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ZP03810

A key take away from yesterday's panelist that caught my attention was knowledge plus action equals to power.

In todays world, there are many people who either has the knowledge without action or people who love to make a change but without an idea.From the class I have realized that we have to combine this two elements to ensure there is a positive move in the society or in any given situation.

I also came to learn and understand the generation gap between baby boomers and us in the workforce. Haji Zaki explained to a question where I faced a similar scenario where my general manager and I always have an argument on ideas and sometimes I do feel under motivated. He explained on how to overcome the situation and made sure we understand why such situation occurs.

moreover, I also learnt from Puan Fadilah that though she has gone through the worst times in her life, with positive mine, will power and determination to change set right, you can actually make a difference in the society. She being a domestic violence victim herself, came up in her life and founded a NGO in which today helps and changes the mentality of people.

last but not least, I also understand from Madam Normal that if you are giving out an idea, make sure its clear, straight and with proper justification. This would be in regards of being a men or a women in any level.

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TAN HOONG YEN
ZP 03806

I’m so thankful for given the opportunity to listen for the sharing of three prestigious panelist.

From the sharing of real life example from the corporate world, I’ve gained better understanding about how woman can actually be a true leader. Gone are the days where woman should be engaging in house chores and taking care of children, now woman has create their own value that cannot diminished by anyone.

Vast knowledge about a great leader has given by Tuan Zakie as he is very informative and experienced as a leader of a company. Puan Nirmala has aspired us how women can empower employees and create value to them.  Puan Fadilah also teaches us to be able to stand up for ourself as a woman. From the real life example, I understand that woman are no longer a minority in a society, a woman can be anything, a mother, a leader and also contribute to the society.

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Based on the given talk, understood that leadership is about empowerment. Without certain Empowerment, employee do not stay with you, and it also shows that a leader doesn't trust an employee. When a leader empower an employee with certain authority, an employee feels the belonging to the company and to a leader. They will work harder and put in their 110% of effort to complete a task. Other than empowerment, a leader must be understanding to their employee's situation, and give some flexibility for certain time for them to get through it.

Women's leadership, there is a research shows that woman hurt woman in an organization to get control over an organization. Man and Woman can work together easily, as their behavior is difference and can tolerate each other. This is also my own experience. As a lady, i work better with Men than ladies. Undeniable, most of the woman to be more hesitant in decision making including myself, they need more details or information to make a decision. there is pro and con, depends on in which industry.

I couldn't agreed more with Ms Fadilah for being a woman. Her confident for being a woman is impressive. Believed yourself, stand for yourself, and live for yourself start from today!

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Name:  Sofia bt Shaharom (ZP03928)  sofiashaharom@gmail.com

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Key takeaways:

The world we are living in now is facing unprecedented level of challenges, it is volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous. Thus leaders will have no choice but to ensure that the right strategies are put in place to ensure sustainability.

Since women makeup 50% of the nation’s population, it is only obvious that government & corporations should put more effort towards attracting and retaining women talents. Women’s role in the organisation has become increasingly important as they are also capable of high achievements and have skills that complement men.

Women aggression in the workplace is not uncommon thus is it is important for the organisation culture to not just promote women empowerment but also provide effective support systems to further encourage their career progression.

Expectation of women changes through the ages, several decades ago women are only deemed as domestic partners. Whereas now, women’s role in the society has changed and has proven that they are equally as capable as men. Based on one of the speakers’ sharing, it is prevalent that when put in a difficult situation, women posseses traits and characteristics to overcome boundaries.

Since organisations now emphasis on gender equality & diversity, it is no longer foreign to have female representatives in the boardroom. All board members (regardless male of female), need to ensure that they add value to the conversation and that they have the right skills (both technical & soft) to contribute towards making decisions for company’s growth.

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Women Leadership in Complex Time Reflective Journal

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Women Leadership in Complex Time Reflective Journal

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Name: Nevitha A/L Gunalan
Student ID: ZP04043

The title of the talk was Women Leadership and I have learned lots of good values. Firstly, leadership is not gender-specific. It is a set of leadership qualities inherent or cultivated in person or persons who develop themselves into great leaders with mass following. Leaders can be either men or women. The qualities that make a good leader don’t vary between men and women. After all, it’s the person, not the gender that determines a leader. And although women are only just catching up to men in terms of leadership roles, their unique experiences and supportive natures make them more than capable of leading the future. Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behave, act, and control work and decision-making about their job in autonomous, independent, self-directed ways. It is the state of feeling self-empowered to take control of your own destiny. Empowerment is feeling in control of your work environment and that you have permission to make decisions in the areas you control and are responsible for in your job.

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Mohamad Zul Azri
ZP03952

Based on today session it really open my mind to be compromise in work life especially working with different generation gap. Empowerment is one of the key for the great leader to create more leaders in future. Besides, empowerment alone not enought but need to be come along with the mentorship & also recognition. Working in most male dominated industry were let me to ignore on the women leadership. After that session I was more aware on the female leaders function & importance. Men & women can work together, instead of finding differences let find the common things that can make it work. Men & women have different style on the leadership approach but on the bright side the diversity is good on the innovation

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A key takeaway from the session is that empowerment cannot stand by itself. Managers should not let their subordinates to engage in a work task on their own, without any guidance. Empowerment should come with mentorship for a better growth of employees as well as the organisation's success. Also, managers must be responsible in ensuring that good communications are maintained within their organisations. This is particularly important for the manager-subordinates communications. Managers must be willing to listen to their subordinates' concerns and ideas, and must also convey their response on their works appropriately. Not only that, gender discrimination must be eliminated within a workplace. This ensures maximum utilisation of human resource and the increase in motivation among the workforce. Female employees must be given equal opportunities to grow and prove themselves at work. Barriers that stop female employees from progressing in their career must be done away with.

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Aini Azimah Poziman

ZP04066

I can see everyone seems inspired with  today's sharing session. Interesting topic anyway as I stand by a women. From my point of view, gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to the realization of vision. According to Madam Fazilah, passion is important. I completely agree with her. If enthusiasm and pride are present, resilience is easier obstacles are encountered. Pride and confidence are conducive to a positive outlook which is conducive to problem-solving and overcoming difficulty, something that is sure to arise in the process of starting a business  or career advancement. Also, the more enthusiasm a person has, the more inclined to work hard on self-improvement increasing an individual's chances of success.

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Let’s start by getting clear on what complexity is . To do that, I’m going to share what I’ve learned from the speakers on how to demonstrate leadrship and teamwork qualitites apart from understand the ways to deliver effective communication skills. Other than that, I learned the reason why I need to have lifelong learnjng skills as well ad how to be able to manage relevant information in dealing with any kind of situations. For me, by applying those skills to the management has created sense of possibility and opened up new opportunities for women leaders. Believe this kind of conference is highly recomended for those people who support women’s advancement.

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Part of being a leader, particularly one in the working world, is selecting the right team to fulfil your vision and hit your targets. As no man is an island, an effective leader must gather a team of people who fill gaps in his leadership and who will simultaneously support and challenge him. However, no matter how experienced we are in our fields, humans are fundamentally weak to involve in biases. Meaning, we often think of a certain type of person as better suited for specific jobs largely based on superficial qualities. Men, who make up most of senior management, naturally gravitate towards men when recruiting because they think they understand their own gender and men are often more likely assumed to be natural leaders. So, women are often overlooked in filling key leadership roles due to these unconscious biases. More often though, women are consciously overlooked; a survey of 500 managers found that 40% admitted that they prefer to hire men in their 20s or 30s over women of the same age because they want to avoid the possibility of them taking maternity leave. It is particularly rampant for women to be passed over in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.

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Arun Kumar a/l Murugasu
ZP03950

Today's forum on women's empowerment have given us plenty of information and enlighten us on how women can contribute in a corporate world. As mentioned by one of the speaker, Mdm Nirmala, women are always multitasking and their efforts must be appreciated. According to her, women should possess with some technical skills in order to show some valye add in an organization. Besides, according to Tn.Haji Zaki, he spoke about the difference between men and women leadership style. Other than that, Pn.Fadilah, the other speaker, spoke about how to handle discrimination against women and how to handle our superiors, where giving respect to them will be a better way to handle them. For me, the forum had enlighten me on some leadership criteria especially handling and giving equal opportunity to women in my organization.

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Today's sharing session very enlightening. It's all about women empowerment. 1st speaker by Tn Hj Ahmad Zakie. Mainly talked about leaders in complex time. He explained about women power progression from 1990 until present. There was huge improvement between this time on women leadership, power and empowerment. 2nd speaker from Mdm Nirmala, according to her women must have relevant skills, technical, influence of ideas and negotiations skills. It knowledge also very important for female leaders to tackle young workers adult to ensure management overcome from technology. The last speaker was Mdm Nor Fadilah. She is a CEO of JIEWA Global Resources, a social enterprise that focus to empower women in urban area through JIEWA POWER HOUSE.

