Tour of My Existence

Keep on Smiling!!!

A few days ago, I went to this talk about "Challenges in Developing High Performance". It was a great talk performed by Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching and I learned a lot from her, where I reflected situations that I had faced before. Then, I was thinking. I should share this. What's the point of learning if you don't share a thing? At least, this is my part to share some useful knowledge that I had acquired.

So, did u noticed that, since the appointment of Dato' Seri Najib Razak as our Prime Minister, one of his vision is towards high performance of our nation. That's the reason why, he created 4 pillars towards realizing Vision 2020;




In the introduction, Datuk Mary talked about the idea of high performance. She mentioned about quality, standards, measurements, assessments and everything that related to the topic. Then, she proceeded with the main topic, which is the challenge in developing high performance.

In her talk, she mentioned a lot of thing, but I just managed to get a few:

1.         Moral Purpose
In order to achieve a high performance, we need to have a moral purpose, where it will guide us to do your work for a greater good without stray from the correct path.

2.         Shared Accountability
If you don't share the successes and failures after you did something good or bad, others will feel not appreciated and it will bring low performance.

3.         Resistance/Complacence (Breakers, Takers, Movers)
There are three types of groups to handle when you are a leader;
Breakers will do everything they can to resist changes. Takers will take whatever ideas and just go along with it. Movers will take the ideas and do the implementation, where they will help you in achieving the visions.

4.         Grateful
If you don't be grateful to what you have done and what you get, God will not help you. This is the part I liked the most about her, because she mentioned a lot about being gratefulness, which is true and what our religion always emphasizes on. No wonder her school got a lot of awards due to her leadership. (a few stories on Datuk Mary and her school can be read from here).

Before she went to another chapter of her presentation, she had mentioned about the most challenges part towards high performance. "Influencing human behaviors is one of the most difficult challenges faced by leaders, Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Prize winner". This is so true. It is impossible to change a human nature or personality but we could guide them to change. In order to do that, there is one innovative solution, which is to "unleash their power and potential for a greater good". What it means is that as a leader, we need to help our people to achieve self-satisfaction besides helping them to express their ideas. Other than that, encouragement and appreciation will also help you to gain their trust in order to get their full cooperation towards your goals and objectives.