Showing posts with label Strengths and weaknesses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strengths and weaknesses. Show all posts

26 February, 2016

Creating Your Own Leadership Framework

“Great leaders complicate leadership development. The sheer volume is overwhelming, and the lessons that emerge from one leader’s experience may be completely inapplicable to another’s”. - McKinsey research

Insight
Leadership material is voluminous and other's experiences are not transferable. So how do you develop your leadership skills? Inner engineering by yourself. Here's how:
1. Understand your work context,
2. Inventory your strengths & choose the the ones the ones to use/build,
3. Define your values & set boundaries,
4. Examine & reset your paradigms
5. Create own leadership framework

Or, #Connect2Coach.

17 February, 2016

Choosing a Niche

Dr. SC is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner in Singapore. He is 85 years old and his clinic always full of patients. He remembers not only the names and combinations of hundreds of herbs and things that go into TCM, but also the names of every one of his patients.

Dr RC, his 40 year old daughter who practices in the neighbouring clinic. She specialses in acupressure, saying  TCM calls for a good memory - and she doesn't have one.

Insight
Focusing on a niche skill to overcome one's weakness is a good career choice. Or is it?

What do you think?

Pause. Think. Go.

Flash back It was several years ago that I met him on a Bombay Walk - the ones where they take you around to see and learn about the colonia...