Emerging Leadership Program - Coaching and Talent Development

Last Dance 🥳🥹

1 Global leadershipdevelopment program - US, EMEA, APAC

APAC - 16 cohorts in 2 years, 500+ leaders

Our team was responsible for the last day of the 4 days leadership program.

The key deliverable on Day 4?
➡️WHAT - Embody the learnings!
➡️WHY - Live out the Expectationsof Leaders defined by the organization.
➡️HOW - Leadership labs, Coaching practices and Difficult conversations.

Finished the last cohort this week and there was both huge gratitude and a lot of sadness.

My Highlights 🙏
1. Being part of a global team from SmartfulWorks LLC and delivering the program outcomes consistently across US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Thank you Jenn Giordano, M.A., Ed. M., ACC and Ryan Soares, ACC for your kindness and belief in the AP team.

2. An amazing all 🌟 AP team with Damien O’Malley, Eya Pagdanganan, and Alice Chia. Our strengths complement each other.

3. Observing, listening and being in action is my key mode of learning. I have gained so much from the cross-cultural interactions, practicing my listening skills while interacting with participants from China, India, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Singapore.

My takeaways 💡after 16 runs:
1. Intellectual understanding appeals to those who prioritise cognitive intelligence. Body and emotional intelligence (learning through our body and emotions) are separate. The leadership labs clearly show the gap between conceptual self-awareness and embodied self-awareness.

2. Showing up as leaders has little correlation to where we are on the organizational chart or our leadership roles. It has more correlation with how we show up as humans.

3. Working across cultures amplify a core leadership skill - the ability to listen deeply beyond words. So much miscommunication happens when we listen to respond rather than listen to understand.

4. To navigate tensions or polarities is to first practice seeing the dynamics. That is increasingly a core leadership skill.

5. A Small door knob open a Big door. Transformation can happen when we consistently apply little tweaks to our habits.

Definitely a huge personal milestone and very thankful to God for this experience.

Looking forward to sharing these insights in the future.