INsight/ What's Their Color?
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Manila, 19 April 2017 — People often ask me during training "how do we know the favorite color of other people, their preferred language that will engage them in action?"
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Learn regularly from new insights
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Weekly Leadership Insights
INsight/ Connecting For Results
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Ubud, 12 April 2017 — Leaders in business cannot be successful without mastering the skill of building strong relationships. So what is the secret sauce that will make your business relationships deliver the expected results?
Read MoreINsight/ What Matters Most
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Ubud, 5 April 2017 — When you like an insight you have just read, what is the most important thing you can do? Find out what a business manager did to grow his leadership.
Read MoreINsight/ In All Colors
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Manila, 29 March 2017 — What is your impact when you speak in front of a room full of people? On a scale from 1 to 10, how do you rate your skill as a speaker?
Read MoreINsight/ 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?
Read MoreOUTreach/ 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?
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