Mentors To Executives Worldwide

Kim and Fulyana continue their discussion with Nick Jonsson based in Singapore. This week we hear how a simple 2019 video that went viral, brought the issue of executive loneliness into the limelight and then how the following years of pandemic actually assisted the cause.

This week Kim and Fulyana begin a 3 part discussion with Nick Jonsson about serious mental health challenges for senior executives. Nick is the Co-Founder and MD of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations. He has built a caring community that provides hundreds of executives a safe haven to share their challenges and receive support […]

Sometimes the resources (human ones!) for a special project are not within your team, although some team members might consider they are capable of special tasks. This week Kim and Fulyana explore how to effectively manage the resourcing of a project both from within and outside your organisation so it becomes a win-win experience for […]

What can you do when an enthusiastic team member starts promoting involvement in a project before you have determined the resourcing of your team for that project? Obviously enthusiasm needs to be maintained but is there a negative side to this as well? This week Kim and Fulyana look at how to balance enthusiasm and […]

In an earlier podcast, Kim and Fulyana talked though a situation where a complaint is made from within your team to a peer manager of yours. The discussion in that podcast was around how the manager receiving the complaint should manage the situation. To hear that podcast click here. This time around, as promised, we […]

Many years ago in training sessions, we would do an exercise called “Chinese Whispers”. The information given at the start of the exercise had to be relayed along a line of people and then repeated by the last person to receive the information. Invariably the final information had very little of the original information. What […]

We are aware that parts of this recording are difficult to understand as Kim’s microphone was not working properly. The recording below will be replaced with a clearer one as soon as re-editing is completed. Thanks for your understanding. Do you know you are heading for a poor performance review? Have you thought about how […]

This week Kim and Fulyana look at a case study based on a complaint sent to a new (but rotating) management team from a member of the previous management team. What is the best way to reinforce new management decisions?

What is executive presence? How do you develop it and maintain your own style? This week Kim and Fulyana look at ways to ensure you are ready for your next presentation at a board or executive meeting whether it all goes to plan or not!

This week Kim and Fulyana talk through a Case Study sent in by a listener. How would you approach redundancy when you believed (and were told) you were doing a great job? What do you do when there are no reasons given for the redundancy? Link for Nick Plummer’s episodes mentioned in this podcast.

How do you approach a complaint brought to you about a peer manager by one of their team? Does your organisation have a process for handling complaints across different teams? Where does a mentor fit in to this scenario? This week Kim and Fulyana explore the options for you as the “receiver” of the complaint […]

This week Kim and Fulyana look at a situation sent in by a listener. This is someone who loves their job, the people they work with and the organisation, however, they feel a need or have a passion to explore a new direction to expand their skills. How do you leave when you love your […]

This week Fulyana talks through some suggestions for action when a formal mentoring activity ends. Both Kim and Fulyana mentor through structured time limited programmes as well as ongoing sessions, so it is interesting to hear their experience of activities you can try when any type of mentoring programme comes to its logical conclusion.

In this final part of our discussion with John Alford, Kim and Fulyana hear about the impacts of regulatory change as well as the value of finding long term mentors or influencers.

We continue our discussion with John Alford, this week looking at the skills he gained early in his working life that have remained with him. We also explore the difference between a transaction business and a service business when they are in the same industry.

This week we begin a 3 part series talking with John Alford about his fascinating career in the finance industry in areas as diverse as the stock market floor of the 1980s to financial planning. Part 1 looks at an overview of John’s career with some insights into specific benefits of being in a “rough […]

This week Kim and Fulyana look at the small and incremental changes that can happen over a 20 year period, changes that irrevocably alter what you do and how you do it, changes that you don’t really notice until you look back at a milestone.

This week Kim and Fulyana share their reactions to a recent report published by Zoom. The report compares workplace preferences from 2021 to 2022 with an emphasis on how we feel about hybrid work situations in relation to specific work requirements such as customer liaison, team building and peer interactions. A link to the report […]

This week Kim and Fulyana look at when and how you should consider career growth. Do you start with a framework when you join an organisation? When you are in a leadership role should you be vigilant about individual career growth?

When you get conflicting feedback from your 360 surveys or other platforms, where do you start to address it? Should you compare to previous surveys? This week Kim and Fulyana explore what these conflicting issues might mean, where they originate and how you should approach processing them to help you in your leadership role. The […]