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Nurhazlin Binti Jalaluddin - ZP04080

In this challenging world, leadership plays an important role in the organization especially for a women leader. There is no gender bias to be a good leader either you are a man or a women. Both have self strength in managing the organization. A good leader has the ability to influence people and the brave to voice up opinion to do the best for the organization. Leader must equipped self with the right skills for the job such as the soft skills, interpersonal skills, analytics skills and etc to be resilience. The leadership talent empowerment is important in this complex time as the leader must have the persistence in ensuring they have the wide knowledge especially in critical areas such as in the IT management for the technical matters, data analytics, and risk management and also in decision making skills.  To ensure organization sustainability, the leader must know what the best business model to be used that suits most to the organization and adapted to the latest updates in surrounding that could affect the overall organization. The most important is, he/she must have the skill on managing people from various background and can be the idol to motivate the sub ordinate.

In this current world, a men or women leader is no different. Both genders complement each others in the organization. Men with the masculine and firm leadership style tend to be having a strong characteristic in managing people. Meanwhile a women leader has a strong resilience with their soft skills in managing people in the organization with the charming and empathy. Overall, to sustain in the complex time, women leader should empowered herself by time to have the persistence and to be resilience and stood tall.

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Women leadership Thanna Letchumi ZP03997

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Women leadership Thanna Letchumi ZP03997

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One of the most powerful forces in our nation is empowerment. Our panel speaker Mr Zakie has explained how to sustain in a changing business environment. A leader need to aware the surroundings and need manage wisely everything in a complex time. The most sensational changes is when women become the leaders. There are lots of differences between men and women in once they become a leaders. Mr Zakie mentioned the men and women need to join together in order to achieve a great transformation towards the nation. He also said that women as a leader are more passionate and organized when compared to men. Apart from there our next panel Madam Nirmala has shared about her experience as a women and a leader. She also said that it is not easy for women to become leader because they need to have proper support system from the family before and after marriage. She said to become a successful leader we need to have leadership skills, negotiation skills, technical skills and communication skills. The last panel Madam Fadilah has shared that we need transform our life to become better. Everyone deserves a second chance and surround ourselves with people who going to lift up our life. Be a volunteer and do sincerely. Motivate others to become more successful person from their own perspective. Do not let others to dominate and pull you down.

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LIM SIOK YIN (ZP04007)

In today sharing session, three panellist share about leadership in complex time. Tn Hj Ahmad Zakie discuss about differences of leadership style between women and men. He also explained four industrial revolutions industry phases. First industrial revolution (end of 18th century) is through introduction of mechanical production facilities with the help of water and steam power. Second industrial revolution (beginning of 20th century) is through introduction of mass production with the help of electrical energy. Third industrial revolution (beginning of 1970 of 20th century) is through application of electronics and IT to further automated production. Fourth industrial revolution (today) is on the basis of cyber-physical production systems (CPPS), merging of real and virtual worlds. Besides, madam Nirmala shared skills that require for being a top management. For example, technical skill, soft skill, negotiation skill, influencing skill, communication skill, leading skill and other. The most important thing is to update yourself with the latest standard, technology information and embrace changes. Madam Fadilah shared that women can contribute to society with their knowledge. Everyone have her or his own potential and value.

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Siti Maisyarah bt Mohd Abdullah
ZP03842

WOMEN LEADERSHIP

Leader is the person who guide and lead the subordinate or the follower to achieve the respective target or mission. As a fact, men always been appointed as a leader compared to the women but in this current era women has move forward to carry the leader title.

True that there are differences and in a way men & women as a leadership. Women leader nowadays is brave to voice out the opinion and views in searching for the rights and to achiece success.

Women leader is more open to empower the task especially to the subordinates or follower because women leader believe on the capability based on the judgement.

Complementary each other also is one of the goodness in leadership and  women leader applying the complementary element in a sense of appraising the subordibate or follower.

As a conclusion, to be a leader or to have leadership skills is not easy as we thought. Mental and physical should be ready enough as there are tonnes of obstacles and challenges to be faced especially in this technology world.

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Woman Leadership in Complex Time

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Woman Leadership

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Women Leadership in Complex Time        Reflective Journal                                Name: USHA RAMAKRISHNAN      Student ID: ZP04006

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From my point view, it is great opportunity to meet and have sharing session   Tn Hj Zakie, Mdm Nirmala and Puan Fadilah as the panels for the leadership in complex times slot.

Based on today’s sharing session, I have gathered a lot     of information about women’s involvement and leadership in this new era of digitization and globalization

The key takeaway from Leadership Class which conducted by Dr Nasuha were the difference of leadership style between men and women and women empowerment. Women are equally competent. Nowadays, women are even ahead of men in many socio-economic activities. Women are as talented as men. Tuan Haji Zakie brought an idea that leadership of men and women although differs but given the opportunity if it can complement each other to build new innovations in an organization and nations.

Previously, women were not allowed higher education like men and hence their talents were wasted. But nowadays, they are also allowed to go for higher studies and it encourages women to show their talents which will not only benefit her individually but to the whole world at large. Today, many women are occupying the top position of multinational companies like madam Nirmala.

Women Empowerment leads to decrease in domestic violence explained by Mdm.Fadilah the founder of JEIWA domestic violence (dv) against woman. The talk objective is to empower women to be equipped and passionate about positive thinking, volunteerism and civic minded.

I like to quote this and it is really relevant to every women out there “She is clothed with strength and dignity…”we can do it !
Thank you Tn Hj Zakie, Mdm Nirmala, Mdm Fadilah and Dr. Nasuha for carrying out the best sharing session today. I would propose UKM GSB to organize more events like this in future

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NURUL HIDAYAH RAMLI
ZP03677

The first topic of the day presented by Tuan Haji Zakie was leaders in complex time. Yes, indeed we are in complex time time. Leaders should always prepare themselves on how to deal and handle complex time. He shared to us on how perception on women changed over the years. Madam Nirmala shared to us her experience on becoming a board members, which we should not only have technical skills but soft skills is a must too. We need to find our value (our relevant skills) to become a board member. Some of the soft skills she highlighted yesterday were, negotiation skill, communication skill, influencing skill, also the skill on how to ask the right questions. It is very important not only for board members but also us leaders, so that we can get the right information to get our job done. “Be vocal, with justification and rationale”, said Madam Nirmala to us. Another key point that she mentioned to us was, the important of having and creating your support system. Also, business owners should identify a way to make their business resilience to risks or any challenges out there.

Puan Fadhila, the fouder of JEIWA is such an inspiration to me. The way she handled the worst crisis happened in her life was so amazing. I remembered a quote she said, “One woman stand for herself, stand for every woman in this world.” Also, in everything we do, we have to understand our subject matter. We must also take control of our life. And to have power, it must come with knowledge and action.

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Today’s talk was about women leadership in complex time. Tn Hj Ahmad Zakie Shariff, Madam Nirmala and Madam Fadilah were invited as speaker for today’s topic.

Our first speker is Tn Hj who talked about how women changed throughout years to stand as leader and the different leadership style between women and men. Women’s leadership style is transformational while men’s leadership style is more transactional. Tn Hj also said that women and men should be complement each other in an organization.

The second speaker was Madam Nirmala shares her experience how she become only female board of director of an organization. From her speech, I understood that as leader we need to sharpen our skill either technical skill or soft skill up to date to stay as strong leader.

Finally, Madam Fadilah who share her experience being domestic violence victim and how she overcome the problem and now she is helping women out there who are facing problems. I liked her approach of thinks positively and take problems as challenges and find for solution. I also liked when she said to climb up we only need people who can lift you up, we need only people who can encourage and support us when we growing higher.

I feel like today talk very interesting and inspiring. Thank you Dr. Nasuha for organizing.

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Name: Satesh A/L Kalimuthu
Student ID: ZP03969

The one common thing that I have learned in this talk or experience shared by the three speakers is Women play just as important a role in life as we men do. The reality is that differences between male and female leadership styles can broaden a company’s pool of creativity and innovation. This enhances the success of any company when both men and women are promoted to high-level positions. Whichever gender you are, identify the distinct skills you bring and how to use them to get noticed by potential or current employers. For progression and ultimate career success, an employee will need to have a desirable level of both soft skill and technical skill to carry out the desirable duties the employer demands. I also learned empowerment which is about looking at who you are and becoming more aware of yourself as a unique individual. Empowerment involves developing the confidence and strength to set realistic goals and fulfill your potential. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses and a range of skills that are used in everyday situations, but all too often people remain unaware of, or undervalue, their true abilities.

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Matrics : ZP04074

Today session we have learn about women leadership. Have 3 panel have shared their experience with audience.
first panel Tuan Haji Zaki has shared about revolution of women leadership through ages, thus involving leadership of women started from 1940s to the present.Tuan haji have mention too women  leader trying to be like a man. This is to prove that women can also succeed like men. One of the passion for women is keeping beauty on duty. This can be interpreted as always looking beautiful even when you are working. Even if your field of work is the same as a man.

