Career Lounge with Jerviel: Recent Episodes
Jerviel Lim
Career Lounge is THE place for you to sit down, wind down with a drink, and join me (and my guests) as we talk about leadership, culture and performance, in the most relaxing, fun and no-BS manner. We make HR and career-related stuff easy for everyone.
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Project Aristotle by Google unearthed that psychological safety at workplace is the no.1 key train of a high performing team. Why so? What are the perks for setting up a strong psychological safe workplace? And what is stopping us from doing so? Janko, my first podcast guest, halfway across the glove sheds light on this trait, which we are all trying to figure out. There are concrete steps you can take towards building a high performing team!
Timestamp
- 00:01 - Intro and journey of Janko
- 03:44 - What is psychological safety?
- 06:46 - Importance of psychological safety
- 10:32 - Psychological safety x remote work
- 15:55 - Collective responsibility
- 17:22 - Work like a sports team
- 19:34 - The hurdles
- 22:57 - Measuring success of psychological safety - surveys + red flags
- 27:48 - One action we can take now
- 29:35 - Quickfire Rounds
The Lounge Guest - Janko KotzeConnect with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/janko-kotzé/
Find Positive Arena - https://humaninterestltd.com
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Positive psychology advocates many ideas of optimism, hope, affirmation, strengths-building etc. In times of crisis, post-pandemic era, how can we as leaders bring sync positive psychology with leadership? Are we simply going to be just optimistic without being realistic? Is working on strengths mean that we ignore weaknesses? How do we practise compassion without neglecting business deliverables? Matthew helps us to understand the application and practicability. More importantly, why, as leaders, being vulnerable is the way to connect?
Timestamp
- 00:01 - Intro and Journey of Matthew
- 05:35 - 3 pillars of Positive Leadership
- 12:32 - Vulnerability, Hope and Optimism
- 14:23 - Skepticism toward Positive Leadership
- 18:32 - Applying Positive Leadership
- 19:11 - Leveraging on Strengths
- 24:10 - Building Social Capital
- 27:07 - Connecting Personal Meaning to Organisational Meaning
- 31:43 - Empathy with Boundaries
- 36:40 - Future Plans
- 37:30 - Quickfire Rounds (Golden nugget advice right at the end!)
The Lounge Guest - Matthew Koh
Connect with him athttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mattkoh
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The Lounge Host - Jerviel Lim
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Do you know you know what are people talking about you at work? How are your peers and higher-ups perceiving you? This is about your brand! Whether you like it or not, you have a brand to manage at work. Building and managing your brand will bring you to places, connect you to opportunities and promote better collaboration! Benjamin Loh, a Certified Speaking Professional and Personal Branding Expert is going to break it down for you on how you can build a brand that lasts and impresses.
Timeline:
- 00:00 - Intro + Being a father to a newborn
- 2:48 - A $50 speaking opportunity that changed his life
- 8:30 - Be intentional to build a brand that is aligned to your real self
- 17:25 - Intentionally calibrating your brand
- 22:14 - Intentional visualisation + Intentional documentation
- 28:42 - Quickfire round
The Lounge Guest - Benjamin Loh
Connect with him athttps://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminlohcoach/
The Lounge Host - Jerviel Lim
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Freelancing aka gig-economy, has come a long way to where it is now. From being judged as something unstable and 'rebellious', to now being widely accepted by individuals, and corporates as the other career choice and workforce option.
What are the pitfalls we should be aware? How should we prepare ourselves should we wish to transit? Is this the pathway we really want get to onto? Jayce from CreativesAtWork sheds light with her experiences and stories, to help you make the best-informed choice.
