The only thing which is constant today is CHANGE – so that a leader can no longer ignore any challenges that lie ahead. This means a demand for a high level of leadership skills which are reflected in such areas as motivation, vision and team building. In this program, the participants will learn to develop their leadership skills which are central to the requirements of today’s environment for the success of the organization. This will in turn help to convert a company’s vision into reality.

Objective

To transform the current fixed mindset to growth mindset because mindset is about each individual’s attitude:

• Fixed Mindset
      - Less challenging spirit
      - Less willingness to learn more
      - Lack of positive attitude

Transform to =>

• Growth Mindset
      - Go the extra mile – make a new goal for every goal accomplished because growth-minded people know how to constantly create new goals to keep themselves stimulated, passionate and had a greater sense of purpose.
       - Emphasis growth over speed – learning fast isn’t the same as learning well, and learning well sometimes requires allowing time for mistakes.
       - Take ownership over your attitude – begin to forge in yourself the kinds of characteristics that tend to seek solutions as well as embody a trustworthy and positive mental attitude.

Outline

1. Leadership & Challenging: raising the bar

    - Organization Case: two companies from the same industry, success or failure?
    - Consequences of less challenging spirit
    - How do you challenge yourself?
    - Parkinson Principle
    - Standardization & Benchmarking: great “twins”
    - Meanings and implementation of these
    - Continuous challenging and improvement
    - Workshop: practice moving from fixed to growth mindset
    - Summary: from less challenging growth spirit

2. Learning, Growth, Culture for mistakes – growth versus speed

    - Famous corporate cases: successes and flops
    - Comment on these cases
    - Case study 1: from mistakes to multimillion business and enhancing consumer values
    - Case study 2: how a world famous organization suffer humiliation and financial losses
    - Comment & Recap
    - Summary: culture of learning well – tortoise versus hare?

3. Attitudinal landscape: it is your garden – you own it

    - Directional approach: behavior influencing attitude and value, or the other way?
    - Landscape of behaviors and motivation
    - Why can’t everyone have Open, good, positive mental attitude?
    - Behavior/attitude is a choice: the consequential explanation
    - Tuning your attitudinal choices
    - Improving yourself EVEN IF you are in a negative environment
    - Change Management & Three techniques

4. Summary: open mind culture, success

    - From Fixed Mindset to Growth Mindset

Who should attend

This program is prepared for anyone who has aims to elevate their mindset or thinking.

Andrew Cheah's Profile

Mr. Andrew Cheah has been a trainer and management consultant since 1991, specializing in the areas of Strategic Thinking, Leadership Transformation, Lean, QC Tools, VSM, Procurement & Inventory Management, negotiation, 8D Problem Solving, performance management, productivity improvement, behavioral change, and Critical & Creative Thinking. Andrew has trained clients from such diverse industries (see list below) as banking, insurance, hospitality, sales and distribution, manufacturing, food, property development, government/public services, and higher education. Being tri-lingual (English, Mandarin, and Malay Languages), and has extensive regional exposure in Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. In addition to training, Andrew has guided and provided consulting services to clients, leading to one of them winning the prestigious Malaysian National Productivity Award (1999) presented by the 2-time Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir. The award is for productivity enhancement through many areas such as continuous improvement, cost and waste reduction.

In addition to writing articles for the premier English newspaper in Singapore (the Straits Times), Andrew has been invited to speak at events such as International Conference on Best Practices, which was graced by senior officials from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), sharing the stage with Professor Michael Gregory of the University of Cambridge, Mr Dieter Heyl (2007 Vice President of Mercedes Benz Malaysia), and Dr Marcus Chao, President of Lean China Enterprise Inc.

Andrew has an MBA degree qualification with the University of Portsmouth, UK. At the professional level, Andrew has certifications in: Blue Ocean Leadership Masterclass, Leading Dimensions Profiling (LDP), REACH Profiling, and ISO9000 assessor. His experience in international consultancy has also earned him a membership with the Association of Productivity Specialist (New York).