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With no definite time-frame for a COVID-19 vaccine in sight, the road ahead of us looks to be long, winding, and fraught with uncertainties, difficulties, and challenges.

Sean Tan, a lawyer by training with restructuring expertise, is the Chairman and Director of the True Group, which operates 10 fitness centers in Singapore and 14 in Taiwan under the “True Fitness”, “TFX” and “Yoga Edition” brands. The fitness business has not been spared, and in fact, has been hit hard by the crisis.

Regarded widely as a global creative and innovative thought leader in the fitness industry, Sean will share how he has steered the business through the Circuit Breaker and has restructured his team and the business to meet the challenges in the future. Grab this opportunity to take a glimpse into Sean’s playbook for survival, where Sean shares practical tips on how you as a business owner, leader or manager can prepare yourself and then your business for the challenges that lie ahead, including protecting your cash flow, cutting costs and expenses, re-purposing staff and resources, and pivoting.

How will the audience benefit from the session?

Known for his straight-talking and hands-on style of management and leadership, Sean gives practical advice without the fluff. The advice is geared towards both the individuals (whether business owners, leaders, or managers) and businesses, and one can expect to come away with something that will either inspire, motivate or cause one to think critically of another way of doing things.

As working from home has become compulsory for everyone during the Circuit Breaker to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, we all have had to adjust to this new situation. This has impacted not only ourselves but our family and peers.

This may continue and become a new normal for many, even after the easing of the Circuit Breaker restrictions, many may not have the right environment, family situation, company support and mental stage to deal with it on a continuous basis.

The webinar addresses the different phases one goes through and how to deal with the challenges that surface at each stage:

● Managing conflicting priorities of work and home
● Balancing productivity and flexibility
● Building relationships through technology

“Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man” is a phrase that has evolved over centuries to describe the observation that, often, the right leader emerges from the crowd to suit the challenge at hand.
Yet, clearly, it doesn’t always happen.
So what education, morality, and emotional intelligence give society the best chance to spawn good leaders when they are needed?
We explored the phenomenal changes that have occurred - even in the last six months - to what is needed in new leadership:
- The skills of managing people working from home, often part-time, unsupervised
- The pressure exerted by a pandemic raging through the world
Handling slippery supply chains that are whimsically upset by political decisions
- Rewarding a workforce getting daily offers of alternative jobs
- Making the disciplines of sustainability and diversity coexist with law and order
- Educating all employed people in technology, regulatory compliance, compatibility

The speed with which business is moving is unprecedented amidst fierce competition in the marketplace. Employees, managers, and leaders are required to produce better and faster results in their respective roles at lightning speed. Professionals get overwhelmed with the amount of content, tasks, and skills to master to perform in their respective job roles.

At the same time, they have to attain mastery in an entirely new set of skills and become proficient in using never-seen-before technologies, processes, or methods quickly. In this research-based talk, you will learn distilled wisdom drawn from best-in-class organizations across 40 industries, interwoven with Dr. Raman’s two decades of experience in accelerating human learning.

This talk will:
- Prepare you for 2021 to leverage opportunities through covid and post-covid recoveries to make your mark.
- Guide you with rare secrets of learning to learn faster in any context and use that to your strategic advantage.
- Equip you with a unique thought process on how to attain mastery in any new professional skill or role quickly.

As a professional, you will learn smart strategies to speed up your professional performance and career at an accelerated rate relative to your peers. As a leader, you will understand how you can develop your teams at an accelerated rate and standout as a differentiated leader.

You will walk out with a framework to steer your learning, performance, and career differently.

A video on the benefits of mentoring to partner with the article from http://learningyourdevelopment.com entitled Mentoring: A Win-Win-Win for Mentees, Mentors and Organisations at http://bit.ly/1gMMrBc

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Sir John Bittleston is the Founder, Executive Chairman of Terrific Mentor International and the only honorary member of Asia Institute of Mentoring.
He's an active octogenarian who loves mentoring and the hero for Yen-Lu Chow (AIM's Co-Founder).
Sir John believes in AIM's 5 pillars: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Career Resilience, Personal Well-Being and Parenting.

He shared his testimony on the launch of AIM 21 challenge about his personal mastery of mentoring, what it meant to him & how he advocates mentoring to everyone.

Feedback about the AIM/EnactUS event on Mentoring in the Social Sphere

“It takes a village to raise a child” is an African proverb that is very applicable to mentoring.

Our “village” has never been more necessary than it is today. We live in a fast-paced, instant information, and pressure-packed world.
Mentees also go through different stages in life, play multiple roles, that require different types of mentors, and at times more than one mentor for different parts of their life. Different mentors, with their own unique set of skills and mentoring expertise, can work with mentees to give them a well-rounded and multi-faceted mentoring environment.

This discussion is about collaboration and partnerships you need to build as a mentor with your peers to support your mentee in the best way possible.