http://www.kcseequest.com/blog Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:06:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If we believe what we read in the media, the world is heading for the worst global economic slowdown since the Great Depression. Fact is, your business will be affected whether you like it or not. For those who do not believe this, you might end up doing NOTHING and that ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2008/11/08/how-your-business-can-capitalise-on-the-present-economic-situation-and-beat-your-competitors/ I picked up a copy of Newsweek (Sept 17th issue) at the airport and as usual spend the time on the plane from Singapore to Malaysia reading .....and up pops this LOVELY article written by Mike Douglas. Yes Mike Douglas a.k.a Mr. Gordon Gecko from "Wall Street" I think every father ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/10/18/mike-douglas-on-family/ Beijing in October is a lovely place in so far as the weather is concerned.Not the traffic.Not the pollution. CPT* grad Kevin from Singapore dropped by at the hotel and took me and our Country manager Joelynne out for dinner. We had hotpot ....the thing to do in the nice ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/10/18/building-a-learning-culture-in-organizationa/ Companies are spending money on training, but on haphazard and poorly planned training activities with little results to show in terms of enhancing the quality of the workforce and their performance. However, management cannot be totally blamed for this. We attributes this gap to the people who understands training, people such ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/10/02/training-for-business-results/ There is a wonderful example given by Edgar Tham, our Coaching guru during his class on Certificate in Coaching where he got his coachee (yuks!) to do research on what is the normal time length between someone taking up a certain sport competitively and when they become championship material. The common ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/09/18/edgar-tham-on-resilience/ One way for you to get connections and support for what you are working on is to write to relevant interest groups or online communities. You will realise how exciting it is to write a message and have lots of people respond to you. However you must know ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/02/26/how-to-write-messages-to-on-line-communities-that-will-get-you-the-response-that-you-need/ So what is a professional trainer? I guess any one who call himself a professional trainer implies two things. One is that he has achieved certain standards. These standards could either be set by industry groups as in professional bodies or by legislation if any. There is no one organisation ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/02/23/what-is-a-professional-trainer/ I met Jean in Shanghai. He is a French guy attending my Stand up and Speak program, done in house for a large multinational in China. Great responsive participant (although I don't always understand what he is saying); the type that all trainers look for. He came to me at ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/02/20/how-do-you-know-you-learnt-something/ I saw this movie by Will Smith and think that every person should see it. The title is "Pursuit of Happiness". It is real story and Will Smith is brilliant in his performance. It surpases anything he has done in the past. What is the story about? ; Well... ... http://www.kcseequest.com/blog/2007/02/17/pursuit-of-happiness/