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 […]
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What does it take to lead organisational change in multicultural healthcare teams? When a hospital is five months from bankruptcy and the community calls it ‘no hope,’ what does a leader do first? Fire people? Cut costs? Bring in consultants? David Boucher, MPH, FACHE did something different. He listened. For David Boucher — ex-CEO of […]
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Cross-Cultural Leadership: The Expat Leader’s Guide to Building Trust with Thai Teams
You ask for feedback from your Thai team, they smile, nod, say yes. And then nothing. You’ve tried being direct. You’ve tried being friendly. You’ve held team meetings, one-on-ones. The barrier remains. You know your team has more to offer, but you can’t unlock it. We spoke with Ben Horgan, someone who has spent 25 […]
New Generation, New Culture, New Working Style When we met with a regional director of a global company recently to discuss the expectations for a workshop, their words struck a chord. With a thoughtful smile, they said, “We just want them to learn about themselves and who they are.” This simple yet profound statement captures […]
You’re witnessing the first rays of 2025 from Bangkok. We’re not really the “31st Eve” kind of people, we’re more “1st morning” enthusiasts. Or, as Gen. Z might say, we’re total Dayroom vibes. 🤓 With all the gloom and doom around, here’s to hoping 2025 (continues to) bring: More joy to your work More wisdom […]
It’s that time of the year. December 2, 2024 It’s thanksgiving and we’d like to extend you, our reader, a heartfelt thank you for extending your trust and time in being part of our journey. May this thanksgiving season, you got the best of Black Friday deals, a beautiful vacation to spend your holidays, time […]
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 […]
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 […]
Oprah Winfrey was transferred—actually demoted—from being a news reader to a daytime talk show host and this is what she said about hosting the show, “I felt lit up from inside, like I had come home to myself. When the hour had ended, there was a sense of knowing resonating within my heart and radiating […]
We were seated in a roodtop bar (48th floor) on Sukhumvit road when this happened. We were five of us; an entrepreneur, an HR manager, a front-line service manager at a 4-star hotel,