Categories: All - development - talent - leadership - emotional

by See Xin Hui 6 years ago

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IBG2 -LA, CA

Organizations aiming to thrive in dynamic environments must prioritize both learning agility and career adaptability. This involves identifying high-potential individuals and guiding them through structured development programs that emphasize multi-tasking, effective communication, and empathetic leadership.

IBG2 -LA, CA

IBG2 Learning Agility & Career Adaptability

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Emotions
During the guest speaker's sharing and executive dialogue

Feeling 3: Competitive

Speaker talked about the risk of AI robots overtaking Human jobs - we felt the need to constantly improve our skills such that robots cannot replace us

Feeling 2: Motivated

Speaker shared about Singapore having big safety net and thus people do not dare to venture and take risks - we felt that this could be linked to our personal learning agility and that we should step out of our comfort zone to "dream big, start small and move fast"

Speaker talked about passion and desire - we felt motivated to ignite that 'fire' in us, to pursue what we truly enjoy doing

Feeling 1: Inspired

Importance of leading with a big heart

Speaker talked about embracing failures and learning from them

White

Data Analysis
Emotional Intelligence
14 Leadership Principles - AWS

Deliver Results

Have Backbone, Disagree and Commit

Dive Deep

Earn Trust

Frugality

Bias For Action

Think Big

Insist on the Highest Standards

Hire and Develop The Best

Learn and be Curious

Are Right, A Lot

Invent and Simplify

Ownership

Customer Obsession

Willingness, Capability and Capacity to learn

4Cs - Concern, Control, Curiosity, Confidence

Concern

Future-oriented, prepare for upcoming tasks and challenge

Control

Tasking responsibility on own development and work environment

Confidence

Relying on own ability to overcome, self-efficacy

Curiosity

Exploring opportunities and consequences

McKinsey 7s

Green

Creative thinking
How can we proceed to acquire these skills in future?

Self-reflection by asking the right questions

Learning Agility

e.g. Do you reflect on past experiences? Are you curious about new opportunities? Do you fear face your fears? What are some steps you take to overcome them?

e.g. Are you listening to colleagues, influencers, friends, network contacts, clients/customers, and people outside your profession and industry to pick up on emerging needs and trends?

Using the McKinsey 7S Model to apply to CA Technologies

Shared Values: CA Technologies to create a culture of openness, and establish a flatter hierarchy in order to adopt no performance ratings

Style: googled the organisational structure as well as to look at the chain of command before determining their organisational working style (collaborative approach despite being top-down)

Structure: drew parallels between AWS 14 leadership principles & CA Technologies 10 DNA building blocks

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Devil’s Advocate
Sharing by Activ CEO Ling Ting Ming

Questioned working hard vs working smart

Critically assessed the viability and attractiveness of working in an SME

Questioned the competitiveness of SMEs against big players

IBG Activity - Deciding to Proceed with No Performance Rating

Sought alternatives to complete removal, eg, removal in phases, pending readiness assessment

Made judgments as to whether removing performance ratings suited CA Technologies' people and processes

Examined the areas in which CA Technologies was prepared to make such a change

Examined the gaps between CA Technologies and AWS

Blue

Process Oriented
Succession planning

Ways to develop talents and prepare them for succession

Identification of talents and high performing individuals

Creative ways and process to achieve learning agility

Innovative thinking which help to adapt to uncertainty

Doing things differently in ambiguous situations

Guest Speaker

Developing new talents

Communication

Personality

Expose them to multi-tasking

Giving them assignments

Looking at new blood

Lawful, reasonable, empathy

Career Adaptability

Mckinsey 7s

AWS no performance ratings

Adopting to challenging situations (Career adaptability)

Capability and capacity to learn from diverse background
Top Talent Development: Step by step identifying HiPO

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Positive Thinking
Positive behaviors in learning and adaptation

Feel positively, think positively and act positively

Framing things positively

Stepping out of comfort zone

Seeing it as opportunities to grow and learn

Thinking long-term and how it benefits/enhance learning agility

Need to embrace uncertainty positively

Encourage self when did well which will lead to greater motivation

McKinsey 7S

Positive and believe in shared vision

Need to believe in the shared vision before able to communicate to others about it and inspire others to achieve/work towards it

Eg, changing in processes, structure etc

Inspiring under challenging circumstances

Focus on the positive emotions than tough circumstances

Stay hopeful

Spreading positive energy

Boost morale and confidence

Need to be positive to inspire others

Willingness to experience ambiguity

Motivated to learn

Looking at challenge as positive learning experience