Second speaker has shared her experience. How her family encouraged her to continues study. How her husband helping her in many thing and family in law also contribute in her successful life. Madam Nirmala also mention you need to shared your expertise to other. She your knowledge to your mentee. Give full support.Do not be jealous of the success of others by bringing a negative vibe.

Next is Madam Fadzilah. Madam fadzilah have shared their experience how she build up her spirit and motivation from the past. Being a victim of domestic violence and rising to success and sharing success with others is not an easy matter. She tells how she defended the rights of women, especially women who work.

In conclusion that i have today. Man or women need have knowledge if you want to success. Take a positive action in every problem that you have facing.Dont try to give up earlier because you dont know what can happen in future

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ZP03940

Among the great sharing of today's panels are:

Tuan Haji Zakie:
The evolution of women's involvement in society and corporate structures from 1900 to the present proves to be increasing and boasting. Although there are differences in leadership between women and men, they are complementary in one organization.

Madam Nirmala:
A good leader needs to have relevant technical skill sk and soft skills. With more skill can influence ideas and wise in decision-making. The courage to voice their own opinions helps develop a good maturity for a leader.

Mr Nor Fadilah Bt Mohamed Nizar:
Encourage women to get up and take the right decision. The detrimental experience of domestic violence can provide a good example. Even with efforts to develop Jiewa proves how Mrs. Fadilah is concerned with the dying women. Among the fascinating tips on taking the boss's heart and the environment is respect and charm.

In conclusion that i have today, to be success either man or women need have knowledge, keep trying, stay in positive momentum and right circle.

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Sonia Sabreina Ahmad
ZP03768

Leadership is defined as a leader that able to inspire or motivate the group of people to the act towards achieving a common goal. They also need to have a good technical and soft skills to lead the group. Based on the talk ‘Leadership in complex time’ it gives me a reflection of what is the importance to become a great or quality leader. It also should not be any age, gender and race bias in selecting the leader. As if the person has that great quality to becoming a leader regardless of their background, it will help the organization to reach the goals and become successful. The diversity of people, will create different opinions and options of ideas and ways to the solutions. There is a research shown that the organization who applied this practice in their organization is told to be successful more than others. A great leader, will have a good people skill, respect to each other, have understanding about empowerment, to have a good support system, they also need to know that is the current trend and must follow it to retain the successful of the business. The diversity of people will help the organization to understand more about people, their perspective and needs in different angle.

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Noor Nashira Azda Ab Halim ZP03805

Based on today's session, it is focus on women changes of women leadership. Prevoiusly, women used to stay at home doing house chores, raising their children and helping their husband in order to ease the their day-to-day. The situation that faced by women has made them transformed from an ordinary women to a someone that able to rock the world.

Tn Hj Zaki has name few character like Carly Fiorina from Hawlet Packard, which is so powerful in his era. Tn Hj Zaki has differentiate leadership style between women and men. Women used a transformational style  with flat structure. They focus on relationship between worker, very encouraging, motivational and cooperative. In the communication commonly women seen as given an indirect instruction to their staff.

To be a good leader, women or even men needs to equip themselves with technical skill and soft skill. This skill will help them to analyze problem effectively. The skills must be improved thus they will be able to move forward according to current practices. A leader must be able to influence people, equipped  with negotiating skill, voice out their opinion and justify them.

A little empowerment can create a positive environment as young generation wanted protocol to be put away. They wanted their ideas to be listened. However, a minimal supervision is still needed to monitor their strategies and decision which , it is towards company goals.

Lastly, when in crisis, Pn Fadila has highlighted women to think rationally and find solution to their problem. According to her, problem can be solved when we stayed focus and never give up.
She is an example of women who fail in the marriage but able to raise up. She has encourage us to join volunteer team that can help others in needed.

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Reflective Journal - Women Leadership in Complex Time

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Name: Anis Nabilah Rozali

Student ID: ZP03873

Based on my personal view, today session is a fantastic one. The topic has been chosen today never cross in my mind which is Women Leadership in Complex Time. Nowadays, many positions held by women. So the topic for me is every interesting.

Today session many new things I have learnt. From the first speaker, Tuan Haji Zakie, share about as women leader, their problem are they become be like men, act like men and firm like men. He said that it is wrong. He means that just be yourself, as women they must retain their softness, kind, sweet and beauty as a leader, “keep your beauty on duty”. He is also shown the comparison leader between male and female. He conclude male and female leader should work together to survive the constant changing business environment.

The second and last speaker, Madam Nirmala and Madam Fadilah, taught me about how to suit yourself with male leader and to be a great women leader. Madam Nirmala was reminding to all student about as leader we need to give our value add to company. We need to give our opinions, suggestions and voice out it with justifications in order to influence others (shareholders, BOD, managers, CEO, etc) on our ideas to be accepted by them. In addition as leader we need to have relevant skills such as soft skills and technical skill to make correct decision. What Madam Fadilah taught that to be great leader we must have knowledge and followed by action and the result is we become a wonderful leader. She is also promoting individual skill based volunteerism to students to help others to be great.

To conclude, today session was helping students to improve in delivering leadership skills in a correct way and manners.

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Usamah Azman

ZP04085

Today session was a great one. The input I learn about empowerment and the emphasize of the matter on women. The speakers shared their experience on how back in the days, people of different gender were treated at a different manner. Less are expected from woman compared to man.

Nowadays, we are shifting to a great era where women and men are being treated on equal ground. Genders still hold some sentiment, but as we learn and improve, it is shown that both women and men need empowerment so that each can show how valuables there are on the task given to them.

The speakers also explain how women should voice out in their line of work. This is so that their opinion will be heard and counted for. Increase on participation of women in the leadership and decision making will cast the stigma of gender difference out of the window and give way to women empowerment to take the stage as men do.

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Hakel Yusuf ZP04014

Based on today's session, Tuan Hj. Ahmad Zakie has shared the revolution and changes of women leadership from the first half of the century up to the modern times. With the progress of women from conventional household caretakers to strong women in the career path. It can be seen that women possesses a more transformational style of leadership as compared to men having a transactional style of leadership. By realising the different styles of leadership between men and women, hopefully a fine balance can be achieved between these two leadership styles that can fit in different parts of the ororganisation structure.

Secondly, Madam Nirmala has shared that in order to succeed we must possess skills that are both technical and soft. But with today’s pressure, we must also have strong moral support from our friends and family. Especially for women, they would need the support from friends and family because they would face many life decisions that can affect their career path such as having a baby and juggling work at the same time. It might me hard for a man to comprehend the struggle, but on the side of the men we should be more supportive and understand their struggle. Because as hard as it is to climb the corporate ladder, it is especially harder for women with today’s biases and stigmas against women. But with the mindset of equality and women having more skills, slowly the balance of workforce is changing with younger women leading the change.

Thirdly, Madam Fadilah shared her stories of being a survivor of domestic violence which led her to set up her own NGO. This is very inspiring as she has taken a horrible ordeal and made something good out of it. It is not easy to get something positive out of something negative and what she did showed courage and bravery. She emphasised about having inner strength and not to be afraid to voice out opinions. She showed us that we can do amazing things when we have courage to do them.

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Loh Teck Wai
ZP04010

Today I was lucky enough to learn a lot of prominent experience by great man, we being informed about raise of the feminist leadership, IR4.0 transformative, empowerment, stood up fight for the right, voice out the view/opinion without fear and so on and so forth. I not going to repeat and explaining in detail all those great experience but there is most impressive thing I would like to shared which I learn from the Women Leadership in Complex Time session was the phrase: “knowledge + Action = Power”. Obviously, acting without knowledge or planning or whatever it is isn't grant you the momentum to turn your life better. Indeed, it could be worse. Hence, being humble, embrace diversity, work as a team, to be a sponge and adapting new ideas, most import thing development the skillset by continuous practice and action. I do believe all of above is a series of stepping stone and led us focus on the bright side of life and achieve the positive results.

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Name: Lam Pei Yuan
Student ID: ZP03820

Based on today session, I had learned that empowerment is important for everyone; we need to know how to mentor the staff by giving them the empowerment. When they go into others direction, we need to guide them back, if they did well, we have to encourage and support them from time to time.

Besides that, I also learned Woman need to be brave and voice out their opinion. When we is silent and scare, the perpetrator will bully and intimidate us. We need to be brave, believe in our self to stand up and voice up our opinion.

Apart from this, we need to technical and soft skills to lead or mentor others. Also knowledge plus action equal to power, we have the knowledge but we also need to take initiative to step forward and take action to make it happened.

Last but not least, today class is taught differently, we have a great and wonderful session. Thanks Dr. Nasuha for this special arrangement and also thank you Tuan Haji, Madam Nirmala and Puan Fadilah to come for sharing with us.

