Up-Close with Chin Teik: Re-Think Series

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Re-ThinkSystem of ExecutionSuccess doesn't come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution! Having a vision without goals is just dreaming  Having goals without execution is wishing"Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination."Key message: There is not enough focus on the execution of promises made to stakeholders! There is almost an acceptance for delay and rework in most organizations.  My system of execution framework consists of 1 requirement and 2 elements.   1 requirement is disciplined leadership and the 2 elements are breakthrough performance and culture of execution. 

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Re-ThinkStop Demotivating Your EmployeesThe right talent does not need you to motivate them, instead they require demotivation prevention.Key message: These 2 capabilities (not soft skills) need to be equipped and measured: Hiring needs to go hand-in-hand with retention of the right talent. There is a cost (tangible and non-tangible) to poor hiring and poor retention of the right talent. Two Questions for ReflectionWhat makes motivated employees become demotivated within the first week or 1st month or 3rd month of employment?What did you personally do or not do that demotivates your employees?Your employees don't need motivation when The job matches their 70:20:5The culture is right Your leadership behaviors and capabilities are aligned to the values, culture and leadership behavior expectations of a purpose-driven organizationLeaders are accountable for their employees who are acountable for the results!  

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Re-ThinkCulture to be taught, not assumedPlease join me on this episode to learn:What is culture? What's the difference between values and culture? How would a new hire 1 week into the company describe the culture of your company? Who owns the culture of the organization? Culture is simply how we get things done in the organization and how work gets done between people. Culture is the manifestation of a the organization's core values. Culture is not just how things are done in the organization; it should include the following:to differentiate and be a competitive edge to hire right and weed out wrong hiresto communicate to customers how your people delivers to promise consistently across the different divisions or the worldEnsure your core purpose, strategies to achieve vision and culture are connected.  

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Re-ThinkAssume makes an Ass-U-MeFour questions to begin this episode. How aware are you of the assumptions behind your responses to certain situations or people?  Where do your assumptions come from? And why are assumptions important? Can you change your assumptions?  Who and what can provide a re-think on your assumptions People are prone to biased assumptions based on the 4E - environment, education, experience and exposure. Those assumptions will lead to automatic thinking and stimulus-response behaviors which may not always be optimal in terms of DEI. Assumptions are important in strategic planning and decision making as well as quality connections at home and at work. Listen to this episode on how to #pause, #unpack and #re-think one's current assumptions.

Up-Close with Chin Teik: 95:5 Rule4 Questions to begin this episode1.     How many of you believe that you have control over your life? 100%?2.     Who has authority over your mind?3.     What has the Covid-19 taught you about yourself? 4.     How have you and your colleagues dealt with or responded to Covid-19 over the 2 plus years?Listen to this episode to learn what is the 95:5 Rule and how to operationalize the 95% of no-control and 5% of-control.  Let Go of 95% of no-controlReFrame 5% of-control

Up-Close with Chin Teik: 2-Page - Critical Thinking DocumentedListen to this episode to learn:What is Critical Thinking? Why "Simple is Harder to do than Complicated"?Design of 2-Page - Critical Thinking Documented 2 Principles; 4 Key Questions; 3 Words; 1 Rule How to clarify expectations and obtain buy-inHow to reduce surprises and ever changing expectations which impact your project goalsWelcome to the 2-Page! 

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Never Waste A CrisisThe pandemic has disrupted (unfreeze) our work-life which were fairly fixed prior to March 2020. Given that 95% of our lives we have no control and 5% we have control, how do we work on the 5% of control to learn from the Covid-19?  What do we do with the 95% of no-control?  Reflect on these 4 questions How has Covid-19 disrupted your work-life?What lessons have you learned about yourself during these 2 years of pandemic?How has your organization responded to the disruption?How have you and your family responded to the disruption? Listen to this episode to:learn the 4 steps to work on the 5% of control ask the 4 questions to reflect & learn from each crisis so as to thrive & Never Waste A Crisis! 

