Raise Your Game

Action Coach Jeevan Sahadevan is back to prepare us for the brand new year. He will be sharing the most important number for an incredible New Year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No business or organisation can afford to waste valuable resources producing documents that are dense and difficult to read. People don't have the time or energy to wade through gobbledygook. When we communicate in Plain English, misunderstandings can be avoided and information gets through in the fastest manner. In the final episode of The Plain English Way to Improve your Business Communication...

Throughout the entire year there will be times when we stop to think and reflect about our lives and everything that has happened, but it’s the New Year when we have a perfect opportunity to take stock of what happened throughout the year. We learn the lessons we have received and we rejoice in all the good things that have happened and of course we make plans and set purposes to fulfill in...

This year, we had some very special guests on Raise Your Game. One of them is Nick Vujicic who was inspiring and uplifting. It’s that time of the year where we go through all the interesting interviews we have done and highlight the ones that reminds us what the show is all about. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the biggest reasons so many of us hold disdain for New Year’s resolutions or abandon our original goals come February is because we tend to pick goals that aren’t meaningful to us. In the final episode of Getting Connected with your Goals, Shankar Santhiram will share ideas on how to develop meaningful new-year goals and sticking to it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

We've all seen it - people listening to a sales presentation or a business pitch, eyes glazed over and their minds anywhere but on what the speaker is saying. As an entrepreneur, whether you're selling yourself or your products and services, it's critical to avoid the missteps that put prospects to sleep and kill the deal. One thing for sure is that to speak the language that your audience underst...

If you’ve recently been hired as a manager, you know the dirty secret -Management positions come with surprisingly little guidance. Whether you were promoted internally or brought in from outside, you were probably expected to hit the ground running, toward only the vaguest of goals. Many of the problems new managers experience stem from that secret. They are faced with an ill-defined job an...

Colette Carlson is a funny, business communication expert and motivational keynote speaker who engages corporations, associations and individuals worldwide in the art of speaking your truth to maximize results, revenue and relationships. Colette is someone who learned her message the hard way. She started out a big, fat liar. Literally! Only by telling the truth on herself was she able to break th...

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or at least, by a significant and distant age in the future). Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making. In the third part of our Good People Better Leaders Series 'Getting Connected With Your Goals', Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Con...

Managers and supervisors in small businesses constantly face challenges that require a highly developed sense of initiative. Leaders must learn to act quickly and decisively, especially when under pressure and sometimes make major decisions with only a small amount of available information. In this episode of The Science of Building Leader Series, we spoke to Georgi Tsvetanov from Silega on Develo...

Leadership and management in a reductionist sense ultimately is about one thing: satisfactory completion of a task. Leadership can be used to make the task completed quicker, but that limits the quality of the experience as few people can learn anything from it. A quality leader makes both the task and experience better. We spoke to Stephen Liu, the CEO of Ridpest on "How Hobbies can Play a Role i...

Having set goals, many people falter at seeing them through. What’s not so easy is sticking to what you set out to do and continually recommitting yourself to your vision. It’s especially challenging when there is a big, looming chasm between where you are now, and where you want to be. In episode two, Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Consulting shared tips on how to stay committed to your...

Last week Geoff Webb, Chief Instructional Designer from Plain Language Solutions was here to share with us the differences between Plain English and Traditional English/ Academic English. Strucked by what he said that, we learn a language to impress and as it consequence English as it is used in a world of work is about impressing as opposed to communicating. Today, in our second of the series, he...

Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organisation. Innovation and speed to market are two ways to launch and grow a business. Creating, fostering and sustaining the right working environment to do this can be tricky. One way is encouraging intrapreneurship by unleashing the power of employees who have entrepreneurial skills and mindsets that wor...

Enterprise our regular panel of experts on Raise Your Game reflect on the leadership of Nelson Mandela and tell us what they learnt from his exemplary life. Comments reflected by Shankar Santhiram, EQTD Consulting, Faridah Hameed, FaridahHameed.com, Nooreen Preusser, Mereo & Jeevan Sahadevan, Action Coach.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You’re plugging away on a project and it hits you: What am I doing? Why am I here? Should I be doing something else with my life?  It happens to everyone. I t’s a fact: a lot of people lose passion for their work after being in it for a while. Remember the time when you were dreaming about your business idea? How fun it was to think of what you wanted to accomplish and how yo...

Goal setting is used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life. Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Consulting is back to embark on this brand new series prepa...

Azim Pawanchik is the co-founder of Alpha Catalyst Consulting. Over the last decade, he has been instrumental in transforming the company into one of Malaysia’s leading innovation consulting companies. Together with Dr. Suraya, they shared some insights on “What are the Traits that have Made Gen-Y Talents in Asian Companies More Creative." They also talked about the survey they are cur...

Plain English is a way of presenting information that helps someone understand it the first time they read or hear it. When you use plain English, you use clear; concise and accurate language. It is about communicating directly to the intended reader or listener in the language they understand. Geoff Webb from Plain Language Solutions embarks on a new series entitled “The Plain English Way t...

At the back of our minds, we all know that it is not easy to overcome the fear of failure but life is too short to let fear make big decisions for you. Tony Robbins once said “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” Roshan Thiran from Leaderonom...

It doesn’t matter that you think your idea is the next big thing. If your pitch is dull, unattractive with only dry details, you’ll fail to catch the investor’s attention as they will lose focus. Before you know it, another one’s lost. Chris Westfall concludes his last episode on our Power Prsentation Series on “How to Pitch Your Next Big Idea". He tells us to build a...

In the race to the top, corporate trainer John Kam has learnt some important life lessons. The CEO of D’Jungle People is, after all; in the business of mindsets and experiential learning and he has defined the 4D's of success in this book. John believes that life is a journey, and we all have our everest's to conquer. Not too long ago, John’s everest was running a marathon with merely...

In this final episode entitled “She’s a Huge Business Opportunity”,  Faridah concludes on why women over 40 are an untapped but highly profitable opportunity and the 3 top solutions women in this age group are hungry for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Louisa Chan, Business Coach and Trainer announces the launch of her new book "Teach Online, Multiply Your Talents" to help you start an online teaching business using current skills so you can engage in meaningful work from home. Whether you are between jobs, retired or planning to stay home to raise your children, we find out from Louisa if everyone can teach. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Every company aims for their staff to provide excellent customer service and when you come to think of it - real service must come from the heart. As a customer, be it for service or products; there are many moments of experiences when there is interaction with the provider. In other words, these are “moments of truth”. Each interaction can be perceived as a positive or negative experi...