Tuesday, 28/7/2020
4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. ( Kuala Lumpur/Manila)
3.00 p.m. -5.00 p.m. ( Ho Chi Minh/ Bangkok)

Communication assumes utmost importance during a crisis.

Throughout history, leaders have used the power of storytelling to create a narrative of change and help teams navigate tough times. In this workshop leaders will learn the time-tested method of how to lead with a story.

Webinar Outline

1. Elements of a crisis leadership story
2. Leading with actions and not just words
3. How to build an authentic connection
4. Reassure before you Re-imagine
5. The criticality of hope and optimism

About AMEEN HAQUE

Storyteller, Story Coach, Keynote Speaker
Story coach, Innovation consultant and Diversity champion, Ameen Haque is the founder of Storywallahs, a company that helps leaders and organisations leverage the power of stories. Storytelling is an essential skill, no matter what you do and Ameen helps you build that capability at your organisation. His approach to Innovation is focused on Culture, specifically fostering a culture of innovation. And as a diversity champion, he helps organisations build a culture of inclusiveness in the truest sense of that word. A Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Ameen has studied Advertising Media Planning at MICA. Formerly a Vice President at Ogilvy & Mather, Ameen has over 20 years of experience in advertising, theatre & consulting. These stints have exposed him to stories, human behavior, team dynamics and strategy

Ameen Haque
Master Storyteller


ITD world
in supported by 
The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) 

Friday, 19/6/2020
10:00 am – 12:30 PM

Misalignment of intent and perception can ultimately produce repercussions which can impact the best of organisational objectives.

Join the speakers Chari TVT, Manoj Menon and Erik P.M. Vermeulen in SIDC Webinar: Business Disruptions – Priorities for Boards this 19 June 2020!

Limited spaces available. Save a seat TODAY!

Chari TVT
Business / Financial Consultant

Manoj Menon
MD/Founder, Twimbit

Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Professor • Lawyer • Content Creator • Restaurant Owner

SIDC Webinar

Thursday, 4 June 2020
3.00 PM ( MAL/PHIL)
2.00 PM ( THAI /VIET)

In times of Uncertainty, Peter Drucker advised management, corporate intrapreneurs and business entrepreneurs to build a business structure with strength and soundness to survive the blow of turbulence and to avail itself to new opportunities.

This webinar aims to make it easy to apply basic analytics and visualization tools to help management think critically to decide between decision options that will enhance the probability of business success.


WEBINAR OBJECTIVES
Upon completing the webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Use data analytics capabilities to enable scientific problem-solving in dynamic situations.

2. Experience the benefits of data analytics in bringing actionable insights.

3. Critically think about the options provided by data analytics for better decision making.

4. Engage your audience to visualize the data intelligence derived.


OUTLINE of WEBINAR

Understand basic data analytics concepts

• Structure data dimensions in preparation for data collection

Analyze data using Statistical Techniques

• Transform, relate and integrate data into business insights for impactful decision making

Adopt Data Analytics Process with Scientific Framework

• Reverse engineer strategic business goals identified by transforming them into trackable key performance indicators needed to measure progress.

Adopt Predictive Analytics in Making Difficult Business Decisions

• Design an A-B Group Testing to validate your reformulated strategy

Enhance Productivity with Visual Intelligence

• Build animated storyboard and interactive dashboards using Tableau to visualize performance data and set alert triggers for performance outliers to enhance productivity

Dr Nina Tan
Business Strategist & Award-Winning CFO:
Dr Nina Tan

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with ITD WORLD

Tuesday, 19/5/2020
9:30 am to 10:30 am (MAL/PHIL time)

How can human resources be transformed effectively in a volatile world filled with black swan events such as the corona virus ?

Human resource departments are being pressured as never before to demonstrate their contribution and value to their organization. One indication of that is the emergence of so-called HR transformation. While HR transformation is sometimes a term in search of meaning, it usually means a fundamental re-chartering of what the organization’s HR department is to do, why it exists, and what efforts it undertakes. CEOs have continually stated that they want proactive HR departments that operate at the strategic rather than tactical level. And yet they are often disappointed. This session describes how to reinvent and fundamentally transform HR in an organization, to increase the strategic issues that should be the focus of HR. To meet the challenge of the future, HR practitioners must move beyond technical professionals to becoming true HR leaders and strategic change agents.

