Leadership Development
Overview
Unleashing Personal & Organisational Potential To Redesign Society
Leaders today have no choice but to commit to grasping and keeping track of global challenges and trends and anticipating the impacts on their organisations and the societies they serve.
Leadership Development must be purpose-driven, rooted in contemporary realities and focused on globally relevant skills for collaborating across regions to offer solutions. Off the shelf theories can no longer suffice.
GIFT has for more than a decade delivered leadership solutions derived from the frontlines of change in Asia and is committed to transforming the mindsets and behaviours of leaders poised to shape the future.
Leadership Development Objectives
GIFT has helped our clients achieve their leadership development objectives including:
The GIFT Approach To Leadership
PURPOSE AS A FOUNDATION
Establishing the awareness, alignment, and motivation to deepen one’s sense of purpose across the four spheres of personal, professional, community and global life experience.
BROADENING KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVES
Committing to widening one's worldview premised on a willingness to challenge personal assumptions, learn from others, adopt habits of curiosity and integrate novel concepts.
BEYOND FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Embracing the needed upskilling for the 21st century and a post-Western world, including the requisite cultural sensitivity to lead across regions, to embody agility in hybrid contexts and maintain personal resilience in the face of crises.
MINDSET SHIFTS FOR OWNERSHIP & ACTION
Cultivating mindsets and behaviours for effective leadership, through honest intellectual inquiry, boldness of vision, responsibility for team dynamics, ownership of outcomes and a willingness to take action.
TYPES OF PROGRAMMES
Open-Enrolment Public Programmes
Learn alongside top talents from leading global companies and government agencies. Unforgettable debate. Uncommonly candid reflection. Life-changing field projects. Lifelong learning & transformation.
Customised Programmes
GIFT will design and facilitate a leadership programme according to your needs and preference
STEP 01
Identify leadership strengths, gaps, opportunities
INITIAL CONSULTATION
GIFT team provides initial consultation with clients to identify needs
SKILLS-GAP ANALYSIS
GIFT can facilitate a skills-gap analysis to develop a success profile and determine participant strengths and opportunities for growth
- Facilitated process to identify competencies
- Aligned with organisation and team needs
- Benchmarked against chosen framework
- Reflected in a “success profile” if required
STEP 02
Define leadership development objectives for the participant cohort or individual leaders
DEVELOP COMPETENCIES SUCH AS:
- Strategy and Decision Making
- Agility and Innovation
- Purposeful Stakeholder Engagement
- Growth Mindset and Curiosity
- Communication for Managerial Effectiveness
- Self Belief and Personal Resilience
- Ownership and Action
STEP 03
GIFT designs a programme based on identified needs and objectives
CUSTOMISABLE FEATURES INCLUDE:
- Structure, duration and number of learning days
- Content adapted to industry and regional focus and include industry speakers
- External or internal project work
- In-person, online or hybrid
METHODOLOGY
Outcome-Driven Learning
Exposure to the forces driving change. Meeting your future customers. Solving problems of the future. Personal transformation for breakthrough business ideas.
Bespoke Field Projects
- Rethinking stakeholder ownership
- In-market problem-solving
- Collaborative business modelling
- Policy innovation for sustainability
- Re-imagining tech for value creation
- Investment analysis, pre-feasibility
Transformative Action Learning
- Leading meetings and driving outcomes
- Real-time facilitator interventions and coaching
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Appreciating the value of personal reflection
- Personalised evaluations and briefings
- Online / Hybrid options
Proprietary Content
Includes frontline insights from 100+ field projects with SMEs, governments and civil society groups across Asia. Prepares leaders to confront humanity’s biggest challenges.
KNOWLEDGE
Understand our world. Making curiosity a habit. Knowing what you don’t know.
- Rethinking stakeholder ownership
- In-market problem-solving
- Collaborative business modelling
- Policy innovation for sustainability
COMMUNICATION
Skills for personal effectiveness. Strategies for influencing. Tools for successful intervention.
- Communicating for Influence & Impact
- Managerial Effectiveness
- Cross-cultural Communication
- Leading Outcome-Driven Meetings & Impactful Presentations
EMPATHY
Enhancing self-awareness. Balancing self-belief & humility. Responding effectively.
- The Role of Empathy in Leadership
- Cultural Sensitivity in Practice
- Purposeful Stakeholder Engagement
- Organisational Savvy & Situational Self-Awareness
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
Recognising potential. Stewarding team dynamics. Leveraging diversity of thought.
- The Power of Purpose
- The Role of Curiosity in Leadership
- Agility & Innovation
- Personal Energy & Positivity
Proprietary Leadership Toolkit
Practical, accessible, action-inspiring leadership tools. Gain greater self-awareness. Help teams elevate interpersonal dynamics and productivity. Anchor the habits of purposeful engagement. Engage with teams to cascade benefits through your organisation.
LEADING OUTCOME DRIVEN MEETINGS
Unstructured and poorly chaired meetings are a drain on productivity, morale and vital resources. The PASSION tool aims to address this issue by providing universal guidelines for facilitating effective, outcomedriven meetings and invites teams to score and provide feedback to one another for continual improvement.
SUPERCHARGING TEAMS: THE PRISM OF HIGH PERFORMANCE
The PRISM tool presents the five essential ingredients for creating high-performing teams, and invites participants to diagnose team strengths and shortcomings in real-time.
THE PURPOSEFUL ENGAGEMENT QUOTIENT (PEQ)
The PEQ is a simple, practical self-assessment tool that emphasises behaviours around KCE, linking these to a deeper realisation of purpose in work and life. After completing the 54-question survey the PEQ generates a score and a list of constructive recommendations for personal and professional development.
OUR IMPACT
Case Studies
What Our Clients Think
“To remain competitive, we need to have the agility to unlearn and relearn. GIFT helps participants turn knowledge into passion which creates belief and action.”
MAZUIN ISMAIL
SENIOR VP CORPORATE STRATEGY, PETRONAS
“GIFT underscored what we know as business imperative: organisations must do better to anticipate and adapt to potential shocks, empower people, engage with stakeholders and respond in a purpose-led way.”
TANYA KITT
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AIA
“I learned more practical leadership skills, gained more eye-opening perspectives and experienced more inspiring paradigm shifts in two weeks than during my entire 2-year MBA course.”
KEN WANG
VICE PRESIDENT, ORIX ASIA CAPITAL
“GIFT offers a unique opportunity to connect emerging market needs and societal challenges using a business-driven approach.”