Day: September 3, 2024

Principles in Corporations

An interview with Mr Bill Padfield, CEO of Dimension Data Pacific Pte Ltd and Board Member of Halogen Foundation Singapore What does it take to be a business leader? Where do values place in a company? Mr Bill Padfield, Chief Executive Officer of Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, shares his insights with us. A […]

Shaping our Girls’ Generation

National Young Leaders’ Day Women’s Edition 2012: Your passion makes you great “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.” –Martha Graham, American Choreographer This is true for many areas of our lives; whether the passion […]

Can Teachers Teach Values

Intentionally bringing values into the classroom “TEACHER, TEACHER! I saw you at East Coast Park McDonalds last night! You went rollerblading—was that guy with you your boyfriend?” Suddenly, forty pairs of sparkling eyes are fixed on the teacher in rapt attention. Um. As youth-speak goes, what an “awkward turtle” moment. Not a teacher myself, I […]

Sports and Nation Building

A Q&A with MCYS Acting Minister Chan Chun Sing on leadership and the role of sports in Singapore Nelson Mandela, then-President of South Africa, had a tough road ahead of him. He was on a mission to abolish apartheid in South Africa; to change mindsets and unite a nation which had been divided by race for […]

A Champion of Character

How Young Sportswoman Yeo Jia Min Stays on Top of the Game Miss Yeo Jia Min’s first brush with badminton came at the age of seven. She followed her parents to the former Vincent Hall along Upper Bukit Timah Road where they played badminton recreationally. She too picked up the racket and played occasionally with […]

Overcoming the Odds

Sim Yi Hui, Co-Leader of the Singapore Women’s Everest Team, shares her adventure to conquer the world’s highest peak The human race is literally in a human race. Everybody is racing forward to better themselves. However, if progress means taking the effort to overcome barriers and challenges, why do we still want to progress? The quest […]

Challenge the Process

How can teachers encourage their students to think ahead? “Singapore students lack drive and the willingness to try new things to succeed.” These were the comments by Minister Heng Swee Keat on his observations of how employers felt of Singapore students, soon after he became the Minister of Education (MOE). With this insight, MOE embarked […]

The ABCs of Youth Leadership

What are the key ingredients needed for a leadership development framework? Can any youth leadership development framework be filtered down to something as simple as ABC? Not really. Leadership development is a fairly complex undertaking. There are, however, some basics to bear in mind when reviewing any leadership programme or framework; these five things are […]

What Motivates A Millennial

For a person born between the late 1970’s to early 2000’s, what shapes their attitudes, preferences, work habits and aspirations? We find out eight interesting facts. 1. What is their leadership style? Expect Millennials to ask “why” and help them to see that their efforts matter. Millennials’ leadership styles are different than the generations before […]

Future-proofing Our Young Leaders

With the rapid pace of change in technology and our environment, what will the future look like in the next five years? Do we have the essential skills and mindset to tackle the fundamentals and remain relevant? H360 offers viewpoints from an educator, student, parent and working professional to four possible scenarios of the future. Halogen360: […]