Expert to present talk on successful mentoring on June 7 in Kuching

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Dr Chee (right) with one of his mentors, one of the leading management and leadership guru, Jack Canfield.

Dr Chee (right) with one of his mentors, one of the leading management and leadership guru, Jack Canfield.

Dr Peter Chee is an internationally acclaimed coach and leadership development guru who has developed leaders in 80 countries.

He will be facilitating a seminar, ‘Coaching and Mentoring for Organisational Excellence’ which will be hosted by Naim Group of Companies on Monday in Kuching.

The seminar is part of Naim Group’s anniversary celebration this year in line with its focus on capacity building.

The Borneo Post spoke to Dr Chee recently to find out more about his career and achievements.

 

Q. Briefly tell us about yourself.

A. I’m the President and CEO of ITD World, a leading multinational corporation for Human Resource Development. I’m also ITD World’s Chief Coach and have helped to develop leaders from over 80 countries.

Established in 1984, ITD World has established itself as a global learning solutions expert. We have offices around Malaysia and in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia. ITD is also ISO 9001:2008 certified for Global Provision of Training and Development. It is also the winner of the ARTDO International HRD Excellence Award in recognition for outstanding contribution to international Human Resource Development.

Currently, we have 238 world-class programmes and more than 100 dedicated mega gurus, top international resource persons, trainers, coaches and consultants from around the world under our wing.

 

Q. How and why did you venture into training and development.

A. When I was 11 years old, I received one of the earliest coaching questions in my life from my father, who asked

about my aspiration in life. After several conversations, he told me to write down what I aspired to become on a piece of paper, which I did after giving it a long thought.

I wrote that I wanted to help people by training them to be the best they can be. As I’m an extrovert, I also wrote that I liked meeting different people from different countries and to travel extensively. I concluded that to achieve this, I needed to possess a Doctor of Management

so that I could train managers – I also wrote that I needed to work with and become the head of a multinational corporation focusing on learning and development so that I could travel to different countries, training and helping people at the same time.

I kept to that aspiration since then and I’m glad how things turned out. I’ve got my father to thank for this.

 

Q. What are your areas of specialisation and how these can impact an organisation?

A. I believe my greatest strength is in developing and transforming leaders through coaching, consulting and research experience in key areas namely  personal excellence, success principles-techniques for breakthrough results, leadership and team excellence, coaching and mentoring excellence, work, life and time management, motivation and performance management, strategic management, sales and marketing, human resource development and creativity and innovation.

I invented The Coaching Principles (TCP), the Situational Coaching Model (SCM) and Achievers Coaching Techniques to help leaders better coach their people to be the best that they can be. If we coach and train people to become the best, they will be inspired and motivated to always do their best and contribute to the organisation and to the world.

I’ve also developed the Certified Coaching and Mentoring Professional (CCMP) programme which is recognised and approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

 

Q. Describe your experience when co-authoring books with world renowned authors.

A. I believe in learning from the best to be the best, so I did everything in my capacity to be coached and mentored personally by the world’s leading gurus and best-selling authors such as John C Maxwell, Kenneth Blanchard, Thomas Crane, Tom Peters, Tony Buzan, Robert Tucker, Anthony Robbins, William Rothwell, Jack

Canfield and Brian Tracy. This truly helped me achieve my dreams. I admire them for inspiring millions of people through their books and sharing their knowledge with the world and I wanted to do the same. I started to ask William Rothwell, Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy to write books with me. It was indeed a great experience to have collaborated with them and this experience has enhanced me professionally and personally.

 

Q. Your views on training and development in Sarawak and its challenges.

A. Exciting things are happening in Sarawak and things are moving at a fast pace, with various economic development programmes and initiatives being implemented. This has resulted in the drastic growth in demand for qualified and competent human capital, and I anticipate this will be the case in the coming years as well. In fact, this is to be expected as Sarawak increases its focus in attracting foreign direct investment into the State.

As such, the main human resource development challenge is how best we can increase the supply of skilled workforce to meet the current shortages and potential growth in skills demand in time to come. At organisational level, it is the leadership which drives the organisation – as the saying goes, ‘it all starts from the top’. As such, leaders of organisations need to understand that what worked years ago, may not work in the current times or even in the future, and that basic human interaction as we know it, has evolved into something very different.

In view of this, we need to focus on and upgrade leadership skills and technical competencies of the workforce to facilitate technological and organisational change, to ensure that enterprises are able to compete in international markets and address the associated problems of sharply rising relative pay for skilled workforce and high workforce turnover, both of which threaten Malaysia’s wage competitiveness and ability to continue attracting foreign direct investment.

 

Q. Your collaboration with Naim Group of Companies for the ‘Coaching and Mentoring for Organisational Excellence’ professional development seminar – how did that come about?

A. Naim contacted me and invited me to facilitate this seminar. I was made to understand that this event is organised as part of their 20th anniversary celebration in

2015 and that the group would like to facilitate talent development not only within the group but also the community as a whole.

I feel that Naim’s philosophy and initiative on this is commendable – this spirit of ‘giving back’ to the society is indeed something to be upheld and emulated.