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  • Can we give too much? Bookchat on Adam Grant’s book, “Give and Take”

    I was a guest of Faz Kamar and Nurul Fathiyah Muen in a live-streaming show for a bookchat on Adam Grant's book, "Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drive Our Success."

    Bookchat Poster
    Poster courtesy of Nurul Fathiyah Muen 

    Haslinda asked a question ahead of the bookchat, “Can we give too much?”

    We certainly can, but at what cost?

    Once upon a time from the giver perspective, I did give too much. At the cost of me collapsing then being driven to the emergency room of Putrajaya Hospital!

    I wanted to be hero. I took on a 3-day training assignment at short notice. Ahead of and during the assignment I kept “perfecting” the training materials so slept little. That drained me.

    Lessons learned. I could have still delivered excellent training without burning myself out. I could have earlier insisted on more complete materials from the training provider. Or even have declined the assignment. I could also have had a healthier lifestyle of exercise that could have made me hardy and fit for the physical demands of the assignment.

    View the video for the full story and our discussion on the book's Chapters 1 to 4:


    Video courtesy of Faz Kamar and FazForward Facebook Page. I merely added the intro and outro music.

    Intro and outro music are from this song:

     

     

     

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  • I help people be highly effective in self-learning…

    I help people be highly effective in self-learning… using 7 steps.

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    Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash


    Take my Online Course (1.1-hour) on "7 Steps To Highly Effective Self-Learning":

    click here to enrol, pay  and receive the Online Course [to be updated]

    You may also request for coaching on self-learning.

     

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  • Covid-19 situation: “This will pass…”

    How do we face our worries and anxieties over the Covid-19 situation? As a human being in danger, fight or flight? Accept and acknowledge it first. Acknowledge that it is a feeling. Feelings will pass. Then only we can be in action, instead of wallowing in the feelings.

    Watch the 1.5-minute video:

    Related videos:

    1. Video of my Part 1 contribution to the webinar (7 minutes): https://youtu.be/fuxDsyty_aA

    2. Video of my Part 2 contribution to the webinar (5 minutes): https://youtu.be/Qbth3TQp0OU

    3. Video of the full webinar (1 hour): https://youtu.be/GuZdqQ_tqC0


    Credits:

    1. Cheryl Witha and Siow San Yee for organising the webinar

    2. My coach, Jeanne Sharbuno who reminded me, "This will pass…"

    3. Article "Is there a right way to worry about coronavirus? And other mental health tips" by Miranda Bryant, The Guardian

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  • Covid-19: Acknowledging feelings and taking care of well being during the Covid-19 situation

    This is Part 1 of my contribution to the panel session webinar in the M E Series organised by Cheryl Witha and Siow San Yee.

    This part (7 minutes) has me giving my response to Moderator Cheryl on the question on acknowledging feelings and taking care of well being during the Covid-19 situation

    Further reading:
    Is there a right way to worry about coronavirus? And other mental health tips, by Miranda Bryant, The Guardian

     

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  • Sharing my knowledge: topics I can speak on

    In collaboration with Enible, I am happy to share my knowledge on a host of topics, either to public audiences or at in-house organization events. Each talk is up to 90 minutes.

    The topics listed here are readily available and customizable. Contact me by emailing to hasan@rubah.my or messaging me at my mobile phone +60122003251 for your requests, including to explore with me topics that are not listed.

    The topics listed here are in categories of:

    1. Developing Self
    2. Working With Others
    3. Communicating Effectively (coming soon)
    4. Agility (coming soon)
    5. Innovativeness (coming soon)

    I am adding more categories and topics.

    (Photos below are courtesy of unsplash.com)

    Selfleadership
    Level Up Through Self Leadership

    Category: Developing Self

    The overarching mission of self leadership is to become a better person. That “better person” is subjective to your individual vision for yourself. It is a process through which you control your own behaviour, influence and lead yourself through the use of specific sets of behavioural and cognitive strategies. Self leadership is to set, act on, and reach for your dreams. It is to become who you want to become in a healthy way.

    Think
    Think Further

    Category: Developing Self

    How effective and efficient is your cognitive process? Are you aware of your unconscious biases? How do you self-regulate your thought process? Understanding the process of thinking, being metacognitive and applying cognitive standards will help you think effectively, think clearly and think further in your daily work.

    Time
    Optimize Time

    Category: Developing Self

    Time and energy management is a crucial component to daily productivity. Allocating and prioritizing time ensures that you manage and deliver to your goals and objectives. In this program, you will discover simple methodologies that will allow you to maximize productivity by gauging and leveraging your energy levels.

    Feedback
    Growth With Feedback

    Category: Developing Self

    In communications, feedback (and feedforward) is an important component for growth. In the “four levels of learning,” feedback is a means to create awareness of a blind spot. Once this blind spot is conscious, one develops actions and becomes competent through discovery.

    Best Year Yet Individuals
    Have Your Best Year Yet

    Category: Developing Self

    The coming 12 months, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your professional and personal goals. You do have the inner wisdom to make them happen. You can be spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that, be able to systematically implement your actions towards realizing your best true self.

