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Improving Well-being for Sustainable Performance

By far the most the prevalent conditions in general population are anxiety and depression. These common mental health problems are placing a formidable financial burden on many of the world's national economies, and significant proportion of that burden is being attributed to lost work productivity (Thomas & Morris, 2003). The business cost associated with employee distress is substantial. Such cost stem from staff turnover, elevated sickness absence rates, and reduced output found among distressed workers. Presenteeism is also attracting considerable interest from occupational health researchers. Presenteeism occurs when employees appear at work but unable to function at their full or usual capacity due to symptoms of ill health. Moreover, there is some evidence to suggest that presenteeism is more common among white collar and professional (hence more highly paid) occupational groups. This course focuses on how to achieve psychological well-being for work performance.

Objective

Outline

Who should attend

Leaders, Senior Executives, People Managers, and Professionals keen to beef up their psychological insights and skills

Methodology

Interactive discussion, psycho-drama approach, psychological group process, role assumption technique, and psychoanalytical games.

Particular of Dr. Richard Lim

Director, Southeast Asia, Professional School of Psychology, California, USA

Clinical Supervisor, American Psychological Association (APA), Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)

Professional Member, American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)

Professional Member, Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)

Doctorate, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, Professional School of Psychology, California

Master in Social Science in Counselling, University of South Australia

Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medical Studies, National University of Singapore

Bachelor in Arts and Social Science (HONS), National University of Singapore

Accredited Training Consultant, Legacy Leadership, Texas, USA

Accredited Consultant Trainer, Coach-based Consulting, Santa Fe Center, USA
Advanced training in Mindfulness, Psychodrama, Couple Therapy & Narrative Therapy

Richard focuses his professional consultancy on leadership development and organization coaching. He has worked with groups of leadership staff from multi-national companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Shell, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Barclays Capital, National Panasonic, Fujitsu, Courts, PSA, Continental Auto; International agencies like YMCA, Outward Bounds and World Vision; local government organizations and community institutions such as State Court, NIE, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade & Industry, National Environment Agency, National Council of Social Services, Singapore Sports Council, People’s Association, National Centre for Leadership Institute.

Richard works actively with parents of diverse professional backgrounds in Singapore and Jakarta for more than 15 years. As a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, he is appointed by the Ministry of Social & Family Development and Ministry of Education in Singapore to train both parents and teachers in matter of child, family and education development. Richard was tasked by the Singapore government to oversee various youth projects in Singapore tackling issues on adolescent relationship and sexuality. These were successfully carried out from 2007 till 2014. Richard was also actively managing young adult relationship concerns in Singapore supported by the Social Development Unit under Prime Minister Office. Currently, Richard is the Consultant Psychologist to oversee and train government officials on resilience and wellness with both public and private sector organizations. In the earlier part of Richard’s career, he was a diplomat analyst of Singapore with extensive travels round the world to manage foreign affairs matters.

Richard collaborates with prominent universities in Singapore like NUS and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in training and supervising graduate students and alumni professionals in the application of behaviour science in organizations and the community. Richard was an Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Nanyang Business School on management and leadership.

Richard has written professionally for various educational and organizational development projects. Richard has given frequent media interviews on his specialty to Jakarta Now, What’s New Jakarta, The Straits Time, FM93.8Live, Japanese TV, Taiwanese TV and European media programs.