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Why EI is a Top Skill in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

Mar 19, 2020
5 min

Why EI is a Top Skill in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional Intelligence (EI) or emotional quotient (EQ) is a set of skills that help us better perceive, understand and manage emotions in ourselves and in others. Collectively they help us make intelligent responses to, and use of, emotions. These skills are as important as your intellect (IQ) in determining success in work and in life. Everyone, no matter what job function, has interactions with other people. Your capacity to understand your e

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Leadership in the Digital Age

Best Books on Creative Leadership

Feb 6, 2020
3 min

Best Books on Creative Leadership

One thing I love most is browsing other people's bookshelves - whether it's in their office or in their home. Because I think more than anything else it helps you to really feel where that person is coming from (and, importantly, where they are going). My bookshelves in my office are overflowing with titles spanning psychology, military history, colonial history, behavioural science and economics, persuasion, communication skills, and creativity and innovation, plus a bit mor

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How to Empower Leaders to Create Future-Ready Teams?

Marylen Ramos-Velasco

Jan 30, 2020
3 min

How to Empower Leaders to Create Future-Ready Teams?

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy A great leader, whether born or made is one who inspires the team to achieve a common goal. We are all a work in progress. With the rapidly changing world, we have to be future-ready (relevant, effective, adaptive, forward-looking, talent-focused and client-centric). Continuous learning keeps leaders abreast of the happenings in their chosen fields. There is no other way to address the problems we face

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Why Is It Important for Best Leaders to Continuously Learn?

Marylen Ramos-Velasco

Dec 30, 2019
3 min

Why Is It Important for Best Leaders to Continuously Learn?

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy A great leader, whether born or made is one who inspires the team to achieve a common goal. What does it take to be a great leader? 1. A true leader needs to be self-aware; this allows us to to train ourselves to attain the right leadership qualities and skills. Knowing what you need to improve in personal habits and behaviours other than skills that will keep you relevant. 2. Self-Directed and Recepti

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EVERYTHING changed once I learnt this one simple fact

Nov 14, 2019
1 min

EVERYTHING changed once I learnt this one simple fact

What is it that successful people know that you don't? Ever wondered that? I did! For many years. People seemingly no smarter were getting much further ahead and succeeding at a much faster rate in their careers. What did it come down to? Luck? Some secret piece of knowledge? I share with WomenLines what I learnt that answered this for me and changed everything! It's not about your IQ, it's about knowing all the good things about you and having the right mindset to move bold

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Get back on your bike

Nov 7, 2019
3 min

Get back on your bike

This was Marc Marquez last Friday 4 October 2019 ... and below (scroll down) is Marc Marquez less than 48 hours later ... So, what happened in between? Two words: Learning Moments. I rode over 2200km last week to Buriram, in the remote reaches of eastern Thailand, to watch the MotoGP for the first time. I was expecting to learn and write about speed as a competitive weapon in your business. Instead, I find myself writing about managing fear of failure. This was triggered by t

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Top 8 Learning & Development Trends and Best Practices

Marylen Ramos-Velasco

Oct 24, 2019
3 min

Top 8 Learning & Development Trends and Best Practices

This is the time of the year when most human resources professionals look back on employee performance and begin planning their training needs for 2020. As human capital is the greatest asset and the key to achieving business goals, it is important that your team prepares for a highly competitive environment. Here are top eight learning & development trends and best practices you should pay attention to in 2020: 1. Alignment with Business Strategy Only 40 percent of co

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8 Reasons Why Training Fails & How To Prevent It In Your Organization

Marylen Ramos-Velasco

Jul 18, 2019
3 min

8 Reasons Why Training Fails & How To Prevent It In Your Organization

I have been in the corporate world for 15 years and almost 10 years in the training industry. Here's my experience on why training fails and how you can prevent it in your organization from a learner and training solutions provider's perspective: 1, Lack of Clarity - This is basic and most important of all. First, clarity on the learner's responsibilities and opportunities for improvement. Second, why are they attending the training. Solutions: Ensure that the employees are c

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Amazing Statistics on Training and Development

Marylen Ramos-Velasco

Jul 16, 2019
2 min

Amazing Statistics on Training and Development

Are you stressed with attrition and the daily challenge of engaging employees? Disappointed with new learning that does not last too long? Don’t know how to get the buy-in of stakeholders? Here are some amazing statistics and information that might just actually address your challenges: 1.What can you do to retain and keep employees engaged? According to Go2HR, with the poor training of employees, 40% of employees leave their company in the first year. Unbelievably, another s

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Will you use KODAK film to take your daily pictures today?

