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Experiential Learning, Leadership and Teambuilding
Master Practical and Proven Strategies to Build Great Teams and be a Great Leader With Experiential Learning
Specially Designed For Professionals, Executives, Managers and Leaders
In this workshop, you will learn how to apply experiential learning strategies for teambuilding and team leadership. Experiential learning, teambuilding and leadership skills are so transferable you can use in any industry and at any stage of your career.
This experiential learning and hands-on workshop will cover strategies for building effective teams. You will learn how to read people and understand their behaviour and personalities, team building processes, negotiation and persuasion skills, how to motivate and inspire, how to resolve conflicts, how to understand and apply the various leadership styles, the difference between leadership and management, and many more!
In short, you will get to experience a 360-degree perspective on what it takes to be an impactful leader and manager. This course is structured using spiral learning and social learning methodologies, and embedded with case studies, facilitation, games, role play, and experiential learning systems.
Specially Designed For Professionals, Executives, Managers and Leaders
In this workshop, you will learn how to apply experiential learning strategies for teambuilding and team leadership. Experiential learning, teambuilding and leadership skills are so transferable you can use in any industry and at any stage of your career.
This experiential learning and hands-on workshop will cover strategies for building effective teams. You will learn how to read people and understand their behaviour and personalities, team building processes, negotiation and persuasion skills, how to motivate and inspire, how to resolve conflicts, how to understand and apply the various leadership styles, the difference between leadership and management, and many more!
In short, you will get to experience a 360-degree perspective on what it takes to be an impactful leader and manager. This course is structured using spiral learning and social learning methodologies, and embedded with case studies, facilitation, games, role play, and experiential learning systems.
Objective
This workshop is split into nine major objectives:
1. Understand teambuilding systems and methodologies
2. Learn experiential learning strategies
3. Learn about your personality and behavioural styles
4. Learn how to read the personalities and behaviours of others
5. Understand the principles of management and leadership
6. Become a powerful negotiator and conflict resolver
7. Learn to influence, motivate and delegate with elegance
8. Master team performance strategies to lead and manage teams
Bonus Segments (Optional):
9. Body language techniques for powerful leaders
10. Transform your communication style as a leader and manager
1. Understand teambuilding systems and methodologies
2. Learn experiential learning strategies
3. Learn about your personality and behavioural styles
4. Learn how to read the personalities and behaviours of others
5. Understand the principles of management and leadership
6. Become a powerful negotiator and conflict resolver
7. Learn to influence, motivate and delegate with elegance
8. Master team performance strategies to lead and manage teams
Bonus Segments (Optional):
9. Body language techniques for powerful leaders
10. Transform your communication style as a leader and manager
Outline
Segment 1: Understand Teambuilding Systems and Methodologies
Teambuilding Essentials (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
In this segment, you will learn how effective teams are formed. This helps you master the different stages of building teams, and the common pitfalls you can avoid along the way.
You will learn:
1. The different stages of team formation
2. Teambuilding systems and techniques you can use anywhere
3. Common pitfalls of building teams you should avoid if you want to be successful
Segment 2: Learn Experiential Learning Strategies
Experiential Learning
In this segment, you will learn the key concepts of experiential learning, and how you can facilitate experiential learning in the workplace to coach your team members and ensure performance.
You will learn:
1. Experiential learning methodologies
2. Techniques to ensure effective experiential learning
3. Case Studies: Strategies used by top trainers and experiential learning coaches
Segment 3: Understanding Personalities and Behaviours
Understand Yourself and Your Team (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
This segment delves into the specific dimensions of personality and leadership. You will get to understand yourself and read people better, so that you can forge deeper connections with others.
Participants will learn:
1. About a personality test to undercover your personality
2. The four-dimensions of personality
3. How to communicate to individuals based on their personalities
4. The strengths and weaknesses of each personality type
5. The differences between personality and behaviour
6. Behavioural test to uncover your behaviour at work
7. How to interact and communicate with others based on their behaviour
8. The strengths and weaknesses of each behavioural type
9. How to understand your team member’s personal areas of development
Segment 4: Understand The Principles of Management and Leadership
Management and Leadership Essentials (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
The first and most important step to understand the difference between management and leadership. This will help you craft your goals as a leader or manager so that you can lead or manage with a clear purpose and compelling objectives.
Participants will learn:
1. Clarify the differences between management and leadership
2. The different types of leadership styles
3. Uncover your own leadership style
4. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of each leadership style
5. Scenario analysis for using each type of management and leadership style
6. Powerful leadership paradigms
7. How to understand your personal areas of development
Segment 5: Team Performance Strategies For Leaders and Managers
Build Strong Teams (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
In this segment, you will learn how to grow your team and build a successful team climate.
