Raise Your Game

What can effective coaching from a manager or boss do for a team, and what are the skills required? We find out with Michael Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey and author of Unlocking Your Potential. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week we looked at the need to plan reviews. The next step is to actually conduct the review. This is where the actual review and analysis comes into play to learn what was done right, what can be done better and what should never be done again. Shankar Santhiram of EQTD Consulting shares the third episode of this month long series on Mastering the Art of Reviewing your Actions. See omnystudio...

Dr Cassandra Vieten, is the CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She is a licensed clinical psychologist- her research has focused on spirituality and health and the development and pilot testing of mindfulness-based approaches to cultivating emotional balance. So what is noetic science and what significance does it have to the everyday person? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

We put plenty of focus on developing the skills of a leader. But what about the people behind the leader, providing support, advice and making sure everything goes according to plan? Lim Lay Hsuan talks us through what it means to be a second chair leader. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com...

Jeevan Sahadevan joins us for the final month of 2015. What expert tips and tricks will he share this time? We find out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 F...

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 revi...

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 leadi...

Why is a Samurai warrior the hardest fighter to fight? We find out with Roshan Thiran of Leaderonomics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

Leadership presence is the ability to consistently articulate and communicate, connect with others and influence them to action. But how does one build and drive leadership presence? We find out with Muriel Maignan Wilkins, co-author of Own the Room. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. In this final episode, we look at what we can do to develop financial intelligence and a sense of entrepreneurship within o...

Education for many, is seen as just a process; a series of steps you take to eventually enter the workforce so you can earn a living. While education can play a major role in opening the right doors, does it prepare you with the essential skills necessary to thrive once you walk through those doors? Dr. Monica Martinez, an education strategist and author of Deeper Learning, speaks about a transfor...

Each person has their own way of communicating and processing information. What are certain considerations to make when we communicate in different situations? We have Elisa Dass today to share her knowledge about personality driven communication. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ambitious and competent leaders who can drive economic growth, political progress, and social justice are what we need to truly transform the world. Creating this holistic and progressive approach to leadership begins with providing young people with a challenging academic and experience-based education. In conjunction with Children’s day, we talk to Roderick Jemison, to learn more about the...

Hailed as the new queen of pop-opera, we speak with British classical opera singer Carly Paoli, to learn more about her musical journey and meteoric rise to success as a Mezzo Soprano. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever wished you could reboot or reprogram your mind, exactly as you would a computer? Sir John Hargrave offers a host of simple, daily practices that we can use to create a positive and permanent change in our thinking and eliminate the bad behavioural patterns that are happening at our core. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re in the thick of the digital age, and the modern world is transitioning towards a seamless integration of technology into daily life. To keep up with this rapid integration, we examine the benefits of digital tools and technology to enhance our professional learning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jay Samit was described by Wired magazine as "having the coolest job in the industry." He is a leading technology innovator who has raised millions in funds for startups, sold companies to Fortune 500 firms  and partnered with some of the world's biggest brands, including Coca Cola, McDonald's, General Motors, Apple and Facebook. In Jay’s book, Disrupt You!, he reveals how specific stra...

Every organization has a cast of characters with bad habits and toxic behaviour, which can hamper the growth and performance of a company. Jean Francois Cousin’s book, Game Changers at the Circus, employs the use of storytelling and a step by step approach to demonstrate how even the most toxic workplace can be transformed into a culture of greatness.  See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.