Raise Your Game

Many assume that the capacity to create and innovate is something you either have or you don’t.  However, learning to cultivate such a culture within your organisation or within your team, can yield surprising results.

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It takes time and the right kind of guidance to develop good financial habits. In this month’s series, Raymond Gabriel gives us a more in depth look at what anyone, young or old, can do to cultivate some financial know how, based on Raymond’s book, Money Quotient.

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Nick Jankel is a Cambridge-educated, leadership expert and creator of Breakthrough Biodynamics, a science-inspired, wisdom-wired approach to leading individual & social change. We talk about the business of switching on and turning inspiration into action to power breakthroughs and impact change.

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As a leader, or aspiring leader, can we have it all, or are there areas we will need to trade off for a better decision? Some believe we can do all, as long as we know how to leverage. Others consider saying "no" to preserve energy and time for the pursuit of a bigger goal. In celebrating the end of the year, how can we intentionally develop our leadership in the coming years?

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The purpose of NLP is to provide a therapeutic model to help people get past their barriers and let go of their baggage. It’s no surprise then that some of the tools of NLP can be infused into training programs of any kind, be it sales or customer service excellence. Our resident NLP expert, Sheila Singam of Human Equation, brings her guest Veni Muthusamy, to share how NLP can help in training.

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What does it take to achieve employee wellness? Harold Littlejohn looks at some less conventional ways of creating happiness and satisfaction at the workplace.

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Now that you’ve achieved success and mastery, what does it take to stay on top of your game? In this last episode of our monthly series, Aida Adnan talks us through the realities of sustaining success, including the need to embrace failures.

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There’s alot of research out there that is meant to help demystify what goes on in the brain, so that we can understand our minds better. This research has led way to a whole host of suggested techniques and frameworks to help us become better leaders or entrepreneurs. But Robert Burton, author of A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind, says not all is as it seems.

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Most Asian kids are brought up to think that games are a distraction, and only school books and homework will propel us forward. But is fun and play really such a bad thing? Psychology and brain research show that those Nintendo and Mario games may not have been a waste of time after all. We discuss the merits of game-based learning and whether it can be used to transform workplace learning into a significant, enjoyable experience.

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Do you believe in magic? Matthew Hutson does. He’s a science writer and author of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking, a book that makes the argument for magic, and how having faith in the irrational can keep us happy, healthy and sane.

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