Participants will learn:
1. How to delegate tasks effectively
2. Basic skills of coaching and mentoring in the workplace
3. Proven team management strategies
4. Powerful task management strategies
5. Peak performance and productivity techniques
Bonus Segment: Powerful Body Language Techniques For Leaders and Managers (Optional)
The Power of Body Language (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
Body language is an essential tool for being a leader and manager. Body language helps build trust, rapport and credibility. Body language also helps to increase your power.
Participants will learn:
1. The common mistakes of body language
2. Body language techniques to build rapport and trust
3. Body language techniques for power and authority
4. The appropriate standing/sitting posture to convey confidence
5. Hand gestures and their meaning
6. The secret psychology of handshakes
Bonus Segment: Transform Your Communication Style as a Leader and Manager (Optional)
Communicate Like a Leader (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
Communication is essential for leading and managing. The better a communicator you are, the better a leader or manager you will become. In this segment, you will learn essential communication skills to build rapport, connect, network, delegate, negotiate, persuade, and motivate.
Participants will learn:
1. How to build rapport with your team
2. How to network with external stakeholders
3. Team motivation strategies to keep people motivated
4. How to give constructive feedback that people will accept
5. The art of handling difficult conversations
6. Impactful techniques to negotiate and seek win-win situations
7. Powerful strategies to resolve conflicts, to turn conflicts into collaborations
Teambuilding Essentials (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
In this segment, you will learn how effective teams are formed. This helps you master the different stages of building teams, and the common pitfalls you can avoid along the way.
You will learn:
1. The different stages of team formation
2. Teambuilding systems and techniques you can use anywhere
3. Common pitfalls of building teams you should avoid if you want to be successful
Segment 2: Learn Experiential Learning Strategies
Experiential Learning
In this segment, you will learn the key concepts of experiential learning, and how you can facilitate experiential learning in the workplace to coach your team members and ensure performance.
You will learn:
1. Experiential learning methodologies
2. Techniques to ensure effective experiential learning
3. Case Studies: Strategies used by top trainers and experiential learning coaches
Segment 3: Understanding Personalities and Behaviours
Understand Yourself and Your Team (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
This segment delves into the specific dimensions of personality and leadership. You will get to understand yourself and read people better, so that you can forge deeper connections with others.
Participants will learn:
1. About a personality test to undercover your personality
2. The four-dimensions of personality
3. How to communicate to individuals based on their personalities
4. The strengths and weaknesses of each personality type
5. The differences between personality and behaviour
6. Behavioural test to uncover your behaviour at work
7. How to interact and communicate with others based on their behaviour
8. The strengths and weaknesses of each behavioural type
9. How to understand your team member’s personal areas of development
Segment 4: Understand The Principles of Management and Leadership
Management and Leadership Essentials (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
The first and most important step to understand the difference between management and leadership. This will help you craft your goals as a leader or manager so that you can lead or manage with a clear purpose and compelling objectives.
Participants will learn:
1. Clarify the differences between management and leadership
2. The different types of leadership styles
3. Uncover your own leadership style
4. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of each leadership style
5. Scenario analysis for using each type of management and leadership style
6. Powerful leadership paradigms
7. How to understand your personal areas of development
Segment 5: Team Performance Strategies For Leaders and Managers
Build Strong Teams (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
In this segment, you will learn how to grow your team and build a successful team climate.
Participants will learn:
1. How to delegate tasks effectively
2. Basic skills of coaching and mentoring in the workplace
3. Proven team management strategies
4. Powerful task management strategies
5. Peak performance and productivity techniques
Bonus Segment: Powerful Body Language Techniques For Leaders and Managers (Optional)
The Power of Body Language (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
Body language is an essential tool for being a leader and manager. Body language helps build trust, rapport and credibility. Body language also helps to increase your power.
Participants will learn:
1. The common mistakes of body language
2. Body language techniques to build rapport and trust
3. Body language techniques for power and authority
4. The appropriate standing/sitting posture to convey confidence
5. Hand gestures and their meaning
6. The secret psychology of handshakes
Bonus Segment: Transform Your Communication Style as a Leader and Manager (Optional)
Communicate Like a Leader (Delivered Through Experiential Learning Style)
Communication is essential for leading and managing. The better a communicator you are, the better a leader or manager you will become. In this segment, you will learn essential communication skills to build rapport, connect, network, delegate, negotiate, persuade, and motivate.
