Grit
Angela Lee Duckworth changed her career from management consultant to teacher to psychologist. As a motivational psychologist studying predictors of success in various contexts, she found grit to be a significant predictor of success. She …
What is success in life?
G. Richard Shell’s book Springboard looks what is success and how to achieve it in your life. Before he started his academic career at Wharton Business School, he had spent most of his twenties unemployed, …
Bringing Kindness to Work!
According to Dr Kelli Harding, Physician and Author of The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness, a major determinant of our health is our social relationships and our …
“What is your job?” This question can change your life!
Fried Koffman, author of Conscious Business and the Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership and Vice President, Leadership Development, Google speaks about how the question “What is your job?” changed his life and continues …
How Leaders Can Nurture High-Performing Teams
Organisations face continual and relentless change in today’s technologically-driven marketplace. Market disruption and shifting social contexts call for new and creative ways of working in organisations. That the global workforce is intergenerational, increasingly connected across …
2019 Human Capital Trends Summary: Teams and Organizational Performance
The 2019 Human Capital Trends summarised in the infographics below highlight the importance of getting your organisation future-ready by building an organizational culture that enables High Performance Teams. Staff engagement and retention issues can impede …
Inaugural Jungian Sandplay Symposium in Singapore
At the inaugural Jungian Sandplay Symposium in Singapore from 21-24 Oct 2019 at the Lifelong Learning Institute, the passion for the healing, development and transformation of children, youths and adults through Jungian Sandplay of keynote …
What makes a good life?
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the world’s longest longitudinal studies of adult life began in 1938 with the tracking of 268 Harvard sophomores to inquire into what leads to healthy and happy …
Job crafting
Job crafting is about turning the job you have into the job you want. It is about shaping your job and not letting your job shape you. This is different from job re-design which is …
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware, author of best selling memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying worked in palliative care for eight years. She wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets expressed by the …