SESSION OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe what is meant by HR transformation during and after the coronavirus pandemic
• Review best practices in attracting, developing, and retaining workers—and particularly a work-from-home workforce
• Examine the key role HR can play during and after a pandemic

COVERAGE:
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Present Conditions—and Predictions about the Future
Part III: HR Transformation Now: What HR Should Do
Part IV: Leading Workers in an Uncertain World: What Managers Should Do
Part V: Summary and Questions & Answers

DR WILLIAM ROTHWELL ( PENNSYLVANIA STATE)
Author of best-selling and award winning books with over 120 international publications

Monday, 18/5/2020
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

We are constantly going through change, both personally on our own development journey and career path, and with the teams and organisations that we are part of.  It is therefore essential that that we are equipped to first understand and accept change and then to create an environment where we can thrive in times of transformation, and as a leader, equip others to do so.

This session covers the practical skills you need to achieve this and offers the opportunity for you to begin working on your personal strategy for dealing with change. In this new normal the way we deal with change will be the

Attend this session and you will:

• Have an increased awareness of the neuroscience of change and recognise where your mindset is in relation to change.
• Access tools to help lead a positive mindset in yourself and others through times of change.
• Learn how the change curve works and what to expect during a period of change.
• Start to build a plan to lead for each stage of the change curve.

Hanie Razaif-Bohlender Profile

Hanie is a co-founder and General Manager of Dragonfire Corporate Solutions Sdn Bhd, grown from humble beginnings to a multi-million Ringgit business. Through this KL-based management consulting firm, Hanie brings her skills, experience, clarity, and empathy to address client needs in the areas of organisational effectiveness, change management, courageous conversations for performance and conflict management, as well as talent and career management. Her expertise also includes the design of experiential learning solutions, and upskilling for employability and entrepreneurship.

In 2018 and 2019, Hanie was named one of Malaysia’s top inspirational LinkedIn icons by Marketing in Asia online magazine. She is a member or the Industry Advisory Board at the School of Business at Monash University Malaysia, as well as on the Industry Advisory Panel at Taylor’s Business School at Taylor’s University.

Hanie Razaif-Bohlender
Co-founder and General Manager,
Dragonfire Corporate Solutions Sdn Bhd

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with Inspire Group Asia

Thursday, 14/5/2020
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

As leaders, we have all had to quickly adapt to coaching our teams remotely. Even after MCO and in the future flexible workplace, this practice will likely continue.

All leaders- even those not in a formal people leader role- need to be able to grow their confidence to develop others through great coaching, mentoring and sharing of skills.

This session will open the door to you becoming the coach you need to be in these changing times. We’ll define what that is as well as provide you with an approach and framework to make it happen, including how to:

• confidently have conversations at any time to develop others
• reflect on each opportunity they have and grow from it
• identify when and how to coach, mentor or share knowledge
• apply the principles of adult learning and communication to developing others.

Faz Kamaruddin Profile

Faz has a wealth of skills and knowledge. She has been coaching and providing skills training programs to new managers and senior team members transition into strategic leadership roles. Her work has taken her to training the trainer programs within Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. She has become an expert at organizing change and leadership development programs that incorporate data-based decisions, action learning and business impact projects.  

Faz has trained in talent assessment and calibration, design thinking, user-centred design, Hermann brain dominance instrument (HBDI), Emergenetics thinking preferences assessments tool, Harrision assessments and behaviour-based interview skills.

Faz Kamaruddin
Director,
Compas MTC (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with Inspire Group Asia

Tuesday, 12/5/2020
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

More than ever, we need a growth mindset right now as leaders. We need to challenge our current thinking on how we approach situations, reflect on how we work and, and what may need to change. But, when we harness this, we enrich our roles and lives as leaders, and those around us!

Regardless of our leadership journey so far, we can all learn new ways of doing things.  Being curious, experimenting and being comfortable with failing are all important aspects that enable us to become better versions of ourselves.

