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

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 20^th and 21^st 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. 

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.

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.   

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.

 

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.

 

 

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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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. 

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. 

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.

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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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!

Yeyanthi Sambamoordy
ZP03831 

We had an amazing speaker series today it  was about women empowerment. 1^st 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. 2^nd 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. 3^rd 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 .

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!

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. 

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. 

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.

 

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. 

1^st 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.

2^nd 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.

3^rd 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.

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.

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. 

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.

 

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.     

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.

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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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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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 18^th century) is through introduction of mechanical production facilities with the help of water and steam power. Second industrial revolution (beginning of 20^th century) is through introduction of mass production with the help of electrical energy. Third industrial revolution (beginning of 1970 of 20^th 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. 

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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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. 

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.

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.

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.