Podcast - What Makes You Who You Are?

Welcome to our episode of ‘Reach Minds: Thoughts for Your Life’s Journey’ podcast. In today’s session, we will explore the leadership point of view, in respect of what makes you who you are and how does this manifest in your leadership and how you lead others. A key question we ask is that “why do I do the things that I do”?

About Asha

Asha has over 20 years’ experience in the fields of end-to-end talent management, learning and development and organisation development. She has worked in the fields of IT Education, BPO and Retail.

Asha has been responsible for developing and implementing talent management programmes, including career mapping for IT teams, development of high potential talent as well as coaching leaders to identify, mentor and develop their teams. She has worked on various programmes, where she was the HR ‘face’. As stream leads on these programmes, Asha was tasked with designing and developing workshops, proposing team structures as well as writing job descriptions.

Asha has coached individual contributors and middle managers on navigating cultural differences and communicating and building effective cross-cultural relationships. She has led large teams of trainers and she has experience in training trainers to the standards set by the organisation.

As a consultant, Asha has worked with clients on ensuring that their policies in Asia are legally compliant.

Asha lives in Hong Kong with her family. An avid reader and photographer, she loves travelling, gardening and writes on her favourite theme of self-leadership and taking accountability for making change happen in her spare time.

In this podcast, we pose the following questions on what makes you who you are.

1. What drew you to do the work in leadership and coaching?
2. Over the years what you have observed about leadership and some of its trends?
3. How can we exercise the power of choice?
4. What resources and tips can you offer others.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

1. Change your questions, change your life – Marilee Adams
2. The 7 spiritual laws of success – Deepak Chopra
3. Servant Leadership – Ken Blanchard
4. Leadership Profit Chain – Blanchard Companies
5. Dr. William Glasser’s Choice Theory

asha@activecommunication.net