Raise Your Game

Assessments are a necessary process for evaluating candidates, be it for hiring, promotion, or succession planning. While conventional methods are still being used, the world of assessments have now grown to include more exciting and interesting methods of evaluation. More than that, assessments now go beyond by potentially adding to the branding of your organization. Join us as we explore the arena of assessments, and the varied methods available today.

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Many successful business people and sales professionals use some form of NLP tools, whether consciously or unconsciously. NLP can give you strategic influence, help create and maintain rapport, teach you the right questions to ask to address customer concerns, give you inductive language tools to impress upon people and teach you to negotiate effectively. Our resident NLP expert, Sheila Singam of Human Equation, invites Wicky Sundram to discuss the impact that NLP has had on creating cohesion within a team, particularly in the midst of change.

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It would be fair to assume that the term Clean Language means to refrain from the use of profanity and expletives. However in this context, Clean Language helps people to convey their own meaning that is free from the distracting and often biased interpretation of others.  Caitlin Walker, a student of  David Grove, the man who developed the technique,  teaches us how we can utilize this modern form of communication to promote clarity, understanding and cooperation within a team or business.

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Aida Adnan is back with another series and this time, she joins us every week to share 4 secrets to designing your ultimate breakthrough year. In the final episode, we discuss how to stay empowered and motivated until we reach our destination.

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Perhaps because it’s something we use as frequently as we do our eyes or our hands and feet… but unless you’re a vocal artist, most of us don’t spend much time thinking about our voice- how we use it, and the impact it can have on others. Cynthia Zhai, author of Influence Through Voice, shows how we can harness our voice to gain respect, establish authority and leave an impact.

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The limelight has always been placed on leadership. What it is, how it looks and sounds, and how best to succeed at it. But in the modern workplace, almost all our work is done in teams. Samantha Hurwitz, co-author of Leadership is Half the Story gets us to focus on followership- the other part of the equation that is necessary to create a productive and collaborative environment.

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Everyone experiences stress. The further you advance in work and life, the bigger the responsibilities and the greater the stress. We’ve come up with many ways to cope with stress- in Japan, there’s even a Venting Place, where you can smash plates and frustrations away! But is there truly a respite from this omnipresent feeling?

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With the ever increasing expectations for higher performance, looking and feeling rested might not be a common sight at the workplace. Are we so entrenched in productive mode that rightful rest is now a term of extinction, while continuous work is becoming a mark of distinction? We explore with Joseph Tan of Leaderonomics.

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Robin Sharma is best known as the author of the “Monk Who Sold His Ferarri” and “The Leader Who Had No Title”, a bestseller which was adapted into a signature training program. With attention grabbing modules like becoming a “Merchant of Wow!”, it’s considered by entrepreneurs and executives as a key tool to help elevate their performance. Angel Ng and Ivan Tashveer, facilitators of Robin Sharma’s programs, walk us through the intriguing prospect of becoming a "Merchant of Wow!”.

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Most of us are well acquainted with that feeling of frustration when you're excited to try a new app or gadget that sounds fantastic and looks great, but just isn't user friendly. Believing that there really is no excuse for bad design, Mona Patel founded Motivate Design- an agency in the States that does a lot of research and thinking to find creative ways to improve the user experience for products and services. With this experience and a desire to share what she knew, she wrote a book called Reframe, that looks at shifting the way we work, innovate and think.

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