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Raising Adversity Quotient for Sustainable Performance

Being resilient is increasingly important in helping professionals to handle the demands of the rapidly changing environment and workplace. The mark of genuine success today is about how often we fail through attempts at achieving our goals. The tough gets going no matter how hard the trek may be. Such resilience is critical in the world of 21st century. The constant changes will not stop. Therefore, the stresses of constant adapting will continue to rise. Yet, this very act of adapting and engagement becomes the very opportunity for innovative work. There is no limit to what one could do when one could adapt well and surf the wave of changes. Thus, our investment in upgrading our capacity and stamina is extremely valuable. According to Kaplan (1999), resilience refers to the capacity of an individual to cope with stress, overcome adversity or adapt positively to change. It involves behaviours, thoughts, and actions. Research has shown that resilience can be developed and enhanced to promote greater well-being. This workshop aims to equip executives with techniques to develop resilience to cope and thrive in both their work and lives.

Objective

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Upgrade adversity quotient for sustainable performance
• Enhance focus for quality work
• Develop cognitive flexibility for strength
• Strengthen mindful communication approach for effective engagement

Outline

The need for building resilience for performance

• What is resilience?
• The measure of adversity quotient
• Can resilience be developed?
• The heart of resilience

The centre of real toughness

• Cultivating focus for the journey
• How to flow in times of change
• The art of aikido change
• How to surf the hard times

The art of inner dialogues

• Creating constructive narratives for resilience
• Practising the inner dialogues for flexible engagement
• Expanding your range of personalities

The practice of mindful communication

• Cultivating deep listening for lasting connection
• Developing calm in conflictual times
• The practice of motivational dialogues
• The art of harmony

Who should attend

For anyone who need to work under high stress in fast pace environment. This course will strengthen your ability to cope with changes and thrive with resilience.

Profile of Dr. Richard Lim

Director, Southeast Asia, Professional School of Psychology, California, USA

Clinical Supervisor, American Psychological Association (APA), Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)

Professional Member, American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)

Professional Member, Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)

Doctorate, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, Professional School of Psychology, California

Master in Social Science in Counselling, University of South Australia

Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medical Studies, National University of Singapore

Bachelor in Arts and Social Science (HONS), National University of Singapore

Accredited Training Consultant, Legacy Leadership, Texas, USA

Accredited Consultant Trainer, Coach-based Consulting, Santa Fe Center, USA
Advanced training in Mindfulness, Psychodrama, Couple Therapy & Narrative Therapy

Richard focuses his professional consultancy on leadership development and organization coaching. He has worked with groups of leadership staff from multi-national companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Shell, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Barclays Capital, National Panasonic, Fujitsu, Courts, PSA, Continental Auto; International agencies like YMCA, Outward Bounds and World Vision; local government organizations and community institutions such as State Court, NIE, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade & Industry, National Environment Agency, National Council of Social Services, Singapore Sports Council, People’s Association, National Centre for Leadership Institute.

Richard works actively with parents of diverse professional backgrounds in Singapore and Jakarta for more than 15 years. As a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, he is appointed by the Ministry of Social & Family Development and Ministry of Education in Singapore to train both parents and teachers in matter of child, family and education development. Richard was tasked by the Singapore government to oversee various youth projects in Singapore tackling issues on adolescent relationship and sexuality. These were successfully carried out from 2007 till 2014. Richard was also actively managing young adult relationship concerns in Singapore supported by the Social Development Unit under Prime Minister Office. Currently, Richard is the Consultant Psychologist to oversee and train government officials on resilience and wellness with both public and private sector organizations. In the earlier part of Richard’s career, he was a diplomat analyst of Singapore with extensive travels round the world to manage foreign affairs matters.

Richard collaborates with prominent universities in Singapore like NUS and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in training and supervising graduate students and alumni professionals in the application of behaviour science in organizations and the community. Richard was an Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Nanyang Business School on management and leadership.

Richard has written professionally for various educational and organizational development projects. Richard has given frequent media interviews on his specialty to Jakarta Now, What’s New Jakarta, The Straits Time, FM93.8Live, Japanese TV, Taiwanese TV and European media programs.