Category: Growth
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Cub Scout Bobcat Tiger Meeting
A Cub Scout progresses towards a badge of rank based on their grade. For our first graders, we’ll work towards getting their Tiger Badge by the end of year. There’re 6 required adventures to be completed to obtain the Tigers Badge, with the first one being Bobcat. At pack 301 Den1, we plan to design some…
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What to do during a heated argument?
I often hear my female friends complaining about their boyfriends or husbands doing something that makes them extremely angry. Interestingly, many times the argument starts from a trivial matter, but somehow it escalates to the level of “you don’t love me.”
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How to manage conflict effectively？
Recently, I had disagreements with a team member from Taiwan on certain projects, and we engaged in intense debates privately. Personally, I didn’t feel that these heated discussions would affect our relationship.However, afterwards, this team member started apologizing to me, feeling that her tone was inappropriate.
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How to build trust in different cultures?
When we started to merge with a new team, I feel the first thing we need to do is to build trust between the team members. When reading Erin Meyer’s book ‘Culture Map’, I realized the way people establish trust is very different in different cultures.
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How to convince others in different cultures?
I particularly remember my first French boss when I worked in Singapore. On my first day of work, he printed out dozens of pages of company policies and asked me to read them one by one. (I fell asleep reading them on a chair that afternoon…sorry, this is a bit off-topic.)
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New Journey | Good Grief
After leaving Singapore, what I miss the most is the CareCorner counseling center. I volunteered there for three hours a week, helping people in need of mental support, among all the age groups. It allowed me to see the world from completely different perspectives, and be grateful for what I have everyday.
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Cultural Differences In Communication
Born and raised in Asia, I had my first job in Singapore for a US company under a French boss. After a couple of years, I changed to a French company but managed the APAC business including Japan, Korea and South East Asia markets. Recently moved to the states, I started to experience a lot…
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How to navigate through changes and uncertainty?
When ChatGPT came up, while I was so impressed by how smart the bot was, I became even more stressed up and wondering what I could continue to do to create value in the future? Would my job be replaced by the bot?
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What makes you impactful?
Having a strong sense of purpose and dream, makes these people successful and impactful. It helps us to be persistent and break through challenges. I remember when I first started my career, I didn’t know what I really wanted to do and what I was good at, I didn’t have any dreams. And when I…
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What makes you different from others?
But WHY do we behave & react differently? On top of the environment we were in, fundamentally it’s how we think, and ultimately what we VALUE differently that make us different. Values shape who we are, what we do, and play a big role in happiness in our life too. Understanding our values and people…
A Growing Me 