    Stakeholder
    Influence Stakeholder Management

    Category: Working With Others

    “No man is an island.” All projects require inputs from surrounding sources. Most of the time we are dependent on others for support, investment and resources. Stakeholder analysis is a process that we adopt to better understand the stakeholders and help ourselves to meet our short-term and strategic goals.

    Groupthink
    Manage Conflict and Group Thinking

    Category: Working With Others

    Groupthink refers to a process of group dynamics where when people experience illusions of righteousness and invincibility. This typically applies when you are involved in cohesive groups and feel overridden to consider alter stereotypical behaviour. In some of these cases conflicts may arise due to the behaviours experienced in group thinking.



    Network
    Network to Connect

    Category: Working With Others

    Networking builds up your social capital. This is accomplished by expanding your industry contacts when you attend networking events and conferences both locally and internationally. In a networking moment, it is most effective to adopt a toward state and apply effective mental models that allow both parties to remain in an engaged mode.

    Best Year Yet Teams
    Have Your Team's Best Year Yet

    Category: Working With Others

    The coming 12 months for a team, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your team goals. The team has the collective inner wisdom to make them happen. The team can be aligned and spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that be able to systematically implement the team’s actions towards realizing the team’s true potential.

    Email me at hasan@rubah.my or call/message me at +60122003251 for a conversation.

    Related information: Learning Experiences 

     

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  • Sharing my knowledge: topics I can speak on

    In collaboration with Enible, I am happy to share my knowledge on a host of topics, either to public audiences or at in-house organization events. Each talk is up to 90 minutes.

    The topics listed here are readily available and customizable. Contact me by emailing to hasan@rubah.my or messaging me at my mobile phone +60122003251 for your requests, including to explore with me topics that are not listed.

    The topics listed here are in categories of:

    1. Developing Self
    2. Working With Others
    3. Communicating Effectively (coming soon)
    4. Agility (coming soon)
    5. Innovativeness (coming soon)

    I am adding more categories and topics.

    (Photos below are courtesy of unsplash.com)

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    Why Goals Don’t Work

    Category: Developing Self

    In the first place, why bother focusing on goals, KPI’s and the “destination”? Things are so unexpected and beyond our control, anyway! Shouldn’t we just focus on the journey, and not be so hung up on the destination?

    In the second place, goals don’t work! At the start of the year we have resolutions. Along the way our effort towards these goals weaken or get side tracked. We achieve some goals, many more we don’t. The journey is complex!

    Well, it has to do with our attitude. After that, the actions and effort are tied to habits.

    Attitude + Action = Results (goals achieved or otherwise)

     

     

    Selfleadership
    Level Up Through Self-Leadership

    Category: Developing Self

    The overarching mission of self-leadership is to become a better person. That “better person” is subjective to your individual vision for yourself. It is a process through which you control your own behaviour, influence and lead yourself through the use of specific sets of behavioural and cognitive strategies. Self-leadership is to set, act on, and reach for your dreams. It is to become who you want to become in a healthy way.

    Think
    Think Further

    Category: Developing Self

    How effective and efficient is your cognitive process? Are you aware of your unconscious biases? How do you self-regulate your thought process? Understanding the process of thinking, being metacognitive and applying cognitive standards will help you think effectively, think clearly and think further in your daily work.

    Time
    Optimize Time

    Category: Developing Self

    Time and energy management is a crucial component to daily productivity. Allocating and prioritizing time ensures that you manage and deliver to your goals and objectives. In this program, you will discover simple methodologies that will allow you to maximize productivity by gauging and leveraging your energy levels.

    Feedback
    Growth With Feedback

    Category: Developing Self

    In communications, feedback (and feedforward) is an important component for growth. In the “four levels of learning,” feedback is a means to create awareness of a blind spot. Once this blind spot is conscious, one develops actions and becomes competent through discovery.

    Best Year Yet Individuals
    Have Your Best Year Yet

    Category: Developing Self

    The coming 12 months, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your professional and personal goals. You do have the inner wisdom to make them happen. You can be spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that, be able to systematically implement your actions towards realizing your best true self.

    Stakeholder
    Influence Stakeholder Management

    Category: Working With Others

    “No man is an island.” All projects require inputs from surrounding sources. Most of the time we are dependent on others for support, investment and resources. Stakeholder analysis is a process that we adopt to better understand the stakeholders and help ourselves to meet our short-term and strategic goals.

    Groupthink
    Manage Conflict and Group Thinking

    Category: Working With Others

    Groupthink refers to a process of group dynamics where when people experience illusions of righteousness and invincibility. This typically applies when you are involved in cohesive groups and feel overridden to consider alter stereotypical behaviour. In some of these cases conflicts may arise due to the behaviours experienced in group thinking.



    Network
    Network to Connect

    Category: Working With Others

    Networking builds up your social capital. This is accomplished by expanding your industry contacts when you attend networking events and conferences both locally and internationally. In a networking moment, it is most effective to adopt a toward state and apply effective mental models that allow both parties to remain in an engaged mode.

