Design Thinking. It’s a hip and trendy buzzword dominating the corridors of firms across the globe from product design companies to...

A common problem that I hear from my executive coaching clients, who by all accounts are good, dedicated employees, is that they keep...

Photo credit: Image by Wix Editor cleared for digital use Over the past few years, the term HiPo has joined the list of HR buzzwords, alongside firm favourites such as Millennials, Gen Z, Holacarcy, and micro-learning. In most firms, high potential (HiPo) employees are deemed those most likely to excel and progress into more senior positions. They are the employees that firms want to ensure stay within the firm and don’t get lost to the competition. In short, they are the f

Photo credit: Image by Wix Editor cleared for digital use Sourcing for corporate training in Singapore? Here's 5 questions to ask prospective vendors!

Negotiation – one of the most elusive skills in life. Not many people are good at this, and the most successful people I know are the best negotiators. As Chester Karass famously wrote: “In business as in Life – You don’t get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.” Negotiation is defined as ‘discussion aimed at reaching an agreement’, yet many people don’t realise most things in life can be negotiated – whether it’s a business contract, a price on a house, a promoti

Photo credit: Image by Wix Editor cleared for digital use Are you planning to host a corporate training workshop in Singapore? This can be a tremendous task but it can also be very time consuming if you don’t have the right approach and knowledge. We are here to help and because of that we have created a list with 5 of the best things that you need to focus on when you create a corporate training Singapore workshop! 1) Choose the right venue A corporate training workshop Si

Photo credit: Image by Wix Editor cleared for digital use Are you trying to make your company known? Are you trying to increase sales? Or are you trying to equip your staff with the necessary skills. To get there, you need employees which can master multiple languages and which are very skilful at what they do. But how can you find such great employees? Even if it might seem like a challenge at first, there are always options to focus on. If you find the right corporate tr

Recently I spent a week training 38 participants of the new graduate class of a global bank, on behalf of BG Consulting. After their...

Photo credit: Image by Wix Editor cleared for digital use Horrible bosses – All of us have had them, a movie has been made about them, most of us know the negative impact they can have, yet few of us know how to handle them. If you do a Google search on the topic, there are literally hundreds of articles about how people quit because of their bosses, such as ‘9 Things Managers Do That Makes Good Employees Quit’. However, I see fewer articles that actually suggest what do

Photo credit: Image by Wix Editor cleared for digital use We all know – or should do – that feedback is a critical tool in our own self-development. Let’s face it, if no-one tells us then we’ll continue to live in our own bubbles where we get participation certificates and judge our success by the number of social media likes. Back in the real world, feedback remains a vital assessment tool, yet we continue to get it spectacularly wrong. On both fronts. On the delivery s