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Course Information
Date:23rd Nov 2009 (Mon)
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: Concorde Hotel, Orchard Road (f.k.a Le Meridien Hotel)
Fee: S$535 (including GST)

Registration is on a 1st come 1st serve basis. Register early to avoid disappointment.
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For more information, please contact Jaslyn @ 9228 7171 or jaslyn@cbsgroup.com.sg


 

EGO at Work! A Leadership Challenge

Overview - Understanding Ego Dynamic impact on Practical Leadership
In this ever-evolving business times, good leadership becomes a challenge that every business unit and management faces at every level. It is very easy to be a manager however it is very challenging to be an effective leader and very often, not understanding that our ego and our colleague’s ego may sometimes be the main obstacle to effective leadership.

This 1 day practical workshop allows the participants to understand the importance of EGO in managing their workplace relationships and how it ultimately improves their abilities to becoming an effective leader. Participants will learn how they can effectively recognise the behavioural patterns exhibited and how they can subsequently manage it and enhance their leadership position.


What is this course?
By the end of this 1 day practical training the participants will:

Acquire the knowledge of:
  • The Difference between a manager and a leader.
  • The 4 organisation roles of a management position holder
  • What it takes to an effective leader.
  • Inter-relation of Ego Dynamics - Personality ,Ego and EQ
  • Liability or Asset of Ego on leadership effectiveness.
  • Different leadership model

Acquire the Skill of:
  • Recognising ones’ behaviour as well as others through EDC ( Ego dynamic Cycle)s
  • Recognizing & what makes your leadership ineffective.
For Whom?
  • Managers requiring knowledge of how to handle ego in the workplace
  • Experienced Leaders wishing to enhance their leadership position by understanding and managing Ego

Course Coverage
  • Personal Leadership vs. Leader of Personal Leadership
  • Causes behind why employees do not take initiatives.
  • 4 areas management position does well and is ineffective.
  • 4 areas of effective leadership
  • Introduction to Ego dynamics.
  • Introduction to Transactional Analysis to understand Ego - liability or asset.
  • The EDC (Ego Dynamic Cycle) framework
  • Recognise one’s behaviour as well as others hence enabling the management of ego.

Training Methodologies

Where appropriate in order to carry a point across to the participants, the following methodologies are used: Lecture, working preference questionnaire, case –study and exercise

  • Facilitation & Sharing Session by Trainer
  • Questionnaires
  • Individual Reflection
  • Case Study
  • Exercises

Please note that due to training effectiveness, we are limiting the class size of this workshop to 20 participants.


About the Trainer:

Subject Matter Specialist – Theresa Lee

Theresa is a seasoned practitioner in human resource Management and development (HRD) and held senior managerial positions in MNCs of US, British, German and French origin previously.

Widely sought after by her past employees and her ex-participants, her training mainly focuses on areas that affect HR Professionals and managers who require Leadership skills. Averaging a consistent rating of more than 5.5 on a max scale of 6 in evaluations (for both leadership training as well as HR Leadership related topics), participants often over - extend their training sessions with a lot of questions.

Dedicated to the development of HR Practices, Theresa has designed and facilitated training programs for in-house needs as well as for external customers. The repeated training she has conducted ranges from management workshops to critical mass training in Singapore as well as Asia are of the following topics:


Human Resources Topics:
  • HR as Strategic Business Leader
  • Result and Competencies based job description
  • Talent Acquisition and management through Behavioural Based Competencies Interview.
  • Effective Exit Interview
  • Aligning Employees Orientation/Induction to Motivation
  • Maximising Performance Management through Balanced Scorecard approach in setting Key performance indicators
  • Conducting Performance Appraisal
  • Counselling and Coaching – Performance, Disciplinary Actions.
  • Understanding Competencies and Application of competencies to work situation,
  • Understanding Reward and Compensation in relation to motivation and impact on cost of business

Self Leadership and Leadership Topics:
  • Developing Personal/Self Leadership through understanding of one’s Ego, Personality and EQ
  • Building a culture of self leadership through effective Super Leadership
  • Leaders as a Coach
  • Leaders as Team Builder
  • Leaders as Change Agent.

