Jene Lim

  🧐 Inspect what you expect. That’s what my ex boss taught us. And this has served me well over time as what I inspect is typically different from expected. Sometimes it’s not significant, but sometimes it’s very material. But inspecting takes a lot of time. So how do we decide when to inspect and when to trust and let go? Usually, I use these 3 tips to make a call : ⚡️ Impact What’s the impact or consequence if the outcome is different from expected? Will there be regulatory consequences? Will there be monetary consequences to business, customer or to our employees? ⏰ Timing Is there sufficient time to inspect? If not, how to sample to have sufficient assurance? 🪨 Reliability Who prepared the work? Is the person experienced and usually delivers a high standard of work? Is the person usually detailed and reliable? Find these tips helpful? Click on the 🔔 on my profile to follow all my posts. #work   #worktips   #career   #personaldevelopment   #jenelim

Networking tonight? Wondering how some cool people has the LinkedIn QR code instead of a namecard? This is where you find it.  🔎 Click into the name search bar. Click on the QR icon in the top right which will appear.   🪪 Your LinkedIn QR code will appear and you can invite your new acquaintances to scan with their phone camera.  #tips #linkedin #networking #jenelim

Public speaking can be very scary. I remembered vividly the times in my school days when I was holding the microphone and my hands were trembling uncontrollably and the heart pounding loudly.  However, through repeated practices over the years whilst  🗳️ canvassing for votes to be faculty head or other committee head  📣 leading the faculty in cheers 🎤 being wedding emcee for my friends  🎙️ being emcee for company events  the fear gradually subsided and public speaking came a bit more easily.  And I continue to practise now, be it speaking at webinars, seminars or panels. I also supplement with trainings as well to continuously polish my skills.  Hence, I conclude that fear of speaking can be overcome with practice and with training.  What do you think? Any other tips on how to overcome fear of public speaking?  #publicspeaking #practice #personaldevelopment #jenelim

Getting to the root of a problem by investigating deeply is one of the skills that I have to use very often and one that I’m pretty good at. How I picked up the skill was the training at a young age from my ex boss who taught and required us to “peel the onion” when problem solving.  Peeling the onion means to peel the layers off one by one. And this is what allows us to get to the true understanding of the issue and take the right action to solve the problem at the root level and not at the symptomatic level (so as to avoid recurrence).  Peeling the onion regularly also means that we strengthen our skillset as a subject matter expert as we are across so much precious knowledge and details that might not be widely known.  Of course, peeling onions can make us tear. So I think having the right techniques (like asking the right questions, leveraging past experiences) can help alleviate the pain of peeling the onions.  Do you peel the onion ? And how do you peel onions ...

My ex staff told me recently that my advice to get “buy-in” was really useful for her in her career, even till now. We had worked together 10+ years ago.  When there’s a proposal or changes to be made, she would circulate to the stakeholders who might have objections or concerns to get their inputs and hence, secure early buy-in first. This would allow the proposal to be approved smoothly and not be delayed or rejected at the last minute.  A few more useful tips I would add on to get Buy-in : 🤝 Provide context  🤝 Highlight the benefits of the proposal, especially any win-win-win position for customer, employee & company. 🤝 Be prepared to listen, understand, compromise and incorporate relevant feedback into the proposal. Where it’s not possible, explain why.  🤝 Repeat this process multiple times over different proposals. Once there is trust established, and that stakeholders know that you do things the proper way (which is to prepare, get feedback, compromise ...

One of the earliest self help books that I’ve read was 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Till today, I still find many of the habits relevant and in fact, I find myself using some of the phrases in our day to day work as well, such as “First Things First”, ”Think Win Win”.  A recommended read for anyone who wants to be effective.  1️⃣ Be Proactive 2️⃣ Begin With the End in Mind 3️⃣ Put First Things First 4️⃣ Think Win-Win 5️⃣ Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood 6️⃣ Synergize 7️⃣ Sharpen the Saw What other books have impacted your life ? Do share. #book #effectiveness #career  #personaldevelopment #jenelim

Chanced upon this  article  from Harvard Business Review on "Why Talented People Don’t Use Their Strengths". It got me thinking again about a topic that I was pondering about a few weeks back, which is identifying my superpower. I try to not just consider my own reflection of my own strengths but also try to recall what ex bosses have shared with me before. I also re-read Juliana Chan, PhD's post about  "Five hidden superpowers we all need"  to get some inspiration.  I think I can identify with this superpower Strong work ethic and accountability  in Juliana's article which is in simple terms the ability to get stuff done even in the most difficult of times, and also this other one Passion and Purpose. I will continue to reflect and confirm.  Hope this sharing inspires you to think of your superpower too. Links to above articles. #work #worktips #career  #superpower #personaldevelopment #strengths #jenelim

Escalation at work - is it a bad word?  From what I observe, people generally do not like to escalate bad news to seniors. Perhaps they are worried that  🔫 they might be the messenger who get shot for delivering bad news 👎 they don’t want to appear incompetent 🏋️‍♀️ they are still trying their best to make it work  😨they think this might spoil relationships  However, in my early work years, I was taught to escalate matters before they get too serious. If the risks of project are highlighted earlier enough, with intervention by seniors, perhaps we could still salvage the situation. But if the escalation is too late, then all hope is gone - the bad outcomes will be inevitable.  Hence, I think the trick is to strike a balance between over-escalating (as we should try to be independent enough to solve basic challenges) but know to escalate when intervention is needed before it’s too late.  And to maintain good relationships and team dynamics, escalation sho...

Chanced upon this  article  from Harvard Business Review on "Why Talented People Don’t Use Their Strengths". It got me thinking again about a topic that I was pondering about a few weeks back, which is identifying my superpower. I try to not just consider my own reflection of my own strengths but also try to recall what ex bosses have shared with me before. I also re-read Juliana Chan, PhD's post about  "Five hidden superpowers we all need"  to get some inspiration.  I think I can identify with this superpower Strong work ethic and accountability  in Juliana's article which is in simple terms the ability to get stuff done even in the most difficult of times, and also this other one Passion and Purpose. I will continue to reflect and confirm.  Hope this sharing inspires you to think of your superpower too. Links to above articles. #work #worktips #career  #superpower #personaldevelopment #strengths #jenelim

3 tips to supercharge your productivity at work 🚀 ✍🏻 Write excellent minutes  Good minutes allow you and participants to know what they need to do after the meeting and who will do it. Excellent minutes capture the considerations for the final decisions taken as you may need to refer to it in time to come. Whilst it seems quite basic, but many people don’t practise that and you will find repeated meetings being held re-discussing the same things over and over again before most people will not recall what needs to be done post the call as they have multiple things to juggle on their plates and they may not have taken notes too.   📊 Present information using visual aids  If people absorb information wrongly, the misunderstanding will likely cause repeated meetings or rework.  There are 3 ways in which people absorb information.  Visual learners – absorb information by sight Auditory learners – absorb information by sound Kinaesthetic learners – absorb informati...