This session will challenge your current mindset and attitude and will get you thinking about your everyday role in a different way, opening you up to new experiences and learning opportunities.  Ultimately, it builds self-awareness.

In this challenging era in our lives, having a growth mindset to lead benefits us all; be it as a people leader or a leader of people, and this session will include how you can:

• believe you can grow as a leader, and your business through application and experience (even when it’s not going according to plan)
• embrace and own your journey as a leader, sharing stories and the lessons learnt
• be more willing to innovate and collaborate; learning from successes and failures.

Sharma Kumari Profile

Sharma, founder-consultant, Step by Stepz, has more than 25 years’ experience in HR-Talent Development, Communication and Media, across Asia-Pacific. She has undertaken a wide-range of international assignments as speaker and trainer-facilitator across more than 15 countries. Amongst others, Sharma's credentials include Certified Strategic HR Business Partner, Leadership Development & Succession Strategist, PROSCI Change Management Practitioner, Assessment Centre and Talent Management Assessor.  Her work spans varied sectors from intergovernmental and not-for-profit, to PLCs and SMEs; from shared services to broadcasting and tertiary education. She has led cross-functional teams in key projects and ventures, ranging from foreign acquisitions and new ventures, to strategic leadership development, succession pipeline and stakeholder management. Sharma has an MA in Communication Management; been recognized as 101 Top Global T &D Minds, as well as Professional Member & Exco of the Malaysian Association of Professional Speakers, and Member of both the Malaysian Institute of Management and Malaysian Institute of HR Management. Her clients are from diverse industries – agriculture, aircraft MRO, banking, construction, electronics & hi-tech, entertainment, financial services, hospitality, legal, manufacturing, media, retail, and tertiary education.

Sharma Kumari
HR-Talent Management Specialist

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with Inspire Group Asia

Thursday, 23/4/2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

With everything that is happening right now, what stories are you telling as a leader?

Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) together with ITD WORLD curated this unique webinar with a theme that is especially relevant now:

"LEADERSHIP STORYTELLING in Difficult Times"
DATE : Thursday, April 23 2020
TIME :23 April Thursday
5.00 pm - 6.00 pm (Seoul )
4.00 pm - 5.00 pm (KL, Manila,Taipei )
3.00 pm - 4.00 pm( Bangkok/Ho Chi Minh City,Jakarta)
Led by : Master Storyteller, Ameen Haque who helps leaders tell stories better in USA, Europe, Africa & Asia

Please join us to explore the topic
* By special invitation only for MII members and ITD Valued Clients * Limited to only first 100 participants *

Ameen Haque
Master Storyteller

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with ITD world

Tuesday, 21/4/2020
2.00pm - 3.30pm

As societies and businesses cope with the new normal, the priorities for leadership have changed

2020 has so far been a year of great challenge and disruption. The implications of this leadership, work and learning have been rapid and are continuing.

As the outbreak continues to move quickly, some of the perspectives and strategies may rapidly fall out of date. We are witnessing an imminent restructuring to the global economic order, where societies and businesses are having to cope with the ‘new normal’. The economic upheaval is forcing companies to view digitalisation not only as a strategically important issue, but a necessity at the present time.

The post-pandemic world will be a very different place to live in. Digitalisation has now created an even larger leadership gap in companies around the world but as we are witnessing, venturing into the unknown is now viewed as an opportunity rather than a challenge.

So how has COVID-19 changed the priorities for leadership? What are the leadership traits that we should hold on to during this transition and those that we must cultivate, as businesses pivot from a crisis management mindset to a more creative and innovative one to survive the brutal short term in order to thrive in the long run? This webinar session looks into a hybrid approach towards leadership, simplifying the qualities that combine technology and human ingenuity towards the creation of a trusted and purposeful organisation that is resilient and innovative beyond 2020. There will be no ‘return to normal’.

James McCulloch
Chief Executive,
Inspire Group Asia, New Zealand

ICDM Web Series

Monday, 20/4/2020
2.00pm - 3.00pm

Having built businesses through multiple economic crises, natural disasters, restrictive and changing policies and regulations, and bouncing back from a life-threatening accident, Azran shares his experiences of harnessing resilience and curiosity to lead teams during turbulence and volatility.

