20th March 2006,
6.30pm Monday evening. Today whole day I was in the Lecture Hall for training. Magdalene went with me. The training is on "Effective Supervisory and Managerial Skill"- basically for the HODs, Executives and Supervisors, relevant to our job scope. The trainer is Mr HK Hin, very vocal person, and very experience in giving training to a lot multinational company like Jabil, and Motorola. He was formerly from Motorola and shared with us a lot of his experience dealing with production, and leadership. A lot of the examples of the effective leadership that he addressed, which inspired us. Quite a number of participants attend the course, and tomorrow will be Part II of the long hours training. I did learned a lot from him, about leadership- and it's very much inspiring to hear his experiences. It's basically a motivational training, and it's definitely very effective if we to apply it in our management, yet- there're others area of concerns which not able to work practically. He talk about situational leadership and flexibility- very inspiring and he was saying about changing the mindset, positive thinking. It's all begin at the mindset, and it's the brain. He mention about we're not to live on fate, success is by how we wanna put effort, how the brains work- we can change things. He list down the 7 habits of effective leadership. Inspiring. I wonder if he's a Christian.
Christian working in the world system. How should be our value system. A lot of motivational courses, yet Christian are following on Christ as our role model. To be effective as Christian in secular world, Ro12 - Not to be confront to the standard of the world but to be transform in renewing of our mind, to know the perfect will of God. How do we depends on God, as our role model in dealing with people in workplace, being effective and successful leaders? A lot of motivational speaker quote on motivational books- such as Stephen Covey, Anthony Robin, and other successful stories of successful people- how the mindset and thinking. It's good, but I don't usually fancy or chase after motivational class. A lot good inputs, good inspiring training, but still to put it into practice, application is the most important thing. As for this course, yes- I realise relationship with people, interpersonal relationship is the area which I'm lacking, and I got to really push myself out of the limitation to relate to my staff, to care for them- to communicate with them. Push out of my limitation. ...got to, and will try to. I try, God helps.
