關於 how to ask for feedback ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR YOGA JOB INTERVIEW? - if you’re asking yourself the same question, 👀 along:

1️⃣- Have your photos taken. Other industries might not need a photo but in the field of yoga, almost every employer would ask for a photo to see how your practice is. So get some photos taken - professionally if possible.

2️⃣ - Have your bio ready. This should include how many and what trainings you have received. Highlight who your lead trainers were too. If possible, maybe ask your lead trainer to write a few comments (like a note of recommendation) about you. Highlight anything in the past that might make you a great hire too. If you're great with communicating with others, make sure you mention it.

3️⃣ - Research on the studio - Find out what the studio is; its background. Check out its website and IG, see what they offer and what is missing in their service. And see if you could provide what they need. If you know someone who's a member there, talk to them to get their perspective as a member. See what's working and what's not.

4️⃣ - Be yourself. At the interview, be honest and authentic. Employers are more interested in your personality and in seeing if you're a team player, rather than hoping you are the king of #handstand. A good interview is basically a good conversation. If this is your first interview, don't ask about the money right away. You should always ask questions and say thank you when you leave. Prepare a short sequence to demonstrate your teaching skills and keep the sequence simple. You don’t have to put your legs behind your head to teach a yoga class.

5️⃣- Leave a thank you note. Always say thank you after the interview. If you get the job, condragulations! If not, thank them again and ask for feedback. Find out how you could improve yourself and let them know that you are willing to work on those things.

These are my 5 tips on how to prepare for an interview and, most importantly, be reconsidered if you don't get the job right away. What do you guys think? Leave a comment if you have questions or got other useful tips too.

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"Who Are You?”

Three simple words. Difficult to answer.

This past weekend I had the fortune to work with 20 budding yoga teachers in Hong Kong at my annual #mentorshipworkshop. Apart from the adjustment skills and teaching feedback that you would expect in a #yogateachertraining, one thing the teachers didn't expect me to ask them, and keep asking them, is this simple question ""WHO ARE YOU."" Knowing the answer to this question will help you define your teaching and find your voice.

I have been asked so many times in the last few years, how to build a brand, how to stand out as a yoga teacher, how to promote myself as a yoga teacher, how to get more clients, how to work with other brands. Will being able to teach advanced asanas be enough to be a great teacher? Will having beautiful photos in my instagram be sufficient to attract other brands to want to work with me? How to build a name for myself? How to get more followers on Instagram?

All of those are valid questions. But without knowing who you are, without knowing why you teach yoga (or why you do whatever business you're doing), all those questions will mean nothing. It is easy to teach yoga classes, handstand, headstand. It is easy to fill your classes if you try hard enough. But without digging deep to find out why you do the things you do, you and your business will only go so far.

Knowing why you teach is like knowing your core values - so you and your business will have a personality. Knowing who you are gives you trememdous power to make the right decision and do the right thing - so you have courage and confidence. Knowing who you are will allow you to know your own worth - so you can charge accordingly.

So next time when you ask me, how to stand out in a saturated market full of yoga teachers. My questions back to you are: do you know who you are and why you teach?

Thank you so much @delia.indrayoga @reebiesw @jason.washbourne @charlztrevor @anthealook @vrikokwok for sharing your wisdom and insight.

Thank you @maryhoiwai @dennislu_stayfit @msaliceinyogaland @stellaaaron @janetpsl for without your help, this workshop wouldn’t have happened.

Interview with A Founder: Edwin Wong (Co-founder of Cloudbreakr - 亞洲網紅行銷平台)

By Ching Tseng (AppWorks Associate)

Edwin Wong is the founder & CEO of Cloudbreakr - an AI-powered influencer marketing platform in Asia. He has focused on influencer marketing & social analytics for years, with an aim to empower pioneers and brands to share the stories that influence people. The company has expanded its services from Hong Kong to Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand, servicing over 10,000 marketers in over 6 GSEA countries.

1. What is the best advice you would give to first-time founders? What is the most important question that you can ask yourself?