Timestamp
- 01:28 - Who is CreativesAtWork
- 04:22 - The Eureka moment to start CreativesAtWork
- 07:31 - How the landscape and society have changed to embrace freelancing
- 11:39 - Why not everyone is suitable for freelancing
- 15:29 - The regret of inaction is greater
- 20:47 - Never do it for free + How to price your service
- 24:57 - To go all in or not
- 31:40 - Quickfire round
The Lounge Guest - Jayce Tham
Connect with him athttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jaycetham/
Find CreativesAtWork - https://www.creativesatwork.asia
The Lounge Host - Jerviel Lim
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Would you have left a comfortable full-time job to start a business during Covid? Would you have thought to set up a business that positions silver generation as marketing influencers? Would you think positively about The Great Resignation, seeing that talents moving around as something good in the grand scheme? Zavier, a young entrepreneur of SampleLah! did all of these. In this podcast, we talked about almost anything and there is a common thread - Zavier sees everything with a silver lining.
**00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Life story and Micro-entrepreneurship
07:57 - Founding of SampleLah! (previously known as Strong Silvers)
12:01 - Becoming a Leader and the most important trait
14:57 - Seeing the Silver Lining
16:44 - The Great Resignation - need not be scary
21:41 - Future of SampleLah!
23:29 - Quickfire round**
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The Lounge Guest - Zavier Chan
Connect with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaviercjz/
Find SampleLah! at https://www.samplelah.com
The Lounge Host - Jerviel Lim
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Now that we are seeing the end of the Covid-19 tunnel (with cases stabilising and economy picking up once again), how can we get back on our feet and move on in our life, family, career and many more? Sau Yong shares the framework of T.H.R.I.V.E. to help us do just that. Why did he dabble into coaching, beyond his pilot occupation? What about Brene Brown's teachings, which connects both of us? What is his favorite country given that he has flown multiple times? Listen to the podcast now!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:10 - Moving into coaching
- 04:38 - T.H.R.I.V.E. framework
- 09:45 - We need Human Connection
- 11:19 - Our hands are different from each other
- 16:41 - Burnout and drawing boundaries
- 18:42 - The Book - Stories of the Skies, Land and Sea
- 21:27 - Quickfire Round
The Lounge Guest - Chin Sau YongConnect with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinsauyong-consultant-coach The Lounge Host - Jerviel Lim
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Ending Music - 'Once Before' by Franz Gordon
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LGBTQ is often not talked about at the workplace, especially locally and around Asia. Are companies not advocating more than they should? What's missing from all the policies and resources, such as Employee Resource Group? How can colleagues, peers and leaders work together to create a more inclusive and safe place for the LGBTQ community? What should an LGBTQ working professional take note of, balancing personal identity and career development? Andrew and I dived into all these issues, and it is definitely worth your 30mins! Guest - Andrew McGeeHanDirector at Trident Training and ConsultingAndrew McGeehan has been leading trainings and workshops and writing and developing policies for the past 10 years. Andrew discovered his passion for diversity & inclusion issues during his undergraduate life, where he was exposed to different ideas about identity, power, and inclusion.
The Lounge Host - Jerviel Lim
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Most managers, new or seasoned, have 3 groups of stakeholders to work and communicate with - their team/staff, their boss/management and customers/investors. Therefore, it is a critical skill to be able to communicate with confidence and influence, to get buy-in and align priorities. In this episode, Samantha shares about
- 00:49 - Her career journey
- 02:33 - Purpose of Project Irreplaceable
- 06:05 - Why communication is a critical skill?
- 09:33 - Communicating with team - Giving context; the WHY
- 14:12 - Communicating with higher-ups - Talk to superiors that you can solve their problems
- 17:33 - Personal story of building a successful connection through communication
- 22:25 - Communicating with external stakeholders - Clarity and Consistency
- 24:28 - Quickfire round
Lounge Guest
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Becoming Irreplaceable Program
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This is a SPECIAL, BONUS episode as I hit 35 years old this year! I am going to look back at my career journey and share with you 10 amazing career/life lessons that I have been taught. Because this is a rather long episode and I want to make sure you get what you want to hear, here are the 10 lessons and their respective timestamps.
