SYNOPSIS

Striving for excellence is an important part of the engineering professionalism. Engineers who strive for excellence pay attention to detail and putting quality into everything they do. This attitude separates the high achievers, who make rapid strides in their career from the rest. Striving for excellence does not mean that one must be perfect. It means that one has to use one’s talents, abilities, and skills in the best way possible and get ahead of others by giving that little extra.

Personality is well researched and found to be a significant predictor of work excellence. Engineers who know their personalities and their corresponding behaviours would definitely have an edge in their career endeavour. Together with the knowledge of the Contingency Leadership Theory, participants will be able to reflect how to combine this leadership with their personalities to lead their team to their maximum advantage in their strive for excellence.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Dr Chong Chien Fatt, B. Sc. (Hons), Mech. Eng., M. Eng. (Industrial Engineering & Management), DBA (Doctor of Business Administration), P Eng, FIEM , MIMechE., C. Eng., ACGI.
Dr Chong, a professional engineer graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, did his post-graduate studies in Industrial Engineering and Management in the Asian Institute of Technology and obtained his Doctorate of Business Administration in 2006.
He has been involved over the years in turn-around jobs as a CEO/COO for six different companies over the past 20 years. His fields of interests are in Total Quality Management/Six Sigma, Organizational Transformation/Change, Feasibility Studies, Lean Manufacturing or Kaizen and Personality/Psychology. He has more than two decades of experience in manufacturing and marketing as well as practicing, teaching and consulting work in quality and change management. He has substantial managerial experiences and has real life experiences of solving problems, turning around companies and bringing various companies to higher level of growth and achievement. He has completed his Doctorate of Business Administration with the University of Newcastle, Australia with the purpose of acquiring more relevant and up-to-date knowledge and hopefully to impart them to others in a pragmatic and yet simple-to-understand manner for working adults.