Week 001

Own Your Career

Himanshu

• Successful teams find a way to make uncommon information common. Just so long as unique info is shared. “Common information effect”
• Information overload is better than underload
• While psychological safety encourages ppl to speak up, too much info needs to be managed
• Unfortunately, Himanshu's example of neurosurgeon vs nurse is poor. He assumes nurse is less knowledgeable

Key facts/biography

• Family background: Aged parents, Wife + 3 children
• Education and professional certifications: Law, Mass Comm, KM
• Work/ related experience: Journalism, Dot-com, Finance
• Achievements: Provided for the family, Lean 6 Sigma

Technical skills/strengths

• Leadership/ soft skills/ personality: Range: Language, Presentation, Business, IT,
• Job experience: Journalism reporting and copy editing, Internet, Operations: Crisis Mgt/Process, Project Mgt

Purpose

• What gives me energy?
  • AIESEC/DSC/Socratic Circle
  • Reading and Learning
  • Long walks, cycling
• Energised instances: DSC in Parliament Select Committee ? Encounter with AIS ? Lecturing on SGXNet ?
• Leverages: quick thinking

Immediate career goals

• Public Service: run one more lap
• Lean Management in action

Gaps to address

• Skills/learning goals: BCG-Rise change mgt framework
• Personal devt goals: more social skills

chen pui fong * close knitted, father wholesaler younger bro 2 older sis * accountancy degree, CPAS, Malaysian Institute, Chartered account * achievement, loyal, same shipping group

Personal

• a lot time work, married late
• strengths: business,

• accommodating, hands on
• predictable, good support
• like sharing knowledge

• effective finance manager
• planning, high-C

• digitalised: old school
• banks,

• storylining

Everest Simulation

• Roles we played:
  • Shirley environmentalist:
  • Tim marathoner:
  • Su Haw physician
  • Yoong photographer:
  • Jackson and Hui Lin leaders:
• High level of mutual respect and consideration of views
  • Resulting in high level of psychological safety
• Did not complete the task assigned
  • Misunderstood the timings provided
  • Learning lesson: need to be more conscious/watchful of deadlines
• Homework: Team contract

Mukund Rajagopalan

• Catastrophising: Projecting catastrophes / doomsday scenario ahead of time
• DISC - Social styles
  • Framework to analyse behaviours
• We see the environment in different ways
• The different styles allow us view and understand our teammates
• Our style may evolve depending on the role we play in each context, over a period of time
• The two axes are: Fast/Measured Pace vs Task/People focused
  • Can't we act and think fast ? But that is a measurement of ability, not style.
• DISC is about environment:
  • More/Less powerful than environment: Fast/Measured Pace
  • Unfavourable/Favourable environment: Task/People focussed
• MBTI (Myers Briggs): how we make decisions (introversion/extroversion), DISC: how we perceive situations
• Team 06
  • Hui Lin: Perfectionist C, picked up new traits accurate, organised, schedule, plan, calculated, reflective
  • Shirley: Perfectionist C, systematic, not a perfectionist, discuss amicably, Low I
  • Yoong Foong Chow: Perfectionist C, Project Manager, quick decision
  • Jackson Leong Jie Xing: Inspirational DI, ran businesses in Myanmar; I side to inspire team members to go along with decisions made. try not to participate too much with the C part of the group.
  • Wee Kiong (Timothy?): Developer D, working environment yes; private: more S and I
  • suhaw: Developer D
• For the team, recognise the distribution, e.g. low S, hence the likely pitfalls
• Perhaps some members may step up to fill the gap

Apurvi Sheth

Pause, Pivot with Purpose

• “In sports, a pivot is an essential move to stay in the game. It allows the athlete an opportunity to move in another direction with one foot, while keeping the other in contact with the floor in order to determine the best path forward”
• Establish/Plant your strong foot
• Leverage one's strengths while pivoting, leading to:
  • more planned approach
  • confidence
  • competitive advantage
  • higher/quicker chance of success
• Pivot not just leap: hold onto your strengths and towards a new direction
• Pause: think through
  • Monthly retrospectives
• With Purpose: Know your life goals and move towards them
  • Think of positive experiences and take stock

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