INsight/ Communicate or Else
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Manila, 22 March 2017 — Recruiters can look for who you are and what you can do. Are they overlooking something else that is equally or more important?
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News & Insights
How to grow your leadership?
Research shows that the best way is to:
Learn regularly from new insights
Practice in assignments that challenge you
Get feedback from your coach and a supportive community.
Weekly Leadership Insights
OUTreach/ Leading for Sustainability
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Tokyo, 16 March 2017 — Emerging sustainability leaders from 11 countries around the world came together at the United Nations University in Tokyo to explore how to lead change in an era of uncertainty, through a program that combined experiential learning with individual coaching.
Read MoreINsight/ Say My Name
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Manila, 8 March 2017 — How important is your name to you, and how do you treat your name in your quest to become the best version of yourself? There may be more to it than you think, and than other people know.
Read MoreINsight/ Active To Listen
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Manila, 1 March 2017 — Who has received the gift of your undivided attention this week, as you listened without giving advice? And who has taken the time to listen to you, deeply, without telling you what to do? It is not too late to make it happen.
Read MoreINsight/ Two Things Matter
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Sydney, 22 February 2017 — I saw it on the flight to Australia, in a front-page story of the Wall Street Journal. Unusually, the business-focused newspaper highlighted the importance of "worldview." In our fast changing world, the worldview of leaders matters. So does yours, together with your attitude as a leader.
Read MoreOUTreach/ Breaking Routines
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Brisbane, 15 February 2017 — Breaking routines for experiential learning, participants of the Water Leadership Program of the International WaterCentre gathered on the Great Court of the University of Queensland. The experience was created by IWC's leadership specialist André Taylor and Coach Wouter of TransformationFirst.Asia. The program's focus is on learning by doing.
Read MoreOUTreach/ Teach To Lead
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Brisbane, 12 February 2017 — How to become an influential water leader 'where you are' in 9 months? Australian professionals go to the award-winning Water Leadership Program of the International WaterCentre in Brisbane, created by my fellow leadership teacher André Taylor.
Read MoreINsight/ Six Into Two
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Manila, 8 February 2017 — In a conversation between two people, how many people do we need? Discover the story that helped António Guterres win the election for UN Secretary General, and learn how the People in the Conversation Model can help you lead change where you are.
Read MoreINsight/ How Roosters Inspire
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Manila, 2 February 2017 — Featuring the world's largest annual migration, the Spring Festival—better known as Chinese New Year—is being celebrated this week by people in countries around the globe. How can the Year of the Rooster help to inspire your leadership this year?
Read MoreINsight/ Hard And Soft
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Jakarta, 25 January 2017 — "You changed career from international water expert to leadership coach. Why the shift, and how did you do it?" Now that I teach leadership in businesses in Asia and around the world, people ask me this question.
Read MoreINsight/ Leading Change Together
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Manila, 19 January 2017 — Are youth the future leaders, or leaders already? Do we get less creative and innovative and more conservative as we age? Who can best lead the changes to bridge the economic and socio-cultural divides in our world today?
Read MoreINsight/ More Than Words
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Seoul, 11 January 2017 — To achieve the results we want in 2017, and move a step closer to our life goals, we need to get better at working with other people. As leaders, we communicate to influence people and to learn from them. How do we make sure that our communication skills keep improving? In that quest, I met Floor de Ruiter.
Read MoreINsight/ Reasons Or Results?
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Ubud, 1 January 2017 — Happy New Year to you, dear readers of TransformationFirst.Asia! After celebrating your achievements of 2016, have you already written up the 2017 results that you want to celebrate next December? What I mean is, your results rather than new year resolutions?
Read MoreLEADer/ Making Transformation Happen
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Manila, 29 December 2016 — Meet Candra Fajri Ananda, a professor of economics and business who cleaned his family’s shoes and became a national advisor in fiscal decentralization. What can we learn from his leadership journey, and what are his 3 recommendations for aspiring leaders in Asia?
Read MoreINsight/ Starting Body Dialogues
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Ubud, 28 December 2016 — What does Body Dialogue have to do with your leadership? A lot, actually. Ready to explore how we can empower our leadership by starting a dialogue with our body?
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