Who is Adrian Chan?
Who is Adrian Chan?
Adrian is a leadership and organizational development psychologist. He helps clients design talent selection and development practices.
As an experienced coach, Adrian is passionate about helping his stakeholders grow as people, and more importantly, as agents of change in their organization.
Adrian runs his own private consulting practice, and is concurrently the Leadership Resource Person in the King’s Office in Kingdom of Bhutan.
In his spare time, Adrian writes on adriansays.com with intellectual musings and rhetorical reflections on life lessons & meaning.
This is an excerpt from “PARENTING AS AN OUTCOME OF OUR PRACTICE IN STEWARDSHIP” on adriansays.com.
“Parenting is Imparting Stewardship to Our Children. Being good stewards is only part of the equation. As parents, we must not only role model good stewardship, but more importantly, we must impart good stewardship to our children. If we don’t, we can be the best stewards as parents and still have terrible offsprings.”
-Adrian Chan, on Parenting & Stewardship.
Read more here.
A WORD WITH ADRIAN
Breaking It Down
In order to help leaders strengthen this connection between reflection and action, I devised the simple heuristic of RECORD-REFLECT-RESPOND. When teaching leaders to think and act from data-driven reflection, I modified the popular Cornell note-taking system, which was designed to help students take notes in class and be more reflective in their approach to learning. I re-purposed the template to break down each step in the RECORD-REFLECT-RESPOND process so as to be more deliberate about the practice. Using this modified approach to journalling also helps leaders focus on the micro-skills of observing, listening and noticing behaviors and treating them as data for decision making.
– Adrian Chan on HOW TO REFLECT AND JOURNAL PART 2: CREATING A DAILY PRACTICE on adriansays.com . Read the full article here.
In arriving at purposeful living, one will encounter the place of position, the promise of potential and the power of passion. Much as one tries to shortcut the process, it is unwise to sidestep the lessons each season brings to one’s development. Conversely, it is harmful when one tries to delay the coming of the next season. One can have too much of a good thing.
Too much of a position-driven life and one discovers a vacuum that cannot be filled
Too much of a life seeking to fulfil potential and one encounters the futility of knowledge without impact
Too much of a passion-driven life and one becomes worn out, rootless from one passion project to another
What is needed isto reflect on where one is,
to reap from its harvest, and
to sow in preparation for the next season.
– Adrian Chan on PURPOSE, PASSION, POTENTIAL, POSITION: THE 4 SEASONS OF LIFE on adriansays.com . Read the full article here.
You can read more of Adrian’s musings here at https://adriansays.com .