Raise Your Game

Dr Jovina Ang discusses the ideas of communication, storytelling, and behaviours from her book, “Leadership Communication - Connect, Engage, Inspire”.

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It is the age of automation, and many organisations are striving to stay ahead, to stay competitive within their industries. In order to achieve that, the focus, among many, has almost always been on the adoption of new technologies. However, as technology advances and organisations embrace them, there is a tendency to end up with uniformity within the same industry. In other words, the uniqueness of a particular organisation – that which gives it its true competitive advantage, may no longer be found. In this Raise Your Game session, Arun shares that at the end of the day, it is not the technology that makes an organisation, or even an individual unique, it is talent.

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When we think of the corporate world, we refer to it as a rat race, and we remove so much emotional connection. But it turns out that leaders underestimate the contribution that emotions can have on a person’s decisions and commitments. This is the third and last part in a series all about how leadership is actually a losing game. Joseph Tan, consulting director of Good Monday Consulting, shares how leaders can be better leaders by losing the emotional game.

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A lot of problems in life come from making the wrong decision. So in order to avert that situation entirely, ideally you could learn to make better decisions in the first place. George Ng, Regional Marketing Director for Southeast Asia at Kepner Tregoe, shares how to make better decisions and how that solves more problems.

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Curiosity is sometimes not encouraged in our lives. Yet curiosity is a high determinant of success and progress in one’s journey through life. In fact, curiosity is not only a significant part of our performance character, but it also leads to our ability to connect the dots in order to achieve something meaningful and of great value. In this Raise Your Game session, Eva shares about the importance of curiosity in one’s leadership journey, and how to go about developing it over the years.

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Almost a year has passed and designing an incredible 2019 must first start from a good review and reflection of your 2018. What worked, what didn’t, your successes, your failures and your lessons learned, all of which you will invest into creating a great 2019. In this Raise Your Game session, Jeevan Sahadevan takes us on an exciting and emotional journey of reviewing our 2018 by using just 18 questions which will leave you with some incredible insights for an incredible new year.

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There is a common thread amongst entrepreneurs, no matter what industry they’re in or how big their companies are - they tend to have very similar mindsets. Dr. Brian Wong Kee Mun discusses the concept of humanistic entrepreneurialism, and how even non-entrepreneurs can adopt the same mindset.

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As a conqueror, Genghis Khan was ruthless, brutal and unyielding in his quest for world domination. The mark he left on the world is indelible – even a Soviet campaign to remove him from the history books, centuries after his death, ultimately failed. In this Raise Your Game session, Roshan Thiran shares various leadership lessons he learned from the historical Mongol warrior.

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The end of the year is a time that many employees dread. It’s because it’s the time for performance appraisal. Surprisingly, it’s not just those who are being appraised who approach it with trepidation; the ones doing the appraising also often feel anxious at having to tell their subordinate the truth about their performance in the past year. It’s the last Monday of the month and Sheila Singam from Human Equation shares about how to turn performance appraisal into a productive and motivating event. 

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It can often be difficult and challenging for people who are disadvantaged in some way to support themselves and their families. Shahril Azuar Jimin, CEO of the Maybank Foundation, and Raymond Gabriel talk about the Maybank Foundation RISE programme, which aims to help the disabled community Reach Independence & Sustainable Entrepreneurship.

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