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Toh Kar Inn
ZP04001

The individual speaker sessions and panel discussion was informative and engaging, with real life examples shared.
With the industry and life experiences shared by the speakers, attendees have today gained a better understanding of women leadership at the workplace and how women can continue to make a difference in the workplace.
The key takeaway from the sessions is empowerment -- not just for women but the millennial generation. Empowerment is a transformative process which helps build better leaders for tomorrow.
Tuan Zakie serves as a prime example of how a supportive leader can be, while Madam Nirmala teaches us the importance of having a sturdy skill set and knowledge.
Madam Fadilah's attitude as she overcame her domestic violence rings true and is also applicable in the workplace, where change can happen from just one person's bravery to stand up against discrimination and voice out their opinions in a proper manner.

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S.Naveenkumar
ZP03878

Reflective Journal

Today’s session started with title “Leadership in Complex Times” and recap of previous class. Discussion was carried out about complex and complicated times according to cynefin framework. After the session, guest speakers arrived and all 3 them gave speech which is summarized below:

1)     Tn Hj Ahmad Zakie Ahmad Shariff

From Tn Hj’s speech, I am managed to get many tips and inputs in dealing and convincing top management to accept my ideas. As an MBA student who aspired to be a leader for an organization in future, the speech was very useful to me

2)     Mdm Nimala Doraisamy

Mdm Nirmala shared her experience being a women and successful Director of a company and from her speech I understood the importance of sharpening our skillset which is necessary to climb up a corporate ladder.

3)     Mdm Nor Fadilah Binti Mohamed Nizar

Mdm Nor Fadilah inspired me to involve in volunteer activities by sharing her own experience. Through positive thinking, she proved that anything is possible. I realised from her speech that giving back to society can be in the form of skill based volunteering (SBV) which is not really difficult

I would suggest UKM GSB to organize more events like this in future.

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ZP04064
Today's talk was interesting as the topic was focusing on women leadership and how to apply  it in our daily life to become a good leader.The first speaker Tuan Haji Zakie talked how women's life has changed thoughout the years and  men and women should complement each other in an organisation whereby women are the one encouraging transformational leaders and men are transactional leaders who are performance driven to come together and provide support and empowerment.
The second speaker Madam Nirmala shared her experinces in corporate world and emphasize on the  importance  of adding sets of   skill to an organisation.
The final speaker, Pn Fadilah shares her experince on domestic violence and how she overcame these  obstacles.She emphasises the importance of inner strength and women should not be afraid to voice out their opinions.

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Meenachi Sengeny
ZP03929

The sharing from today's speech is very informative and inspiring.The keys mentioned for today's class  in women leadership in complex time are respect and support system.
The three speaker Tuan HajiZakie,Madam Nirmala and Fadilah who are very knowledgeable and experienced. In my opinion what i can conclude from their speech is ;Tuan Haji ,told us his story to be a successful businessman who empower youth.Madam Nirmala shared her story starting from ground until she reach the top to the only female BOD.From her speech we get to conclude that first of all we must ensure that we have the relevant skills. Following to that dont be afraid to voice out your opinions. Lastly stay focused and never give up.Madam Fadilah highlighted the warrior who stand up for what happened to her and save the rest of us.As last I would like to quote this "Give a right shoe to women, she wil conquer the world.

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Reflective Journal
Name : Han Yee Kwan Student ID: ZP03982

The lesson I have learnt today in class about women empowerment. The speaker invited to share their thought was Tuan Haji Zakie, Puan Nirmala and Puan Fadilah. It was a fruitful session where I believe could enhance my capabilities and management skills throughout my career.

We were given different situation or scenario how to overcome problem. For example, Puan Fadilah share her experience which she come across unhappy marriage how to handle it. She was hit by her husband in result she filed to court for divorce application.

Besides that, Tuan Haji Zakie share his vast experience throughout the journey. His thought inspire me where he emphasize the relationship in work place. For example, finding common interest during conversation so that it could enhance relationship with each other.

Furthermore, Puan Nirmala sharing her experience becoming a director in listed company. For instance, as a women need to voice out when things is not right rather than being quietly which does not reflect personal opinion. Family support is the key factor to be successful in the future. Everyone is given equal opportunity to demonstrate their talent and skills.

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Women Leadership

Name: Rasyidah binti Mhd Adnan

Student ID: ZP03804

Today’s session is a very interesting and informative one. It focused on women leadership, which is a topic that really catched my attention. In the speech by Tuan Haji Ahmad Zakie, he explained about the revolution of women leadership through ages. From the speech I got to know how the roles of women has changed with time. The roles of women in a nation cannot be denied as it emerged in 1940’s as the war effect. Through times, women participation in leadership has evolved and their capabilities are now recognized as more women involved in leadership and corporate.

From the sharing by Mdm Nirmala Doraisamy on the other hands, I learnt about how to be a successful women leader. In becoming one, a woman need to have a solid support system. It is important for us as women to be surrounded by the family and friends who are positive and always encourage us in achieving our dreams. Besides, to be a successful leader in this competitive world, a woman must have skills which include technical skills and soft skills like the ability to influence and negotiate with others. With those skills, it will help us to shine and perform as good as men, or even better than them.

Besides, Mdm Nor Fadilah Binti Mohamed Nizar shared her own experience of being a victim of domestic violence and how she grew stronger and stand again. Being women, there are many challenges that we have to face in balancing our commitments. We must always be brave and focus in whatever we do. She also encourages us to involve in charity programmes as it will be a platform for us not only to help others but to develop ourselves.

In conclusion, I learnt that gender discrimination is something that need to be abolished. The roles of women are considered important as it complements the men. The differences must not be seen as weaknesses but rather be the factors of completing each other in achieving the same goals.

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Reflective Journal
Name: Siti Rosnani Binti Mat   Yaacob
Student ID: ZP04035

As an MBA student, I am very lucky to have three Panels who are very experienced in these industries to share with all of us regarding an important part of our life. Firstly, the most obvious thing that I discovered was the advantage of being a woman and very lucky to have a career to contribute to the nations. I learned that every woman have an important role and always see with different perspectives such as they tying the employees transformed their self-interest to the goals, Encourage employees like their own children by motivating and persuade to be better. This is because women feel more empowered to stand up on women employees and creating a more welcoming environment like home. Women always inspired by their parents and them practice soft skills. They see the problem as a challenge, always use talk therapy, stay focus and never give up. Each time a woman stands up for herself, she also stands up for all women. Empowering women is not easy they need to have knowledge and self-confidence to bring herself stood in the good platform. This empowering technique requires them to know themselves. The beautiful women skills help a lot in the board by using the soft skills influence others in decision-making; win negotiation and voice out their opinion with justification. I found the energy and power of the women in the Management level made me feel more energetic about contributing something to my own company and inspire me to do better leader in the future. Key to take are Confident, be you and self-empowerment are important to bring yourself to the next level. Thank You Madam Nasuha for arranging a very inspiring session for all of us.

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Sivakumar a/l Subramaniam
ZP04037

Today's talk was all inspiring and was not the usual session for us where we attend classes . The talk was all about the role of youth and women empowerment . Youths are often underestimated for being childish ,pampered bunch and choosy when comes to work and responsibility. The speakers proved that all this perception are wrong and there lots of ideas that can be learn from the youths. Even though they are senior by age and experience, but they admit the capabilities of GenY. The talk on women empowerment was superb . Women empowerment are lacking in many institution especially in government institution. Many are mere followers and are afraid to voice out their opinion at work place. I am totally against domestic violence against women. A developed country is a country that protects violence against women. Hope to attend many more talks from Tuan Haji Ahmad Zakie , Madam Nirmala and Pn Fadilah.

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Today's talk was a motivational and inspiring to me where they talk about women's leadership in corporate field. There are 3 speaker who gave this talk ; Tuan Haji Zakie ; Madam Nirmala; Madam Fadilah.

Tuan Haji spoke about women's involvement in career line. Those days women was told to be at home and take care of the family and that what they do as well. He even shared the history in how women involved slowly in career. He shared some poster used to portrait women in 80's, 90's and 20's. He said women should be women not mens even they are doing the men's job. By wearing pants coats and shoes women are not mens. They are some other characteristics which mens don't have. He shared the way in how women's and men's handle things in career.

Madam Nirmala shared about her experience being a successful career women. She is in the board director for 2 companies. She started her career in finance industry. She told that her family was her main support for her success. They supported her to achieve her goals. She shared some skillset that's we should have to be a good leader; soft, technical and negotiate skill. As a leader we should know on how the business run, how to manage the people in the management and how to deal on the technology growth. By understanding this and having this skillset anyone can be a good leader and be the member of the board director. Even she said many graduates are women compared to mens but the success rate in career are mostly mens because many women give up their career once they are married. As a women they need support from their husband, family and as in law for them to grow more in career line.

Madam Fadilah also shared her own experience where she was a survivor of domestic violence. She shared the struggle she went through which make her to open her own NGO. Her NGO is mainly to help People who went thru a lot of issue emotionally, mentally and physically but mainly for women. They have started the NGO in JB but have a lot of member in full Malaysia. The quotes that she shared was so inspiring which like a boost for me.