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Why You Should Become A Leader-Manager4 Questions: What's the difference between a leader and a manager?Are you a leader or a manager or both?Why did you accept or choose to be a people manager?How does your core purpose in life connect with being a people manager?Key Teachable Point: Relationship  (Leader) and Results (Manager) A Leader-Manager uses both supportive behaviors (relationship) and directive behaviors (results) to obtain  emotional and rational commitment from his/her staff to achieve extraordinary results.This episode will unpack for you:Observations of current state of leadership and management in most organizationsAssumptions which drive behaviors of most managers or leaders or leader-managersWhat is a leader-manager?3 components of leader-manager5 value-proposition of leader-manager

Up-Close With Chin Teik: Why Would Anyone Follow  You?4 Questions:Do people follow you because they have no choice?Do people follow you because of who you are? Why would you follow someone? What will be the reasons or criteria of followership?Would you follow yourself? Provide reasons for either yes or no.Key Teachable Point: Leadership is about  Relationship and Management is about TransactionThis episode will unpack the following:Language: Leadership and FollowershipWhat Do Great Leaders Do to Inspire Followership? 5 Levels of Leadership5 Value Proposition of Leader-Manager

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Who Am I, Truly? When We Know Who We Are, We Will Know What To Do. Questions for your reflection: How well do you know your true self?What does authentic mean to you? How much of who you are comes from your past - good & bad? What and who is your source of significance or identity? Which is easier to achieve - self-change or self-transformation? There are many ideas and thoughts on authenticity as well as how to discover who you are. I am sharing in this podcast the 5-Actions To Discovering Who You Are  including:Sharing my version of  what Authentic means3 Challenges of Being AuthenticAssumptions that we make on ourselvesRecommended 5 self-directed actionsIt is not easy and it requires a need on your part. I hope that with this podcast, it will encourage you to take the first step of action. Remember: Identity  first before Destiny

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Do You Lead or Manage Your Life, That's The QuestionQuestions for Reflection:#1: If you believe that 90% or more of your life you have no control, how well do you manage your response to what you cannot control?#2: What percent of your life, you are leading vs managing?#3: Do you know what it takes to lead one's life? Let Me Unpack For You The Following:Difference between lead-self and manage-selfReasons for being a leader-manager of your own life5 Leadership Practices of "Lead Yourself to Greatness"

Up-Close with Chin Teik: To Motivate or To Inspire, That's The QuestionIt is important for  leader-managers to move from unconscious to conscious actions on motivating or inspiring for situational applications to achieve high employee engagement & multiplier impact.  Motivation is easy but can be complicated. Inspiration is not easy but when accomplished, it is mastery in simplicity. I will be sharing the following:6 Questions for Your Reflection3 Motivation Models 4 Requirements for High Employee Engagement

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Equipping to Serve From Your Given PlatformFind your moments of purposefulness! Even with this Covid-19 season find the space and the moments when you can touch someone's life from where you are placed. #Pause and make time to start this journey with a simple question: Who Am I without the title? Engagement is when you feel that your strengths are being used for impact and appreciated while being developed! Discovering one's strengths (passion & ability) is a very good use of one's time.  When you discover your strengths, it will enable you to find/match the right role and the right company where your strengths will be utilized! Equip to serve from where you are placed! We each need to be equipped in the position we are in to deliver multiplier impact on the people we have been given to steward or on people who pass through our lives! Be multi-dimensional. I hope each and everyone of you will find and live your moments of purposefulness. 

Up-Close with Chin Teik: To Empower Or To Delegate, That's The QuestionQuestions: What does empowerment mean to you? When you say the word to your staff, do both of you know what it entails in terms of behavior and scope? Have you personally experienced true empowerment? When and from whom did you learn empowerment? Language: "Empowerment" as a word is a feel-good for the manager and for the employee (who desires empowerment). For the employee who is new and lack of capability or competency, the word can be scary. When I hear managers use the word “empowerment”, I get really worried. Reason is that the word, “empowerment” is a blur word because it means different things to different people – paradigm-centric.  Paradigms: I grew up with the word "delegate".  Which paradigm is yours when it comes to delegate or empower? Abdicate orEquip4  Words, 3 Rules & 3  Supportive Steps: Listen to my podcast as I share my 4 words, 3 rules & 3 steps for effective delegation. Hope this will #pause will allow you to unpack the #language into specific repeatable behaviors/actions for predictable results. 

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Discovering Your StrengthsWhat's your definition of the word "strength"? Do you know your top 3 strengths?Do you rely on other people to tell you your strengths? Why is it important for you to know your own strengths? Please listen to understand my working definition of strength: High Passion + High AbilityIt is important to know your strength because it is required in your personal Constancy of Purpose (why-where-how-what).  If you do not spend time to discover your strengths and rely on others whose definition, standard and blind spot may mistake your weakness into strength, then it will negatively impact your emotional/physical being.  Working in a role with high ability & low passion will result in stress.Working in a role with low passion & low ability is not going to make you a joyful & effective person - disengaged and de-motivated! I will also explain the 70:20:5 rule and how it plays to my working definition of passion + ability.

