Don’t make these common mistakes when giving performance appraisals. Performance Appraisal, Performance Review or Performance Evaluation. No matter how prettily you package these words, most employees are likely to have the same reaction: nervousness and tension. Let’s be honest, even the managers and supervisors giving the appraisals dread it. But companies still need to conduct […]

Our CEO Mr Joshua Yim, together with leaders in Asia, was recently interviewed by Krishna Kumar VR from China Daily Asia Weekly. Views on Employment in Asia’s public sector was shared, and was published on their website www.chinadailyasia.com and in Vol 6, No 23 of China Daily Asia Weekly magazine, 12-18 June 2015. See the […]

It is indeed not our natural DNA within us Singaporean with the service attitude. Yet, our national carrier, Singapore Airlines is an interesting example of a home grown organization and a leading airline with excellent service standard that is renown throughout the world. In the past decades, SIA has deliberately crafted a service culture through […]

In this edition of Views from the Top published in The Business Times, Achieve Group CEO Joshua Yim shared his views on the effectiveness of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing in boosting the eurozone economy, and its impact on Singapore businesses: “Indeed, market watchers are divided over this phenomenon. I personally feel that the […]

In this edition of Views from the Top published in The Business Times, Achieve Group CEO Joshua Yim shared his views on how CEOs can build and sustain a graft-free corporate culture in today’s business environment: “First and foremost, there must be clear accountability and transparency in terms of systems and processes. One way is […]

In this edition of Views from the Top published in The Business Times, Achieve Group CEO Joshua Yim shared his views on the top issues he wishes to see addressed in Singapore’s 2015 Budget to be revealed on 23 February: “With Budget 2015, I would like to see the government continuing to help SMEs in […]

In this edition of Views from the Top published in The Business Times, Achieve Group CEO Joshua Yim shared his take on how the Singapore economy will fare in 2015:  “My personal forecast is that economic growth for 2015 should be about the same as last year, likely to come in around 2.8 per cent. […]

The New Year is upon us and many of you may be taking stock of your professional journey vis-à-vis your long-term career objectives. Perhaps you are thinking about what lies ahead and considering a move. If you have accumulated sufficient years of industry experience and have all the relevant qualifications and credentials, you may even […]

In this edition of Views from the Top published in The Business Times, Achieve Group CEO Joshua Yim shared his pick of the most significant news event of 2014: “In my opinion, the Ebola outbreak is the most significant news event of 2014 as it has already claimed more than 5,000 lives in West Africa. […]

In this edition of the Views from the Top column, the topic focused on what can be done to weed out rogue retailers and further protect consumer interests. Here are some suggestions from Achieve Group CEO Joshua Yim, as quoted in The Business Times:  “On a national level, such rogue retailers give Singapore a bad […]