Today I have learned many things from the talks. It gave me a lot of confidence and ways to achieve my goals in career line. Thanks for Prof Nasuha to prepare such a wonderful talk today.

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Name: Yeong Weng Hong
Student ID: ZP03973

I summarize today talk into 3 sessions:

1st speaker (Tuan Haji Zakie): changes of women’s involvement in society and corporate structure from the pass until present. Women and man might have different leadership characters, but both should complement each other in an organisation.

2nd speaker (Madam Nirmala): to be a good leader, we need to have good soft skills, relevant technical skills, able to influence our ideas, negotiation skills and be brave to voice out own opinion.

3rd speaker (Puan Nor Fadilah Bt Mohamed Nizar): She shared her own experience on domestic violence and the importance of speaking up. Puan Fadilah shows a good example how we can use our knowledge and contribute back to the society.

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Name : Ratna Priya Varatharajan
Student ID: ZP03814

Today my key takeaway from Leadership Class which conducted by Dr Nasuha were the difference of leadership style between men and women, voice out opinion/ ideas & self-confidence. The class held remarkably with 3 successful panelists.

The first key takeaway I got from Tun Haji Ahmad Zakie was the difference of leadership style between men and women whereby women’s leadership style is transformational which sound interesting because women more cooperative and have indirect communication skills in this current developing business industry. Compared to men their leadership style is more transactional. Second key take away from Dr Nirmala was as a future leader should be able to voice out and influence the ideas. Thus we must know on how to spread the ideas well especially to our superiors. As per Dr Nirmala, mentioned that we have to deal with multiple directors with different personalities, so make sure our ideas caters them accordingly. The third key point I got from Pn Fadilah was be a person with self- confidence and strong. Like what Pn Fadilah said as a women should face any challenges bravely and make a solution from the challenges / problems rather than making it as another barrier in our life. No matter any challenges, brave and self- confidence play a very crucial role in our life to overcome it.

To conclude from today’s talk it was a fantastic session with all the panelist and also Dr Nasuha where has gained many ideas and steps on how to be a successful leader.

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Name : Kaviarasan s/o Aridas                          Student ID :ZP03835 Today’s class is all about leadership and the talk given by the three panels from a different field. It is really interesting and informative. The first talk given by Tuan Haji Zaki mainly on women leadership style and women leadership transformation through the ages starting from year 1990’s to 2000. Moreover, he explained on the leadership complexity from his own perspective and finally he indicate about the 9 pillar of industry revolution 4.0 are interrelated where the fast paced advancement in digital technology in the industrial sector.The second talk given by Mdm.Nirmala who is one and only female board of director in corporate company. She share with us her experience and the challenges faced by her throughout the journey and what are the skills we should have to overcome the problems. Besides that, she said to be a successful leader not only the skills, qualification play a important role, however a great support system will be enlighten the pathway to reach the goals.Lastly the talk session by Mdm.Fadilah the founder of JEIWA domestic violence (dv) against woman. The talk objective is to empower women to be equipped and passionate about positive thinking, volunteerism and civic minded.

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Name : Kaviarasan s/o Aridas                          Student ID :ZP03835 Today’s class is all about leadership and the talk given by the three panels from a different field. It is really interesting and informative. The first talk given by Tuan Haji Zaki mainly on women leadership style and women leadership transformation through the ages starting from year 1990’s to 2000. Moreover, he explained on the leadership complexity from his own perspective and finally he indicate about the 9 pillar of industry revolution 4.0 are interrelated where the fast paced advancement in digital technology in the industrial sector.The second talk given by Mdm.Nirmala who is one and only female board of director in corporate company. She share with us her experience and the challenges faced by her throughout the journey and what are the skills we should have to overcome the problems. Besides that, she said to be a successful leader not only the skills, qualification play a important role, however a great support system will be enlighten the pathway to reach the goals.Lastly the talk session by Mdm.Fadilah the founder of JEIWA domestic violence (dv) against woman. The talk objective is to empower women to be equipped and passionate about positive thinking, volunteerism and civic minded.

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ZP03886

Reflective Journal.

On this talk session today, I have learned a lots about empowerment of woman. Being a woman is not easy to handle of ourselves from various of aspects especially physically and emotionally. From today’s experiences that shared and impress by the three of panels, I understand that woman can be more successful and make the world change based on our capabilities. But we need to stand firm to be brave and voice out that we think the thing is the right. As for now, I can conclude that for future on wards, woman should have the rights to get the happiness, to be protected and to give opportunities. From these, they can transform the individual and societies to be more powerful. Genderism should not be the obstacles from the every of individual to lead a better generation in future.

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NAME: MUHAMMAD QIDRAN BIN MOHAMAD JOHARI ZP03868

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For leadership class today, what I have learned today is all about high self respect. Every Malaysian can contribute towards the country’s progress through qualities of self-control such as high respect for oneself then to one another. Just like Madam Fadhilah said, is all just about respect in order to lead the organization even we are still young among the other followers. Respect need to be protected and improved to achieve excellence. In this age, honour can prevent a person or a country from being subjugated. The strength of self-respect does not apply only to military strength but also the protection of self-respect in terms of overall social life stability.  The following are behavioral values that can build up high self-respect: not easily disappointed, always proactive and looking for opportunities to pursue ambition, brave, fair, confidence, honest, always improving work standards, protect and value local traditional culture, dynamic and changes according to the passage of time and others.

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Women Leadership in Complex Time Reflective Journal
Name: Goh Chun Min 
Student ID: ZP03995

 
The sharing for today was informative and interesting. We have learnt a lot in today’s class. The keys mentioned for today’s class in women leadership in complex time is respect and support system. In my opinion, women faced a lot of discrimination throughout the years in becoming a leadership. However, there are lot of women able to proof that they are able to be in the top management or board of director and able to spend the time with their family as well. Although there are lot of different voices when women are in the management, but when there are respect and support system from the family and the colleagues, women are able to perform and do so much better than the expectation. Women have equal chances and abilities to compete with the men and getting more respect and support this century. Women able to proof their leadership skills and stands for themselves. Women are no longer be seen as housewife but more to multitasking expert. This shows that women are good and able to lead.  It is grateful that we have the panels for today who share their experiences and perspectives for women in leadership and inspire me a lot in becoming a great leader in the future.

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NAME: NUR SHAFIKA IDAYU BINTI ALI    ZP03867

The sharing for today is so interesting and inspiring. We learnt about the women leadership. The women roles in different aspects. All of the speakers give such an informative talk to us and make us feel impressed to be a women. As a women, we need to voice out what we feel. Don't afraid to be in front of others. Use our charm as a key and respect others if we want the other people respect us too.

We need to take any barriers in a positive way. It is not easy to be a women because we are full of emotion but nothing is impossible. We can be a wife, a mother and also a leader at the same time. Stay focus with our goals and never give up. Everything will be paid off.

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Name: Goh Chun Min
Student ID: ZP03995

The sharing for today was informative and interesting. We have learnt a lot in today’s class. The keys mentioned for today’s class in women leadership in complex time is respect and support system. In my opinion, women faced a lot of discrimination throughout the years in becoming a leadership. However, there are lot of women able to proof that they are able to be in the top management or board of director and able to spend the time with their family as well. Although there are lot of different voices when women are in the management, but when there are respect and support system from the family and the colleagues, women are able to perform and do so much better than the expectation. Women have equal chances and abilities to compete with the men and getting more respect and support this century. Women able to proof their leadership skills and stands for themselves. Women are no longer be seen as housewife but more to multitasking expert. This shows that women are good and able to lead.  It is grateful that we have the panels for today who share their experiences and perspectives for women in leadership and inspire me a lot in becoming a great leader in the future.

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Siti Normizah Md Saleh_zp03912
First of all thanks to all dear speakers who shared their thoughts and experienced. From today sharing session, I had learned about how a leader should be. I believe there are more to be shared and dig from them.

A good leader always try to enhance and make their subordinate and staff to be improved and engaged with them, give support and guide for to be able to do the right things. If a leader able to empower the staff it would beneficial to the organizations also where a staff need to be guide for them to release their potential in the career path especially to the young generations.

Young generations are eager to learn and have the sorts of adrenaline to learn new things that challenging to themselves. A young generations to build a career path towards a good manager, we have to be equipped with sorts of skilled needed. Equipped ourselves with soft skills that involve negotiations skills, influence others for our opinion to be heard, able to voice out our opinion with right question to be asked and try to be innovative.
In order for us to smooth the career path, try not to be bossy and respect the eldest but in the same time our opinion are accepted by them.

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Tuan Haji, who tell us his story to be a successful businessman who empower youths.
Mdm Nirmala share her story starting from ground until she reach the top to be the only female BOD.
Mdm Fadilah a warrior who stand up for what happened to her and save the rest of us from being an victim of domestic violence either be women or man.

