Community Chest

Community Chest for the Emergenetics Impact SG50 Initiative

The Relations & Engagement Manager of Community Chest wrote,“The course gives a refreshing insight on my own thinking preference and also of my other colleagues. We had a fun time learning about how each of us ranked compared to the others regarding our behaviours on expressiveness, flexibility and assertiveness.”

The workshop of 30 participants, led by Regina Chua from DD Consulting, pulsated with positive energy in this interactive session where they learnt about the brain preferences – and its impact on how they behave and think, even extending to how they can better leverage their strengths as a team.

The teams used a myriad of activities to understand the impact of their preferences in terms of their self-awareness and strengths based approach to value their gifts.

The profiles, when distributed in their teams, provided an opportunity to reflect not only on one’s profile but the members also shared and understood the preferences of their teammates. It was impressive to see how open the participants were to share their profiles within their teams. Diversity was indeed a powerful and empowering gift that the group had and laughter and affirmation filled the room as they shared their profiles.

Beyond understanding that each of us are unique, participants also discussed possible options to view contrasting profiles and see that being agile in relationships is a key to bringing the best out of a differences.

As one participant aptly said, “Diversity makes a perfect team – they complement and support each other like the perfect team!”. Other participants also commented, “The course gives a refreshing insight on my own thinking preference and also of my other colleagues.”; “Our team seems to have a good balance of the different thinking and behavioural profiles; so when we work together, it is like the whole brain and body is complementing to full potential.”  

For DD Consulting, they believe that the session provided an eye-opener that no one is as smart as all of us together, the Emergenetics WE team.

About Regina Chua, Customer Engagement Strategist of DD Consulting

A customer engagement strategist, Regina Chua has vast experience in the marketing and business development in Asia Pacific. After 15 years of working with over 500 corporations, she founded DD Consulting, a boutique sales training consultancy.

Since 2003, DD Consulting has served clients internationally and specialises in consultative engagement. Their proprietary model, F.I.R.E.F.L.Y.^©, catapulted them as a leading corporate human capital partner for their clients. DD Consulting works collaboratively with customers to address business needs by leveraging the power of human capital, offering solutions for strategic planning and visioning, engagement skills in the areas of customer management, and collaboration tools such as negotiation, and conflict management

In analysing the robustness of customers’ business plans, Regina uses Emergenetics to objectively classify what they are doing versus what they holistically aim for.

While DD Consulting offers a wide range of communications related training programmes, Regina uses Emergenetics to focus on specific engagement behaviours to help their clients intentionally build trust and create a collaborative workplace.

For the past 12 years, Regina and her team pride themselves in collaborative relationships with their clients and earned regional media recognition in Consultative Engagement from Channel News Asia, Straits Times, Business Times, New Straits Times and Lianhe Zao Bao.

About Community Chest

Community Chest is a fund-raising and engagement arm of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), they aim to ensure that every person has the opportunity to live a life of dignity to his or her fullest potential within our society.

 

“I just want to extend a special thank you from my team and I to you both for generously extending the complimentary profiling tools to ComChest team under the Emergenetics Impact SG50 project. The team had a workshop with Regina last week and gained deep insights on how the brain works and it is interesting to know that we have a good mix of thinking and behavioural preferences internally. The masterful facilitation by Regina and useful profiling tools by Emergenetics really left an impression on my team.”

– Ms Ng Ling Ling, Managing Director, Community Chest, and Group Director, Fund-raising & Engagement