A common question I receive from leaders and managers whom I am privileged to train: in what context do you want to increase your influence? Is it about influence at work or influence on a personal level with your people? If it is about influence at the workplace per...
What is Your Leadership Crisis Quotient? (Featured On The Straits Times – 12 Oct 2017)
WHAT IS YOUR LEADERSHIP CRISIS QUOTIENT? Leadership is not a set of skills that we can learn instantly to become a great leader. Leaders face multiple challenges with leading people because the answer does not lie in a leadership program but a behavioral one. Real...
Reflect On Mistakes To Find Success (Featured On The Straits Times – 17 August 2017)
REFLECT ON MISTAKES TO FIND SUCCESS Coach your team to learn from failure and bounce back faster with greater resolve. After many years of researching on human behavior and working with teams and leaders, I came to discovered that people learn best not necessarily...
Challenge The Status Quo (Featured On The Straits Times – 18 Aug 2017)
CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO You need to be unconventional to make waves. As a professional speaker, I have to challenge the status quo every single time I am on stage. My personal belief is that either I be thought provoking so that I can shift mind and ignite change,...
Transforming Office Politics Into Opportunities (Featured On The Straits Times)
Office politics is a dynamic of power and relationship. I called it the workspace energy - a honeycomb of tension and opportunities intertwined with one another, and there is no need to fear it. Here are three new honeycomb perspectives on how we can see this energy...
Ignite Your Influence (Featured On The Straits Times – 30 May 2017)
The real test of your influence is when you can do it without authority. This is especially true for leaders where authority is naturally tagged to the title they are holding. However, influence is a skill that is critical not just to a leader’s success, but more so...
Be An Influential Leader (Featured On The Straits Times – 26 May 2017)
BE AN INFLUENTIAL LEADER - Win the hearts and minds of your people. Leading people in the 21st century today requires a shift in mindsets and perspectives. The term Leadershift is becoming the byword when you discuss the concepts of leadership today. Because people...
Happiness At Work (Featured on The Straits Times – 7 April 2017)
HAPPINESS AT WORK - How to be happier at the workplace. Happiness has always been a by-product of positive outcomes. We chase after something to make us happy (i.e. instant gratification), and it has never been the other way around because it’s easier said than done....
Talk It Through (Featured On The Straits Times – 3 Nov 2016)
TALK IT THROUGH - How to broach a difficult conversation at work? Have there been times at work and in your life when you felt strongly about something but did not speak up? There are various psychological reasons why people choose not to speak up even when they know...