The session teach us how we can be a leader in this competitive world not only by having the technical skills. We need to sharp our knowledge and soft skills all the time so we can get engaged with the outside world. Asking the right question, gathering data for decision making, interest of both shareholder and stakeholders is cared and be able to give the direction where the organization can progress and achieve the common goals.

In my previous organization, my reporting Chief Compliance Officer is an women, and she also hold portfolio of General Counsel and Company Sec. She made me who I'm today, she empower to present board paper although I'm junior executive that time. Mother of three child holding three top portfolio in multinational corporations, made me proud to be a member of her team. She my impression

I personally take the sharing session of Mdm Nirmala, as I'm working in the same Industry where she came from. As an Compliance and Risk Auditor, her success story inspired me to look up and work further to achieve what I'm passionate about. I take this platform to thanks Dr Nasuha for arranging this session for us, with this Mdm Nirmala has agreed to be my mentor and guide me on my career path.

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It was a great pleasure for me to attend this class today. First of all, I was impressed by the speakers (Tuan Haji Zakie, Madam Nirmala and Puan Fadilah) regarding the women leaderships. The session really relevant to me. I will take note the important things that had been given by Madam Nirmala which is she is the only female in the boards and how can she overcome the challenges:

- We must ensure that we have the relevant skills. For example, Soft skills, technical skills and negotiation skills.
- Don’t afraid to voice out our opinion.

- Stay focused and never give up. -As women leader we must focus with our goals.

I like to quote this and it is really relevant to me which is “surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher”. Just in my current situation, being the only women in the department isn’t easy. I am trying to get through every day struggles. I believe that, even though we are women, success is not impossible. Success starts with thinking differently from everyone else, we can do it, GIRLS!

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Name: Yogashree Balasundram
SID: ZP03858

Today’s sharing session was very inspiring and informative where all 3 panel speakers shared different approaches in their respective field.
Women are gradually making their leadership presence felt in entrepreneurship, administration, education, engineering, and health at regional, national, and worldwide dimensions. Women are currently resolved to interrupt the standard cap that barred them from coming into leadership positions whether or not they possessed requisite skills and talent to occupy them. Women are perpetually evolving and reaching new milestones across a wide spectrum of human activities in modern times. The world has witnessed the advent of women pioneers such as Indra Nooyi, Oprah Winfrey, Theresa May and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Women’s empowerment transforms the world. Empowerment includes the action of raising the standing of women through education, raising awareness, literacy, and training. Women's empowerment is all regarding mobilisation and allowing women to make life-determining decisions through the various issues in society. Ability for women to enjoy their right to regulate and benefit from the resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being. Whereas usually interchangeably used, the more comprehensive concept of gender empowerment refers to individuals of any gender, stressing the excellence between biological and gender as a role.

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1. Name : Sivanesparran Chakravathy
2. Student ID: ZP03991

Thank you to all the speakers. Today’s talk has been inspiring, interactive as well as very much informative especially for me. The talk was presented by 3 different leaders from totally separate. I had a chance to learn how leadership style of women differ from men, where men mostly focus on performance while woman focus mainly on relationship. When I think about it, I agree on this. In my organisation (DELL Malaysia), woman leaders focus on customer-employee relationship while men leaders prefer chase the deadline to prove they can do better. There are no best practise on this case. Moreover, I get to know how to handle domestic violence rather than just stare. Family members and husband should be great support to woman on their personal improvement.

Congratulation on your PHD Dr Nasuha. You’re an inspirational person to many out there.
I hope GSB can arrange more inspiring talk.
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Women Leadership

Yeyanthi Sambamoordy
ZP03831

We had an amazing speaker series today it  was about women empowerment. 1st speaker series by Tn Hj Ahmad Zakie Ahmad Shariff and mainly talked about leaders in complex time. He explained about women power progression from 1990 until present. There was a huge improvement between this time period on women leadership, power and empowerment. 2nd series from Mdm Nirmala Doraisamy. In early stage she was only female on board of director. According to Madam Nirmala , women must have relevant  skills to be a director. Soft  skills , technical skills , able to influence our ideas, negotiation skills and female director do not hesitate to voice out opinion. IT knowledge also very important for female leaders to tackle young working adult and to ensure management overcome from technology distraction. 3rd series by Mdm Nor Fadilah Binti Mohamed Nizar. She is a CEO of JEIWA Global Resources, a Social Enterprise that focus to empower women in urban area through JEIWA Power House, Malaysia 1st Community Empowerment Centre. Madam Fadilah share with us her life experience about domestic violence .

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Vithiya Sathasivan

ZP03881

Today’s sharing session was very enlightening. All 3 panel speakers shared different approaches in their respective field. Especially being a woman myself, I felt that career advancement is vital for everyone. Some of the topics covered reflected on my personal career growth. I was very impressed with Pn. Fadilah’s sharing. Besides that, I was also amazed with Tn. Haji Ahmad Zakie’s sharing too. Indirectly, he alerted me to focus on my career. If there is no career advancement despite achieving tremendous KPI results, then it’s not worth to be in that organisation. Mdm. Nirmala’s sharing reflected on the corporate career which I left 4 years ago. In a nut shell, this sharing session deserves a hats off!

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In today's session, there are a few key points about women leadership and opened up my mind about it. In the past, women did not have the right to work or even socialize with others. Since World War II, women finally got the chance, in which they can contribute to the war but with limited exposure. And recent decades or years, women can be part of the board and even be the leader in a big and renowned corporate. What we see in recent society is a fair position between men and women, by looking at those posters in older days, I was surprised that women were discriminated badly. And I cannot imagine how hard the women fought to achieve current position in the society. This deserved a very huge compliment to them.

In current society, women are the leaders in corporate world at international level. What I can say about women's leadership is, they are more to transformational type, which are more empathy, team oriented compared with result oriented men leader. Meanwhile, they are more considerable and understanding; they care about how their employees feel and they realize this can affect their work performance. People might say women leaders are emotional, but from positive side, this shows that they have passion in work, and they treat their employees as the family members. And lastly, I was impressed by the women speakers today, they have showcased their charisma and they are so charming. What I can see is their confidence as leaders, and they are much stronger than men I believe. In my point of view, leadership will be different between men and women, but a good leader should not be differentiated between genders, but how they perform at workplace, especially at high tension level.

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Leadership Pep talk session today was amazing which ended up well with sharing session. This type of talk is utmost important and spot on targeting audience such as UKM GSB MBA student. As the speakers are from the era of baby boomers to generation X, this give the opportunity to other generations to pick up the baton and equip knowledge with progressive action to produce the power to change the world to be better place. Tuan Haji Zakie brought consensus that leadership of men and women although differs but given the opportunity it can complement each other to co-exist and thus create synergy to drive growth and innovations in an organization and nations. Most of the organizations in the world has been utilizing men-made business organization model which has fair share of success and the impact had been around and still lingers. Introduction of women into the workforce consequently added the necessary enhancement which injected much needed energy and enthusiasm into the working environment as well as the modern business model. Subsequently, evolution of modern women rising from being kitchen genius and master of keeping the household secure to organization forefront “general” should be recognize for their accomplishment. One of the evident is Madam Nirmala. Not forgetting Madam Fadhilah, who try to make this world we live in a better place. Madam Fadhilah fight had been incredible, which most victim of domestic abuse only live on to blame themselves. She rise to the top armed with springboard of positiveness and lead others to live their (victims) life as well in the same manner. Women, you have my salute and men who understand support and respect them deserves a badge of honour. Thank you Madam Nasuha for organizing such an inspirational event.

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ZP03629
In today session, the speakers give me a good explanation regarding how. To be a good leader and as a woman to handle the complex situation. Tuan Haji Zaki share a good knowledge that i can use and implement it on my working environment. Based on my understanding during the session, a good leader has the ability of the ethical person to shine through to leadership. A good leader must have the ability to demonstrate the skills and knowledge to undertake the tasks expected. Experience make us strong to face the situation in future. We dont have to scared ti share our experience to others. The strong leader are the leader that understand their environment and they can adapt whatever situation. A good leader maintains and develop skills, knowledge and experience in themselves and others. A good leader takes responsibility for our own as well as others actions and a good leader. Have a clear direction to guide others and show a good example to others. This session is a good session to students participate and more clear about the leadership. In conclusion, gender shouldn’t be a factor in whether or not a person can be a great leader. A person’s leadership abilities should depend on their individual strengths and personality traits. Never be afraid of displaying the qualities and instincts you possess naturally.

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The session we had today been interesting, interactive and informative. The talk given by 3 panels from different experiences has given more information on leadership. Women leadership is the topic discussed and from it we are able to know the difference between men and women leadership. We learn that women and men leadership complement each other.  There have been women evolution throughout and more women are encouraged, respect, given equality, opportunity to be equally treated without gender bias. Throughout this talk, there was a lot of information given ex: on leadership skills such as negotiation, data analytical &technology, soft skills, able to add value, able to voice out their opinion and many more. Empowerment is another discussion which is interesting it’s given by the last panel Pn Fadilah. In my opinion the talk given by Pn Fadilah was inspiring on how she stood up for herself and on how she is leading /helping the other women’s which are abused. In conclusion leadership is a skill which can be learned and there is no bias of gender, or either technology. It depends on the individual capability and perspective or view.

