months (in-person, half-day)

    Post-programme Support:

    1-to-1 consult between collective meetings

Mentoring Opportunities

  • Part of the impact work is to spread the knowledge, skills and tools to other SEs/ NPOs so that other players are also able to build their internal capacity to meet challenging demands. Fellows will get the opportunity to be Mentors for the next intake.

Training for Middle Managers

    • Develop an opportunity to grow your future-tier of leadership in your organisation by connecting them with their peers in the sector

    • Learn the theoretical underpinning and challenges faced by beneficiaries

    • Have performance management conversations with marginalised individuals

    • Define workplace problems and common mental illness

    • Understand the contexts of the marginalised community

    • Introduction to Six Seconds Model

    • Managing challenging behaviours

    • Connect and learn Best Practices from peers in the sector through dialogue and sharing

Key Dates

Who can apply for the fellowship?

  • Social Entrepreneurs, NPO leaders, and Leaders of change-making* organisations

  • Works directly with beneficiaries — e.g., provision of training and employment of beneficiaries.

  • Has a min. of 7 team members

  • Has been operational for a min. of 2 years.

Pamela has over 20 years of start-up and business experience, and is the co-founder of The Bettr Group, Bettr empowers lives through holistic vocational programmes for marginalised women and youth, nurtures direct and sustainable trade across their supply chain, and encourages socially and environmentally conscious consumption.

Prior to founding Bettr, Pamela co-founded, ran and grew a successful web consultancy, Digital Boomerang. She was also part of the pioneer team in the web division of Singapore Press Holdings as Head of International Online Advertising Sales and Business Development.

Pamela is the first Singaporean on the Board of Directors of the global Specialty Coffee Association and a World Barista Championship Certified Sensory Judge, World Coffee in Good Spirits Sensory Judge, Licensed Q Arabica Grader.

She is also a Six Seconds Certified EQ Assessor and started Bettr Lives to attempt to address one of our greatest collective challenges in the 21st century – the mental and emotional health of people.

Our Facilitators

Pamela Chng

Chairperson of Bettr Lives

Suyin Tay

Suyin Tay is a social impact advocate, educator and curriculum developer. As Head of Social Programmes at the Bettr Group, she is particularly focused on expanding the impact work within the ecosystem. She is deeply passionate about the human condition and how interdisciplinary solutions can drive sustained transformations

Her work in the APAC region over the past decade includes being a curriculum designer at McKinsey’s Social Initiative: Generation, a non-profit that seeks to connect education to sustainable livelihoods. She was formerly a Subject Head (Ag.) and Assistant Year Head at the Ministry of Education, working with a diversity of at-risk youths and their families. She is also a certified EQ Practitioner, Educator and Assessor as part of the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network.

For her work in the region, she was awarded the Obama Foundation Asia Pacific Leader in 2023.

Head of Social Programmes

  • Registered Social Enterprises and Non-profit organisations that are based in Singapore.

  • Please click here to sign up.

    • Develop and promote an inclusive workplace culture using EQ as a tool

    • Create workplace policies and structures that facilitates the inclusion of marginalised people in our workspace

    • Work with and learn from other changemakers to gain access to multiple network channels with like-minded individuals to create opportunities

  • Total training cost is valued at $32,000 per organisation, all costs will be borne by Bettr Lives, generously supported by the ECCA Foundation.

  • Any individual who may be marginalised due to any one or more of the following criteria:

    • Low-income

    • Formerly incarcerated or have family members who are incarcerated

    • Did not complete formal N or O levels Education

    • Persons with Disabilities

    • Identity-related (ethnic, religious, persons in the LGBTQ+ community)

    The above list is not exhaustive. If you are unsure, do drop us an email at connect@bettrlives.org.

  • Examples:

    • Provision of training for beneficiaries

    • Employment of beneficiaries

    • Have frequent interactions with the beneficiaries

    If you are unsure, do drop us an email at connect@bettrlives.org.

  • Application results will be announced by 31 May 2023.

  • Please drop an email to connect@bettrlives.org. We will get back to you within 3 working days.

  • You will receive a notification email within 3 working days of your application submission.

  • Please drop us an email at connect@bettrlives.org and we will follow up with you as soon as possible.

  • Change-making is defined as Leaders that dedicate themselves to solving social challenges (i.e social business, non-profit, ground-up)

FAQs

Application

Selection Process

  • Both shortlisted as well as unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email.

  • Yes, you can. The goal of the Fellowship is to create an ecosystem of do-gooders, using their businesses and institutions as a force for good. As such, we welcome organisations to re-apply.

Programme

  • Please click here for programme details and key dates.

  • Yes you are required to commit to all the planned dates. Should you not be able to attend any, do inform us via the application form or during the panel interview. Alternatively, please email us at connect@bettrlives.org.

General

  • Please email us at connect@bettrlives.org.

  • 1 March - 30 April 2024

  • Fellows are encouraged to apply the skills and knowledge that they have gained from the Fellowship programme to their organisations.

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