John Kenworthy
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I design effective experiential learning interventions using sports and advanced learning technologies. I am passionate about developing people and making a difference in their lives.
I have the pleasure to be CCO at CELSIM, and our businesses GAINMORE™ Golf and The GAINMORE™ Leadership Advantage Handbook which, after just 15 years research and 5 years of testing we have launched including GAPPS3 - the GAINMORE™ Advantage Potential to Performance System Version 3. GAPPS3 is a new way of assessing leadership and management potential and actual performance linking users to a personal development plan. Visit my online Leadership Advantage Handbook (Please note this is a work in progress)
I have over 20+ years of successful cross-cultural and cross-industry experience as a teacher, trainer, mentor and entrepreneur, across diverse regions including the Far East, Middle East and Europe, which has enabled me to establish a management and leadership development consultancy that has positively impacted world class organisations and SMEs across the globe. I've had the pleasure to have been involved in a wide range of human resource and technology management projects, including management and leadership development, coaching training and team development, business strategy and business transformation and the implementation and effective use of learning technologies.
As a direct result of my expertise and accomplishments, I was asked by Henley Management College to establish a direct presence in Singapore as HQ for all Asia Pacific operations and direct the marketing and support of the Henley MBA. As the Asia Pacific Director, I developed a vigorous marketing campaign that effectively raised brand awareness. I designed and introduced full e-learning support to supplement locally held face-to-face workshops that improved MBA completion. On the cutting edge of global communications technologies, I have worked closely with world-class organisations, including Astro, Aviva, BT, C&W, Maxis, Nokia, Sime Darby, Standard Chartered Bank, Temasek Holdings, Virgin and many others to develop sustainable learning solutions for their organisational and customer focused needs.
Partnering with senior management, I directed the project life cycle for a series of leadership development initiatives for cross-cultural account management teams, formed a new assessment and development centre to facilitate the recruitment and training and coordinated creation of a corporate academy in Asia.
I earned my Doctorate from Henley Management College and continue to research and lead in the utilisation of technology for experiential learning. The featured speaker at numerous professional international conferences, especially in the field of using technology effectively for learning and management development, I have also been recognised professionally through publication of my writings. I continue to lead in the ongoing development and evolution of simulation based training.
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What helps distinguish leaders and managers is about control and, quite literally, how "hands-on" you are. When you first learn the game of golf, the chances are that you grip the club tightly. After all this is basically holding onto a stick that you will swing through the air and hit a ball. Allowing the club to "follow-through' - if you don't hold on tight, the club might just go as far as the ball.
There are a whole lot of myths and legends about achieving success, but as Seth Golden points out in Permission Marketing, "There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great firm's don't spring up overnight. They've been built the same way - bit by bit, step by step, little by little. Is there a road to success?
The majority of start up businesses fail within the first year! Many of these should have succeeded. They had a good product or service, an decent marketing plan and committed people. Yet they failed because the business was either unprofitable or, more frequently, ran out of cash. Most of all, they neglected to stick to their values.
Your learning agility impacts your potential and performance. But what is it, how do you identify people who have learning agility?
Habits are difficult things. Most often the term is associated in a derogatory sense. i.e. these are bad habits. Any smoker will tell you! There are good habits of course, but for the moment, let's work on the basis that the habitual way you are playing includes some bad habits that you'd like to be rid of.
Everyone at some point in their life has heard that it is important for us to have goals. Goals provide you a map to your future, whether in business, life, career or indeed sport. But, just what is a goal?
The terms competence and competency are diffuse terms used liberally in organizations and in academic literature. Although the concept is well-developed, it seems that there is little agreement on what is meant by the terms and even less agreement on how they affect performance.
We have already considered how attitude 1. People can change anything. Now, we shall consider Attitude 2, There is no failure only feedback.
In this third article in this series, we consider the 4th and 5th attitudes that can change your life. Attitude 4 - Respect the other person's map of the world. Attitude 5 - The meaning of communication is the response you get.
Influence is a two-way street. Everything you do and say has some influence on others. What you rely on to influence others depends on your level of influence with them.
