SYNOPSIS

Peter Drucker famously stated that when "management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things." Leaders help themselves and others to do the right things. They set direction, build an inspiring vision, and create something new. Leadership is about mapping out where you need to go to "win" as a team or an organization; and it is dynamic, exciting, and inspiring. For decades, leadership theories have been the source of numerous studies. In reality as well as in practice, many have tried to define what allows authentic leaders to stand apart from the mass! All engineers possess basic leadership skills but may not have specific skills needed to lead a particular group, department, division, organization, business, or industry. Leadership skills can be taught and learned. Engineers are not a different breed of leaders. They may not be born to lead, but prepared to lead. Such engineers are motivated to climb the ladder in their organizations, and interested in learning emerging leadership skills to be successful leaders.
The talk will provide an overview of the various leadership theories with the objective of providing some understanding for the participants to reflect on the type of leadership they possess and their suitability in their current work environment. From their reflections, they will be able to identify the appropriate leadership skills that they would need to possess to climb up the corporate ladder.

BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. 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.

Ir. Dr. Chong Chien Fatt, 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.