Perlukah Kita Membantu?

1. Membantu orang memang amalan mulia. Tapi kajian menunjukkan membantu orang bukan hanya memberi manfaat kepada orang yang dibantu tetapi juga yang membantu.

2. Satu kajian berjudul "Helper's High" menunjukkan sekiranya kita membantu, kita sebenarnya yang rasa happy. Ini disebabkan oleh hormon dalam badan seperti oxytocin dan vesopressin.

3. Apatah lagi apabila orang yang dibantu menghargai dan mengucapkan kesyukuran, kegembiraan akan datang berganda.

4. Kajian ini juga mendapati bukan sahaja kita membantu secara volunteer, memberikan sumbangan wang ringgit, malah sekiranya kita terfikir sahaja untuk membantu pun kita sudah mendapat kesan yang sama. Dalam Islam, kalau kita niat baik walaupun tak buat kita masih dapat pahala.

Kepimpinan Jacinda Ardern Dalam Mengangani Krisis

New Zealand sudah menang!

Itulah yang diperkatakan oleh Perdana Menteri New Zealand Jacinda Ardern. Nama pemimpin wanita ini menjadi sebutan selepas daripada peristiwa penembakan dalam masjid di Christchurch setahun lalu. Semenjak itu kepimpinan beliau menjadi perhatian dunia.

Sehingga hari ini New Zealand hanya ada 1,472 kes dan 19 kematian. Dan selepas hampir 5 minggu lockdown, New Zealand sudah mula menamatkan fasa 4 lockdown yang dikenakan. Ini satu pencapaian yang sangat baik berbanding kebanyakkan negara di dunia.

Berikut adalah 5 perkara tentang kepimpinan beliau mendepani cabaran Covid-19 di New Zealand:

1. Berani Buat Keputusan
New Zealand antara negara yang terawal mengenakan lockdown kepada rakyat beliau. Berdasarkan kajian Gallup dua traits yang 'non-negotiable as a leader' adalah:
i. Bring multipe teams together
ii. Make great decisions.
Seorang pemimpin perlu membuat keputusan yang terbaik berdasarkan situasi dan options yang ada. Untuk membuat keputusan yang baik beliau perlu mendengar dan mendapat pandangan (terutama dari DG Kesihatan Ashley Bloomfield), serta mengetahui prioriti.

Leadership Lessons dari DG Dr. Noor Hisham

Krisis sememangnya membuka peluang untuk melahirkan pemimpin. "Turbulent Times Build Better Leaders," kata Robin Sharma dalam buku beliau 'The Leader Who Had No Title.'

Salah seorang pemimpin yang menyerlah semasa krisis Covid-19 adalah Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, satu figura yang tak perlu diperkenalkan lagi dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia.

Di sini saya ingin mengupas tentang kepimpinan Dr. Noor Hisham dalam mendepani krisis Covid-19.

1. Beliau seorang yang kompeten dan komited.

Dalam Situational Leadership Model ada dinyatakan dua perkara penting dalam readiness level adalah Competent dan Committed. Competent merujuk kepada pengalaman, kemahiran dan pengetahuan. Seorang yang kompeten membolehkan mereka melakukan tanggungjawab yang baik, manakala komitmen adalah faktor motivasi. Mereka yang komited akan pergi 'extra-mile' seperti apa yang beliau lakukan, kerja keras tanpa mengira waktu kerana komitmen beliau yang tinggi.

2. Beliau sentiasa kelihatan tenang dan penggunaan ayat yang merendah diri.

Beliau sentiasa memberikan kredit kepada team. Dalam surat yang beliau balas kepada Lara Khadijah McAfee yang tular, beliau menyatakan beliau tidak melakukan tugas keseorangan, sebaliknya beliau ada pasukan yang hebat bersama beliau untuk membantu negara. Ini apa yang dikatakan Level 5 Leadership. Dalam buku Good To Great tulisan Jim Collins, kajian beliau mendapati syarikat yang berjaya melompat (make the leap) dari Good to Great adalah syarikat yang ada Level 5 Leadership. Apa beza Level 4 dan Level 5? Satu perkara iaitu 'humility' (perasaan rendah diri). Level 4 mungkin leader yang bagus dan boleh deliver, tapi level 5 bukan sekadar bagus tetapi juga merendah diri.

