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Work It - Can a leader lack charisma and still be successful?

Work It - Can a leader lack charisma and still be successful?

20 Nov 2023 07:14AM

28 mins

Increasingly soft skills in leaders are becoming as important as hard skills. But what exactly are the soft skills needed and what if top managers lack these? Yeo Chuen Chuen, Managing Director of ACESENCE Agile Leadership Coaching and Training, who coaches Fortune 500 leaders, is our guest.

Work It - Best of: DBS CEO Piyush Gupta on crisis, culture and the power of storytelling

Here's the first of three top episodes from our archives this year. DBS Bank CEO Piyush Gupta sits down with Crispina Robert and Adrian Tan to talk about why he calls himself “the accidental banker”, how experiencing failure changed his leadership style and what he really thinks about work-life balance.

04/12/2023 34 mins

Work It - What a headhunter looks for in potential candidates

In a world of online social connections and easy networking opportunities, is the traditional, secretive headhunter still relevant? Crispina Robert and Adrian Tan speak to Michelle Koh, managing director of recruitment firm The Edge Partnership, who says good talent recruitment cannot be done online.

26/11/2023 24 mins

Work It - Can a leader lack charisma and still be successful?

Increasingly soft skills in leaders are becoming as important as hard skills. But what exactly are the soft skills needed and what if top managers lack these? Yeo Chuen Chuen, Managing Director of ACESENCE Agile Leadership Coaching and Training, who coaches Fortune 500 leaders, is our guest.

19/11/2023 28 mins

Work It - CEO Jane Fraser on leading Citigroup through its biggest restructure

The first female CEO of an American bank, Jane Fraser has a nickname: Fraser the razor. She talks to CNA presenter Dawn Tan about change management, the economic outlook, artificial intelligence (AI) and why leaders need to choose teams who can do better than them.

12/11/2023 16 mins

Work It - How younger workers manage their managers

A Randstad survey showed that 67 per cent of Gen Z employees say poor company culture and leadership would make them quit. One of the hardest relationships to deal with is with their manager. What does it mean to "manage up"? 25-year-old account manager at HighSpark, Teo Jiayi is this week's guest.

05/11/2023 27 mins