Raise Your Game

This month, Michael Kossler from Iclif Leadership and Governance joins us to talk about all things related to working well with other people and within an organization. In the first episode, we start with how to engage members of your team. Each person has a different set of needs for full engagement. In this session, Michael Kossler takes us through how to identify those needs and how a leader can leverage them to engage members of the team. 

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Over the years, there has been much debate going on over what constitutes quality. Various disciplines have attempted to define the concept, and many have come up with their own definitions. In such a complex labyrinth of definitions, how does one make sense of what 'high quality work' constitutes, and how do you go about ensuring you deliver that type of work? 

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Jeevan Sahadevan joins us monthly to give tips and tricks for anyone to overcome the many challenges in the world of business.

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How can you reliably make the right decision every time? The uncertainty of that question makes people nervous, and nervous people make mistakes. Derrick McManus shares how durability can help increase confidence, efficiency and effectiveness.

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It's the last episode of this month's series where we're looking at career and work life from the perspective of Gen Y's, as well as people within industries that hold insight to what Gen Y's are after. Today we've got two of BFM's interns with us- Dina who is studying journalism, and Nigel, a psychology major. We loo kat ways to create the right kind of opportunities to get us on the path to a career that we'll love. Derek Toh, the founder of WOBB, is also here to share his experience and advice.

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As Heidi Klum famously says, "One day you're in, and the next day you're out". Volatile economic conditions or poorly planned PR strategies can easily catapult any company from the heights of success to stinging depths of failure. If you’re sitting courtside to a company crisis, hold on. Before panic sets in and you start making mental plans to jump ship, let's look at some ways you can take charge and play your part to help lead your organization out of a crisis, with Valsala Krishnan of Globe Trotters Consultancy.

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We are surrounded by multiple dots in our life journey, and some are more visible than others. The more visible ones however may not be the most relevant and vital to get connected, and make a difference. Do we have what it takes to find those vital connections? Ong Ewe Hock joins us to discuss how we can better define our own dots. 

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Every month, Sheila Singam brings on a client to speak about how NLP techniques can be utilised as tools to transform and solve challenges in business and in their personal life. 

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Like magic, business is part skill and part performance. With magic as his metaphor, professional speaker Vinh Giang unveils the psychology behind magic, and relays his insights about entrepreneurship, positive thinking and how an individual may react to different situations in life and business. 

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Mang Tha is a resilient community of refugee women from Myanmar, seeking to develop income generating skills and life skills, to promote confidence and self-worth whilst helping the most needy amongst women and children. We speak to two members of this community, along with Yante Ismail of UNHCR, to hear their stories of survival and gain insights into what it’s like to live as a refugee in Malaysia. 

To purchase a purse, handmade by these refugees, check them out here : http://www.fashionvalet.com/brands/663/mang-tha

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