Raise Your Game

In today’s corporate world, it’s becoming more common for frequent career or job role change both externally and internally. It’s a natural effect of wanting the opportunity to grow. However, it’s important to remember that growth doesn’t happen magically and it requires an understanding of how to pursue excellence in managing change. Qhairyl Iyzuan from Leaderonomics discusses the kind of expectations and skills needed to raise your game when changing roles within an organisation.

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When we think of leadership, we think about one person leading a team of other people. But how can you lead yourself, and why is that important? Anita Lawrence, certified speaker, trainer and coach with The John Maxwell Team and founder of Exceed Excellence Sdn Bhd, discusses what self-leadership is and how it can help you re-shape your mindset.

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Career changes are getting increasingly common in today’s world. How do we make the most out of our current job and bring all these skills to the next industry? Which skills can we consider relevant for a whole new working environment? In this Raise Your Game session, Nicholas Chin, a barista-turned-youth trainer in a corporate environment, shares his journey on how leveraging on his transferable skills aided him in his 180 degree career switch.

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People who successfully reach greater heights in their careers or in managing their businesses often exhibit remarkable self-belief. But how does one achieve that? Shankar Santhiram shares his insights and experiences into how can we develop confidence and self-belief at work through this Raise Your Game session.

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It isn’t often that you get a condensed and in-depth analysis of insights into people strategy, but this year, EY and DDI partnered to create a report that would do just that for Malaysia. Stephen Koss, EY’s Asia Pacific Workforce Advisory Leader, and Lee Yun Han, Director of People’s Advisory Services at EY, discuss EY and DDI’s Malaysia Global Leadership Forecast 2018 report.

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Having a role model is an important part of growing up – it gives inspiration, motivation, and even a path as to how to reach a certain goal or vision for yourself. This is a journey that starts from a very young age, and exposure to the right kind of role models is crucial – even more crucial however is the ability to critically look at a role model and pick the behaviours, attitudes, and skills that you should aspire to achieve, leaving behind those that you shouldn’t. In this Raise Your Game session, Evangelia shares her thoughts that as parents, providing exposure to a wide range of role models as well as providing the space to discuss and reflect on them with our children is an essential step in helping them in their overall development.

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Both good and bad leadership are learned behaviours. By learning what shapes a leader, he or she will be able to identify the root causes for both their successes or failures. Hence, they will be able make the necessary adjustments to propel them to a new level of leadership effectiveness. In this Raise Your Game session, Eric Lau shares his thought about what shapes a leader and how to lead effectively.

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When it comes to reviewing performances at work, sometimes we can let our human tendency towards bias affect our professional view. Garry Chow shares his thoughts on what the issues are with performance appraisals and how we could remove as much prejudice as possible from the process.

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Effective listening is the ability to actively comprehend information given by a speaker regardless of any form of communication. In other words, it determines the effectiveness of an interaction when it allows individuals to retain information by showing interest, in-depth focus and active feedback to the other participant in a communication exchange. However, not every conversation proves to be a mutual success for both parties.

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One of the biggest challenges that leaders and executives face at work, or even in life, is how to be more effective and more efficient. Both qualities are learned qualities. In this Raise Your Game session, Jeevan Sahadevan provides a very simple yet powerful method on how you can systemise the daily and weekly tasks you do in order to develop massive effectiveness and efficiency.