Raise Your Game

How can we understand the relationship between our emotions and truth - and why is this important for businesses? Hetal Doshi, organisational psychologist, discusses how our emotions affect us in the workplace and why it’s important to discuss truth in a professional capacity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Being in a position of leadership can often make you feel like you’ve hit rock bottom, but it’s always possible to dig deeper. Krister Ungerboeck identifies as the world’s first “leadership archaeologist”, and shares the ideas from his book, “The Leadership Archaeologist: Tools To Unearth Unseen Potential”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

We hear the buzzword “vision” a lot when it comes to organisations and structural planning. But how do you develop your company’s vision? Who is even in charge of that development? And if you aren’t even part of the vision-creation, how does this affect you at all? For our monthly Leaderonomics show, Caroline Ong, Country General Manager for Leaderonomics here in Malaysia,...

Leadership is a common topic on Raise Your Game, but since it’s such a huge topic it’s always good to go back to basics and reaffirm the key elements of how to be a good leader. Mario Singh, CEO of Fullerton Markets, tells us his 7 leadership principles for the 21st century. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What are emotions? Are they good or bad? With over 40 years of teaching and counselling experience, Beryl Comar is a dynamic Business Communications Trainer and an Executive Coach who’s an expert in Emotional Intelligence. She was also the first to bring Hypnosis, NLP, EFT and SleepTalk™ coaching and training to Dubai, the Middle East and beyond. In this Raise Your Game session, she wi...

As we progress further into a technologically-reliant workforce, digital learning is becoming more and more of a priority. So why hasn’t corporate Malaysia been able to implement digital learning more? George Aveling discusses the 3 major barriers and some companies who have managed to overcome them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In light of the New Year, it’s important to redefine for ourselves what we want out of the next 365 days. But how do we even begin to approach the idea of purpose? We must first begin with developing a vision of our “self”. Keat Lim from Leaderonomics, Head of Coaching & Executive Development, talks all about how developing a vision for our “self” leads to a clear...

Marketing is one of the most important areas of your business, and your success at growing your business will eventually come down to how effective your marketing is. But how would you know if your marketing strategies and methods are effective or not? It’s the first Monday of the year and in today’s session, Jeevan Sahadevan of Leverage Lab will share with you step by step on how you...

Peter Lam, author of ProfitMAX Your Business, shares four areas of your business you should focus on for a profitable 2019. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All of us have a race to run, a journey to go through. Along the way, there will be different challenges or setbacks that we encounter. How do we ensure we finish our race well? What would it take for us to make it through to the finishing line? As we come to the end of 2018, there is no better time to reflect on how the year has been and how we can welcome the New Year. In this Raise Your Game se...

Today is New Year’s Eve and the last day of the present year. Coincidentally, it is also the last Monday of the month and as usual, we have Human Equation Sdn Bhd founder Sheila Singam with us the Tools for Transformation series. We review the issues covered in this series in the past year and talk about Sheila’s wish list for the coming year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

The term gamification has become more apparent in today’s working environment. In fact, it has also become a buzz word. But, truly, what is gamification all about and how can gamification affect and impact businesses or companies today? In today’s Raise Your Game session, we have Gameka’s CGO (Chief Gamification Officer), Kenny Lum who will be sharing his thoughts about gamificat...

Joan of Arc was an iconic leader who claimed to have heard the voice of God instructing her to help free her people from England. Her fearless leadership inspired a nation to eventually realise her vision. In this Raise Your Game session, Roshan Thiran shares the leadership lessons he learned from Joan of Arc. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Science fiction is catching up to us, robots are taking over the world. New technologies are creating new jobs. Will AI and robotics displace more jobs or create more jobs? With so many positions having been eliminated or about to be, where are people likely to find jobs in the future workplace and which skills will be most essential? In this Raise Your Game session, John J Hagedorn shares about t...

In entrepreneurship and in life, one must learn to rise from the ashes, but it isn’t easy to know how. Eibhlin Lim, author of The Phoenix Perspective, speaks all about her book that details the journeys of nine entrepreneurs who bounced back, as well as her own journey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your state of self-awareness is not something you would think about daily. In this Raise Your Game session, we will look into what self-awareness is and how it can be beneficial to know ourselves better. We will also look at how it may be detrimental, if not practiced properly. Lastly, we will explore some ways/steps we can take to increase our internal and external self-awareness and ultimately h...

Juggling a professional career as well as being an owner of multiple businesses, and a husband at the same time leads Shankar to work out what success means to him. While the delineation of his work-life balance varies from time to time, the hardest part has always been to get his professional and personal needs aligned. At some points, he found it impossible to pay enough attention to both facets...

Dr Jovina Ang discusses the ideas of communication, storytelling, and behaviours from her book, “Leadership Communication - Connect, Engage, Inspire”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is the age of automation, and many organisations are striving to stay ahead, to stay competitive within their industries. In order to achieve that, the focus, among many, has almost always been on the adoption of new technologies. However, as technology advances and organisations embrace them, there is a tendency to end up with uniformity within the same industry. In other words, the uniqueness...

When we think of the corporate world, we refer to it as a rat race, and we remove so much emotional connection. But it turns out that leaders underestimate the contribution that emotions can have on a person’s decisions and commitments. This is the third and last part in a series all about how leadership is actually a losing game. Joseph Tan, consulting director of Good Monday Consulting, sh...

A lot of problems in life come from making the wrong decision. So in order to avert that situation entirely, ideally you could learn to make better decisions in the first place. George Ng, Regional Marketing Director for Southeast Asia at Kepner Tregoe, shares how to make better decisions and how that solves more problems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Curiosity is sometimes not encouraged in our lives. Yet curiosity is a high determinant of success and progress in one’s journey through life. In fact, curiosity is not only a significant part of our performance character, but it also leads to our ability to connect the dots in order to achieve something meaningful and of great value. In this Raise Your Game session, Eva shares about the imp...

Almost a year has passed and designing an incredible 2019 must first start from a good review and reflection of your 2018. What worked, what didn’t, your successes, your failures and your lessons learned, all of which you will invest into creating a great 2019. In this Raise Your Game session, Jeevan Sahadevan takes us on an exciting and emotional journey of reviewing our 2018 by using just...

There is a common thread amongst entrepreneurs, no matter what industry they’re in or how big their companies are - they tend to have very similar mindsets. Dr. Brian Wong Kee Mun discusses the concept of humanistic entrepreneurialism, and how even non-entrepreneurs can adopt the same mindset. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a conqueror, Genghis Khan was ruthless, brutal and unyielding in his quest for world domination. The mark he left on the world is indelible – even a Soviet campaign to remove him from the history books, centuries after his death, ultimately failed. In this Raise Your Game session, Roshan Thiran shares various leadership lessons he learned from the historical Mongol warrior. See omnystudio...