- 2:01 - Why HR?
- 4:22 - Lesson #1 - Treat everyone with grace and respect
- 07:54 - Lesson #2 - Stand up and speak up
- 10:40 - Lesson #3 - A leader makes or breaks a team
- 12:37 - Lesson #4 - Ego is the enemy
- 15:42 - Lesson #5 - Trust is built in sliding-door-moments
- 17:43 - Lesson #6 - HR needs to transform NOW
- 19:07 - Lesson #7 - Drawing boundaries
- 23:06 - Lesson #8 - Regret is a tough but fair teacher
- 24:39 - Lesson #9 - Empathy with boundaries
- 27:35 - Lesson #10 - Vulnerability is Courage
- 29:18 - Final reflection
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A typical career pathway would be to do what you have studied, and just climbed through and up the ladder. For our guest - Willis, it was different. He took on the path of becoming a Financial Planner, instead of a chemist or lab technician. He read books, which was something he hated previously, because he knew he had to become better at this new craft. During Covid-19 in 2020, he trailblazed in creating financial advisory content on Tiktok, perhaps the first few in Singapore. Now, he has almost 14k followers and more than 320k 'Likes'. He created a path less travelled for himself and many financial planners.
Guest - Willis LauTiktok - @willislaubx
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The summer internship is coming, and students are starting to get busy researching, applying and going for interviews. What should students then take note of to ensure there's a fit? And just because you have gotten an internship, that is only the beginning. How can you make the best out of your internship so that it adds value to your future job search and placement?
Join me and my guest - Felix, the Co-Founder and CEO of Skilio to unearth what students need to know to supercharge your internship and how hiring managers and employers can make a difference for students.
About Felix and Skilio
Skilio is an edtech startup that measures and tracks soft skill development in youth. He has won the Singapore chapter of the Global Student Entrepreneur Award organized by the Entrepreneur's Organisation in January 2020. Felix also represented Singapore in the global finals of the Startup World Championship in Montreal and is the Silver Awardee of the National Youth Entrepreneur Awards organized by the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE). More recently, Skilio won Gold Award for the Student Techblazer category in the Techblazer Awards 2021 by IMDA and SGTech.
Felix Tan's Linkedin
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Life constantly gives us lessons to learn through struggles and failures. Debbie, our guest in this episode, went through all of these. She graduated with a Mass Communication diploma but wasn’t able to pursue radio as a career. Therefore, she pivoted to be an educator. Little did she know that she would experience one of the most challenging moments in her life.
But life will also show you a different yet rewarding path, at the most critical juncture. She went full circle and is back to her favourite profession - marketing. Jump in to hear her story, her messy middle, her heroine journey, which I think is also the story for many of us.
Career Lounge with Jerviel is a content initiative under UP with Jerviel and new episode is uploaded on a monthly basis, with bonus episodes in between.
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Mental wellness becomes the next BIG BANG word, in light of the pandemic, work-from-home model and the Great Resignation. Join me and my two guests - Gerald and Jeremiah as we take and talk about the struggles as an employee, worker, company, leader and colleague, in coping with mental wellness. At the same time, we shed some light on what we can do individually and collectively.
Career Lounge with Jerviel is a content initiative under UP with Jerviel and new episode is uploaded on a monthly basis, with bonus episodes in between. Remember to subscribe or follow our podcast found on Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Google Podcasts and Spotify.
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Guest - Gerald Tan
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Guest - Jeremiah Wong
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Happy 2022!!! I have just accomplished one of my many #2022newyearresolutions by starting the Career Lounge with Jerviel podcast, first thing in 2022!
This is podcast is dedicated to many of you who have showered me support and positivity when I started the same-titled livestream in late 2021. Your energy (and pressure) moved me to to port my past content and launch new ones over here. So now I gotta keep producing :)
So look forward to more great, fun and insightful conversations around career and workplace in the most relaxing, interactive and (almost) no-holds-barred setting!
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