Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Our Heritage
We spent a night in Kundasang, at the foothill of Mt Kinabalu. The scenery is breath taking to say the least. The soaring Mt Kinabalu in the mist is alluring sight, and the stories & folklores of the land complete the romanticism. You can't help but fall in love.
It is just wonderful. Go there and you will be thrilled.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Overcome self-doubt & fear
In my training sessions, I've seen it over & over again. It does not matter how "tough" ones (male or female) look, there is a corner of his/her being that is hidding in a grey area with a sky-reaching fence and a blazing warning sign:- "dare you enter!".
That is self-doubt & fear.
It may be physical or spiritual or just plan imaginery.
Regardless, in many occasions, I've managed to help these individuals to over the self-doubt & fear. The tools I used are actually quite simple:
- through self assessments to understand the nature of the self-doubts & fear
- gradually build up confidence in the individuals
- building capability
- getting group dynamics help the individuals
A very typical example. In a outdoor team building event, a seeminly healthy young lady just couldn't get herself to try out the flying fox (by the way, despite what some purists think, team building event is wonderful training event to build teamworks). To cut the story short, after a series of exercises, and getting supports from the whole team, we managed to push & convince the lady into getting into the gears, climbing up the platform, getting hook into the fyling fox line, and woosh, off she went. And amazingly, afterwards, she wanted to go for the second round! Self-doubt and fear totally overcome.
Archieving greatness has not been trademarked by anyone. Everyone is entitled to do that. Just believe in yourself.
That is self-doubt & fear.
It may be physical or spiritual or just plan imaginery.
Regardless, in many occasions, I've managed to help these individuals to over the self-doubt & fear. The tools I used are actually quite simple:
- through self assessments to understand the nature of the self-doubts & fear
- gradually build up confidence in the individuals
- building capability
- getting group dynamics help the individuals
A very typical example. In a outdoor team building event, a seeminly healthy young lady just couldn't get herself to try out the flying fox (by the way, despite what some purists think, team building event is wonderful training event to build teamworks). To cut the story short, after a series of exercises, and getting supports from the whole team, we managed to push & convince the lady into getting into the gears, climbing up the platform, getting hook into the fyling fox line, and woosh, off she went. And amazingly, afterwards, she wanted to go for the second round! Self-doubt and fear totally overcome.
Archieving greatness has not been trademarked by anyone. Everyone is entitled to do that. Just believe in yourself.
Enterprise Business Architecture Project
Last couple of months, I've been engaged in a Project Manager Cum Consultant in a project. The project entails study of enterprise business requirements with the aim of formulating an enterprise business blueprint for implementation of an ERP systems.
It is very interesting engagement. The PM role is pretty much straight forward. The exciting part is engaging top leaders of the company and business managers to align company vision, mission, KRA/KPI, from corporate level to SBUs. Invariably and not too unexpectedly, there was some discrepanies between what are said at the top level, and what get understood at the lower levels. Alignment of this nature is paramount importance within an organisation, and it just cannot be taken for granted that mesaages are being cascaded down concisely and pertinently, in ways to drive the organisation forward as a totally coherent unit. At certain point in time within the planning horizon, a self assessment must done to see if the alignment is very much intake as intended.
It is very interesting engagement. The PM role is pretty much straight forward. The exciting part is engaging top leaders of the company and business managers to align company vision, mission, KRA/KPI, from corporate level to SBUs. Invariably and not too unexpectedly, there was some discrepanies between what are said at the top level, and what get understood at the lower levels. Alignment of this nature is paramount importance within an organisation, and it just cannot be taken for granted that mesaages are being cascaded down concisely and pertinently, in ways to drive the organisation forward as a totally coherent unit. At certain point in time within the planning horizon, a self assessment must done to see if the alignment is very much intake as intended.
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