3. Kuasa Komunikasi yang bagus.

A Lesson From A Young Basketball Player Who Had A Dream

Once upon a time, there was a young basketball player who had a dream of becoming one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

He worked day and night every day for years and years and years and years. As time went on 20 years had passed he felt that he had accomplished all that he set out to accomplish but would he come to realize is that the goal that he set out initially to becoming the greatest of all time was a very fickle one.

When he realized that the most important thing in life is how your career moves and touches those around you and how it carries forward to the next generation. And he realizes that's what makes true greatness.

The story would be about the transformation of a kid looking inwardly to then growing up and understanding the importance and the power is looking outward.



...I am very thankful for the 20 years that I had. And I am ready to go...

~ Kobe Bryant

Pengalaman Bukan Penentu

1. Masa saya bermula menjadi trainer, saya sebenarnya agak struggle. Ramai yang menawarkan saya untuk bekerja dibawah syarikat mereka. Saya memang menghargai mereka, tetapi saya membuat keputusan untuk membangunkan syarikat saya.

2. Salah seorang yang mengajak saya bekerja untuk syarikat beliau adalah bekas HR Director sebuah organisasi korporat yang terkemuka. Beliau baru sahaja menubuhkan syarikat latihan beliau dan kepakaran saya mungkin diperlukan dalam syarikat tersebut.

3. Pada ketika itu, beliau menjemput saya untuk bekerja dibawah beliau dan saya masih ingat kata-kata beliau, "Awak kena follow orang sementara mencari pengalaman. I have been there, done that! So you should follow people like me."

4. Saya berkata, saya boleh bantu beliau mana yang termampu tetapi saya tak mahu bekerja dibawah syarikat beliau.

Competency or Racist?

1. One of the recent issues was many employers put the ability to converse in Mandarin as part of the condition in jobs application. And there was a study done to investigate the issue of the racial factor in getting a job in the private sector. In that survey, they created 7 faked resumes with almost the same qualifications, age, and experience. The only difference is the race and they photoshopped the same picture to look like different races. The outcome? Chinese have the highest number on call for interviews.

2. This study has created mixed reactions from the public. Many of them accused that employers are being racist (of course this might refer to the Chinese based organization). They look at the race factor as compared to the competency of the applicants.

3. Is it true? I might have a different opinion on this. And I am going to share my views from a Malay lense.

4. First of all, let's look at the Malay based companies? Aren't they also will prioritize hiring Malay first before any other races? In my observation, Malay based companies will hire Malay first. To me, this is a normal reaction. When we help people, we always wanted to help people who are closest to us first. We will help our family members first, our relatives, and our closest friends before we open it up to the public.

5. Secondly, it is all about perception. We have to accept the fact that people have perception. And we will always make our judgment based on our perception. We have perception towards the westerners, we have perception towards the Japanese, we have perception towards the Bangladeshis. And they too have a perception towards Malay.

3 Lessons from Gary Vee

Recently I attended the National Achievers Congress 2019: Unlock Your Potential organized by Success Resources. Some of their keynote speakers are Gary Vee and Grant Cordone. Both of them are great in their own way.

If you don't know who Gary Vee or Gary Vaynerchuk, is someone who have the authority in the social media platform. He shared a lot of wisdom in many platform to spread out some message and building personal branding. The speech was awesome and indeed many lessons that I picked up. And today I am going to share with you 3 things that I learn from him during the session:

1. The reason why people cannot be a good leader is because they have selfish expectation to their employee

Most of the time people will assume when they are a leader, they have the rights to ask their people to do something for them. That is not true. It might sound counter-intuitive, but when we are a leader our role is to serve our people.

We heard a lot of cases that people resigned because of their MANAGER. That is because when people are being promoted as a manager, they tend to think that they deserve the position and ask people to do things as per their expectation. The employee is being paid and they are obligated to do as being told. Well that might be true towards a certain extend, but in today's world not anymore.