Raise Your Game

What is a beautiful question? According to Warren Berger, author of the book, “ A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Enquiry To Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, a beautiful question could be an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something. Warren joins us to share further insight on this.

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Jensen Siaw’s passion for people has inspired him to spend years experienceing and studying human behaviour and performance psychology. Every year thousands of graduates join the workforce, aspiring to have a successful career. Regardless of whether you are working in the public or private sector, you will find yourself competing with other similarly qualified colleagues for recognition, incentives and promotions. So how do you stand out from the rest? 

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The marathon metaphor holds true and applies to our careers and livelihood – a career is a marathon, not a sprint. Many have made the mistake of running their career like a sprint - trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible, unaware that this is not a sustainable way. Shahran Masood shares with us a holistic guide to making smarter career choices, so you can run the distance.

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In today's age of social media connectivity, we may be adhering to a different set of rules when it comes to communicating. A 140 character message and some daily photo updates may be all well and good when it comes to getting those likes from your online peers, but are we forgetting how to connect offline? In building more authentic and meaningful relationships, we must begin by taking stock of how we interact with the people right in front of us. Author Mark Goulston draws on his experience as a psychiatrist, business consultant, and coach, and backed by the latest scientific research, shares simple but powerful techniques to really get through to people--whether they're co-workers, friends, strangers, or enemies.

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What does Sun Tzu and ‘The Art of War’ have in common with today’s modern manager?  ‘The Art of War’ is based on the Taoist philosophy of ‘objectivity’, where strategy is used to outsmart competitors by being better and faster at tactics. Using these principles, Scott Graham shares the core individual values of strategy and tactics and how to apply them in winning principles that can be incorporated into your business regardless of its size.

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To be a leader one must have followers. Some leaders are 'Great bad' leaders who coerced their followers; others are 'Great good leaders' who are followed voluntarily. The difference lies in how they pass the eleven tests of leadership and in their governance.

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Whether it’s ideas, instructions or feelings, explaining is something that we are required to do on a daily basis. Alot of the times we know what we’re explaining… but do we think enough about how we’re explaining it? We might have an idea for a great product or invention, but if we’re not able to explain that idea, to get people excited and invested, then chances are that our plans might not succeed to it’s fullest potential. Author Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft, a company that's known for making complex ideas easy to understand through short animated videos. Lee talks about his book, The Art of Explanation, and why explanation is now an essential skill for professionals. 

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Dr. Billy Kueek is the founder of Billy Kueek International, and is the first certified Hypnotherapy Master Trainer in South-East Asia, by the American Board of Hypnotherapy. He was on Raise Your Game before to talk about Living Life by Design, Not By Default.- a philosophy that utilizes NLP to help people achieve breakthroughs in their performance, relationships, education, coaching, business, therapy and in themselves. This time however, he’ll be speaking to us with more depth on the practice of Hypnotherapy and Time Line Therapy.

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 Joseph Wong is an entrepreneur, behavioural transformation coach, and author. He wrote the book, The Power Science of Influence. The book reveals strategies on how we can leverage on the science of influence and persuade people in your team, at work and in sales. We're into the 3rd episode of our personal success series, and today we'll be asking Joseph for tips on how to be a person of influence. 

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Robin Sieger is a motivational speaker who recently delivered the opening keynote at this year’s Toastmasters’ International annual Congress, presenting ‘The Secrets of Personal Success”.  He’s also an accomplished man of various different achievements; from building orphanages in Thailand to holding the world record for the coldest round of golf ever played in -26C in Alaska, there’s not much Robin isn’t game for. Today he’ll be speaking to us about success and happiness, outlining his own personal journey as an author, speaker and entrepreneur.

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