Raise Your Game

The reality is that there are individuals and corporations who are willing to say anything to serve their personal interests. Whether it’s an opinion, a pitch or a big data analysis, information can be skewed to influence an agenda. Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, is on a mission to make everyone more “risk savvy”, by using simple rules to make better decisions.

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As with every new project, leaders understand that they need to plan their review and set parameters to determine whether the project was a success or failure. Shankar Santhiram of EQTD Consulting shares the second episode of this month long series on Mastering the Art of Reviewing your Actions.

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Leadership researcher, consultant, and coach Susan Fowler wants us to stop trying to motivate people - it's frustrating for everyone involved and it simply doesn't work. True motivation comes from innate psychological needs that only the individual can fulfill. Susan expands on the nature of human motivation and how to cultivate it.

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Networking is the avenue to building relationships and is a crucial platform towards enhancing businesses. The question is, how can different personalities learn from one another? We speak to Stephanie Ho and Millie Ong to understand the challenges of talking to people of varying professional levels or personality types in order to have meaningful conversations and partnerships.

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Jeevan Sahadevan joins us for the final month of 2015. What expert tips and tricks will he share this time? We find out.

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What do Madonna, John Lennon, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Thomas Edison have in common? Each is (or was) a list maker. These successful people, along with CEOs and successful entrepreneurs, all use lists to keep track of their ideas, thoughts, and tasks. We speak to list making expert Paula Rizzo who’s an Emmy Award winning producer and a senior health producer on FoxNewsHealth.com to discuss the power of lists and her book Listful Thinking: Using Lists To Be More Productive, Successful and Less Stressed.

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The approach to adult learning is different to the type classroom learning that we have become accustomed in our academic pursuits. One such approach includes the practice of reviewing our actions, in order to elevate our work and contribution at the workplace. Shankar Santhiram joins us to share the final piece of the Good People, Better Leader series, which is all about mastering the art of reviewing our actions.

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When you have the intention to achieve something, you must give it the appropriate amount of attention, otherwise all it ever becomes is a pipe dream. In a quest to understand how achievements are made, we speak to Bernard Roth, author of the Achievement Habit and academic director of d.school, the informal name for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, one of the world’s leading centers for innovation. As the forefather of Design Thinking, Bernard unpacks the ways in which we can employ design thinking to actualize our potential and make achievement a lasting, life-long habit.

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Why is a Samurai warrior the hardest fighter to fight? We find out with Roshan Thiran of Leaderonomics.

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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 client Regina Foo to discuss the benefits of reframing.

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