Jef Menguin is a leadership development consultant, motivational speaker, and founder of Strategic Learning Consultants. He helps CEOs, HR leaders, and L&D teams connect leadership development to business goals and turn strategic priorities into daily leadership behavior.
Not everyone has the willingness to give. Yes, I meet poor people who are generous givers. When you meet a generous giver, you know that you are also meeting a grateful person. Because the giver is always grateful. Enrich someone’s life and you will realize
What you have is the present. Embrace it. Today, you and I have 1440 minutes. It is up to us how we spend each minute for every hour. If you can invest 100 minutes in acting on your goals, you’ll achieve much in a week.
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Do you pay it forward? I met people who only think of what they can receive. They won’t give up because they felt they don’t have enough. I am not talking about people who depend on the aid they get from the government. Rather, I
The opportunity to help other people is limitless. The secret to becoming truly successful starts when you decide to give the best you have.
Always be the first-rate version of yourself instead of being a second-rate version of someone else. Imitating someone will take a lot of effort, time, and emotional investment. The person is constantly moving and changing and hiding. Look around. A lot of people are wasting
Filipino Time is the habit of being prompt and ahead of time. It is based on the Filipino value that promptness exceeds diligence (daig ng maagap ang masipag).
A minute for a dying man is a lifetime. Gladwell said that we need to work for 10,000 solid hours to become an expert of something. Unfortunately, even those who have worked for 10 and 20 years cannot claim expertise in what we do. Some leaders
Promote a culture of malasakit if you want to encourage excellent customer care, innovation, teamwork, and passion. Leaders who show malasakit care for your people and your business. Think about the admirable Filipino values. Practicing these values in the workplace is necessary and desirable. Filipinos
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Poverty is painful, and it often dulls the mind. I was eleven. We were living in slums.
I am not good at public speaking was a quick excuse for Rose.[mfn] These tips can help you get started in public speaking.[/mfn] She apologized to everyone. She did not want to waste our time. And she went to me to explain why her speech
Have you ever stayed quiet because you didn’t want to look stupid, then realized you lost a whole week because you guessed wrong? Silence feels safe in the moment. But it quietly charges you interest, especially when you’re new and everything still feels unfamiliar. When
One assumption Filipinos have is that when one lacks money, he can’t do anything. One who lacks money finds it difficult to be healthy socially, emotionally, and spiritually. Lack of money breaks many relationships too. I am no stranger to financial problems. When I was
An effective leader possesses characteristics that help inspire people to make change happen. Leadership learning is simple and you can become an effective one by optimizing the characteristics you already possess. Understand the exemplary characteristics of effective leaders you intend to emulate. You will learn
The aim is not to be number one but to be the only one. This should be easy. You have unique passions, talents, and skills. You already belong to a category of your own. It is not enough that you belong to your own category.
There’s a point in adult life where “I’m tired” stops being a sentence and starts becoming an identity. You say it in the morning, then again at lunch, then again at night. You keep functioning, so you assume it’s normal. But sooner or later, you
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A journey to a thousand miles begins in a single step. That’s according to a dead but wise Chinese philosopher.
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What do you really want in life? Have you ever found yourself lying awake at night, staring at the ceiling, and asking: “What do I really want in life?” Maybe some of you have everything planned out, while others are still searching for that spark,
Being a good team member does not necessarily prepare one to become a good team leader.
It is prudent for organizations to install a team development program to ensure that team members and team leaders are equipped to handle their roles.
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Working with others is never easy. In fact, working with others is usually frustrating, time-consuming, and stressful. Ask me why. Because teamwork isn’t natural to us, Filipinos are competitive that there is a tendency not to cooperate with others — most especially with people whom
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