You need to have a strong belief in what you are doing. Before getting good traction, people will keep questioning you why you are doing this. If you don’t have a strong belief in what you are working on, you might give up easily. On top of that, I always ask myself how to be a better founder all the time because founders are the people who have the deepest impact on the company. Your management style and your ability matters. If founders can’t strive to improve themselves, then the company won’t be able to grow as well.

2. What experience made you the founder you are? And what motivates you?

In the early days of Cloudbreakr, I’m the only full time founder, and the team didn’t have a strong engineering ability. With limited work experience, I wasn’t good at arranging tasks which made our development progress sluggish; in the end, two of my co-founders jumped the boat earlier than I expected. At that moment, I realized that I might fail this startup if I kept on managing the company like this, so that’s probably the moment I became the most determined to take this company to an impactful level. Also, I’m not the type of person who gives up easily, I don’t want to let my friends and family down because they have been supporting us this whole time. All of these are what motivate me everyday.

3. What is the biggest mistake and takeaway in your founder journey?

I don’t like to fight with others; I tend to compromise. For example, when negotiating salaries with our employees, I used to accept all the requests just because I didn’t want them to leave or make me unhappy. I didn't take the company’s long term benefit into consideration when making those decisions. Later on I realized this would do long term harm to the company. In order to urge myself to do more long term thinking, I asked my co-founders to give me direct feedback whenever I’m not dealing with things from a more rational perspective.

4. What have you learned in 2020?

It’s a tough year for everyone but also a great moment for the ones with a solid base to shine. How fast you can make the right decisions is a crucial ability in 2020. For example, it’s difficult to predict things and decide whether you should keep the project ongoing or not, and how to react to city lock-down while you still want to have a great momentum of business expansion. I learned to not drown myself in the daily tasks, but to make strategic decisions at the management level, after all, being able to identify the long term goal of the company is what a leader should strive for.

About Cloudbreakr

With the vision to build the largest community for influencers and brands in Asia, Cloudbreakr provides an integrated influencer marketing platform and all-rounded solutions to connect marketers with hundreds of thousands of influencers across Asia.

From influencer discovery, profile analysis, complete campaign management to social monitoring, we empower every retail brand, shopping mall, and marketing agency to optimize the ROI on influencer marketing. The company currently operates in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand, servicing 100+ Fortune 500 brands.

We welcome all AI, Blockchain, or Southeast Asia founders to join AppWorks Accelerator: https://bit.ly/33cXkq4

It's been quite awhile since my last upload and the previous uploads were very gear focused too. Wanted to talk about something I've been thinking a lot for awhile. Creativity often times has been used as crutch to shield ourselves from negative feedback or descriptions of our work that we don't necessarily like. We see it all them in comments and sometimes in our own responses. Awhile back I posted a video about mistakes street photographers are making and some people took it a little too personally and reached out saying how I shouldn't gate keep things and that I didn't know what I was talking about.

I think a lot of these reactions, sometimes including my own, stem from insecurities that we might have towards our work and maybe, in ourselves. Would love to know what you think about this

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《我在哈佛學的領袖技能》工作坊 : Invitation - 2020年2月8日或15日 (星期六)《Leadership Workshop》9am to 1pm

我曾經在哈佛讀過三年(2012/13/14)教授 Robert Steven Kaplan 的領袖課程。Changed my life!

農曆新年後，連我自己18年創業經驗，我希望和你分享我在哈佛學到及應用了什麼 (幸運地，我公司過去幾年的同事們 turnover 都是近0)，可能令你的領袖能力亦有所啟發。

題目: 六步提升你的領袖能力 (6 Steps to Become A Better Leader) based on Harvard Professor Robert Steven Kaplan's teaching and his 3 books.
日期: 2020年2月8日或15日 (星期六)
時間: 9am to 1pm
地點: Classified Cafe and My Office at New World Tower, 16 Queens Road Central, HK.
人數: 每場限20位，
對象: 免費，但只適合工作經驗5至10年以上的管理人士參與。
教材: 講廣東話，內容是英文
Agenda:
(1) Speed dating, self intro and expectations.
(2) Split into teams of 2 or 3 people.
(3) Go thru the leadership framework by Prof. Robert Steven Kaplan (現任美國達拉斯 Dallas 聯邦儲備銀行行長卡普蘭)
(4) Ask those questions and answer in teams.
(5) 回答你任何對做生意的問題，takeaway value and let's all be friends.