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Thank you to all the speaker..it was an amazing sharing, in my conclusion Women Leadership constitutes several factors which makes them to be very powerful leaders in any organizations.The key factors that define woman leadership are as follows:
Attitude – Optimistic mindset, converting weakness in strengths
EIQ (Emotional Intelligence) – Capability to feel the emotions of self and others and communicate them in a healthy manner
Being Flexible and Adaptable – With the ever changing customer requirements and dynamics of the business, a leader need to be flexible and adaptable to situations
Leadership – Utilizing effective tools and resources to manage time, money and energy
Perseverance – Battling the situations even during tough times, believing in self regardless of the situation
Building Relationship – Capability of creating partnership with mentor and providing required support.
Taking control over things that matters – Better work life balance, managing stress, understanding our own strengths and weakness.Female leaders act out leadership as an individualized, interpersonal process For the more potential female leaders, the leadership development is very much valuable because it provides the techniques which is needed to make sure the individuals performance is maintained at high level. leadership development is more important because it helps an individual to lead other in more effective manner. Women leaders thinks individuals self motivation, self awareness and self regulation is most beneficial for the whole organization.

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Nik Nurul Aimi Binti Nik Mohamed Noor
ZP04076

The sharing today was so interesting especially when it comes about women leader. What i can conclude is, everybody can be a leaders either it is a women or a man. The main point is how you can be a good leaders.
Before be a good leader to others we must know how to handle ourselves first. From that we will understand how to make sure that our subordinates or supervisors can work together with us. Because different peoples with different levels and ages they have a different perspective about their jobs.
So be brave and get support from families and friend can be a key to a successful leaders because everybody is a leader.

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Farahanis Waheda Bt Zamri (ZP04034)

I enjoy today's class because I learned a lot from it. I am very impressed with their excellent biography and background from the speakers.The forum and Q&A session were so enlightening when the opinion comes frankly from them. This helps us to gain a deep understanding of the topic Women Leadership.

What can I enrolled from the class, women are great leaders because we are able to balance professional and personal leadership skills. Women can wear many hats. We often balance careers and households among other things.

I believe this is something that comes more naturally to women than men, and is something that I’ve personally relate the topic discuss today with my career; which I am the one and only women in a team, in fact the youngest leader among the senior generations in my organization.

Thank you Tn Hj Zakie, Mdm Nirmala, Mdm Fadilah and Dr. Nasuha for bringing out the best sharing session today.

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The talk today was very informative and it was revolving around women leadership and there are a few key takeaways that could be applied in our daily life in order to become a good leader.  Firstly, we were enlightened by Tun Haji Zakie, on how women’s position in the work force changes throughout the years and indeed we did come a long way. One of the main points that was highlighted by Tun Haji Zakie would be men and women should complement each other in an organization whereby women are the ones encouraging transformational leaders and men are focusing on transactional leader. A good leader needs to have a combination of both styles. Secondly, Pn Nirmala was sharing with us on her experience in the corporate world and the importance of skills set and adding values to the business, and lastly, Pn Fadilah was emphasizing on the importance of inner strength.

I have learned from the session the importance of empowerment and the benefits that we could gain from it, and in these current times, we also have to constantly sharpen our skill sets and do not be afraid to voice out our opinions. Besides that, we also need to think out of the box in order to be innovative as we are moving towards a digitization era.

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Reading through the slides Tuan Haji Zakie presented on the differences between women and men’s style of leadership made me understand women and men leadership styles complement each other. This shows having a healthy mix of gender in leadership positions is beneficial to an organization.

The other point was about empowerment; empowering the younger generation subordinates with an eye over them tends to generate better output from them.

Respect in approaching senior colleagues, management or subordinates is an important factor to ensure a good workplace relationship.

“Knowledge + Action = Power” having the knowledge and putting it into action gives the person power regardless of gender. Technical and soft skills are important to succeed in a career or any undertakings.

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It was really interesting to have Tn Hj Zakie, Mdm Nirmala and Puan Fadilah as the panels for the leadership in complex times slot. I liked that Tn Hj mentioned that women and men should complement each other in the management of an organisation whereby women are the ones who are encouraging and transformational leaders and men are transactional leaders who are performance driven to come together and provide both support and empowerment. Besides that, it was inspiring to have Madam Nirmala who climbed up the ladder up to the director position in two companies to share her experiences. As her words uttered, we need to build good support system at home in order to stay strong in the field despite all the personal and family commitments. She also emphasized that it is vital to exhibit your value as a director and this requires good soft skills, negotiation skills, technical skills and able convey your ideas effectively. Finally, Puan Fadilah as a woman of charisma inspired me too. Despite of her own issues of domestic violence, she was able to overcome that obstacle to empower women out there to be bold and help others in need. I really liked her approach of thinking positively and always find solutions for the challenges instead of giving excuses. Men or women, it is up to the individual who shows quality leadership even at complex times.

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NOOR ATEKA BINTI MOHAMAD ALI
zp03871
Today's class, what i learn is to become succeed leadership share by speaker, the leader should have knowledge, positive thinking, self image and learn from mistake this because the leader will face different backgrounds subordinate.

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Fatin Farhana Abdul Rashid

ZP03915

Today sessions are rather interesting yet relevant. We are indeed all leaders. We lead ourselves daily & most of the time, we face complexity. As woman empowerment evolves through times, the idea of equality between gender grows wider. Everything comes into sense when we are able to respect and differentiate people through skills, credibility, actions, critical thinking, etc. As a whole, those panel has provided a powerful motivation to be our own selves, embrace our flaws and beat the life in whatever we do.

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Name: Suzanne Tan
Student ID: ZP03964

The sharing session today is very informative towards the next potential leaders for both men and women, even though, the focus of today is towards women leadership. In my opinion, all three of the panellist portray different ways in which Tn. Hj. Ahmad Zakie emphasizes how women position changes throughout the history and the difference before, now and then, while Pn. Nirmala is emphasizing more towards her experience in corporate and the importance of skill sets into creating and adding value in the business as one of the board members. Meanwhile Pn. Fadilah stresses on inner strength and capability to recognize self-worth and transform to the person that you are and want to be.

I learnt from this session on the importance of an individual knowledge, technical and soft skills in influencing the person into their actions. The importance of empowerment and transformation of oneself into the person he or she wants with the combination with their competencies makes one powerful and able to stands up for themselves and others. This is important to a leader, as they need to have the ability to lead and transform others as well.

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Based on today’s talk, I have gathered a lot of information about women’s involvement and leadership in this new era of globalization. Firstly, timeline of women’s involvement started with women were stay-at-homers at PRE to 1990 and as time passed, in 2000 we could see that women start to get positions in top management level in government’s and private’s sector. Next, how can women persist in maintaining their position? This were done by having relevant skill such as soft skill which an ability to influence people to accept their ideas, technical skill and also negotiating skill. Besides, it could also be preserved by having a strong support system that mainly gained from family members. Last but not least, there are several approaches on how to empower women that includes mentorship, academic and career development, social transformation together with networking.

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NORLIAN BT MUSTAFFA
ZP03974

Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behave, take action and control work and decision-making about their job.
Each organization has responsiblity to create environment which helps foster the ability and desire of employees to act in empowered ways. Good organization will remove barries that limit the ability of their employees to act in these ways.
Every empowered employees, who are inspired and operating within these framework able increase the productivity and effectiveness of the workplace. Bieng able to performed their jobs more efficiently and effectively to performed mission and goal of organization. Also enable employees to control their own job and using their skils and abilities to benefit both their organization and themselves.

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ZP03965
Women Leadership
The evolution of women becoming a leader started ages ago. From women 'must' become as housewives until now women conquering the world and corporate ladders. There are several women's leadership style that differ from men's leadership styles such as for women,they tend be more transformational,they preferred flat structured of leadership,focus more on relationships, they also like to be more persuade, encourage & motivated. In addition, they are more cooperative and they are more tend to use the indirect communication style to others. As we know, nowadays many women have become directors in many of organizations. To become one in a thousand fish in a huge sea of men, a woman is required to have a great attributes in the board room. For instances a woman should have great softskills,empowerment, good in influence others and others. Last but not least, who knows one day women will take over all men roles in becoming the leaders of the world.

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1. Name: Rafiqa Raihan Hamdan
2. Student Id: ZP03737

Women Leadership

The digitalization has not just affected the industry economically, but it has also impacted on the evolution of women’s role in the corporate sector. Nowadays, women intellectual and soft skills are acknowledged to be at the same level as men. Nevertheless, it is crucial for the women leaders to not just adopting the mindset of to appear “aggressive” in order to be “manly”. Being assertive and empathetic are the best traits for women’s leader and should be utilized the potentials to the fullest. To be a great leader, it is a must to be able to differentiate professional and personal life. It is not also encouraged to generalize the traits of a leader according to gender, as it is very subjective.

