Clayton J.C Tan | February 17, 2010
When an employee gets on-board, and you’re planning an orientation, what would you generally prepare to brief the new employee?
I’ve been through many training programs all these years … technical training, process training, standard operating procedures, rules and guidelines, handbook, standard scripts! These are often the “tools” provided to new employees to get them up [...]
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Category: Leadership & Management, Malaysian Education |
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Tags: bureaucracy, creativity, effectiveness, efficiency, how, Innovation, learning, service, what, why
Clayton J.C Tan | February 12, 2010
I was recently in a good debate and discussions on Linked-In about Gen-Y - the similarities and differences accros culture and how to deal with them. It triggered me to think about how to bridge the gap between the different generations.
Sometimes I do keep wondering why we often see programs, articles, workshops focusing on “how [...]
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Tags: Culture, generation gap, Generation Y, hr, Leadership, millenial, youth
Clayton J.C Tan | February 8, 2010
For the last few months, TheStar have been publishing many articles about guarded and gated security. Here are some of them:
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/12/25/lifefocus/5344655&sec=lifefocus
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/12/17/central/5309721&sec=central
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/12/16/central/5308214&sec=central
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2010/2/6/central/5476878&sec=central
What surprises me is that Taman Megah have frequently used as an example (or maybe I’ve noticed it more since I stay around here). Anyway, the most recent article caught my attention most. It painted [...]
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Tags: Gated Community, newspaper, reckless drivers, safety, Security, taman megah, TheStar, traffic
Clayton J.C Tan | February 7, 2010
I made this the topic of the blog post because it reminds me of the project I organized when I was once a Leo Club member. The purpose of this project is to guide school leavers on selecting the best career options for themselves and to understand what the working world is like. Getting youths [...]
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Tags: career, college, courses, experience, MBA, school, Youth Development
Clayton J.C Tan | February 7, 2010
“I may not be best at anything or the most knowledgeable in organizing projects, but I believe the role of the leader is not to do the work hands-on but to provide directions, bring the team together and set good visions” - The phrase was not said in as many words but that was the [...]
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Tags: employee, hr, Leadership, leo, manager, promotions
Clayton J.C Tan | February 4, 2010
There was an interesting article in Economist recently titled “Fighting Corruption in India: A zero contribution“. I found the article very interesting, especially the unique way that’s used to fight corruption. However, I’m seriously skeptical about the possibility of it working accross different cultures, especially here in Malaysia (It does keeps me wondering though whether [...]
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Tags: bribes, corruptions, Culture, Politics & Economics
Clayton J.C Tan | February 2, 2010
Stumbled upon this article (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/01/avatars_at_work.html) recommended by a friend via LinkedIn. It got me thinking about a project I was on many years ago which involves the development of Virtual Campus to deliver Virtual Learning Programs and knowledge sharing platform. For those who is not familiar with the SecondLife yet, I’d encourage you to find [...]
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Tags: Employee Engagement, Game, hr, Innovation, SecondLife, Technology, Virtual Campus, Virtual Learning
