Build Your Talent Stack

In today’s episode, Leanne shares how you can also add facilitation to your talent stack, and her journey in branching out in shaping a portfolio career as a facilitator. Leanne is an international corporate trainer, facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work. She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions. Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Mongolia and Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors. She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year. https://www.leannehughes.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leannehughes/ For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Much like a music or podcast playlist, you're in the driver seat for curating your own learning playlist. Let your curiosity guide the pace at which you explore what interests you. See where your learning playlist takes you - to new discoversations, new conversations, and maybe even new opportunities. Follow me on LinkedIn to see what's on my learning playlist. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yishan/detail/recent-activity/shares/

What weird and wonderful questions have you been asked or like asking in a job interview?  Design expert Karen Leong shares her favourite questions that paint a picture of how well the candidate has thought about their fit for the role.  Karen Leong is an experience design leader who’s known for her pragmatic approach in leading organisations to be more empathetic, creative and design led.  She originally published this piece as part of her tech and design blog at Sportsbet.   Connect with Karen Leong on LinkedIn For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Once upon a time, before Instagram existed, I ran a blog about lipsticks for 5 years. Yep, that’s right - you heard me.  Lipstick!!  It was called Beauty Swatch, and my tag line was “helping you find your way through the lipstick jungle”. When I started, I went from not knowing a single thing about blogging let alone how to create a media release or work with PR.  I started blogging because I wanted to learn about social media and how it can be used to influence consumer purchasing decisions. Fast forward 5 years later, my blog won awards in the beauty journalism industry (back in the day when blogging actually involved writing rather than a pretty Instagram feed), it was featured on Forbes.com, fashion magazines like InStyle USA and I won an award for best blogger collaboration with Clinique and Mecca Maxima - an iconic beauty retailer in Australia. It will be 10 years ago since I started the blog, and it's for the same reason I'm podcasting now - as a way to build skills to add to my talent stack.  If you’re curious to find out more about what I’ve learned about building a brand online, then join me as I share a trip down memory lane and how I now approach branding differently. Topics covered: Mass market vs. niche Branding goals as a blogger vs. podcaster Following vs. community Building trust online Strategic offers For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

In today’s episode, we’re going to explore the topic of career sponsorship, and how a sponsor can make a difference to your career. So what’s career sponsorship and how does it work? To answer this question, I invited Dr. Jovina Ang, who is an expert in communication, a global speaker, consultant and author of The game Plan of Successful Career Sponsorship.    Jovina has over 20 years of experience in Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, Operations and Communication. She has transformed businesses, reinvented organisational culture, built world-class high performing teams, elevated employee engagement, and enhanced corporate reputation in market leading multinationals such as Microsoft, Dell, and Cisco Systems. Alongside consulting and mentoring, Jovina also teaches at Singapore Management University, where she teaches the success factors for driving digital transformation. So if you’re in Singapore and want to learn how to lead a successful digital transformation journey, check out the course below and connect with Jovina on LinkedIn. Success Factors for Leading Digital Transformation (Singapore Management University) Connect with Jovina on LinkedIn For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Amelia Novakovic is a proud Gen-Y marketing professional with 10 years of experience across a range of industries. She is currently a consultant for Vanguard Investments Australia, a global investments fund manager, and has previously worked for the ANZ Bank, Avon Cosmetics and the Royal Far West Children’s Charity. Originally from Sydney, Amelia and her husband have called Melbourne home for the past 4 and half years… with plans to tread further abroad in 2020. In today’s episode, Amelia shares how she navigates big decisions in her career, how creative writing and podcasting has helped her career and personal brand, and how to leverage your creative passion to shape opportunities.  Get in touch with Amelia Novakovic https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-novakovic/ [email protected] For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Until now I’ve featured many stories on this podcast from people who are shaping their career. Today I wanted to change things up a bit, and share with you a story of someone who - after 30 years in her career, has re-invented herself yet again to discover new beginnings. Her name is Christine Burton, and she’s a dear friend and mentor of mine. With over 30 years experience in financial services and more recently in higher education, Christine was known as a ‘customer focused solution design expert’ strong on team leadership and project delivery. Then one day, major life challenges came along. Faced with some big decisions, Christine ended up making a dramatic pivot to the creative textile industry where she is currently teaching, designing and producing traditional pieces of hand embroidery in her one woman business called ‘A Crewel Beginning’.   Topics covered: How Christine pivoted across her career chapters Her latest pivot - launching a creative career in retirement Redefining success in each career chapter If today’s topic resonates with where you’re at in your journey, Christine and I would love to hear from you via LinkedIn. Christine Burton - LinkedIn & Instagram Yishan Chan - LinkedIn For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Welcome back to another minisode - where I feature a quick tip to help you reframe something you might be stuck with and inspire you to discover new possibilities. Today I wanted to talk to you about my favourite formula for getting the ball rolling on a big ticket goal.  It’s called the 24-7-1 approach shared by Holly Ransom who is widely recognized as one of the world’s top female keynote speakers. This is Ransom’s blueprint for building minimum viable habits; something she says can be just as useful for teams as it for individuals, in work or life in general. Source: https://hollyransom.com/a-practical-approach-to-change-management/ For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

Kathy Borys Siddiqui was born in Poland and has lived in 4 countries. Growing up as an immigrant and a cross-cultural kid she was able to discover a multicultural world that shaped her into the person she is today. As an adult she experienced life as a re-pat as well as an expat and she is not a stranger to the challenges and opportunities that life abroad offers.  Just when she least expected it, she met her Danish husband and once again packed her life in boxes and set off to live in Denmark.  Over the span of 10 years Kathy has combined her academic background in Cultural studies, her love for facilitation and her passion for helping internationals to create her own career in Denmark as an intercultural trainer through her business called Active Action.   In this episode Kathy shares how she reframed her talent stack to build a new career in a new country, the challenges of being a global citizen and how she helps other global citizens like her to adapt to living in a new country.  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathybsiddiqui/ Website - http://activeaction.dk/ For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links

In today's episode, I invite my friend Meryl to take over the podcast hot seat and ask me questions that help you get to know me better! Topics covered: My origin story What's something people may not know about me How to build a personal brand Outrageous goals for the podcast Rapid fire questions - just for fun! Connect with Meryl on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/merylfernandes/ For more talent stack resources visit https://www.yishanchan.co/links