I had the good fortune of participating in a focus group on Coaching and Mentoring by HRDC in December last year. It was a well-organised event, and it was engaging to be in a room with perhaps 40 other experienced L&D professionals representing a wide range of organisations. A few weeks after the event, I...
Picture this: You’re in a meeting room, and instead of the usual silence or passive agreement, there’s a palpable buzz of excitement. Ideas bounce back and forth, solutions are born in real time, and every participant is actively engaged. A wonderful picture, isn’t it? This need not be a rare occurrence or a happy accident....
The world of work is changing rapidly and profoundly. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of remote and hybrid work models, as well as the use of digital tools and platforms to communicate, collaborate and innovate. The challenges and opportunities posed by this transformation are immense and require a new mindset and skillset for...
Why engage our direct reports? Let’s start with the importance of engagement. A manager’s drive for performance should be based on more than just the organisation’s needs; otherwise, we’ll overlook an individual’s personal growth and well-being. It’s essential to remember and learn from the unfortunate incidents where employees, especially in certain East Asian countries, face...
It’s hard to dance without music. And it’s hard to listen without story. That’s why when a presentation is full of (only) numbers, data, and facts, many managers become fatigued. They sit through many presentations and meetings, and so few of these presentations contain materials that are vivid, capture their imagination, or are memorable. Without...
Being a concert pianist and a corporate trainer might seem like contrasting melodies. Yet, for Marianne Vincent, People Potential’s Director of Training Quality, these two seemingly disparate fields came together into a unique arrangement – not unlike the lines in a fugue by Bach – and became the bedrock of People Potential’s transformative skill-building methodology....
Ibrahim J. Mariwa, then a call centre worker, had atrocious ratings, and he had them for a long while. He was desperate to improve, so he asked his supervisor for his past call recordings. He listened to his first recording, cringed, and thought: I don’t want to listen to this. He listened to the second...
This is a rewritten excerpt taken from Regina Morris’s sharing at People Potential’s regular Community of Practice, a weekly meet-up of subject matter experts, trainers, facilitators, and instructional design practitioners who come together to improve themselves. It’s part of People Potential’s commitment to our clients. Regina is People Potential’s senior business presentations specialist. — Over...
Follow a senior leader’s journey as he experiences an Executive Presentations Coaching session. Joseph presented his baseline presentation (the initial presentation before coaching) during the Executive Presentations Coaching session while Joseph’s coach, Ibrahim, took notes. Under ‘transitions’ (the things people say to transition from one thought to another or from one slide to the next),...
According to one theory, humans have evolved to a superior intellect (compared to our primate cousins) because we developed the ability to make tools like clubs, spears, pots, and back scratchers (for those hard-to-reach places). Tools allowed our long-ago uncles and aunties to augment their physical potential beyond their bare hands and feet. But the...