Mar 21, 2019
8 min

Will you use KODAK film to take your daily pictures today?

Do you like average results or above average results? If you like to have above average results then read on and ask yourself these questions. • Do you feel that your current employee training in sales or leadership development is not having significant effect on your sales or the business? • Did it motivate them to sell more or do more? Perhaps for a day or two then back to normal? • Did you feel frustrated because you spent so much on training and it had minimum impact? All

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How to Make Your Customer Feel You’re A Close Friend In 3 Minutes?

Mar 12, 2019
11 min

How to Make Your Customer Feel You’re A Close Friend In 3 Minutes?

We were launching a new product 3 in 1 coffee sachet, a fighting brand to counter the new product launched by our major competitor. Because we were the market leader with more than 60% share, the competition came out swinging. They got several popular artists to endorse their brand. In just 2- months they were available in supermarkets, hypermarkets, most “sari-sari” stores (they call it “warung” in Indonesia). I estimated they had a coverage of 250,000 outlets in 2 months. T

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How to Default Your Mind to be Always Positive?

Feb 21, 2019
8 min

How to Default Your Mind to be Always Positive?

“The quality of our life is determined by moment-to-moment state of our emotions.” -Anthony Robbins True story taken from a Florida newspaper: A man, after fighting with his wife, decided to work on his motorcycle on his patio to clear his head. His wife was in the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and along with the

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Winners Have a Bias for Action

Feb 7, 2019
6 min

Winners Have a Bias for Action

Be 100% Responsible for Your Life When Gabby, my first-born, came home from the hospital, I cradled him in my arms and danced for joy with my wife by my side. I was all smiles, as he came out a normal and healthy baby. In stark contrast, Nicolas “Nick” James Vujicic was born on December 4, 1982 and as he shared, the first reaction of his mother when she saw him was: “Take him away” Nevertheless, his parents came to their senses and took care of him. Nick Vujicic was born in M

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7 Key High-Performance Habits for Continuous Success in Business

Jan 22, 2019
10 min

7 Key High-Performance Habits for Continuous Success in Business

“Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become…habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become.” – Margaret Thatcher Strong leadership is very important in such a challenging environment as business and selling. Strong leadership is what gets things done effectively and efficiently. In business, what you need

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4 Easy Ways to Focus and Eliminate Distractions

Jan 17, 2019
10 min

4 Easy Ways to Focus and Eliminate Distractions

During the day, do you get distracted? You struggle to focus at the task at hand. You may grab your phone and get into social media. You may watch a video. Perhaps walk around too long and chat. Do you feel lazy and need a lot of will power to get back on-track. Here are 4 simple steps that will make you re-focus quickly. All you need to understand is that our mind and body are ONE. You simply change your motion to control your emotion. This first one is importa

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Leading Teams Through Bouts of Underemployment

5 Solutions to Prevent Your High Potential Training Program From Failing

Sep 11, 2018
5 min

5 Solutions to Prevent Your High Potential Training Program From Failing

Over the past few years, the term HiPo has joined the list of HR buzzwords, alongside firm favourites such as Millennials, Gen Z, Holacarcy, and micro-learning. In most firms, high potential (HiPo) employees are deemed those most likely to excel and progress into more senior positions. They are the employees that firms want to ensure stay within the firm and don’t get lost to the competition. In short, they are the future. As a result, companies started to devise HiPo program

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Spinning Your Self-Sabotage Away

Sep 5, 2018
3 min

Spinning Your Self-Sabotage Away

Spinning Your Self-Sabotage Away Here are the steps I did for the spinning away of recurring body pain or any negative feeling that you want Subconscious Intelligence to tell you the message behind the pain. Just follow and be amazed. 1. Locate the pain in your body that is recurring or from a negative feeling caused by a negative event. What is the intensity from a scale of 1-10 (10 is highest.) 2. Touch the location of the pain in your body; close your eyes and the

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Subconscious Intelligence vs Emotional Intelligence

Aug 22, 2018
4 min

Subconscious Intelligence vs Emotional Intelligence

What is Your Subconscious Intelligence Quotient? Subconscious Intelligence is your ability to use or access your subconscious to control and change your life by getting rid of bad habits, limiting beliefs and even recurring body pain. Subconscious Intelligence is also your ability to influence people to accept challenges, align with your goals and lift their lives to be better as you can get rid of their fears, worries and anxieties, past hurts / traumas and guilt or unforgiv

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