Wednesday, 11 May 2016 8.30-17.30

Auditorium 16th Floor, CP ALL Academy Bld., PIM

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Jean-François Cousin, ICF Master Certified Coach, serving Clients across Asia and the Middle-East;

former Senior Executive in Asia

Coaching and corporate experience Successful Clients

• Coached over 700 senior executives and teams since 2006

• One of his main interests is helping leaders and organizations enhance collaboration and agility

• Former Managing Director in Thailand for a Fortune-500 company (1998-2004)

Contact: jfc@1-2-win.net

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How Coaching helps to develop Global Asian Leaders

Lessons learnt whilst developing Global Leaders from Asia

by Jean-Francois Cousin, Bangkok, 11th May 2016

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One of many reasons why we need… to develop Global Leaders from Asia…

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Which people-traits in Asia are supporting its fast economic growth?

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• Desire and energy for success • Thirst for learning • Connections • Pragmatism • Family-values in the work-place • Dedication to ‘father-figures’ • Resilience • Nationalism • …

Several people-traits supporting Asia’s growth are global assets

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The big picture and its hard truths

• The easy part of the growth is over in Asia

• Asian leaders now work in ‘VUCA’ environment too

• Collaboration and agility critical to organizations’ success

We need to grow Global Asian Leaders… who can embed

a collaborative and agile culture in their organization

the ‘game’ in Asia has changed, leaders must become game-changers

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• Self-awareness

• Self-confidence –especially in international meetings-

• Empowerment

• Collaboration and agility across the company

• Global view of business & long-term thinking

Lessons learnt whilst developing Global Leaders from Asia

Frequent opportunities for development

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Coaching story: Apinya’s growth

Early personality development • No direct feedback • ‘Be / do perfect’ • Family first, and Country too • Respect senior people • Take care of younger ones • Education through memorization

A few issues at work • Task-focused, overloaded • Risk/mistake avoidance, perfectionist • Teacher-like • Don’t expect juniors to think • Micro-management • ‘Silo mentality’ • Does not have the ‘big picture’ in mind

What can help Khun Apinya… • Empower her people • Establish collaboration and agility across the company • Get a global view of business & long-term thinking

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Self-awareness

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One thing to keep in mind, as we help leaders grow…

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What is Coaching?

A real story

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Coaching increases self-awareness, growth & confidence

Telling

Coaching

leads to

leads to

Dependence

Confidence & Autonomy

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The coach’s posture enables faster growth, higher confidence & agility

Authentic and humble

Active Listener

Non-judgmental thinking-partner

Comfortable with not knowing better

Empathetic, yet detached

Courageous feedback-provider

Supportive challenger

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Self-awareness

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Self-acceptance

Mindful Growth

Self-trust and self-esteem

Authenticity, Humility & vulnerability

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• Self-awareness

• Self-confidence –especially in international meetings-

• Empowerment

• Collaboration and agility across the company

• Global view of business & long-term thinking

Lessons learnt whilst developing Global Leaders from Asia

Frequent opportunities for development

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Riccardo Muti Herbert von Karajan

Who got FIRED? Who got RICH & FAMOUS? Please vote!

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Lao Tzu

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THE Maestro-Superstar: Herbert von Karajan

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Self-awareness

Self-acceptance

Self-esteem & self-trust

+ -

Authenticity, Humility &

vulnerability

Helping others grow

Openness to others

Productive relationships

Mindful Growth

The path from self-awareness to productive relationships

is facilitated by coaching

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Shift focus from self to others, seeing their ‘best’ and helping them ‘play at their best’

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Coaching story: Apinya’s growth

Beliefs

SHIF

TS

Management/Leadership

Coaching impact

Beliefs

Management/Leadership

I must avoid failure & protect my subordinates

I must ensure my department succeeds

I must grow my subordinates’ autonomy

I must ensure my company succeeds

Paternalistic

Department-centric

Empowering

Company-centric

• Apinya’s self-confidence / self-trust increased, perfectionism removed

• Apinya relates to her subordinates as ‘adult-to-adult’, not ‘mother-to child’

• Subordinates learn and grow from mistakes, and gain self-esteem

• Apinya starts to work for the company’s goals in addition to her goals

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• Self-awareness

• Self-confidence –especially in international meetings-

• Empowerment

• Collaboration and agility across the company

• Global view of business & long-term thinking

Lessons learnt whilst developing Global Leaders from Asia

Frequent opportunities for development

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From productive relationships to collaborative engagement

Productive relationships

Team aligned on the Vision and

‘way of working’

Team-members help each other play at the best

Collaborative engagement

Authenticity, humility and vulnerability

TEAM LEADERSHIP

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TEAM LEADERSHIP

Team members across your Organization… Rarely Usually Always

Maintain clarity on roles and

responsibilities

Define and play by the team’s rules

Agree on the organization’s Vision

Prioritize team goals vs. personal goals

Speak frankly with each other

Trust each other

Discuss the real problems together,

even when it is uncomfortable Sub-totals (A) (B)

Overall Total = (A) + 2 x (B) / 14

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Talking points with Leaders in Asia: collaborative engagement within teams

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From collaborative engagement to high performance, agile culture

Productive relationships

Spread supportive beliefs & behaviors

Enhance organizational agility

Authenticity, humility and vulnerability

Collaborative engagement

High performance Culture

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

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ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Your People… Rarely Usually Always

Are aligned with, motivated by, and proud

about the Vision

Share supportive beliefs and behaviors

Grow their self-esteem and authenticity

Have a bias for diversity of ideas

Continuously raise the bar for performance

Nurture healthy work practices

Maintain productive collaboration across

departments

Sub-totals (A) (B)

Overall Total = (A) + 2 x (B) / 14 http://www.greatness.coach/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ASSESSMENT-book-GAME-CHANGERS-at-the-Circus.pdf

Talking points with Leaders in Asia: collaboration and agility in the organization

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• Self-awareness

• Self-confidence –especially in international meetings-

• Empowerment

• Collaboration and agility across the company

• Global view of business & long-term thinking

Lessons learnt whilst developing Global Leaders from Asia

Frequent opportunities for development

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Self-Leadership

Relational Leadership

Team Leadership

Organizational Leadership

4 steps towards High Performance through Collaboration and Agility

Team Leadership

Organizational Leadership

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Tips for companies, to help Asian Leaders become Global Leaders

• Ask high potential leaders to work in different continents, early in their career

• Support them to integrate the best of Eastern and Western leadership principles and wisdoms

• Offer them mentors / external coaches

• Invite them to join think-tanks / strategic project teams

• Give them opportunities to develop a world-wide network and gain exposure

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Tips for HR Leaders coaching future Global Leaders from Asia

• Explore with them their inner-conflicts, and surface their vulnerabilities

• Offer constructive feedback, it liberates!

• Discuss the impact of their leadership styles on employees’ behaviors

• Compare their beliefs with the beliefs they need to embed in their organization for greater collaboration and agility

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TODAY?

Greatness Leadership Coaching

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Look at your neighbor… and say what strength or beauty you see in her/him

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Available at Kinokuniya in Singapore, MPH bookstores in Malaysia, Asia Books and Kinokuniya in Bangkok and on Amazon (paperback, Kindle / ebook)

Greatness Leadership Coaching

Jean-Francois Cousin

@JF_Cousin

Website: www.greatness.coach

How Coaching helps to develop Global Asian Leaders

Lessons learnt whilst developing Global Leaders from Asia

by Jean-Francois Cousin, Bangkok, 11th May 2016

for

Welcome to

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 8.30-17.30

Auditorium 16th Floor, CP ALL Academy Bld., PIM