1) What have you learnt from your participation in the programme?

Firstly, The Five Principles to Success has taught me how to be able to achieve something for myself. I have to start by nurturing myself, having self-awareness & being able to care for my body,mind & soul. Self-awareness has made me able to focus on my strengths & talents, therefore pushing me to do my best in what I can do. It also enables me not to forget about my weaknesses. I cannot be ignorant towards my weakness,instead I have to slowly improve & change it to become my strength. It is also important that I take care of my body,mind & soul. With the wellness of my health, then I’ll have no problem to succeed. Then I have to make the right choices. Every decision I make affects what I will become in the upcoming events of my life. So I have to be proactive & decide what I want in life. The third principle is planning for success. It enables me to start setting goals so that I won’t regret not being able to do anything. It is also a way to motivate myself to work harder until the goal is achieved. Being able to achieve my goals day by day would bring me success to a bigger goal one day.Then the next thing to do would be taking action. I need to have time management to be able to succeed. I need to focus on more important things & spend lesser time doing less important things. Lastly would be synergise. I do believe that many heads are better than one. Working as a team would produce a better & satisfying result.

Secondly, in Presentation Skills, I learnt to build my confidence during public speaking. As public speaking is one of the greatest fear towards people, I am able to speak in a small crowd & get around my stage fright. That means I am able to overcome my fear & at the same time build my confidence level higher.
I believe that leadership can be formed out of this practice because being a leader, you will need to have a high level of confidence & determination to lead your people to success.

Lastly, Career Development & Planning is very useful to me as it teaches me to choose the right career path & how to prepare job application documents the right way. I not only have to find the job that I like but I also have to find a job that suits me best, which can be assessed through interests, personality, values and skills. Having the right career for myself is very important as it determines how successful I’ll be as better progression awards better privileges.