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Insights and stories on mindset, leadership, team performance, corporate culture and self-management.
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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Leadership
The boss’ complaint There was a senior project manager who invited me down to his office to talk about a training program for his staff. He introduced me to his company and also the type of engineering work that they were involved in. However, when it came to his team of people working on the project, […]
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Creativity, Mindset and Inspiration
In my work with people and teams, goal setting is NOT an issue, goal attainment is. The big question is, “How can I ensure that I hit my goals consistently?"
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Productivity and Self Management
Many people focus on what’s needed to be done and keep adding to their plate. However, they fail to consider that the process of stopping what is not working is just as important as starting on what works.
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Leadership
We are currently living in a world focused on problems everyday. When we turn on the news, almost 95% of content covers problems that are happening around the world. In my meetings with clients, i hear more problems than solutions brought up by leaders. By focusing on problems, it results in people getting low morale, […]
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