KEY NOTES SPEECHES
by Samy Chong

LEADERSHIP THAT HONOURS YOUR HEART AND SOUL
(Your legacy in the making)

• Inspiring Your Workplace
  (A New Leadership Perspective)
• Aligning Your Highest Purpose and Passion
  (Uncovering your Passion and Embrace Your Purpose)
• Knowing and Breathing the Values that Drive Our Culture
  (The importance of Value Audit - Providing Clarity and Alignment to Your Organization)
  
• Truth and Consequences
  (The Power of Speaking Truth in Our Organizations)

1. Inspiring Your Workplace
   Benefits
   
   • become more aware of a new way to lead your team
   
   
   • learn how to 'lighten" your load and burden.
   
   
   • tap into the full resources, intelligence and wisdom of your team members
   
   
   
   There is no question that change is accelerating for all of us in every aspect of our lives. We try to run faster, but stress and uncertainty hold us back. It's a wake up call for all of us. We are in search of a greater satisfaction from our job that goes beyond a desire for better pay and benefits.
   Simply put "If the work that people do is not aligned with their genuine interests, values, strengths and personal style then their work will suffer, they will suffer and those they work with will suffer as well."
   
   
2. Aligning Your Highest Purpose and Passion
   Benefits
   
   • re-awaken your deepest purpose and passion
   
   
   • to identify the source of your challenge
   
   
   • determine your own life's purpose statement?
     
   • examine whether you are in alignment(and how to get there)
   
   
   • learn to use the available tools to assist in aligning your workplace team
     
     
   Inspiration is contagious. The greatest way to honour our team members is to help them align their purpose and passion to the company's. The process begins with a leader that is in total alignment of their own purpose and passion who then able to inspires others in the workplace.
   
   Imagine for a moment a time in your life when you were so involved with a project that you loved. It may have been a hobby, a special project, or a course you were studying. Did time exist? For most of us when immersed in activities that tap into our passion time passes quickly. Our awareness of time disappears as we become more aligned with purpose and we become 'self-inspired' - creative, resourceful and confident.
   
   An inspired workforce is a team that can handle stress and changes easily and that is much more productive!
   
   
3. Knowing and Breathing the Values that Drive Our Culture
   Benefits
   
   • re-examine and redefine your own personal values.
   
   
   • learn to use a 'value audit' tool to determine the core values and culture principles of your organization.
   
   
   • examine ways to align your personal values to the organization's.
   
   
   • learn to achieve 'Atonement' (AT-ONE-MENT)
     
     

   Knowledge of your personal values and that of your organization, is the most effective and natural way to lead your company. It is an integrative process that creates the kind of culture that will support and sustain a flourishing business, in spite of adversity or tough competition.
   Many organizations have a Code of Business Conduct. There may be slogans written on the sidewall and incorporated in leadership speeches. This alone does not sustain and hold our team together. The foundation lies in knowing what your personal values are. Then, breathe those values into our every day's lives. The magic happens when those values are in alignment to that of your organization's, you will be better equipped to develop and implement strategies, policies and practices, recruiting, and career and succession planning. This builds a strong bond of both cohesion and credibility.

4. Truth and Consequences
   Benefits
• discover the powerful implications of truth telling


• develop and implement rules governing truth telling


• tap into the unabridged wisdom of your team


• examine policies and methods that allow your workplace team to speak up without fear of recrimination.


• Increase your awareness of the invisible fabric that holds the business of the future together - it includes ethics, morality, transparency, authenticity and the ability to deal and speak truth.

When was the last time you heard of a 'truthful' budget or financial results in either business or government?

If my mortgage payment is dependent on my job, will I dare to speak my truth and go against company mandates even if I know that it is the wrong direction?

What would it be like to run an organization that is not afraid to speak its truth?

How will that affect our customers, suppliers and stakeholders?
The new and emerging leaders today lies in leading an organization that encourages its workforce to speak their truth. It is the only way that organizations will be able to deal with the increasing complexity in the marketplace today. The faster truth is conveyed, the better we are equipped to respond to all challenges.