報名方法: 請WhatsApp你的卡片給Suki/Monica +852 9218 5223

我之前關於 Prof. Robert Steven Kaplan 的領袖影片:

https://youtu.be/YVplfngE9KM

https://youtu.be/PhPBbbq9oc0

https://youtu.be/Oloo1uA3UvE

Note: 如果之後你覺得此 workshop 有用，希望你可以考慮捐款 support 我 brother-in-law (Derrick Pang) 創立的 Lifewire.hk 慈善組織，幫助患有罕見疾病的兒童。

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#哈佛領袖技巧工作坊，#Leadership_Workshop

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Leadership Framework (by Harvard Prof. Robert Steven Kaplan)

A. STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND KEY CHOICES

(1) Ownership Mindset (Leadership is not about position, is mindset)
(2) What Do You Believe In?
(3) Have You Acted On It?
(4) Add Value To Others
(5) Vision (Where? Why? Distinctive?)
(6) Priorities (3 or 4)
(7) Alignment
- People
- Task
- Organization
- You

With active communication of vision and priorites everyday.

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B. DEVELOPING YOURSELF AS LEADER

Understanding yourself:
A. Assess your own strengths and weaknesses
- Write down your own
- Find others write on yours too
B. Finding your passion
C. Value, ethics, morals
D. What is your story? Be authentic

Why leaders fail?
A. Open to learn?
B. Ask questions?
C. Do you listen?
D. Fight through isolation
E. Ok feeling vulnerable

The leader as role model
A. Do you act as role model?
B. What are the two to three key messages you want to send to people?
C. Do your behaviors match your words
D. How do you plan to improve on your weaknesses, and build on your strengths?

Tools to become better leader:
A. Support group
B. Keep a journal (to do, ideas, knowledge, etc)
C. Face to face communication
D. Interview people (how u do it?)
E. Think one level up.
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C. BUILDING RELATIONSHIP (YOU CAN'T DO IT ALONE)

(1) Build Relationship
. Mutual Understanding
. Mutual Trust
. Mutual Respect
(2) Self disclosure
(3) Inquiry
(4) Advice seeking

Build Relationship Exercise:
A. Write down something about yourself that the other person probably doesn't know. Have the other person do the same.
B. Write down a question you like to ask the other person that would help you understand him or her better. The other person do the same. Ask them.
C. Write down an area of deep self doubt. Disclose to other person and ask for advise.

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D. GETTING AND GIVING FEEDBACK

Giving and getting feedback
A. Seek feedback and seek coaching .
B. Actively coach others. Coach up and coach down. Are your advice specific, timely, actionable?
- Coaching is watching vs mentoring is telling.
C. Not year end review alone. It will be a verdict. Review frequently.

Communication with peers:
A. Ask why do you work here? What's great?
B. What do you hate about here?
C. Can you suggest what action to improve above?

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E. ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF TIME

Managing time
A. Do you know how you spend your time?
B. Does it match the key priorities?
C. 1, 2, 3.
(1) One is related to priorities and must be done by you
(2) Two is related to priorities but can be done by someone else (at least partly)
(3) Three is not related to priorities

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F. EVALUATION AND RE-ALIGNMENT

A. Design of company still align with vision and priorities?
B. Blank sheet of paper exercise, what should you / we do? If so, what's stopping you?

END

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Cindy is looking for the perfect wedding dress in Taipei. Come with us to see what she ends up deciding upon. In Taiwan most people rent their dress and the groom even helps pick it out, which is different than traditional western culture, so in this video we share the experience.

(剛發現上一個上傳的影片有點問題!!! 又重新上傳一遍～不好意思喔各位!!)

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