Coaching Skills Leadership Workshop - Competency Driven Growth

We coach, play and dance 🕺 🤩

It was CNY day 3. I thought the coaching workshop should be spiced up a little. Who says coaching workshops can’t be fun! 😆

Together with Yeang Cherng Poh and Jasmine Khoo, we brought the leaders through a coaching framework with some customized role plays, did some somatics work and learnt some coaching distinctions through games. 

We explored what it takes to lead through coaching—how to partner and build trust, how to inquire and listen with empathy. More than just coaching skills, we also explored how being more coach-like is the game-changer. 

The shift was tangible: leaders walked away not just with new skills they can practice, but with a fresh perspective on leadership itself. 

𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬—𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬.

It was lots of fun facilitating the session. Glad it went better than expected. 

I must confess it wasn’t fun spending CNY thinking about the session and the highly customized design. There were definitely lots of discomfort and some anxiety doing the preparations.😅

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CliftonStrengths Team Workshop for Educators - Grange Institution

1st educators session for 2025!

Had the privilege to conduct a program before a group of educators from Grange Institution start their classes. The goal was to really help the team to get to know each other as there were several new teachers and to use their strengths to explore greater collaboration as they come together often to create academic content and activities for students across the dfferent levels.

It’s never easy delivering workshops for teachers so I’m glad that the teachers enjoyed the activities and found them helpful. Looking forward to impacting this group of educators and also the students from Grange.

CliftonStrengths Workshop and Team Coaching - Bintan Indonesia

1st team coaching session for 2025!

Travelled to Bintan and did a CliftonStrengths Team session for Centre for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) team from Singapore. The aim was to have the team connected at a deeper level, focusing on strengthening psychological safety and demonstrate an increased level of openness. 

It was a small intimate setting. After a short time of covering the foundations of CliftonStrengths, we deep dived into team dynamics and culture. During one of the workshop activities, an opportunity opened up and I switched from workshop facilitator to team coach mode. 

That meant putting all my content aside and choosing to work with the team in an adaptive way, focusing on emerging data. As I sensed a shift, I invited the team to go deep with each other and share about they can thrive with each other and receive tangible support. 

In the end, each person on the team took risks to be vulnerable and the sharing became raw, honest and at the same time uplifting and inspiring. One took risk to share a pent-up frustration. One displayed courage and shared how certain areas of hurt that took place. One apologise for certain behaviours. As an observer, I saw how the team connected deeper and were united in spirit.

It certainly is not common to see such team dynamics and deep conversations. Am super delighted with the outcome.

CliftonStrengths Team Communication Workshop Hong Kong

Communication is a two way street. 

In a facilitation session, communication takes place between the facilitator and the participants. 

Sometimes there is great chemistry. Some participants energize the facilitator. Some drain. 

📷: Flew in from Singapore to Hong Kong, this was a CliftonStrengths Team Communication Full Day session with a regional team. Participants were from Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and China. 

Through the day, I remained highly energized and motivated.

There was great chemistry. There were lots of good natured banter and laughter. I thoroughly enjoyed the conversations.

▶ We covered basic strengths fundamentals 

▶ We moved to learning and practicing foundational elements needed for great communication and teamwork

▶ We covered blindspots that often lead to conflicts and misunderstandings 

▶ We practice “catching people doing right” using a simple and effective tool

CliftonStrengths for Managers - Coaching Skills Leadership Development Workshop

Finished a coaching skills workshop designed to help a group of managers increase their abilities to coach their staff. The managers all had their CliftonStrengths Profiles as well. The aim was not just to learn coaching skills. Additionally, the design was to enable each person to see how they could use their talent themes to do coaching.

The workshop focused on 3 coaching tools to help the managers deal with different scenarios:
1. Growing and developing high performers
2. Difficult Conversations with low performers
3. Performance review conversations

Glad that the coaching workshop went very well.

Leadership Development Program - Coaching Skills for Emerging Leaders

As more and more organizations adopt a competency-driven growth model, coaching skills is seen more as a key competency required for managers.

Finished another leadership development program focusing on coaching skills for emerging leaders. This was the last run for 2024. There were participants from Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

We did a couple of role plays to help bring the coaching skills alive. We also did some leadership labs to help the leaders realize how they show show up during highly stressful and dynamic situations and grow in their self-awareness.

Overall, it was a great partnership with Damien to bring the leadership lessons to life!