Awesomeness is a state that is hard to be in, nowadays. The daily grind can really take a toll on us – the grueling hours of commute, pollution, workload, and our personal problems make it hard to be awesome. But the thing is, awesomeness is a choice that requires effort. We may be burdened with all of these ingredients of …
Lead Louder
Being a leader is a tough role to play. They guide people towards a path where they should be headed, for the sake of the team, the company or a common goal. Anyone can be a leader. As long as you keep an open mind to learn new processes, if you are gutsy, and if you can take accountability, you …
Amp Up Your Roar
Speaking in front of a crowd has never been easy, especially if you’re just starting to build yourself as a speaker. One of the lessons that stuck with me from high school English was to picture your audience naked. That way, you will not be nervous. I’ll share with you the three C’s to fire up your roar without having …
Serenity + Rage = Breakthrough
One of the lessons we teach in our workshops is how your state plays a big role to achieve breakthrough in the workplace and in life. Serenity is one of the ten peak states that we have to tap within us to conquer our limiting beliefs. To rise above the confines of mediocrity, we need to be in a state …
Elephants or Feathers?
In our workshops, we ask our participants to write the Elephants in the Room at their workplace – the ‘glad’ ones that no one seems to express outright and the ‘sad’ ones that no one dares to address. One sad elephant stood out and it read: “I know that this team building is about smiling and having positive energy, but …
Learn to Burn
We all have inner fire. This inner fire represents our passion to live. It is what separates us from the cold dead. But how will we have the gusto to live life if our everyday consists of a battle to get inside the train, out of this world work demands and personal problems? It’s not enough to know that we …
In my training sessions with teams, I always get swamped with questions on what to do and how to behave in the face of impossible outcomes and impenetrable walls. There seems to always be a dearth of vision, strategy and resources that can massively move their mountains and accelerate performance. This conundrum bumfuzzles many and I’d like to propose two …
BUILDING THEMES, BUILDING TEAMS
When you search “team-building Philippines” in Google images, you’ll get to realize the common notion about it in our country: rope-courses, outdoor activities, and people wearing different colored shirts. These standard can always be fun and effective but some teams might look for an alternative approach or might have bigger needs that cannot be addressed merely through emphasizing bonding and …
NEVER SAY DIE – Teams Overcoming Adversity
Have you ever heard a little voice in your head that tells you to just give up on your team due to overwhelming obstacles that seems so impossible to do? Have you ever felt that breaking the record growth of your company for this year has burnt out your inner fire? In these trying times, it would be so easy …
King Hater to King Fan
If we were attacked by aliens, and we needed to play a basketball game to save the world (hmmm, that plot seems eerily familiar), no doubt, the planet would put Lebron James on that team. 15 years in the NBA, and he is still arguably the best player in the world. You take his career stat sheet, or a look …