How Can You Develop Strategic Thinking Skills?

Team of professionals engaged in strategic planning with charts and digital devices

Imagine yourself as a strategic master in a high-stakes chess game. In the competitive realm of business leadership, every move counts. Decisions made without strategic foresight are not just minor errors; they represent critical blunders that can jeopardize your standing in the corporate arena. Leaders need to look beyond immediate challenges and adopt a proactive, […]

Infographic: 5 Motivational Tips For Teams

Motivate Team

Maintaining a high level of team motivation is essential for achieving success and personal fulfilment in today’s fast-paced and competitive work environment. However, even the most driven individuals can occasionally find themselves facing motivational hurdles. Maintaining a high level of team motivation is essential for achieving success and personal fulfilment in today’s fast-paced and competitive work environment. Here are 5 motivational tips to help them.

The problem with most recognition awards at the workplace

In the recent facilitation session that I ran for a client, I realized that every year they hold a great event to celebrate the innovation projects of teams and recognize their efforts, and business impact.   In most innovation projects the teams usually involve some leaders who took an idea and turned them into reality. […]

What competencies do you need?

What competencies do you need

Instead of talking about problems, we can talk about competencies. As a leader, It is important to coach your staff to ask themselves what competencies or skills to tackle their problems.

3 Ways to increase business agility in your organisation

Business agility

The challenge for any organisation is still to serve its stakeholders well even when the business conditions keep changing. Business agility affects business and culture. Here we list 3 “tests” to see if your organisation is agile and what you can do about it.

7 Ways To Stay Motivated In Your Life

Philippine HR Congress Howell Malabut interviews Kenneth Kwan - "How do you stay motivated in life?"

“How do you motivate yourself and keep it up?” This was posted to me when Howell Mabalot interviewed me after my speech to over 1500 people in the recent Philippines HR Congress 2019. Honestly, there are times where I don’t feel exactly highly motivated, but my response to it is extremely important. This is not […]

Four questions to ask people who are resistant to change

Let’s face it, in every organisation, we will always have people who will want to be on the safe side or entrenched with years of old thinking. How do you ask questions that will help others to start moving forward into different realities? These four questions  to ask people who are resistant to change have helped […]

Forget New Year’s Resolutions

ForgetNewYrResolution

…But here’s the thing: most people tend to give up on doing it. They get excited easily but they drop it when they get too busy.

So, I suggest to you, forget New Year’s Resolutions.