Personally, it depends on where you work. Meetings are conducted differently at government and private company. It differs from one company to another, from international companies, multinational companies, and enterprise to the small business industry.

The difference is based on the way how the management or parties conduct the meetings. If you have a Japanese boss, you’ll have a meeting like the one as shown in the video. If you have a European or American boss, the meeting would be conducted by the presenter of the day or chaired personally by him or her. Occasionally they would encourage junior staff to chair the meeting for exposures. If you have a Malaysian boss, the meeting would be conducted and chaired by him or her.

One of the criteria of poor meeting is that it can be too lengthy to discuss small issues or to brainstorm ideas. This problem usually arises when there is no proper planning, organization and communication between parties. In the end, the successfulness of a meeting depends on the company’s culture and the leadership approach adopted by the company.

One of the best methods is to adopt a meeting style that produces a positive result with having a positive environment. Offer chances for junior employees to chair a meeting to provide them a learning experience to handle company’s meetings. Don’t forget that different types of meetings have to come with a proper time management.

In brief, all companies have different style of meetings based on their company’s culture and leadership style. 

To deliver a good and effective impromptu speech, we need to link our ideas to these 3 important aspects.

1. Know-Ideal information to let them aware and understand

2. Feel-Motivate them and make them feel and inspired

3. Do-Persuade them to act on the information shared

Example: My impromptu speech on “Why do we have to love animals”.

1. Know-I’ll share with them about the current situation of how the animals are being treated by the humans.

2. Feel-I’ll motivate them by making them imagine themselves in the position of animals.

One of the top ways to increase a company’s profit is by retaining the customers. These satisfied customers will come back for more, repeat orders and refer the business to other people. The word of mouth is a very powerful marketing tool in the business world. One happy and satisfied customer could refer to four of other new customers and so forth.

This tremendous testimonial and referrals cycle will continue and boost the business performance. However, business owners must always be aware of this behavioural pattern to ensure that they can gain loyal customers rather than just satisfied customers.

Thus, the goal of every company should be geared towards the customers’ satisfaction and provide them a reason to come back for more which in return will give a positive outcome to the company.

There will always be someone who gets angry about almost everything and throws tantrums to someone else. This is common events that happen in the workplace where there is miscommunication between certain levels without thorough investigation. Some individuals tend to listen to gossip and they circulate unwanted stories and negativity in the workplace. When this happens, the workplace environment becomes unhealthy and discrimination will follow through. This will lead to anger, depression and suppression. Therefore, it is crucial to manage your anger and don’t circulate unwanted stories in the workplace that may spark further problems.

Besides that, unhealthy workplace environment will lead to inefficiency in the workplace. It may not affect everyone, however it will affect those who are in the center of the problem. Again, it is vital for an individual to have a strong heart and principle to survive in a workplace. Certainly these two violations are not the only issues, but many more are there as we grow in the workplace and life. We need to identify the issue and understand how to solve the problem in the right manner to be content at work and life.

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I believe that the seeds of creativity live in everyone. Creativity happens all the time, all around us. We could develop strong creative thinking abilities by ‘think outside the box’ and build confidence to invent special things in the future. 

We need to allow our creativity to prosper and do not worry about others’ perceptions. To produce a great invention, the innovators in a Company must go through a brainstorm process and let the creative juices take them somewhere that they didn’t think existed. There would be no innovation without creativity. There would be no iphone 6S after iphone 6, and no Facebook after Myspace, and so on.

We should not be afraid to illustrate our creativity to the world no matter in which industry we are in. Everyone is blessed with creativity and we should always try to live up to our potential and talent. Moreover, it is always good to become a creative leader who is able to create a culture where everyone’s ideas are valued.

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These are two famous quotes on creativity that I would love to share with all of you on creativity.

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”-Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” – Charles Mingus

♥ Sophie