Why do the behavior of your customers and colleagues, company boss and the mafia boss, neighbours and the naysayers, often seem to defy logic and violate rationality? Why do they often seem to react and respond in a way that seem to make no sense?
The short answer is that human beings are not rational beings. The long answer is that people are not rational beings, people are not rational beings, people are not rational beings! Rather, people are largely psychological beings who are frequently and easily influenced by a long list of psychological factors and forces.
From thinking about what to say during a job interview to how to answer when the prosecutor asks you if you have ever cheated on your income tax filing, from deciding whether to buy a new or a used car to whether or not to kidnap your rich boss for ransom, we are invariably influenced not just by our attitude toward the issue at hand but also the people around us, the context we are in, as well as many other internal and external psychological factors. This course discusses and explores some of these more interesting and important factors.
Lim How is a corporate trainer-consultant based in Singapore. He is a recognized expert in the broad fields of thinking skills, and human relations. A psychology graduate from Yale University, he has served various Fortune 500 companies such as Citibank, IBM, Kellogg’s, Toyota, and UBS, and has been frequently invited to share his expertise with business leaders in different parts of the world. While at Yale, he developed two executive programs that have been used by various MNCs to train their management teams and senior executives.
Lim How is an acclaimed author of three psychology books and an accomplished speaker. Lim How is also the author of three acclaimed personal and professional development books that can be used as platforms for corporate training. They are: (1) Psych Talk, (2) The Salience Effect, and (3) The Two Colors of Truth. Together, the three books have received strong endorsements from experts from Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, NYU, UCLA, and Yale.
His books have received strong endorsement from distinguished professors from top universities including Ellen Langer (Harvard), Edgar Schein (MIT), Emily Balcetis (NYU), and John Bargh (Yale). Witty and informative, Lim How’s books cleverly bring to life many important psychological insights based on fascinating psychological studies that make them a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do, and who wants to know how best to connect with or influence people.
A versatile and interactive speaker with the gift of provoking his audience both to think differently and to rethink their assumptions, Above all, he is best known for his usually lively, witty, and highly informative seminars and workshops. To date, he has conducted countless seminars and workshops to business audiences and the general public in various parts of the world, including Singapore, different parts of Asia, and USA.
