Joanna Tong
BA, MSc
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Leadership Styles - Eastern Insights (500 BC) Expert
Joanna Tong Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Effectiive leadership, leadership styles, key business success factors
- Best Sellers
- Books: Dragon Leadership, Dragon Performance; audio course: Dragon Business
- Career Focus
- Leadership development and keynote speaker
- Affiliation
- Professional Speaking Association, Global Speakers Federation
Combining business practice with 3000-year old Eastern insights, inspirational speaker and author Joanna Tong offers you the unique and practical "Dragon Leadership" approach to enhance leadership styles. With 20 years' worth of executive experience, Joanna has applied the approach to bring people together, especially in challenging situations.
Western management models place a strong focus on processes and systems whereas Chinese philosophy looks into personal impact and relationships since 500 BC. Executing both will provide you with a solid ground to lead with confidence, to manage change and to unleash talents despite the difficult economic climate.
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Dragon Leadership styles: trust, conviction and values
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Dragon Business: audio course in MP3 download
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Yin and Yang at workplaces
Yin and Yang are the key concepts originated in Taoism in the 3rd or 4th century BC in China. Yin is usually associated with feminine energy, representing the reflective and introvert facets of activities or personality; whereas Yang, related to masculine energy, is referred to strength and actions. Taoists stresses that Yin and Yang, although opposite, are complementary forces like night and day, winter and summer, and female and male. At workplaces, Yang is business activities and Yin, the emotions behind them. Four scenarios can happen: 1.
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How To Get The Best From Staff – The Dragon’s Way
* Survey showed employees regarded managers as “the least trusted group’. * Staff morale in the west has hit rock bottom but China’s GDP grew strong. * What can we learn from eastern insights in to personal impact and relationships? Research showed that employees regarded senior manager as “the least trusted group”. Today, a big challenge in business is how senior managers can exercise the right kind of leadership styles to win hearts and minds and get the best performance from employees.
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Stimulate staff motivation with meaningful targets
Employers and employees both have a tendency to enjoy their longest break of the year during the last summer months. Their holiday destinations may be hundreds of miles apart, but their minds are focussed on the same area: work. Employees go on holiday to get away from the stresses of work, hopefully resulting in improved motivation when they return; bosses contemplate, during their “break”, how they might increase staff motivation and productivity, the economy being in its current state.
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Treat Customers Like "Kitchen God"
Hope you are well and are enjoying the warm sunny springtime. I'll certainly treasure every minute of the season after spending three weeks in snowy Canada at the shocking (for me anyway) temperature of -15C. It's time to spring-clean the house. Do you realise business needs a good spring-clean too?
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Confucius and engaging staff in tough times
It is the time of the year to put the clock back in the UK. This reminds me there are things in life that we cannot simply put the clock back. In the business context, these include the decisions we made.
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What Would Confucius Say About Business Targets?
New year new targets - Or not? Now we all are back to work. Many would think: right, to improve staff performance, let's give them more targets. Think carefully: tougher targets (without sufficient resources and support) will easily lead to poor performance; poor performance compromises quality, and unacceptable quality results in fewer sales.
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Mission: making the business world a better place to connect, to work and to fulfill aspirations.
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Email: info(at)dragon-strategies(dot)com
Other highlights
Keynote speeches, leadership development programme and masterclass covering the following topics:
• The art of making change: apply Dragon Leadership® styles to build a "can do" and resilient organisational culture in the fast changing business environment.
• Collaborative culture: adopt Dragon Leadership® styles to develop a collaborative organisational culture and raise performance of disjointed functional teams.
• The art of bringing people together: implement Dragon Leadership® styles to connect senior management and employees to overcome tough challenges.
• Women in business: practise Dragon Leadership® styles to move forward and upward in a competitive environment with Yin (gentle) and Yang (tough) approach.
• East meets West: help companies trading with China bridge the gap between eastern and western business and organisational cultures.