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Raise Your Game
by BFM Media
In the end, all the best systems in the world depend on the people who make them work. Raise Your Game is about just that: putting you at the peak of your powers, by showing you how to grow mentally with new skills and insights in leadership, communication, negotiation, stress management and overall personal development. Experts present real-life practical solutions, and no issue is too small. Raise Your Game regularly tops the BFM podcast download chart.
Episodes
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Transformative Leadership and Hybrid Work Culture in the AI era
This episode of Raise You Game focuses on leadership challenges in the era of significant digital transformation marked by AI and hybrid work culture. The discussion with Leaderonomic's Roshan Thiran explores the need for leaders to develop paradoxical leadership skills to deal with contrasting...
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investED: Developing The Next Generation Of Capital Markets Talent
On this episode of Raise Your Game, we explore an initiative that's hoping to shape the future of Malaysia's capital markets - investED. The Malaysian capital market is currently facing significant talent challenges. These challenges not only impact the growth and competitiveness of the market…
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23 Questions For An Incredible Review Of Your 2023
We are less than a month away from entering the new year which means it’s that time of the year where we should start taking stock of our year - from reviewing our successes and our failures to examining what worked and what didn’t work. Then take all this, reflect, and start 2024 on a great…
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Getting More Women Into Senior Leadership: The First 3 Years At Work Are Vital
On this episode of Raise Your Game, we're tackling a topic of critical importance in the business world: the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles. Tack TMI helped their parent company Gi Group develop a programme to support their women in leadership initiative. In the case study that...
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The 7 Principles of Effective Positive Influence
Positive influence the essential soft skill of our time. On this edition of Raise Your Game, we explore the rationale behind this statement with Huijin Kong, co-author of Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership. You will also learn about the fundamentals of positive influence,...
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What SMEs Should Be Paying Attention To In Budget 2024
Budget 2024 saw a variety of initiatives and tax implications for SMEs. On this edition of Raise Your Game, you will learn about the key impacts of Budget 2024 to SMEs, with a focus on e-invoicing for SMEs, the rise in the SST rate, the introduction of the capital gains tax for unlisted shares…
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Why SMEs Need To Raise Their ESG Game
Given the emphasis and attention being paid to ESG efforts and adoption, on this episode of Raise Your Game, we explore the basics of ESG and the long term benefit to SMEs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Driving Sales #3 - The Big 4 Factors To Close Sales
With less than 3 months left before we enter 2024, we’ve now entered crunch time for sales teams to meet their targets and KPIs for the year. Today on Raise Your Game, we continue our focus on sales with the third and final episode of a 3-part series with Jeevan Sahadevan, the Founder of Leverage...
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Driving Sales #2: The Formula to Generate Desire and Close Sales
With less than 3 months left before we enter 2024, we’ve now entered crunch time for sales teams to meet their targets and KPIs for the year. Today on Raise Your Game, we continue our focus on sales with the second episode of a 3-part series with Jeevan Sahadevan, the Founder of Leverage Labs.…
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Driving Sales #1: 5 Techniques To Better Rapport Building
As we enter the last quarter of 2023, we are now entering crunch time for sales teams to meet their targets and KPIs for the year. With this in mind, we’re going to spend the next 3 weeks here on Raise Your Game focused on sales. In the first episode of this 3-part series, we’re zeroing in on two...
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Ways To Support Women in Work and Senior Leadership
In May, it was reported that Malaysia was two-seats from having women make up at least 30% of board members among the top 100 public-listed companies. Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri told the Dewan Rakyat that women accounted for 29.7% of directors in…
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How to Hire, Motivate, and Retain Gen-Z In Work
A Deloitte report says that Gen Z will soon surpass Millennials as the most populous generation on earth, with more than one-third of the world’s population counting themselves as Gen Zers. So as Gen Zers enter the workforce, their impact could be pronounced, given their differences from...
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The ABCDs of Professional Branding Episode 4 - Digital Presence and LinkedIn
This month on the show, we’re going to be exploring 4 key factors of personal branding - Appearance, Behaviour, Communication, and Digital. We’re tackling these individually across 4 weeks here on Raise your Game. In this episode we address digital presence, LinkedIn, and how it plays into your...
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The ABCDs of Professional Branding Episode 3 - Communication
This month on the show, we’re going to be exploring 4 key factors of personal branding - Appearance, Behaviour, Communication, and Digital. We’re tackling these individually across 4 weeks here on Raise your Game. Last week we got into behaviour, in this episode we address communication and how…
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The ABCDs of Professional Branding Episode 2 - Behaviour
This month on the show, we’re going to be exploring 4 key factors of personal branding - Appearance, Behaviour, Communication, and Digital. We’re tackling these individually across 4 weeks here on Raise your Game. Last week we got into Appearance, in this episode we address behaviour and how it...
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The ABCDs of Professional Branding Episode 1 - Appearance
This month on the show, we’re going to be exploring 4 key factors of personal branding - Appearance, Behaviour, Communication, and Digital. We will tackle each factor individually across 4 weeks starting with A - Appearance Love it or hate it, our Appearance plays a role when it comes to our...
