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: Pause, Pivot with Purpose

• 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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