by Dr Elana Siew | Apr 19, 2021 | Business Owner, Business Owners Needs, Competence
The true test of your competence lies in your results. Stephen Covey said: Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive, and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and...
by Dr Elana Siew | Mar 15, 2021 | Business Owner, Business Acumen, Business Owners Needs, Competence, Entrepreneur, Experience, Experience
To be competent is to perform a function to the required measurable standard, repeatedly – regardless of the environment. Competence relies on a foundation of inborn abilities, joined with learning capabilities and a willingness to develop. The principle of...
by Dr Elana Siew | Mar 15, 2021 | Coach Training, Becoming a Coach, Business Coaching, Competencies and Skills, Qualifications
Continual learning is a proactive method of growing your knowledge and applying new skills. Getting smarter is about making yourself better all the time. It’s about uplifting your standards and your skills, so that your performance glows and makes you a better...
by Dr Elana Siew | Mar 15, 2021 | C-Suite, Competence, Executive Coaching, Executive Needs, For Talent, L&D & HR Professionals, Leadership, Management
With ease we refer to others and seeing ‘incompetent’. Being incompetent is not an insult, in fact, if the underlying ability to perform the task exists, the person is really just not yet competent. The most critical element of competence is knowing what it is that...
by Dr Elana Siew | Feb 23, 2021 | Business Owner, C-Suite, Competence, Competence, Corporate, Executive Coaching, Executive Needs, For Talent, Inspiration, L&D & HR Professionals, Leadership, Management
Can you think of someone who inspired you? Someone who made you believe in yourself. Someone who supported you, so you achieved something that you didn’t know you could. Regardless of their professional position, that person is a leader. Leaders show you the path,...
by Dr Elana Siew | Feb 23, 2021 | Coach Training, Becoming a Coach, Business Coaching, Competencies and Skills, Professional Coach, Qualifications
There is an expression that says: “Sometimes less is more.” When we coach, we learn. We control our inner-chatter, and yet simultaneously we also introspect and have our own ah-ha moments – regardless of the professional focus on our coachee. It is one of the...
by Dr Elana Siew | Feb 23, 2021 | Business Owners Needs, C-Suite, Defining, Executive Coaching, Professional Coach
“Coaching is helping a person change in the way they wish and helping them go in the direction they want to.” (International Coaching Community). When you read that definition, coaching is coaching, regardless of the coach’s slant. Except for one big distinction:...
by Dr Elana Siew | Feb 5, 2021 | C-Suite, Competence, Corporate, Executive Coaching, Executive Needs, For Talent, L&D & HR Professionals
One of the 5 components of competence is experience. The term is usually used to discuss an event that you’ve witnessed or participated in and learnt something which changes your thoughts in some way. We know that the way you think affects how your act and how your...
by Dr Elana Siew | Feb 5, 2021 | Coach Training, Becoming a Coach, Competencies and Skills, Qualifications
Let’s start by removing the big technical words, and get to the point: Some people prefer to work through a step-by-step system which gets them from where they are now, to where they want to be in a year, or 5 years, or 10 years’ time. This is called Process Coaching....
by Dr Elana Siew | Feb 5, 2021 | Business Owner, Business Acumen, Business Owners Needs, Competence, Entrepreneur, Experience, Experience
A Business Coaching Toolkit An Ethical Approach, and A Coaching Model and Professional Framework Choosing your Business Coach and working with this professional is the difference between growing or expanding your business and staying exactly where you are forever. You...