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Embracing Authentic Leadership To Unlock Your True Potential
Authentic leadership is a leadership style that emphasises transparency, genuineness and honesty, where leaders build genuine relationships with their employees by inspiring trust and fostering a positive work environment. We speak to Rashmi Menon, Country Managing Director of Leaderonomics...
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How To Be An EPIC Leader
Would you like to be more inspiring as a leader? Do you want to build a happier and higher-performing team? Would you like to lead with greater empathy and inclusion? This session discusses why emotional intelligence can be powerful for leaders and how to leverage it to become an EPIC Leader—one...
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Entrepreneurship is About How Hard You Can Get Hit And Keep Going
“The business is bad, but I think you’re a good entrepreneur. I can give you the money, but what you’ll never get back is the time you spent building a business that was wrong for you”, that was what an investor told Adlin Yusman when he was looking to raise $2 million for one of his previous...
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7 Keys to a Winning Team
As we enter the second half of 2023 and move past a sluggish first half, the number one thing on the minds of every business owner and manager is high performance. Jeevan Sahadevan, the founder of Leverage Lab, takes us down that road by giving us the keys to developing a championship team in our...
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Work-Life Integration - Are We Ready for It?
A 2022 survey by Kisi, a tech company, revealed that Kuala Lumpur ranked 3rd in the list of most overworked cities in the world. We are even ahead of Singapore who ranks 4th for comparison. Technology is a key contributor to this problem, as Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon once said, “technology…
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You Can't Leave This Out When Recruiting
According to a Fast Company article, assessing talent has not changed in the last 20 years. Talent assessment requires an evolution, not a revolution—boards cannot be expected to hire a CEO without interviews. However, there must be a paradigm shift, based on new factors, for how decisions are...
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How To Engage Reluctant Employees With Diversity, Equity & Inclusion At Work
When we talk about diversity, equity and inclusion in a company, it’s about wanting to feel like you belong. It’s about the feeling of being respected regardless of your race, age and gender. But what can companies do to become more diverse and inclusive while embracing equity? Beth Ridley, CEO…
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Want A Promotion? Take Ownership At Work Now
We cannot deny that employee-employer dynamics are changing. And it is suggested that leveraging an ownership culture will allow employees to be more engaged and less likely to quit. And this is suggested by Pete Stavros, the founder and chairperson of Ownership Works, a nonprofit in America. So...
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Finding The Upside in Uncertainty
No one really knows what’s going to happen next week, tomorrow or the next hour or even the next minute. But how do we navigate through uncertainties and still thrive in this day in age where everything in business is moving so rapidly with so many unknowns at work? We speak to Nathan Furr,...
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The Levels of Listening
Communication is a two way street, and while we talk a lot about your output, let’s take a look at input. Are you really listening to what people have to say, and how can you improve? Oscar Trimboli, author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote…
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Gamifying Learning and Development Programmes
According to a study done by NTUC Learning Hub, although most employees are open to company-offered and external L&D training, more than half said that they have not been attending or enrolling training because they don’t have time and have a heavy workload. Employee sentiment towards L&D is also...
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Unleash Your Inner Sage
Before success, there needs to be action, and before action, there needs to be thought. So how do you set your mindset up in the way that works best for you? Dr. Thana Sathasivam, author of the book, ‘Unleash Your Inner Sage’, explains. Photo Credits: Freepik | jcomp See omnystudio.com/listener…
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The Science Behind High Performers
Dr. Carla Fowler is an elite executive coach with an MD PhD who combines the latest research from performance science with timeless best practices to help top performers level up and achieve their goals. She explains the misconceptions when it comes to high performers as well as the science…
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How to Execute Effective Team Meetings
As we enter into the second quarter of the year, there’s so much to do for business owners and their teams to win at work! At the heart of a company’s performance is its team and at the heart of its team’s performance is regular and timely communication via team meetings. Goals, objectives, plans...
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How To Shift Your Skills & Future-Proof Yourself
Skillset requirements are different now compared to 5 years ago. There’s something called “shifting skills” now to future proof businesses and individuals. What does shifting skills entail, how does it relate to upskilling, and how can it help us to prepare for the future? We discuss this with…
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How To Get Your Business Started ASAP
The idea of starting a business can be daunting, and you may not know where to start. Sarah Stow, host of the Launch Your Biz NOW podcast, explains the first steps of kickstarting your entrepreneurial journey, and why it’s important to shape your business around you instead of the other way…
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What’s Your Entrepreneurial OS?
Mike Paton has spent the last 15 years helping thousands of leaders around the globe run better businesses and live better lives. An Entrepreneurial Operating System or EOS Implementer and speaker, Paton spent five years as EOS Worldwide’s Visionary, is the host of the top-rated podcast The EOS...
