Friday espresso: How Can You Get The Best Out Of Your High Performers? - Lead Change Heart Way with Cheok Phaik Lian
Jun 06, 2025 1:01 am
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How Can You Get The Best Out Of Your High Performers? - Lead Change Heart Way with Cheok Phaik Lian
In today’s fast-moving, high-expectation work world, classroom learning alone doesn’t cut it - especially for top talent.
To help high performers truly grow and thrive, organizations need more human-centered approaches: think experiential learning, creative reflection, and real-world relevance. The future of talent development is about growing the whole person, not just technical skills nor one size fits all approach.
This new podcast episode explores how incorporating non-traditional learning methods can revolutionize talent development and foster a more engaged, adaptable, and humanised workforce.
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WHY We Need a Re-Think
Many high-performer programs unintentionally drain energy instead of building it. As Cheok Phaik Lian from MCIS Life puts it, the excitement often turns to exhaustion halfway through. That’s not a growth strategy - it’s a burnout strategy.
WHAT Organizations Can Do Differently
✅ Integrate soft skills development - Emotional intelligence and many non cognitive skills can be leadership’s secret weapon.
✅ Design for personalization and flexibility, not rigidity - One-size-fits-all programs often fail to meet high performers where they are.
✅Meaningful engagement - Non-traditional approaches like art-based learning creates reflection, creativity, and deeper leadership insights.
HOW to Make It Work? (Without Burning Out Your Best People)
📋Integrate learning into daily work.
Don’t overload schedules. Embed growth into real tasks, team reflections, and peer learning moments.
🎨Provide structure with space to explore, pause, and reflect
Set clear goals, but allow for creative approaches like experiential learning, music appreciation, meaningful conversation, art-based sessions, or field visits.
💬Create space for honesty.
Support safe conversations around stress and struggles. Growth happens when people feel safe to stretch. Talents are just human beings.
Cheok Phaik Lian’s jazz band analogy says it all: smaller, flexible teams can play extraordinary music - if given rooms to improvise.
To celebrate Parents Day this May and June, we’re also offering a special series of in-house programmes designed to empower your PEOPLE—not just as professionals, but also as parents. We titled this series or learning interventions Work-Life Power Skills.
If you are interested, email us at customerservice@mq.com.my. We’ll be happy to share more details and work out what fits best for your people.
That's the espresso, keep the momentum! ☕😌
Stay caffeinated & curious!
Koo Lily
l Founder of mq Training Coaching Consulting l
Leadership Coach l Change Facilitator l Speaker l
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