The Art on Managing Oneself

Recently, I have attended an interesting session by Dr Ang Yong Guan on “Intelligence is more than just IQ- nurturing emotional intelligent children”.  I learnt the art on managing oneself in 4 simple points:

1. Self-Awareness

2. Self-Management

3. Social Awareness (Empathy)

4. Relationship Management (Social skills)

Just like Maslow Hierarchy of needs, first you need to have self- awareness before you can show empathy to others.

There is also an intriguing concept on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Harvard psychologist, Howard Gardner.

Howard suggested that we can have a range of abilities, someone strong in Visual-Spatial Intelligence and Logical-Mathematical Intelligence can be a good aircraft mechanic for example.

My self-inflection, to be successful you must exhibit the domains of emotional intelligence while using multiple intelligences as situation arise, my two cents.

Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Recently during All Hands, I watched this inspiring speech by Steve Job.. just wanna share this with my readers and friends. 

Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford

You can also watch it on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

As the year comes to a close, I wanna thank all my friends and family who have stayed closed to my heart & believing me always.. I will keep walking.. Merry Xmas.. have a blessed time reading or viewing with your family!

HR Good Practices

I was reading this book, Human Resources Case Studies, by Martin Gabriel. 

A good guide while I enjoyed my afternoon tea reading it, with relevant case studies particularly for HR professional.

Some good HR good practices for your reference:

https://www.tafep.sg/forms-templates

http://hrmatters21.net/hr-sample-letters-forms/

Nuggets for the day: 

Keep walking..

Heb 13:5 God has said, "I will never leave you, I will never abandon you."

The Making of a Corporate Athlete

The High Performance Pyramid, the 4 fundamentals that you must have PQ, EQ, IQ & SQ:

1) Physical Capacity (PQ)
- Build endurance, mental and emotional recovery

2) Emotional Capacity (EQ)
- Creates internal climate that drives ideal performance state

3) Mental Capacity (IQ)
- Focus physical & emotional energy on the task at hand

4) Spiritual Capacity (SQ)
- Provides powerful source of motivation, determination & endurance

For more insights read on: The Making of a Corporate Athlete

You must have revelation to feed your spiritual man, be blessed...cheers!

Dimension of National Cultures

Dimension of national cultures cannot be ignored especially managing outsourcing teams, international or project work. Some of the characteristics as defined by Hofstede:

1) Power distance: the degree to which people in a country accept that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally;

2) Individualism vs Collectivism: the degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups;

3) Masculinity vs Feminlity: the extent to which the culture favours traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power and control;

4) Uncertainty avoidance: the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them

http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html

Implications to employment relationship in our local context..

For Singapore, our society supports more uncertainty avoidance..and it gives rise to 'Corporatism'...

Corporatism - Government seeks to devise mechanisms which integrate the interests of capital labour and government in pursuit of policies typically to do with economic growth, full employment and price stability. (Hollingshead and Leaf, 1995)

With hindsight this informative resources is useful in my course of work while managing a diverse workforce...I was recently reminded the importance of forming strategic alliance..especially as a business partner, I need the support of all business units to share resources and activities, to pursue a common strategy...key success factor..another learning journey for me..cheers  

Progressive Wage Incentive

Since Jan 2014, e2i has launched the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) to help workers earn more through skills upgrading to harness productivity. This is part of tripartite initiative and eligible service providers can also tap onto the funding available, up to 10% of their contract values.

More infor from e2i: http://e2i.com.sg/employers/resource-hub11/progressive-wage-incentive/

Informative for those that wish to do a new start-up in cleaning, security and landscaping industries in Singapore.

New HR strategies for 2014

I have received the latest issue of hrm magazine by key media..alot of interesting insights for HR outlook in 2014
http://issuu.com/keymedia/docs/hrm_14.01_main_mag_e-zine

Infographics - the rise of big data, an emerging marketing tools that provides much insights and knowledge...

http://hrboss.com/blog/rise-big-data-and-data-analytics

An extract from the latest issue from hrm magazine 14.1:

I liked the part on talent management (pg10)...To engender creative thinking & pro-active mindset, we need to break up the routine of a working week..especially in South-East Asia context, in our volatile political & economic situation, we may face with unexpected challenges...

The key is to maintain a positive mindset...because in every situation, therein lies greatness. Learn to celebrate failures and you will come forth stronger than you first entered...my reflective learning... 

Mentoring

I have a good lecture on writing dissertation as I learnt how to use goggle scholar..some articles on mentoring relationship that was mentioned in yesterday's lecture...

Although I do not have longitudinal data but chances are if you are able to find a good mentor.....The mentor relationship can significantly enhance development..in the midcareer stage of the more experienced individual. Kram, Kathy E. "Phases of the mentor relationship." Academy of Management journal 26.4 (1983): 608-625.

For your pleasure reading:

http://successinhr.com/hr-mentoring

Mentoring and Performance: Testing a Mediated Model in Supervisory and Formal Mentoring in Business Organization, Sushmita Srivastava & Munish Kumar Thakur (email if you need this in pdf).

Our thoughts, mirror our approach in life..as we go through different seasons in our lives, somehow God will place different mentors to shape us...my reflective learning.

HR Resources

Some said HR people always pursue standardization and abhor exception… but I guess this is more for compliance reason and exception do require more than rote solutions..if you make one exception, HR fears and the floodgate will open..my 2 cents worth..

Anyway, today I wanna share some useful HR websites for your pleasure browsing…

http://www.hr-guide.com/

http://www.shrm.org/Pages/default.aspx

http://shri.org.sg/

http://www.shl.com/uk/resources/insights/latest-insights/

Some interesting articles that I have come across...

Times are tough for some headhunters

Driven to distraction by mounting multitasking

Whatever HR tells employees has to match what the company actually believes, empty rhetoric only breeds discontent....(Hammonds, Keith H., Fast Company)..