Up-Close with Chin Teik Episodes: Life Skills not  Soft SkillsDue to the daily use of problem solving, decision making, running/attending meetings, dealing with conflicts etc., we assume that everyone is good at these skills. But at the same time, these daily-use skills are intuitive, unconscious and individualistic. Thus many label these skills - "soft".  "Soft" makes it harder to transfer and replicate for repeatable and predictable results.  Have you ever wondered where the term "soft skills" come from?  Listen to this podcast to find out.I prefer, use and teach life skills because these skills are hard and not easy, requiring conscious diligent practice for mastery and multiplier impacttransfer for multiplier impact for effective collaboration and co-creation of solutionsrepeatable process for predictable results life application not tied to any specific fieldfundamental to an organization's culture for execution Life skills should be taught by all companies to differentiate it's culture - "how we do things here"

Up-Close with Chin Teik: #Knowing-#Being-#Doing1.     How many of us know but don't do?2.     How many of us do without knowing why?3.     How many of us do without believing?4.     How many of us believe in what we are doing, knowingly? Knowing is not enough, Try/Experiment. Willing is not enough, Do. Doing is not enough, believe. Wisdom is not just about knowing about something but living it out. I call it applied knowledge – the ability to use knowledge to discern and to question current state and to ask “why not?”. To unpack the three words, just think of these word associations. Knowing is head, Being is heart, Doing is hand.Hearing and actual doing is a human problem. Space in between hearing and doing is occupied by our current paradigms, our pride & our fear. Unless we are able to shift or remove those blocks, we cannot do 100% of what we hear consistently and repeatedly.  We are called to use our head, heart and hands when we engage with truth and people. Truth can be principles around faith and life and leadership with self, others and organizations. 

Possibility is Limited by our Current ParadigmWe are all limited by our current paradigms. Our paradigms are shaped by our education, experience & exposure - 3E.  Our #language reflects our paradigm - listen to the choice of words you use. Shifting paradigms are not easy. It will require:ReasonHope3 Actions#Pause & #re-think one's development plan to one's life/career goals. "T-individual" versus "I-individual".  Thank you for #pausing to listen to my #language and I hope that you will be able to #re-think of your current paradigm and what you can do to shift your paradigm - impossible becomes possible! 

Change vs Transformation People use these two words interchangeably. In this episode I will unpack the two words so that you can choose what is the right word for the right situation. Remember, language shapes our future behaviour and actions. Change is fixing the past while Transformation is a whole new state. There are different approaches in implementing change vs transformation.  Please contact me if you are interested to know the different approaches. While technology or uncontrollable circumstances may initiate disruption, it is the transformational leadership  and organizational culture that drives the right execution. The Covid-19 pandemic is reinforcing how much in life we have no control on. This black swan has shown that the current way of doing business no longer works and thus we have to choose the right strategy to respond – “fixing the past” or “a whole new state”? What has worked in the past will not work any more. Don't let a good crisis go to waste!  Time for strategic thinking not just strategic planning. Time to #Re-Think business models, organizational structures, business processes and people capabilities and most of all leadership-management capabilities for the 21st Century which will continue to be a decade of disruption!  Carpe Diem - Seize the Day!   

Up-Close with Chin Teik: Simple is Harder to Do than Complicated Humans complicate the complexity. We complicate the complexity of nature, organization, relationships and work. #Pause to choose the right #language for self and others. #Re-think how we approach complexity and not to complicate structure, relationship and work and even nature.Simple is not easy, Simple is hard. Simple is mastery.Easy is Complicated:We speak without thinking which complicates relationshipsWe develop power point slides to make it easy for us but hard for the listenersWe list tasks not prioritized outcomes which makes it harder for the staff to executeWe say yes to all great ideas which makes it harder for the staff to focus against finite time We don't pause to write down our thoughts which makes it harder for staff to understand us Re-think: Mastery requires hard work Mastery requires disciplined practice Mastery requires awareness of self and others Mastery is simplicitySimplicity is mastery. 

#Pause#Language#Re-ThinkThese 3 words represent the work that I do in terms of "Lead Self".  We don't pause enough from our busy-ness to refresh, renew, reflect.  Words represent our thoughts. Words can give life or scar. We need to listen to the language we use on ourselves and on others. Once we #pause and #listen to the language we use on self and others, it allows us to #re-think our paradigms, to re-write our self-narratives, to be more aware of others and to be in the moment for impact! 

Change and Transition - An IntroductionThis podcast will introduce to you the difference between change and transition. Given the experience with Covid-19, it reinforces the principle of unforeseen, unpredictable and lack of control with life.  However the key to effective change management is transition management.Listen to learn:the principles of changeprinciples of transformation the 3 stages of transitionUnderstand from the #language the key ingredient to effective change management - transition management! Hope that with this #pause and the sharing of my #language, you will re-think of your future approach to change; to include transition management.