Day: September 2, 2024

Model the Way

Clarify your values and lead by example Picture this: A 15-year-old, newly promoted to the position of captain in a uniform group. His first task? To lead a team of juniors into a national level camp craft competition. Excited to take on the world, he pushed the team through months of tough trainings, imagining the […]

Social Media: Friend or Foe

Practical tips on how educators, especially school management, can embrace social media and navigate it strategically Singaporeans love being on Facebook. We were named the “most facebooked nation in the world” in 2011*. The total number of Facebook users stand at 2,891,940, or 80 per cent** of our online population. What started out as a simple […]

Developing Young Leaders in Singapore

An exclusive interview with Mr Lawrence Wong, Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, who shares his vision and aspirations for the young people of Singapore Here in Halogen, we constantly ask ourselves — in what context do we build young leaders? What are we building young leaders for? In our mission to nurture young […]

Education: A Level Playing Field?

Ensuring social equality and mobility by building young leaders Education. The dream for meritocratic education is to level the playing field. However, does it currently? One of Halogen’s dreams is to increase social mobility. Over the last 10 years, we have availed and made our leadership offerings accessible to all. On the same day, we […]

Connecting with the Young

Staying relevant through social media is one teacher’s way of influencing his students I was always an early adopter of technology, as evident from the seven digit ICQ number from my younger days (remember that instant messaging computer programme from the late 1990s? “ICQ” stands for “I seek you”). However, I became cautious about the […]

A Love for Life is What Drives me

Singapore Woman of the Year 2012 Cassandra Chiu shares her story and successes in spite of her disability. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved”, said Helen Keller, an American deaf-blind author, political activist and […]

Shared Leadership – What does it look like

Lessons from Zappos.com I was on a hunt for a wallet. I searched high and low for months. After many searches, I finally found “It”. It was a black leather wallet and was available at Zappos.com. Knowing that a friend was coming back from the U.S, I quickly asked her if she could bring it […]

Shared Leadership Towards a more Consultative Approach

Thoughts from Gary Miles, Director of International Operations, Roffey Park Asia Pacific Singapore is in a period of transition. Looking at the reactions of Singaporeans over local issues such as the Population White Paper, we observe one thing: Instead of the traditional top-down leadership style, people are expecting leaders to exercise shared leadership. Buzz words […]

Leadership for Millienials

Youth Leadership Across Generations

How should we grow young leaders? How differently or similarly do people from different generations and backgrounds think? Because of the environment we grow up in, each generation listens and responds differently from the one before them. Our expectations for school, work, and life, vary. As people who work with youth, how can we engage them? How […]

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