Our brains perceive crises as threats to our survival. It desperately seeks familiar patterns. This leads to cognitive biases where we decide and act based on what we intuitively believe to work. Past successes can limit our ability to challenge these fixed beliefs and be open to new ideas.

Understand the differences between necessary levels of stress to perform at our peak, and how prolonged stress can lead to depression and anxiety that hinders us from being calm, curious and energetic – key crisis leadership traits. Learn practices that strengthen these traits within us, how we build a high-energy team and four practices to embed curiosity and resilience into Board meetings.

Azran Osman - Rani
Managing Consultant &
CEO, Naluri, Malaysia

ICDM Web Series

Thursday, 7/5/2020
2.00pm - 3.00pm

Learn practical tools and techniques for leading a remote team and positively influencing their well-being and productivity during the COVID-19 environment.

Webinar Series supported by

Tuesday, 14/4/2020
3.00pm - 4.00pm

With everything that is happening right now, what stories are you telling as a leader?

Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) together with ITD WORLD curated this unique webinar with a theme that is especially relevant now:

"LEADERSHIP STORYTELLING in Difficult Times"
DATE : TUESDAY April 14 2020
TIME : 3:00 pm -4:00 pm ( Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai)
Led by : Master Storyteller, Ameen Haque who helps leaders tell stories better in USA, Europe, Africa & Asia

Please join us to explore the topic
* By special invitation only for MII members and ITD Valued Clients * Limited to only first 100 participants *

Ameen Haque
Master Storyteller

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with ITD world

Tuesday, 14/4/2020
2.00pm - 3.00pm

As Asian leaders live through unprecedented disruption, they are expected to step-up and not only deal with the here-and-now people and business situations, but also get ready for the future ‘post-COVID’ world. The webinar, based on the Center for Creative Leadership’s (CCL’s) research titled ‘Imagining Asia 2030: Future Fluent Asian Leader,’ will highlight paradoxes Asian leaders may need to navigate and critical skills/traits they will need to lean on to lead their teams, organisation, and country out of the current disorder.

Sunil Puri
Head of Research, APAC
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Singapore

ICDM Web Series 

Thursday, 9/4/2020
2.00pm - 3.00pm

Recently, a lot has changed in a very short period of time. Will the world ever be the same? Working remotely and working from home are becoming the new normal (and this will not disappear immediately in the post-coronavirus world).

In this time of crisis, we need authentic leaders. Traditional wartime leaders, “control-freaks,” and micromanagers can't and will not be able to solve the problems we are facing today. They create more difficulties and add to the confusion. We don't need leaders who just issue specific orders and don't offer their workers a significant degree of autonomy.

Instead, we need a different kind of leader. Leaders who appreciate the value of decentralised systems and collaborative co-creation. Future leadership is about stimulating entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity. It is about designing a work environment that continuously puts things in perspective, gives workers energy, and helps them overcome the most challenging problems with great humility and empathy.

Erik P.M. Vermeulen
ICDM Faculty and Innovative Thinker,
The Netherlands

ICDM Web Series 

Monday, 6/4/2020
11.00am - 12.30pm

Curated for MII members and ITD Clients

Delivered by GLOBAL EXPERT & AUTHOR  in EMOTIONAL EXCELLENCE

With everything that is happening right now, it is critical to be agile and adaptable.

Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)  together with ITD WORLD respond to this crisis;  curating this special webinar with a theme that is especially relevant now: "LEADERSHIP in the face of crisis : Practising Gratitude for Mental Health”

DATE : Monday April 6 2020

11:00 am -12:30 pm  ( Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Shanghai)

Led by : Professor Dr Leonard Yong,
( Educational & Industrial Psychologist)
Author, LEONARD Personality Inventory ( translated into ten languages)

By special invitation only for MII members and ITD Valued Clients 
*  Limited to only first 100 participants *

Professor Dr Leonard Yong
(B.Sc; M.Ed; Ph.D; FAPA)

The Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII)
in collaboration with ITD world