29 Mar 2009_VOL

Apart from attending the Risk Management Meeting in Kuala Lumpur office, this week we coordinated trainings on Environmental Management System (EMS) awareness to Heads of Depts. / Representatives and EMS workshop to the Project Management Team and their Contractors.

It was an interactive workshop whereby the second half of the day was conducted on site and identifying what was learnt earlier the day. Questions were asked on the how to conduct inspections and to carry out maintenance. One thing for sure from the Project Team is they try to come out with quite some interesting excuses on why they did not carry out the maintenance.

It was quite a disappointment from the Heads of Department (HODs) as the response in attendance was pretty poor. Most of them had their junior representatives and a couple of departments did not even send a representative! The workshops are vital to ensure they comply with the environmental management system and in minimizing environmental impact within/surrounding their projects.

This was critical as the company is going for the ISO 14001:2004 standards certification in Q3 of 2009.

Anyway, was requested by Marketing & Sales Dept early of the week to present on RAMZAR site adjacent to Nusajaya, to a group of potential investors for East Ledang on 28 March 2009 which happens to be the date for Earth Hour. Went through the Book on “Biodiversity of Sungai Pulai, RAMZAR Site”. Discussed with Nazir (Environmental Executive) on some of the issues that may arise from the briefing.

Surprisingly, come to think of it, quite a number of times without me realizing it, I did coaching to Nazir on Environmental issues raised by him…. The problem is how to capture and report it!

22 Mar 2009_Voice of Leadership

Hi, I am back and currently undergoing the next stage of the Master's program - The Voice of Leadership.

The first VOL was attended on1-3 December 2008. The session can be a bit confusing at certain times but had a good feeling especially when we had to write something to the 8 people (participants) who has made an impact during our 3 days training session! Received 10 post-it-notes from the rest of the participants.

It was quite a task to remember the details of what we took back from the first session! The assignment should have been immediately required.

Finally attended VOL follow-up on 19 & 20 March 2009 after a tight schedule earlier and not able to attend it earlier.

The follow-up was very refreshing, found to be very practical, and relates to what we are doing in principle. It was very interesting that what we thought as doing ‘Coaching’ were actually ‘Teaching’!