Participants will learn:
1. How to build rapport with your team
2. How to network with external stakeholders
3. Team motivation strategies to keep people motivated
4. How to give constructive feedback that people will accept
5. The art of handling difficult conversations
6. Impactful techniques to negotiate and seek win-win situations
7. Powerful strategies to resolve conflicts, to turn conflicts into collaborations
Who should attend
Corporate leaders, managers, professionals, executives, supervisors, and anyone with a leadership and management function, and people who want to
1. Learn a lifelong skill
2. Become an effective leader and manager
3. Demonstrate leadership skills
4. Enhance performance in the workplace
5. Form positive impressions in the workplace
1. Learn a lifelong skill
2. Become an effective leader and manager
3. Demonstrate leadership skills
4. Enhance performance in the workplace
5. Form positive impressions in the workplace
Methodology
The workshop will also be conducted in an interactive manner, infused with practical exercises, and embedded in spiral learning curriculum design methodology and in-class social learning systems. This allows for maximum engagement with students throughout the lesson.
Modes of instruction include:
1. Case Studies
2. Discussions
3. Facilitations
4. Role-Plays
5. Fun Quizzes
6. Pair Work
7. Group Work
8. Stimulative Games
Modes of instruction include:
1. Case Studies
2. Discussions
3. Facilitations
4. Role-Plays
5. Fun Quizzes
6. Pair Work
7. Group Work
8. Stimulative Games
Testimonials
We are more than impressed with Kwan Hong. He is imparting so many great practical tips to do better in the business world. He articulates extremely well and instantly grabs the audience’s attention. They get quickly engaged and show such eagerness to learn from him. I will add my title in this note to formalise our reference to this very great orator.
Penny Radcliffe
Senior Learning and Development Manager, Phillip Securities Pte Ltd
I had the privilege of engaging Kwan Hong as a speaker for several roadshows conducted across Singapore in order to promote Career & Education and outreach. Kwan Hong is passionate, humble, friendly, and a very engaging public speaker, even with such challenging crowds as boisterous participants. I would definitely recommend him as a speaker or event MC, to say nothing of his many other talents.
Ryan O'Connor
Conference Producer at Informa Exhibitions
Penny Radcliffe
Senior Learning and Development Manager, Phillip Securities Pte Ltd
I had the privilege of engaging Kwan Hong as a speaker for several roadshows conducted across Singapore in order to promote Career & Education and outreach. Kwan Hong is passionate, humble, friendly, and a very engaging public speaker, even with such challenging crowds as boisterous participants. I would definitely recommend him as a speaker or event MC, to say nothing of his many other talents.
Ryan O'Connor
Conference Producer at Informa Exhibitions
Profile of Dr. Tan Kwan Hong
- International Speaker to 420,000+ People from 800+ Organizations in 40+ Countries
- Singapore Champion Public Speaker For 2017, 2-Time Singapore First Runner-Up
- PhD, MSc (Finance), MSc (HR), M.Ed., MMTM, MIT, MPM, PGDBA, GDTD, SDBA, BSc. (Economics), Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM)
- ACTA Certified, MOE accredited, Google Certified Educator, Microsoft Education Expert Award Winner
Kwan Hong is passionate in helping professionals attain mastery in public speaking, personal peak performance and career growth. His highly rated workshops include: public speaking, business negotiation, interview skills, resume and cover letter writing, essential business etiquette, and finding your career passion.
With 12 years of training experience, Kwan Hong has personally conducted workshops or given speeches to over 200,000 people, 550 organizations and schools, in 15 countries. His clients include A*Star, AIA Singapore, AON Singapore, Alexandra Health, Citibank, DSTA, Ministry of Education (Singapore), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Vietnam), Land Transport Authority (LTA), Halogen Foundation, People’s Association, Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG), and the Young Men’s Christian Association.
Kwan Hong has been hired by organisations to coach their C-Suite Executives, Vice-Presidents, and Directors. He has also conducted group and individual coaching sessions for sales executives, negotiators, spokespersons, media relations executives and young professionals. Kwan Hong has also trained participants for international debate and public speaking competitions.
In 2017, Kwan Hong came out tops over 5000 contestants to become the Singapore Public Speaking Champion, awarded by Toastmasters International. He was ranked 2nd in Singapore for the Evaluation Speech Contest in 2016 and 2017. He was ranked top 7 in Singapore and Thailand in 2013. He was also awarded the Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) title, the greatest honour that can be earned by a member of Toastmasters International, achieved by less than 1% out of 350,000+ members globally.
Kwan Hong has a PhD, 3 Masters degrees, and 3 Graduate Diplomas. He is also certified in high performance tools, such as Strong Interest Inventory, DISC, Enneagram, NLP, and Transformation Coaching.