The below are some of her Experiences & projects she completed as a HR Business Partner:

Areas of Forte Companies Significant Accomplishments of KPI
1. Compensation and Benefits

2. Performance Management System

3. Competencies based Recruitment and Selection
Nixdorf

Pioneered the implementation of Flexible wage to maximise the return of 8% annual increase budget with more than 25% of the workforce exceeding the target set by 20%.

Partnered operation personnel to recruit , induct and deploy manpower to achieve a labour turnover rate of new recruit of not more than 10% at the same time the productivity rate of new recruits should equate with the value of the job within the probation period of 6 months. Turnover of new recruits within 6 months was 0.

 Micropolis

Partnered the operation personnel to design a salary structure to correct pay inequity thus reducing turnover due to salary by 3.5%.


Similarly Increased internal customer satisfaction index by 15%

Effective Exit interview with a return of reducing turnover due to push factors by 2% every year.

Local as well as RegionalSita

Aligned the salary and benefits across Asia Pacific to facilitate transfer and mobility of manpower across Asia Pacific reducing the résistance to relocation due to inconsistent compensation to 0 at the same time improve the cost efficiency by 2%


 


Facilitated and transformed “ Entitled Increment” Mindset to “ Earned Increment” Mindset through Performance Measurement and Management. This enabled a company that never had a performance indicator to achieve the yearly target and exceeded the target by 10% in 1998.


 


In Japan, aligned the seasonal bonus to performance measurement so as to maximise the returns of seasonal bonus with productivity and service level. The initiative enables the company to save US$100k per year at the same time motivate the high achievers.

4. Effective InductionFairprice 
5. Effective Exit Interview.Federal Logistic 
 Kaybee Group

Aligned an individual sales incentive to that of a team based incentive so as to achieve the year to year 10% increase in sales and or a margin not less than 6%


Designed and implemented Competencies based performance management system for the non sales personnel so as to reduce the error in documentation and to ensure the return of the annual increment with productivity increase. The system enable the 6% incremental budget to be returned with more than 10% of the workforce exceeding the documentation target set by 15%.

 Panasonic AVC

Developed and implemented the KPI performance management system with 100% buy in from executives and Union

3.Change ManagementSita

Conducted “Forum” across Asia Pacific to engage employees to convert from a civil service “entitled” reward mindset to that of a customer centric earned reward mindset .This is manifested in the increase of customers satisfaction both internal and external by 11.5% in a follow up bi-annual survey.


Initiated a local succession planning to reduce the reliance of foreign talent by 15%

 Federal Logistic

Engaged employees in the change initiatives so as to enable a successful transition from Federal Express to Federal Logistic with zero legal implication and negative increase in labour turnover.


Conducted a successful downsizing exercise in Philippines with 0 legal implication and successful achievement of the target due to customer before the downsizing.

4.Training & DevelopmentNixdorf.Micropolis,Federal Logistic ,Sita,Kaybee Group

The training effectiveness are reflected in the outcome as listed under Compensation, Performance Management and Recruitment and Selection


Without training the returns of the initiatives will not be able to materialise.


Training is one of the best way to engage and communicate with employees.

 HRM, Mindef,
Carrefour, Airliquide,
ZTE, Magna Power,
Public Run

The participants’ evaluations are the best reflection of my facilitation, coaching and training skill. Please refer to attached.

6. Office Administration & SecurityNixdorf

Constantly monitored the cost and look out for the most cost effective management of office equipments thus improving the cost effectiveness by 5% -7% year on year.


Engaged employees in dialogue and worked with neighbourhood police to resolve the pilferage of disk drives of US$300k per quarter.

7. Restructuring & OutplacementSITA

Conducted restructuring exercise across Asia pacific without any negative legal implications

 Federal Logistic

Conducted restructuring exercise in Philippines, the performance of which earned me a promotion to MD Human Resources Asia Pacific

 Panasonic AVC

Conducted restructuring exercise the success of which won me the appreciation from Union as well as the company with an increment of $500/month