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Insights and stories on mindset, leadership, team performance, corporate culture and self-management.
Everyone wants more success in life but it doesn’t mean that they want to do something about it. In most articles, they claim that the first step you need to do is to set SMART goals. After all, if you don’t know what you want, how can you possibly succeed? Well, my answer is a […]
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Public Speaking & Presentations
I recently delivered a closing keynote on a large stage for 2000 people, an experience that often reinforces key lessons shared in presentation training for executives. There are interesting things that a speaker or trainer ought to take note of when presenting on large stages. 1. Different clicker for large stages The clicker that you use will […]
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Creativity, Mindset and Inspiration
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Creativity, Mindset and Inspiration
I have finally accomplished my goal of writing 30,000 words in my book. It has been a long and tiring journey of constant pressure, lack of sleep, and fatigue. To hold myself accountable, I was updating my friends and clients on my progress every day: Report the number of words written (I even had a […]
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High Performance Team
Let’s face it, performance reviews are nothing more than a witch hunt. You would know this if you are a manager. While nobody gets burnt at the stake, the negative conversations can surely burn your spirit. The issue at hand is that when it is conducted, it tends to be negative, constantly focusing on gaps […]
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Creativity, Mindset and Inspiration
One of the highlights in a speaker’s life is to write a book. This is a goal that I have always had but never was able to work it because there were too many things I had to attend to. Just like any other person, I had meetings to attend, speaking engagements, consultancy projects, dealing […]
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Creativity, Mindset and Inspiration
I have been conducting a lot of strategic retreats and facilitation sessions with my clients. Most of them start off with a problem statement or talk about what is not working well at work. Most of the time, it tends to end up with different groups of people pointing fingers at each other, people getting defensive and […]
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Creativity, Mindset and Inspiration
(Picture is my recent award of the Certified Speaking Professional designation. The CSP™ is the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform skill and less than than 12% of 5000 over professional speakers worldwide hold the designation.) Many many years ago, when I first started the speaking business, I couldn’t really get any jobs at […]
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Contests and Awards
I was recently been awarded the designation of CSP™ (Certified Speaking Professional). The CSP™ is the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform skill and less than 12% of 5000 professional speakers worldwide hold the designation. This rigorous certification process reviews a minimum of 250 speaking engagements within 10 years and documented earnings of at […]
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Communication
Honest Feedback: The Key to Improvement After conducting a training session a week ago, my colleague and I picked up the phone to call participants who attended our program. Rather than being blinded by the “trainer’s syndrome” (where trainers walk away thinking that they ran a great program while the participants don’t share the same level of enthusiasm), […]
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