“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.” – Thomas Merton I wish I had a profiling tool such as the Strong Interest Inventory to provide me with some career…
Gallup’s research shows that good leaders have the following in common that causes people to follow them: Trust Compassion Stability Hope In this Tedtalk video, Simon Sinek speaks of how good leaders make their people feel safe. To do so, leaders make certain sacrifices, and causes the people to…
I’m now in week two of the online course “Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence”. In this week, the professor introduce something called “The Cycle of Renewal and Sacrifice”. Threats, Crisis, and chronic stresses can lead to Sacrifice Syndrome, within which one cannot lead effectively. The only way is to…
I recently signed up for a course on coursera titled “Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence”, and one of the required readings gave me a slight “aha” moment. The text that gave me the “aha” moment was this: “When one is focused on solving a problem or analysing something…networks in…
Socrates said “An unexamined life is not worth living.” That’s an interesting thought. In the previous post I had written on self-awareness, and Scott’s TED talks also touched on self-awareness. Where does this self-awareness or being an expert on self comes from? I believe it comes from taking time…
Here’s a brilliant video by Scott Dinsmore where he highlights some important points when finding the right job for yourself: 2 Keys in Finding The Right Job SELF-AWARENESS Scott highlights 3 things about people who are happy and successful in their careers: Unique Strengths – These people are operating in…
Handling conflicts is something that we all need to deal with at one point or the other. For people with high Command Talent Themes, this would probably come quite naturally. On the other hand, someone with high Harmony Talent Theme might have more of a challenge. Here are two…
One of the value of coaching is the “Aha!” moment a person gets during the coaching process. And there have been several “Aha!” realisations that I’ve found were common during Strengths Coaching. 1. “I didn’t know that was a strength!”. I recalled someone with the “Futuristic” Theme saying…
“What do you do well?” “What are your strengths?” These are two common interview questions that most people would either be unable to answer, or be almost totally clueless about the answer. But flip the question around and ask “What are you bad at?” or “What are your weaknesses?” And…
