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12 January 2022 16:45

VIDEO: Do more with your CliftonStrengths report

You've taken the CliftonStrengths assessment, you're convinced of its benefits. Now do more with it by learning to apply your talents to public speaking and playing to your strengths when taking part in media interviews.

It started off well enough, but went down hill pretty quickly.

17 December 2021 07:00

How to interview a comedian, how to be interviewed as a comedian

John Cleese's walk-out of his interview with Karishma Vaswani on BBC World News makes for an interesting case study in what happens when an interview goes off the rails – with some unsolicited ideas for how to avoid it.

7 December 2021 09:47

Awfully Chocolate's Lyn Lee, SAP's Eileen Chua and Scentses' Sadira Yeong among winners of Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2021

The founder of Awfully Chocolate wins our award for best online interview in Singapore, while the CEO of perfume subscription service Scentses And Co wins the award in Malaysia. Female founders clinched the top prizes in our awards, and female winners outnumber the male winners for the first time since our awards started in 2018.

2 December 2021 07:00

What I learned from reviewing 1,000 Gallup CliftonStrengths reports

A milestone reached: Since becoming a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths coach in 2019, I have now reviewed just over 1,000 “CliftonStrengths 34” reports. When you’ve painstakingly gone through this many reports, some patterns do emerge and you inevitably find some trends and draw some conclusions.

Keith Tan, CEO of Singapore Tourism Board, speaking at the APAC Health, Fitness & Wellness Leadership Summit

2 November 2021 15:59

Keith Tan does well to promote wellness

Keith Tan, the CEO of Singapore Tourism Board, read off a script for his presentation but made sure to keep eye contact with his audience while keeping his delivery natural. This amounts to a performance that even the Exit sign behind him could not derail. This is why we have nominated him for the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2021.

Sadira Yeong in an interview with The Asian Woman

2 November 2021 15:57

Baby-faced Sadira Yeong gives a mature account of herself

By Sadira Yeong's own admission, she looks young and sounds young. But she proves that how you look and how you sound are no barriers to fielding an interview well, which is why we have nominated her for the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2021.

Terence Zou, CEO of Ryde, sings his favourite karaoke song

2 November 2021 15:51

Terence Zou’s interview is a smooth ride, with a song to boot

Terence Zou goes through the interview with The Peak with a calm energy and even sings a song. Besides that, the CEO of ride-hailing app Ryde is a capable storyteller as he tells a heartwarming story to, which is we have nominated him for the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2021.