Raise Your Game

Is there a science to building leaders? Are leaders born or made? Roshan Thiran, from Leaderonomics has been researching leadership for 21 years now and has uncovered some science to building leaders. Freda speaks to him as he uncovers some new insights to how kids from as early as 3 years old go through experiences that set them apart as leaders whilst others go through differing experiences to accelerate their leadership. Listen to how the science of building leaders unfolds and what one can do as a parent, teacher, business owner or manager to ensure a child, employee or student grows into a leader.”

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It’s the first friday of the month, and that means Jeevan Sahadevan from Leverage Lab is back with us. This month, he shares with us the incredible power of creating and managing harmonious roles for your work and life

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While optimism is highly encouraged and always more appreciated, it is also important for one to maintain a realistic mind to keep the positivity running and end goals to be achieved. For today's slow, we will uncover the power of realistic optimism and how it can be emulated into everyday life.

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Every month, Sheila Singam uses case studies to illustrate how NLP techniques can be utilised as tools to transform and solve challenges in business and in your personal life. Today, Human Equation founder Sheila Singam discusses how limiting beliefs can be eliminated and replaced with empowering beliefs and illustrates this with a couple of case studies.

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Retaining employees used to be as simple as raising salaries and providing job security. A few decades ago, most people would be grateful just to have a stable job which led to a predictable income and benefits. However, the employees of today are no longer driven by the same emotions as their predecessors. But instead, managers now need to embrace the “soft” side of people management and re-skill themselves in gaining new EQ-related competencies such as empathy. Joseph Tan from Leaderonomics joins us to share the 2 forms of empathy that managers can embrace in their leadership.

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Our lives moving fast. We are engulfed and constantly distracted by email, social media and an “always-on” work culture. To put it simply - we’re just too busy, too overloaded with information and too focused on analytical left-brain thinking to be creative. Founder and CEO of one of the largest independent marketing and communications agencies in the world, Chris Lewis joins us to discuss how we can step back from this overload and maximise our creative potential in a hyper-connected work culture.

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Apple has it. Zappos has it. Alibaba has it. What are we talking about? Great stories. Mark Schenk and Bharat Avalani from Anecdote share tips on how storytelling can help build companies.

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Many people seem to be disconnected and disengaged from their jobs. But when you probe deeper, they all have dreams for a better life and for bigger outcomes from their professional life. Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Consulting joins us once again on his Success Consciousness series, this time to discuss how a hope-filled attitude can fuel success.

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In conjunction with International World Women's Day, this is an ode to working mothers and stay at home ones. It's to point out that we may be WM or SAHM, but we are instilling leadership traits in our children directly or indirectly, and for those who need guidance, these are the ways we can go about it.

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Freelancing and part time work is nothing new. But it is now set to be a key socio-economic driver as the Fourth Industrial Revolution races ahead. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, combined with other socio-economic and demographic changes, will transform labour markets in the next five years, leading to a net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies. As new technologies make “anytime, anywhere” work possible, companies are breaking up tasks in new ways, leading to a fragmentation of jobs across many industries. Faridah Hameed from Results-Driven Communication joins us to discuss Open Talent Economy and how is it different from conventional freelance and part time work.

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