Tag Archives: leadership development

9 Norms for Building a High-Performing Team

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On our recent client call, the regional leader stopped us mid-pitch and asked, ‘what are these norms you’re referring to?’ We’d just told her that the most effective way to build a high-performing team is through building the right norms. These norms help teams have honest conversations, build internal alignment and promote a sense of […]

How to coach your leaders

How to coach leaders

In Thailand, if you’re a soft skills trainer, you can call yourself a Coach. If you’re a motivational speaker, you can be a Coach. If you’re an English teacher, you can go by as a Coach.   But coaching is neither teaching, training nor preaching.  so, What is (leadership) Coaching? A leader came to Haritha wanting […]

How Core Values Guide Business Growth: Our Second Year at Victus People

How Values Guide Business Growth

Our second year in the team development business taught us something fundamental: Growth follows clarity, not the other way around. When choices got messy this year, clarity didn’t come from spreadsheets or business strategies. It came from four simple questions rooted in our core values. Our Core Values as Daily Questions At Victus People, we’ve […]

October Newsletter_Interviewing High Performing Team Leaders

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Lessons from our conversation with Tareef Jafferi, CEO & Founder of Happily.ai We often talk about high performance in terms of systems, frameworks, or tools. But what if the real differentiator isn’t data or design. It’s how deeply people trust one another. That question came alive during our recent conversation with Tareef Jafferi, founder of […]

September Newsletter: Interviewing High-Performing Team Leaders

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We’re starting something new. We’ve decided to sit down with high-performing team leaders to understand what actually makes their teams work. The goal is to share practical tips, real experiences, and research-backed approaches that you can actually use to build a high-performing team. Our first interview is with Steve White,  a leader who supports 86 […]

August Newsletter: Bringing Out the Best in Your Team

Victus People Newsletter Aug 2025

Have you ever tried rowing a boat? If you have, chances are you made it further than we did. We barely managed 100 meters with two oars! 😅 When this young boy’s video, apparently viral, appeared on our feed, we couldn’t help notice the way these racing teams move through the water like a single […]

Workplace Productivity: How to Enter Your High-Performance Zone On Demand

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One of the highlights of Craig Mod’s interview with Tim Ferriss was Craig’s story about going on long walks in Japan. It literally gave me goosebumps. He walked 8 hours during the day, did 4-5 hours of creative writing in the evening and then published 2000-word blogposts daily for 30 consecutive days. What struck a […]

5 L&D Programs Companies are Prioritising in 2025 (and why they matter)

Victus People Aug 2025 Newsletter

These 5 programs are based on recent requests we’ve received to design and/or deliver workshops for Global and Thai organisations across industries like retails, pharmaceuticals, and FMCG, collectively representing over 100,000 employees worldwide. And of course, with a little help from the L&D grapevine 😁 1. Building Emotional Intelligence and Resilience for a Thriving Workforce […]

November 2024 Newsletter

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Celebrating Thailand’s First Public Discovery Event! November 1, 2024 We were excited and proud to host Thailand’s first-ever public Insights Discovery® (ID) event. Leaders from different industries came to explore the ID tool and model, and we were lucky to have some well-known Thai personalities join us too. The biggest challenge was to squeeze all […]

How to Lead with Empathy and Build Stronger Teams

How to lead with Empathy

  We were in an online meeting with our training partner, who was 20 minutes late because he was stuck on another call with an important client. When he finally joined, he apologised sincerely. I asked if he wanted to take a 5-minute break and grab some water before we started, but he said he […]