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Navigating the crisis: balancing prudence and boldness Learning from one inspiring example of how to navigate the current crisis. What can we learn from the various ways companies navigate the covid-19 pandemic and the tremendous challenges that result from this crisis? Companies have chosen very different approaches, from “hunker down and wait for dawn” to “be bold and seek out the opportunities”. The contrasting approaches provide valuable insights. This article extracts lessons from one inspiring [...]

New office location in Hong Kong It gives us great pleasure to share with our network of clients, suppliers and partners that we are moving into new offices in Hong Kong. With growing headcount, we are happy to move into a larger space that is also more central. Our new office location is in AIA CENTRAL, 1 CONNAUGHT RD CENTRAL. The move will be effective end of May, but today we already had a small celebration [...]

A warm welcome to Parcae Sin! Agnus Consulting is pleased to welcome our newest member Parcae Sin, who has joined the team as a Leadership Development Analyst. Parcae will play a key role in supporting clients to develop and strengthen their leadership capabilities by designing, managing and delivering leadership development programs. Before joining Agnus Consulting, Parcae led various experiential learning, team building and leadership development activities for teenagers. He also brings professional experience from project management, event [...]

Please join us in welcoming Thomas to the team! We are pleased to welcome our newest member Thomas Huang. Thomas is our first hire in Mainland China; he will be based in Shanghai. He will be responsible for leading projects that solve complex business issues through leadership development, organizational transformation and innovative strategies. Thomas started his career in strategy consulting at Accenture and ECON where he designed strategies, performed foresight analysis and facilitated organizational transformation programs [...]

We’re growing vibrantly! Welcome, Melody. Agnus Consulting is pleased to welcome our newest member Melody Ruan, who has joined the team as a Senior Leadership Consultant. In this role, Melody will support clients to develop and strengthen their leadership capabilities by designing, delivering and managing leadership development programs and workshops, and coaching leaders. Before joining Agnus Consulting, Melody served in a number of leadership positions, focusing on strategy and finance. Most recently she was Vice President, Innovation [...]

Supporting youths to strengthen their presence We are inspired and excited to continue our collaboration with Generation, as part of our overall social outreach program. Yesterday we conducted a session where we shared our insights with students from Generation and worked with them to help them strengthen their presence in job interviews and in daily interactions. We introduced two approaches to strengthen personal presence – “outside-in” and “inside-out”. The “outside-in” approach suggests that some ‘power poses’ – [...]

Delivering opening keynote speech at the 2019 Chief Digital Officer Summit in Singapore Many organizations are making a bet on digital transformation. The harsh reality is that around 70% of transformation programs fail. Every sponsor and program leader must understand the critical success factors of transformation to tilt the odds in their favour. Our Managing Director, Tor Mesoy, delivered the opening keynote address at the Chief Digital Officer Innovation Summit in Singapore and shared his perspective on [...]

Tap into your team’s collective strengths As our team continues the leadership development journey using Potentialife’s behavioral change platform (https://potentialife.com/), we are experiencing how Potentialife is much more than a technology platform. In a flexible way, it complements an organization’s existing training and development initiatives. The solution can be easily extended to teambuilding, facilitation, coaching and other organizational development approaches. Here’s an example from our team. Yesterday, our team at Agnus Consulting ran a workshop to [...]

Increase physical activity as work: starting from meetings Our team finished the Level I leadership development programme with Potentialife. As we review and prepare for Level II, we received our team statistics on the five SHARP areas: Strength, Health, Absorption, Relationships, Purpose. We are well above the global average in many areas such as using our strengths, having a sense of purpose… But, to our surprise, we scored below average in terms of physical activity, during [...]

For a fresh perspective, get on the balcony Recently I coached Annie (to protect confidentiality, a different name is used) on an issue that she had been wrestling with for years. When she began to talk, she rapidly burst into tears. But after a short while I was thrilled when she walked out of the session with a big sense of release, feeling positive and appreciative. As I reflected on our coaching conversation, one particular moment stood [...]

Small steps lead to big changes Our team just finished a leadership development journey using PotentialLife’s behavioural change system (https://potentialife.com/). We find the journey of staying SHARP deeply meaningful to unlock peak performance, i.e., exercise our Strengths, stay Healthy and energised, be Absorbed in what we are doing, maintain authentic and positive Relationships, and live Purposefully. We are delighted that our team scores are above the global average in all these aspects! Below are some reflections from [...]

Case Writing for Education and Leadership Development Our team member Keith Wong (@Keith on Linkedin, not applicable for company website) will be a panellist at the upcoming Case Teaching Conference (Dec 3, 2018) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong: Case-based Teaching in the Current Changing Higher Education Environment. At the conference, Keith will share his experience in developing cases for Harvard Business School and how C-suite executives can benefit from being involved in the exercise [...]