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A Powerful & Simple Time Management Technique for Incredible Success at Work
With all the social media activities and tools available today, Executives and entrepreneurs are finding themselves even more distracted than ever before and having their focus hijacked constantly. Managing themselves and their time to do deep work and to get the most important things done in a...
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Post Pandemic Transformation of Talent Succession
A recent Forbes article states that ‘the tenure of top leadership positions is getting shorter and shorter.’ The repercussions of this instability not only affect the people in a firm, but also clients directly. Hence, why succession planning is critical to ensuring longevity of a company. We…
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The Power of Effective Brand Positioning
What is brand positioning and how can you up your marketing game when you master it? Ulli Appelbaum is the founder of his boutique brand strategy shop First The Trousers Then The Shoes, Inc. in Minneapolis working with clients of big names. He released a book called “The Brand Positioning…
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The Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership
Helen Appleby is a British New York-based Women’s Leadership Expert and host of “The Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership” podcast; she discusses the tools women can use to write their own rules, navigate their versions of success and achieve their potential. Photo Credit : Shutterstock | Monkey...
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Quiet Quitting Might Not Be A Bad Thing
It’s a whole new year. But you may still be at your old job and you’re not completely immersed in whatever you’re doing. You’re starting to draw boundaries for your time and energy. The magic and excitement are gone. Well, you’re not alone, this sweeping trend really took off last year and was...
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Coaching Executives Like Athletes
It’s safe to say that physical fitness and mental health go hand in hand, and in turn, that affects our overall performance in the workplace and in life. What can we learn from the world of sports coaching that we can also apply to the world of work? Riad Hechame, founder of Peak Human…
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From Business Recovery to Growth
Many businesses have faced the pandemic head on and come out the other side. Now, the question is: what does it take for a brand to not just hang on by a thread, but to actively grow and thrive? Russell Pearson, an award winning business owner, founder of the Forge Business Program, and host of…
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The CEO Conundrum
It’s tough being a leader, and sometimes it’s difficult from the employee point of view to remember that your managers and CEOs are people, too. Roshan Thiran, founder & CEO of Leaderonomics, helps break down that CEO conundrum. Image Credit : Shutterstock | Chaay_Tee See omnystudio.com/listener...
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22 Questions for an Incredible Review of Your 2022!
It’s that time of the year where we take stock of our year and our successes and failures as well as what worked and what didn’t work and invest all these reflective lessons into the year ahead, 2023. No one better than Jeevan Sahadevan, the founder of Leverage Lab to do this with us like he does...
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Mental Fallacies in Leadership
Often, the working world and especially being in a leadership position demands a certain amount of mental fortitude. However, there are fallacies along the way that may test your mettle. Larraine Chang, founder & CEO of Ascension Associates, touches on issues like linear thinking and impostor...
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Achieving Sustainable Leadership Success
Safe to say, leadership isn’t easy, and it’s entirely possible to put obstacles in your own path if you get overwhelmed or if you don’t know how to maintain effective leadership over a longer term. Mark J. Silverman, an executive coach, author, speaker and podcast host, tells all about achieving...
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7 Necessary Endings In Order To Finish Strong In 2022
As we close the year, our focus is on finishing strong in 2022; the first and most important step is to decide what to end. What are those things that have held us back, continue to hold us back, or are preventing us from big successes? Jeevan Sahadevan, the founder of Leverage Lab, calls these...
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The Young Leading The Young
Leadership is never easy, so how do you balance authenticity and authority or friendliness and firmness, especially if you’re not that much older than the people you’re leading? Andrea Chew, co-founder of MAD For Good, tackles the topic of young managers, young teams, and everything in between....
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Driving Productivity With Design Thinking
The attitude towards work has seen a fundamental shift as of late, what with the pandemic accelerating the phenomenon known as the Great Resignation, and it feels as though this is the moment to take a good, hard look at your work environment. How can it be improved, and what tools are at our...
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11 Strategies for Personal and Professional Relationship Mastery
Life is relationships, and now more than ever. In this post Covid economy, hit by impending inflation and recessions locally and globally, good personal and professional relationships are what will help us win at work and in life. Jeevan Sahadevan, the founder of LeverageLab, shares eleven…
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Integrating Sustainable CSR
Many organisations are becoming more aware of their social accountability, resulting in the creation of CSR initiatives and/or branches within the company. But is this actually making an impact? And how can CSR move from being an afterthought to a core tenet of your organisation? Aaron Dason…
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Managing Polarity
Everyone is different, but because of that, sometimes in work and in life you have to learn how to navigate conflict. How do you balance and compromise for different points of view, and how can opposing values come together for a common purpose? Xiao Cheng Wong, fellowship manager of Acumen…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In the end, all the best systems in the world depend on the people who make them work. Raise Your Game is about just that: putting you at the peak of your powers, by showing you how to grow mentally with new skills and insights in leadership, communication, negotiation, stress management and overall personal development. Experts present real-life practical solutions, and no issue is too small. Raise Your Game regularly tops the BFM podcast download chart.
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