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Proactive Leadership with Reflective Inquiry - Lead Your Team for Peak Performance

During the past decade, there is increasing attention on the need for leaders and executives to acquire coaching abilities so that their staff and team members can continue to enhance performance. This is at heart the act of leadership. A key coaching competence is about the ability to carry out the essential steps in helping your coachee to move through the few reflective moves that can bring about practical awareness and subsequent actions to resolve or manage challenges. This workshop specifically aims to impart seven steps in reflective inquiry to make your leadership and coaching skills become significantly effective. The steps can be easily acquired and be turned into a constructive habit for the exercising of leadership guidance. This will ensure that your leadership ability continues to serve the goal of performance excellence

Objective

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

• Upgrade your insights into how effective leadership carries out performance and problem solving inquiry
• Enhance awareness and adjustment to manage self and others more effectively
• Construct flexible thought process for innovative solutions at work
• Master systematic and organized steps to conduct dialogues for performance
• Achieve key coaching competence for leadership excellence

Outline

Psychological Insights into Reactions versus Responses in Work Situations

• Analyse why people react rather than act at work
• Choose to be more conscious and aware by organizing the steps for dialogue
• Regulate emotions, thoughts and behaviours in coaching engagement
• Access your past experiences to move beyond management constraints

Reflective Inquiry Steps for Problem Resolution and Management

• Understanding the seven steps of reflective inquiry
• Dispel perception distortions in people and situation assessment
• Project presence and attentiveness in dialogues
• Adopt collaborative stance in problem solving and innovation
• Generate curiosity and interest in people

Inspiring Leadership for Sustainable Achievement

• Steps to cultivate self-reflective inquiry
• Team reflection for continuous improvement
• Strengthen purpose and meaning in facing work challenges and goals

Who should attend

This course is designed for leaders and managers who need to acquire proven and tested reflective inquiry approach for effective coaching and guidance of individuals and team. These steps will greatly enhance your act of leadership and professionalism in leading teams and motivating staff for performance excellence.

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.