Manila, Philippines - 8 January 2015. Your personal power. What do you need it for in 2015? What leadership mastery do you need most to build it? Get going to find out. What happens if you don't build your personal power? Start learning now.
Read MoreUbud, Indonesia - 5 January 2015. Personal Power is the ability to change the direction of your life. I like this definition. What kind of personal power are you looking to develop in 2015? What is your definition of personal power? This is an ACTivity to share in. I am waiting for your feedback.
Read MoreUbud, Indonesia - 1 January 2015. How will you start your new year? Have you prepared your set of new-year resolutions with enthusiasm to make the best of your opportunities and improve on the last year? Do you know where you are going and what you have to change in order to get there? Have you mapped your journey to success? What did you do with your resolutions last year? Could you see them through to success? Or did you loose sight of them a few weeks later as a mountain of work and daily chores took their toll and you felt unable to change your habits for more effective ones? What happened with your map? There is a better and easier way to change, with more fun to be experienced along the way.
Read MoreUbud, Indonesia - 31 December 2014. The year has flown by, and many new friends from Asia and the Pacific, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Australia and Europe have discovered the road for aspiring leaders to become confident and influential change makers, starting right where they are. What backgrounds did they come from? What thrill did they get from investing in a leadership course? When it comes to developing your leadership, where you are going is much more important than where you come from.
Read MoreUbud, Indonesia - 30 December 2014. Haven’t taken the survey yet? Click here to contribute your voice as an aspiring leader and join the discussion. And sign up here to get news about leadership development programs coming your way. Now for an update on the results so far. What are the most popular leadership roles? And where do aspiring leaders think they need to improve most?
Read MoreSiem Reap, Cambodia - 10 December 2014. I spotted him in the bookstore at Siem Reap's airport as I was leaving Cambodia after attending the 10th Angkor Photo Festival. Actually, I heard his voice before I saw him. Someone was reading out loud from a book. Not really loud, but audible. This is how I met Mr. Sok Chanrithy, a check-in staff at the airport. What was he doing? And how did he impress me as a young leader?
Read MoreManila, Philippines - 13 December. Leadership developers from businesses in the Philippines and Thailand came together in the L2 Learn to Lead event hosted by Life Coach Clarissa Calingasan and co-sponsored by TransformationFirst.Asia Pte Ltd and Natalie in the Light Inc. The participants kicked off by exploring how good leaders ask great questions, guided by John Maxwell. Coach Clarissa wrapped up by sharing how she proves each year that impossible is just a word, and Coach Wouter highlighted what may well be the most important question to ask in leadership development.
Read MoreJakarta, Indonesia - 27 November 2014. More than 70 environmental engineering students at Indonesia's Trisakti University in Jakarta joined Coach Wouter of TransformationFirst.Asia Pte Ltd in a conversation how to increase their personal power to become an influential change maker. The session was organized by Lecturer Ariani Dwi Astuti and led by Vice-Dean Hernani Yulinawati. What did they discuss?
Read MoreJakarta, Indonesia - 26 November 2014. Citizens from across Indonesia called in to ask how the new government will help them solve their urgent water security issues. The live interview was hosted by Indonesia's RRI 3 radio station during the first Indonesia Water Learning Week held in Jakarta on 24-26 November. Water leaders from central and regional governments responded to the calls. What were the results?
Read MoreManila, Philippines - 16 November 2014. What kind of leader do you want to become? Which leadership roles excite you most? Take the survey and find out. Based on early returns, aspiring leaders among Asian executives are showing an interest to learn how to become a Coach Leader, while the interest of young leaders in university is for the Team Leader, Change Leader and Coach Leader roles. High-school student leaders are showing an interest in the roles of Champion Leader, Thought Leader, and Strategic Leader. On their mastering of six essential leadership abilities, early results show that aspiring leaders are least confident in their ability for Collaborating Across Boundaries. Share the link with your friends and expect more updates soon. Join the conversation by sharing your comments and signing up. We look forward to hearing from you.
Read MoreUbud, Indonesia - 9 November 2014. In my recent leadership courses in Delft and Tokyo, the participants came from all over the world. They explored important questions, like what kind of leader they wanted to become? What leadership roles attracted them most? And what it will take for them to become an effective leader, with a focus on developing personal power rather than relying on position power? On the request of many aspiring leaders, I am now writing a book and creating an online leadership development program to support them. To guide me in this work, please join the survey ‘Where Does Leadership Mastery Matter Most To You?’ inside this post. It will take between 5 and 15 minutes. Thank you for your time and interest. To learn about the results and get regular updates, please like and follow TransformationFirst.Asia on Facebook and @CoachWouter and respond with your comments and suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you.
Read MoreTokyo, Japan - 24 October. Seventeen students and professionals from 14 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America joined the second Leadership for Sustainability course organized by United Nations University in Tokyo on 14-24 October. Led by Leadership Coach Wouter T. Lincklaen Arriëns of TransformationFirst.Asia Pte Ltd, they started out by exploring what leadership is, how to lead, and how to become a sustainability leader.
Read MoreNassau, the Bahamas - 9 October 2014. Water ministers from Caribbean countries met in a high-level forum in the Bahamas on 9-10 October to advance their commitments for increasing water security. In his keynote speech on leadership for water security, Wouter T. Lincklaen Arriëns, Leadership Coach of TransformationFirst.Asia Pte Ltd and a member of the Global Water Partnership's Technical Committee, cautioned against objectifying goals and urged the leaders to make a personal commitment, arguing that we will not be successful in our work to increase water security unless we take it personal and transform into leaders who are influential change makers and who personally make a difference. Working with the strengths of people and organizations, nurturing their personal power to motivate and influence change, and taking incremental action, are going to bring the results we want, he advised. He also outlined 3 keys for success.
Read MoreDelft, the Netherlands - 5 September. "The most influential training in my life." Sixteen young professionals from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America graduated from the week-long leadership course 'Becoming a Water Leader.' The course was led by Leadership Coach Wouter T. Lincklaen Arriëns of TransformationFirst.Asia. The graduates developed their leadership awareness, knowledge and skills through an intensive program of 40 sessions in 5 themes: leading from your self, leading in practice, leading across boundaries, leading to cut through complexity, and leading in presentations. They also prepared an individual leadership development plan including a challenging leadership project.
Read MoreStockholm, Sweden - 29 August 2014. Putting water security in practice is the focus of the Global Water Partnership's latest background paper #20. Authored by GWP Technical Committee members Eelco van Beek and Wouter T. Lincklaen Arriëns, it was launched in Stockholm ahead of the World Water Week. In the paper, Eelco and Wouter outline a developmental approach to increase water security over time, and a risk-based approach focusing on managing risks and reducing vulnerabilities resulting from climate variability and water-related disasters. They show in examples how quantifying water security with smartly selected indicators and indexes helps to benchmark and compare experience, while such indicators will also guide local projects targeting specific improvements.
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