Leaving No Man Behind - The secrets to building a team that last. Having trained and spoken at several key events covering leadership, teams and influence at work, I concluded that there are many secrets of building not just a great team, but a team that lasts. Having...
Procrastination Can Be Good (Featured on The Straits Times – 16 August 2016)
Procrastination Can Be Good - Fuel your originality by putting things off In our fast-paced society, we are so used to the mantra that you need to have a perfect plan and execute it accordingly to the timeline and direction. But there are a few ways to ensure...
Influence With A Mission (Featured On The Straits Times)
During my speaking and training engagement, one question that I regularly posed to all participants is: Do you influence because it is your job or do you influence with a mission? Influencing because it is your job is not going to take you very far. But if we shift...
Why Do Leaders Fail? – Featured On The Straits Times (15 Nov 2016)
Can everyone become a leader? If we define leadership as a title, not everyone can become a leadership because positions at the top of the chain are scarce. But if we can regard leadership as a journey of growth rather than a title, it would have a more powerful...
Retaining Talent Or Keep Them Returning – Featured On The Straits Times (9 Sep 2016)
Retaining Talent Or Keep Them Returning The real meaning of talent staying with you. The favorite question that has been going around for decades regarding talent retention is about how we can retain talent. A better question to ask is how can we ensure that talent...
The New Style of Leadership – Featured On The Strait Times (6 Oct 2016)
The New Style of Leadership. The new leader today lives without the title. A conversation I had with a senior leader was about how leadership today is evolving not just by how the economy is performing, but the standard people expect from their leaders today. People...
Embracing Change – Featured On The Straits Times (28 July 2016)
Embracing Change How to adapt to changes effectively. Most of use love variety and new challenges that help us to learn new abilities in the process. This is why change helps us to grow. People are fine with change – it is the transition that people need to get used...
Building Resilient Teams – Featured On The Straits Times (5 May 2016)
Building Resilient Teams Imagine you have a crisis on hand, and you need your team to pull things together and turn things around as fast as possible. What do you do when everything seems beyond reach? The answer is not what you should do, but what you should do now...
Influence Without Authority – Featured on The Straits Times (22 March 2016)
It’s true that you can get away with just about anything if you have enough authority. People have a natural tendency to be influenced by authority and research has proven this point countless times. In fact, through psychological research, the term authority is...