As a leader, creating a strong support system is crucial. Empowerment and mentoring comes along together and thus, to deficit one another would impact on employee’s motivation and the imbalance of the workforce. Finding a perfect balance is crucial in order to be a great leader. On top of that, to earn a respect, one must be respectful also a traits that a leader should never neglect.

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1. Name : Mohd Azam Azmi
2. Student ID: ZP03721
3. Reflective Journal

WOMEN LEADERSHIP

The first speaker basically emphasize on women leadership which are trending nowadays. He emphasize on woman empowerment and roles as a leader. However women leaders tend to imitate their male counterpart rather then having their own identity. Women perception of them being need to do extra work in order to be on the same level as their male counterpart resulting them being overwork and stressed out.

The second speaker emphasize more women ability to manage multiple task between work and home. It relate to time management in order to have work life balance. It also relates to support system where relatives and friend evolve within a person everyday life to compensate on women ability to manage task required. Plus, women should also equip themselves with necessary technical and soft skill.

The last speaker mainly talk about inner strength of women. It is about courage of women to stand for themselves and voice out their opinion. It is about emotion of women leader that need to be control. Emotion does not necessarily a negative thing for a leader. Women emotion can be a positive thing that differentiate them from male leader. In order to have harmony workplace, respect between members are very crucial.

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Reflective journal

Name: Nasarudin Bin Manan
Student ID: ZP04047

Women Leadership

In leadership development classes Today I have heard the talks from 3 panels that are the characters of companies that tell about the women leadership.

The first presenter, Tuan Haji Ahmad Zakie, provides a description of the leadership style of women and the leadership style of men, thus evolving the leadership of a woman from the 1940s to the present. He also providing examples of of women leaders today and how they succeeded in becoming a great leader nowadays.

The second talk come from a highly dedicated corporate figure and has been a member of the board of directors of two companies. She has 20 years experience in the banking industry as well as in company's risk management. She give a step in how to become a great leader and her great effort to achive it.

Third talk comes from a CEO of NGO which empower women. She talk about her pass life as a abuse wife, and how she take step to survive and fight for her live and daughter. Now she represent the NGO that give hope and empower women and activities that the NGO doing right now.

This talk session is very inspiring and open a new perspective for me on women leadership and their struggle to become the best in their live and also enrich others how to become like them or more then them.

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Name: Nor Mahirah bt Tajuddin
Student id: ZP03908
The talk are full of information and knowledge in different three topic. Overall of this talk is about on the empowerment. Empowerment give an opportunity to every person in the company to improve themselves and also improve the company performance.

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Name:
Muhammad Hafiz Raslan

Student ID:
ZP03931

Women Leadership

The evolution of women from being a traditional housewife to working mothers contributing to the national economic growth. The new generation should stay away from the typical stereotyping that women must stay at home and the men will provide for the family. During these difficult economic and financial times, both man and women are forced to be in the workforce to provide house ends meet. Therefore, it is important to provide a plain fair field to all gender without any bias.Corporations need to do more to provide some support system such as child care at work, reasonable maternity leave and more.

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Name: Lam Pei Yuan
Student ID: ZP03820
Based on today session,

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1. Name : Hamizah Omar
2. Student ID: ZP03894

Women continues to face challenges in the workforce and are often stigmatise as being emotional and difficult. one of the biggest barriers is the fact that it is almost ingrained in our culture that women and men are not equal.

However, the women empowerment movement has risen in recent years and government and organisation have put real efforts to push forward gender equality and promote better working environment for women e.g maternity leave, mother’s room in offices. This not only helps women to join the workforce but also provide them the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Domestic violence against women is one of the subjects where we as a society, we shy a way from, it is almost taboo to be talking about it.Being abused both physically and mentally can have a negative impact to a person in a long run. Organisation and the community need to have a better system to support the victims. There needs to be an avenue for them to report and at the same time be protected.

As the world is changing and demand for equal opportunities by all (age, gender, religion) become more apparent, organisations need to adapt and adopt policies that do not marginalise or deter their people’s growth. Hence, leadership is important to push forward the organisation and to deal with the specific nuances of each generation. For the younger generation, they need empowerment and do not like to be controlled and this has proven to be difficult for some, as they do not want to compromise or change the way they do things.

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Student ID: ZP03887

Reflective Journal

I found the sessions (both presentation and panel discussions) were insightful and relevant to me. I believe that three speakers summed up their individual experience very well and can be summarized into 3 main things which are:

(a) empowerment of youth in workplace – employees should be given the opportunities to grow by providing the platform to make decisions, inputs and mentorship,
(b) women in workforce, especially on the Management and Board representatives – and their challenges, and
(c) domestic violence and the importance of speaking up. This session also inspires me to participate in contributing back to society by offering my existing knowledge and expertise.

I hope Dr Nasuha & GSB could arrange this kind of session more! Thanks

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1. Rafiuddin Rosland
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Women empowerment is the process of empowering women at the workplace or in the society. Empowerment does not only apply to women, but it also applies to men. The sharing session today has helped me to understand that self-empowering is an important process or skill to succeed or survive.

We can take the example of women empowerment to understand what empowerment is. Women have been discriminated against for the longest time in many societies globally. It took several brave women to voice out in order for this movement to succeed. Nevertheless, this has changed the social context in the 20th and 21st century. Nowadays, we can see that there is an increasing number of women in senior management positions in many big companies including multinationals.

Nevertheless, leaders play an important role in empowering their employees or subordinates. Mentoring is important to ensure that the new generation of workers feel empowered at the work place and not afraid to voice out. On top of mentorship, the employees have also to be equipped with the right technical and soft skills to be more empowered.

Finally, self-empowerment and empowering others are important skillsets that leaders are required to have to become successful.

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Name: NOOR ATEKA BINTI MOHAMAD ALI
Student ID: zp03871

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The key takeaway for the day is that we need to encourage empowerment to everyone under your management especially young generation. Young generation have a lot of ideas and they know the world is operating. They should be given the opportunity to share and act on their ideas by empowering them. There are no limit to empowering however empowerment came with responsibilities. The main job of managers or leaders is to provide mentoring and coaching on top of the empowerment. The best way visualize this is tying a person with a string and let him or her go as far as they can and pull them back when they require help or guidance in fulfilling their role.

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Mohamad Zul Azri Bin Zainuddin
ZP03952

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Student ID : ZP03829

The things I learned today from the speaker are if want to become a successful leader, must have two skills which are technical skills and soft skills. Technical skills including the knowledge improvement and also expert to provide advice the company in finance direction, performance as well as reporting. However, soft skills including able to influence your ideas, the ways deal with top management such as director and how you manage the team as well as know how to ask the right question. In addition, a leader should not be afraid to voice out your opinion and give your justification with rationale to convince other instead of instruct people.
As a leader, I think the most important skills is communication skill especially public speaking. I think the things suggest to add on this leadership development program is public speaking session. To train student able to communicate at public and don't be afraid to voice out.

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ZP03980
It was extremely interesting and inspiring to have Tuan Hj Zakie, Mdm Nirmala and Puan Fadilah as the boards for the initiative in complex occasions space. I preferred that Tuan Hj referenced that ladies and men should supplement each other in the administration of an association whereby ladies are the ones who are empowering and transformational pioneers and men are value-based pioneers who are execution headed to meet up and give both help and strengthening.

Besides, it was motivating to have Madam Nirmala who moved up the step up to the chief position in two organizations to share her encounters. As her words expressed, we have to assemble great emotionally supportive network at home so as to remain solid in the field in spite of all the individual and family duties. She likewise underlined that it is essential to show your incentive as an executive and this requires great delicate aptitudes, transaction abilities, specialized aptitudes and capable pass on your thoughts adequately.

Lastly , Puan Fadilah a lady full of positivity and energy her talk regarding of her own issues of aggressive behavior at home, she could conquer that impediment to enable ladies out there to be intense and help other people in need. I truly loved her methodology of reasoning decidedly and dependably discover answers for the difficulties as opposed to giving reasons.

The things I gained today from the speaker are if need to end up a fruitful pioneer, must own technical skills including the knowledge improvement and also expert to provide advice the company in finance direction, performance as well as reporting. And also soft skills including able to influence your ideas, land how you manage the team as well as know how to ask the right question. In addition, a leader should not be afraid to voice out your opinion and give your justification with rationale to convince other instead of instruct people.

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Student ID : ZP03983

The corporate world today is undergo a massive changes over the last few decades especially the involvement of woman who play important role in management and leadership. Needless to say, we notice it affects the corporate culture and how organization present and position itself in the complexity environment. The type of leadership is depends on the nature of business and the environment it operate. However, the trust, empowerment, mentoring, accountability , responsibility, team work, confidence, work life balance, reward are some of the elements that contribute to the success of the leadership. Last but not least, I believe a constant communication in open discussion definite help to make the leader a better leader

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