    Best Year Yet Teams
    Have Your Team’s Best Year Yet

    Category: Working With Others

    The coming 12 months for a team, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your team goals. The team has the collective inner wisdom to make them happen. The team can be aligned and spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that be able to systematically implement the team’s actions towards realizing the team’s true potential.

  • Delete Facebook – Part 2

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    When I wrote Part 1 (Delete Facebook — Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do) on April 01, 2018, I had just deleted (deleted permanently) my Facebook account after one month of having deactivated it and not opening it at all. With that permanent deletion, I continued being completely off Facebook for 2 more months. I was “cured.” After that, I went back to sign up a new Facebook account and used a new approach: I unfollowed all Facebook friends save a few.

    Now that it has been 7 months after, I just finished reading Cal Newport's book, Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology. I read the e-book version from Kobo; the newly released book has a different sub-title so it’s called Digital Minimalism: Choosing A Focused Life In A Noisy World, but I’m sure the contents are the same. The reason I read the book was to see what else I could do to improve my optimal use of social media, and boy, did I find more explanations and ideas! I’ve already implemented several of Cal’s suggestions.

    I am proceeding with Cal’s suggestion of being off social media and apps that are not of value to me, for 30 days.

    So I have deactivated my Facebook account again yesterday. I also deleted my Instagram account, again. I have removed the following apps from my iPhone and iPad: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest. This round it’s not “so very hard to do” anymore as I had gone through the pains last year! It’s easy because I only followed a few Facebook friends; as for Instagram which I deleted last year and then signed up again, I have hardly opened it in the last few months, let alone post photos; Twitter I probably looked at once in 2 weeks anyway; Pinterest I don't think I opened in the last one year.

    Other apps like Opportunity and Meetup, I really found no value in them, so they’re good riddance (deleted the apps) from my mobile devices; now I just need to delete the accounts.

    I do regularly open Linkedln. For now I'll look at LinkedIn in the browser of my iPad once a week, on Friday. LinkedIn is the only exception I’m taking in observing this 30-day “fasting,” or as Cal calls it, digital declutter. Someone said that Cal Newport is the Marie Kondo of the digital space. Let’s see what unfolds for me in these 30 days.

    One of Cal’s recommendations is to do physical “creation” activities in place of low-value social media scrolling. Okay, I’m off to tend to my garden now!

    Related readings:

    My “Part 1” post: Detete Facebook — Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do…

    Eric Barker’s article on Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism book: How To Stop Wasting Time On The Internet

     

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  • Public Best Year Yet® program for individuals on 24 January 2017

    For enquiries, please email me at: hasan@rubah.my

    Register online here: https://bestyearyet2019.eventbrite.sg

    GetALife

    “Give me a simple way to clarify my priorities and produce results!”

    • “..in every role I play”

    • “..year after year”


    Best Year Yet® program

    • Make a 1-page Annual Plan that would guarantee the following 12 months of delight
    • Systematically continue with follow-through monthly activities to track and achieve the 12-month plan
    • Use state-of-the-art online resources to stay accountable and master self

    Get the results you have always wanted and make them stick. The highly interactive Best Year Yet® Workshop mobilizes you to design your coming 12 months with a focus on what really matters most, from inside out. Profound but not intrusive, powerful yet private. The Best Year Yet® Monthly Review Workshops  ensure accountability to achieve your best year yet.

    Best Year Yet® (www.bestyearyet.com) is a system for helping people, businesses and organizations create the results they want and need. It is based on 10 simple questions rather than steps or habits or telling you what you should do, resulting in producing a 1-page plan, tracking the plan and using a rich set of support resources.


    The
     individual’s challenges:

    • “So much to do and there’s no time for ME”

    • “Have goals every year, still can’t focus on them”

    • “I could do it, but I don’t…”

    • “I haven’t found a system to track myself”

    Why individuals love Best Year Yet®:

    • “Fantastic guide for my priorities and focus”

    • “I have a doable plan for my important roles”

    • “Energy in everything I do, see clearly who I am”

    • “A cool online system to review ME, to succeed”

    What the program is:

    • Facilitator-led 1-day group workshop, PLUS (optional) yearlong 1:1 coaching

    • Dynamic activities, peer interaction and spot coaching

    • Online tools for yearlong implementation

    What participants get:

    • A one-page individual 12-month plan plus monthly goals

    • Optional: ongoing coaching to implement the year’s plan

    • Producing Results Online® (PRO®) web software to "play the game" and track progress from any device

    Facilitator: Hasannudin Saidin (www.rubah.my/coach-hasan.html)

     

    Best Year Yet® Workshop (1-Day)

    • Fee: RM390 per Participant
    • Date: 24 January 2019 (Thursday)
    • Registration closing date: 19 January 2019 (Friday)
    • Venue: neOOne Center for Accelerated Learning

    PLUS (OPTIONAL): 6 or 12 months Follow-Through 1:1 Coaching and Monthly Review (1.5 Hours/Month)

    • Fee: RM800 per Participant per month
    • Dates of monthly sessions to be mutually confirmed

    For enquiries, please email me at: hasan@rubah.my

    Register online here: https://bestyearyet2019.eventbrite.sg

     

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