Raise Your Game

There are seven powerful concepts that can help you understand yourself at a deeper level. Discover what it means to reach fulfilment for yourself and others. We spoke to the authors of 7C's - A New Way of Being, Cheah Kar Fei and Boon Lu Xanne to uncover and unlock one’s potential and progress towards success.  

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Do you constantly make resolutions but rarely meet your goals? When trying to lose weight, save money or get organized, do you begin with enthusiasm and determination only to see your progress stall and your willpower finally collapse? If so, you’re not alone - nearly 90 percent of personal improvement resolutions end in failure. Such yearly defeats may tempt you to take increasingly drastic actions to meet your goals, yet it’s the small but pivotal behavioral change that is most likely to lead to true personal transformation.

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The Obstacles Grid: 9 types of obstacles that can get in your way whilst pursuing your goals and how to overcome each of them.

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Innovation leadership involves synthesizing different leadership styles in organizations to influence employees to produce creative ideas, products, services and solutions. The key role in the practice of innovation leadership is the innovation leader. As an approach to organization development, innovation leadership can be used to support the achievement of the mission or vision of an organization or group. In a world that is ever changing with new technologies and processes, it is becoming necessary for organizations to think innovatively in order to ensure their continued success and stay competitive.

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Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Consulting is back to continue the series on Good People Better Leaders and this time round we’ll be discussing “Developing Personal High Performance Culture” - The 80/20 rule, also known as Pareto’s Principle, must serve as a daily reminder to focus eighty percent of our time and energy on the twenty percent of our work that is really important. In this episode we discussed how to work smart on the right things.

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Alchemy is the art of the transformation of the soul, it is a conscious internal journey: to become who we truly are. Many believe that Alchemists search for the secret formula to turn lead into gold. Yet true alchemists understand that alchemy is to journey within, to reconnect with the gold which we all truly are. Leon Aarts is a Modern Day Alchemist, Dad, Visionary, Speaker, Author, Social Innovator, Top Chef, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Traveler and Explorer of Consciousness. We spoke to him about what happens when we all become truly connected to each other again and with ourselves, we make a huge difference. 

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People talk about Gen-Y everywhere these days – at home, at work, at networking events. Sadly, Gen-Ys are defined as a generation that is impossible to understand or that they’re very difficult to work with. This topic is extremely relevant to listeners who’d like to know why are they difficult to work with and to share that it’s actually possible to get the best out of them.

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Life can be relentless, frantic and exhausting – but it doesn’t have to be this way. Mark Williams is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, Welcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He has been working closely with the Centre of Suicide Research since 2003 on a large Welcome Trust Programme to investigate psychological mechanisms in suicidal behaviour in recurrent depression. His research now continues as part of the Mindfulness Centre, focusing on understanding the psychological processes that underlie depression and suicidal behaviour and the development of new psychological treatments. Professor Mark Williams co-developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and is the author of "Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World".

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We are into the final ‘D’ of our Everyman’s Everest series with John Kam from D’Jungle People and he concluded that it is about “Discipline” – the great multiplier that sets apart the complacent from those that excel. Discipline exponentially increases the results of any action.

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People are all different, and are motivated by different things. For some it is praise and recognition, for others it is financial reward, or status.  If you are responsible for managing others, you need to know how to motivate each person according to what makes them tick. Motivating People is a book that enables you to learn all about the key principles of motivation and how to apply them to both yourself, or your team, if you are a manager. We spoke to Sue Stockdale and Clive Steeper, authors who are experienced in motivating themselves and other people to achieve high levels of performance in their roles as managers and leaders in international businesses. 

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