About Thought Perfect
Thought Perfect is a Singapore-based Executive coaching firm founded by Pratap Nambiar, dedicated to helping CEO-level executives and business leaders maximize their professional and personal potential. Our proprietary coaching methodology enables clients attain a clarity of thought and purpose that will lead to changes in their behavior to ensure desired outcomes…
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Why Executive Coaching?
With Thought Perfect coaching, you will benefit from:
- Clear strategic thinking
- Future orientation
- Trusted relationships
- Behaviors and actions consistent with your values
- Deep, serious lasting change
- Achievement of desired outcomes, and
- Greater ROI
Do I need a coach?
A business coach helps identify and address a wide variety of problems and challenges that senior executives face. Get a feel of just some of the issues when business leaders felt the need for and benefited from the services of an executive coach.
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Who is a Coach ?
"A coach is your partner in achieving your personal goals, your champion during turnaround, your trainer in communication and life skills, your sounding board when making choices, your motivator when strong actions are called for, your unconditional support when you take a hit, your mentor in personal development, your co-designer when developing an extra ordinary project, your beacon during stormy times, your wake-up call if you don't hear your own, and most importantly: your partner in living the life you know you're ready for,personally and professionally."
Thought Stimulants
- Leaders are a lonely bunch, yet they can’t do it alone : The Business Times, Editorial section,June 17th, 2010
Tony Hayward the CEO of BP, got chastised for his remark “There is no one who wants this thing over more than me. I want my life back”. He apologized of course, but might still lose his job.
Clearly the oil spill caused by the explosion of BP’s rig in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent struggles of the technical team that could not cap the leak, was not Tony’s doing. But his comment which came as a result of his frustration and sincere desire to end the suffering for all (including his own) was seen as a poor example of leadership.
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- Difficult Conversations.. ‘We need to talk’: The Straits Times, March 13
The ability to handle difficult conversations well is an essential leadership competence
A leader’s ability to successfully conduct difficult conversations with subordinates, peers or superiors can make the difference between success and failure – both for the leader and the organization.
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- Heeding the moral compass in leadership: The Straits Times, March 10, 2010
England’s football Manager Fabio Capello has made it clear to John Terry that his extra-marital affair with the former fiancée of Wayne Bridge his England teammate made him unfit to be a leader.
In taking away the captaincy he said “I always ask the captain to be a role model for the children and the fans. But I will keep him in the team because I don’t think the team has lost respect for him”.
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Straight From The Heart
- The Board’s dilemma
I wrote this article to address one of the many difficult decisions a Board has to make when it is confronted with a conflict between corporate values and financial performance metrics. They have to make quick choices in a complex, ever changing, and competitive world. In fact the perplexing challenges they face can sometimes seem like a choice between the devil and the deep sea. You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
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- Leadership and emotional intelligence
Leadership in organisations is demonstrated through the interaction of the leader and the followers in a given situation. It reflects the value of the people in the organisation. The kind of leaders that emerges will depend on the decisions made in the group which in turn reveal what balance has been achieved between the mind and the heart.
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Pratap Nambiar's interview on Channel News Asia
"Every top athelete in the world in every generation has needed a coach, a tutor, a mentor, a guru, or a just an overall teacher who help him or her be the best they can be and then some. CEOs and Executives of companies are no different. They need a special person who can help them remain or become the best, have confidence in themselves and lead through example. Pratap Nambiar is someone who I have known for a long time and his skills in helping people to lead, comes from having the right balance of heart and mind, art and science to establish self belief in his clients and bring changes to their lives so they can genuinely feel happy about their achievements."
Vijay Amritraj
Indian Tennis Legend
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