Raise Your Game

The topic of employee loyalty is increasingly becoming a serious concern in many organisations today, especially when it involves millennials. How is this different from the past?

As an example, many of us have probably heard of baby boomers earning a Gold Watch and a good pension upon retirement, after they have worked at the same company throughout their entire work-life. While many companies practiced this in the past, it is hardly heard of today. In this Raise Your Game session, Connie shares her thoughts about how millennials are not just looking for employers that help them fulfil their career and life goals, but also employers who inspire passion in their work.

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Fear captures your attention. It teaches you how to respond each time you confront a similar situation, or even when it is about to happen. This is good because it acts as an early warning sign. In this Raise Your Game session, Shankar shares about the need to learn and use fear as a motivator in order to move beyond the situation that is causing it.

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The business world is a tough environment, and as we progress into a future workforce that demands adaptability, we have to reassess how we look at the concept of leadership. Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO & Executive from Iclif and BFM’s very own Malek Ali talk about the reinvention of leadership energy, purpose, and values.

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After ten years of running his business, Roshan Thiran, CEO of Leadernomics, shares the key lessons he’s learned about growth and sustainability in a startup.

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This is the second part of a series all about how leadership is actually a losing game. One of the easiest roads to disappointment is having unrealistic expectations, and that goes for people in leadership positions, too. Joseph Tan, consulting director of Good Monday Consulting, discusses losing the expectations game and why that could make you a better leader.

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Jamie Andrew is a Scottish mountaineer who lost his hands and feet in a tragic mountaineering accident 19 years ago.  Undaunted by this setback in his life, Jamie went on to become the first quadruple amputee in the world to have climbed The Matterhorn in Switzerland, the first to climb Kilimanjaro in Africa, the first to complete a Marathon and the first to complete an Iron Man Triathlon. In this Raise Your Game session, he shares various leadership lessons that he learnt on his journey from hospital bed to mountain summit.

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One’s self esteem is determined by the way one spends his/her time to achieve his/her dreams and goals. As important as it is, ironically very few people know how to manage time in a simple yet powerful manner. In today’s Raise Your Game session, Jeevan Sahadevan, founder of Leverage Lab shares the 5 Keys for incredible Time Management and how to know if we are managing our time well.

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When it comes to productivity and efficiency, a lot of guides and books have theories or ideas on how to improve. But what if you want tools that are a bit more concrete? How do you not only improve your business’ results, but also measure those results following clear metrics? Sebastian Marshall, the CEO and co-founder of a company called Ultraworking, tells us how Ultraworking wants to improve the very nature of work.

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When it comes to conflict, especially here in Asia, often we avoid confrontation in favour of passive-aggression and gossip. So how can we start to address that and resolve our inability to manage conflict? Dr John Ng, chief passionary officer at META Consulting and author of “Smiling Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Transforming Conflict Into Opportunity”, talks about the issues of saving “face”, how that leads to conflict, and possible solutions.

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In today’s context, the term comfort zone is regarded lowly, and even associated with low performance in the corporate world. However, from another perspective, comfort zone can also denote the much-needed point of stability which is again much needed, in order to grow further. The question is how do we have both at the same time? In this Raise Your Game session, Caroline Ong shares about the need to increase performance by expanding our comfort zone.

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