Hema Kangeson

Hema Kangeson Transformational leadership & culture trainer - consultant. 25+ yrs - 15 companies - 8 industries - 6 cities

26/08/2026

Over the years I have spoken to many managers and leaders who have stated that they are not coached in the workplace and unfortunately they do not have enough resources to pay for an external career coach as well.

If this is you, I would recommend you read the You Coach You - How to Overcome Challenges and Take Control of Your Career book that was published 4 years ago written by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis.

It will provide you with the essential toolkit you need to coach yourself and also give you tips on how to be a better coach for your team.

Take that step to ignite your career to the next level.

04/08/2026

Most of us work in team environments. Unfortunately the meetings we have to move things forward are often times not run effectively !

Sadly, the meetings drag on due to the basics not being done.

In the video below, I share 5 basic tips which you can start implementing to ensure your team, cross team or stakeholder meetings are more effective.

The benefits are tremendous including a more focussed session, less time wastage, avoidance of repeated work, boredom, holistic insights to name a few.

31/07/2026

๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ

Many people get promoted to a managers role as they are excellent technically and able to perform individual tasks very well.

However many fail to be great or even good managers as they were not provided the knowledge, skills or supported in this new role which requires very different skills especially in the people front in the 21st century workplace.

If you are looking for a light read on tips to improve, do check out this book How NOT to manage people.

It covers 3 key themes :
๐Ÿ”‘ being a manager is not about you but the team
๐Ÿ”‘ communication - communication - communication
๐Ÿ”‘ being a manager in the 21st century includes leadership traits

Itโ€™s never too late to improve and grow as a manager. It will not just benefit you but your team !

20/05/2026

As promised, part 1 of the tips on Crucial Conversations !

Preparation ! When you are preparing for a crucial conversation remember these 4 tips.

1. Reflect on what you want from the conversation
2. Reflect on what you think the other person might want from the conversation
3. Reflect on the relationship you want to have post conversation
4. Break away from the fools choice ! The binary thinking that it will either be a win or lose conversation, honesty or peace conversation. Maybe it could be an AND conversation instead ?

Hope you can try out one of these tips and continue from there so you can build that muscle for these conversations in future.

Are you ready to do that as a manager or leader ?

18/05/2026

๐Ÿ”ฆ Stuck During Crucial Conversations ?

As you transition in your career from a team member to team leader, manager and senior leader, you have to face more crucial conversations.

So what is crucial conversations ?

Crucial conversations are conversations that are high stakes, strong emotions and where there are differing opinions.

What happens to you when you are in high stakes conversations ?

Is your default to become silent (victim), violent or helpless in those conversations ?

Do follow my next few videos where I breakdown some of the tips that has been shared in the crucial conversations book that has been bought by over 2 million people.

13/05/2026

Serious about a feedback culture ? (or just cakap je* as we say in Malaysia)

I applaud the companies who are taking the first step on having training sessions so their team leaders and managers have the skill set to start cultivating a feedback culture.

However that is FAR from enough !

For it to really stick outside the training room, leadership need to take this seriously.

They need to be role modelling giving and receiving feedback on a timely basis.

And creating psychological safety is critical.

This is NOT something they can just delegate. If they do, people will sniff out that this is not important.

Letโ€™s not have another Barings Bank (1995), Deepwater Horizon (2010) and the list goes on happen again. All these incidents that had major repercussions to economies - people - nature.

*all talk only

10/05/2026

Compliance or Courage ?

What would you prefer in your employees or team members ?

Be honest with what you want as a leader and what would be the essential behaviour needed in your organisation to be successful and sustainable in the 21st century !

If you decided itโ€™s COURAGE, then itโ€™s time for you to :
๐Ÿ”“role model courage.
๐Ÿ”“ create psychological safety in the workplace(yes it comes with accountability).

Otherwise itโ€™s all going to be a superficial talkfest with no core behavioural change in the medium to long term.

01/05/2026

Workers Unite ! No to War ! End Corruption ! - thatโ€™s the theme for Labour Day in Kuala Lumpur (KL), today 1st May 2026.

A very poignant theme for the times we are in.

I have been coming for every May Day march since I moved back to KL in Jan 2024. However the very first May Day march in KL was held in 1994,32 years ago.

The march today was led by the First People of Peninsular Malaysia, followed by Food Farmers, Livestock Farmers, the Contract Worker Network, the Peopleโ€™s Movement, Friends of Women, E-hailing, Student activists, concerned citizens, political parties PSM - MUDA and more..

There were around 500+ people and we were very lucky that the rain held up to the very end after we marched from the National Mosque to Dataran Merdeka (the detour route, not a direct one). Listened to some inspiring short speechโ€™s by some young women activists from the various coalitions.

What did you get up to on this hard earned day off fought by the workers of the past ?

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