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Exercises Built to Pass: My RUSI Piece on How Joint Exercises Model Crises

Joint exercises assume a crisis arrives alone, is recognisable and ends on time. Compounded crises break all three. A summary of my RUSI Newsbrief article.

9 October 2026Read Article

A facilitated group seated around tables, working through a scenario together

Leadership Development5 min read

Leadership Assessments in Singapore: Which One Answers Your Question?

A leadership assessment is only as useful as the question behind it. Which tool answers which question, from CliftonStrengths to two free scorecards.

2 October 2026Read Article

Prathap standing on a jetty over calm water, the kind of set-apart hour a coaching session gives a leader

Executive Coaching5 min read

What Does a Leadership Coach Actually Do?

Session by session: what happens in leadership coaching, what the coach does and won't do, and the signs that tell you it's working.

2 October 2026Read Article

Two professionals in a focused one-on-one coaching conversation, the format executive and leadership coaching share

Executive Coaching5 min read

Executive Coaching vs Leadership Coaching: What Is the Difference?

Both are one-to-one and confidential. Executive coaching serves senior leaders and the organisation around them. Leadership coaching covers anyone who leads.

24 September 2026Read Article

A full room of executive participants building strategy together with LEGO Serious Play

Facilitation4 min read

How Much Does a LEGO® Serious Play™ Workshop Cost in Singapore?

A LEGO® Serious Play™ workshop in Singapore is priced on group size, facilitators, length, design and output. What drives the fee and how to compare quotes.

24 September 2026Read Article

Prathap briefing a room of officers, crisis decisions rehearsed before pressure arrives

Leadership Development5 min read

Crisis Leadership Training in Singapore: The Complete 2026 Comparison

Crisis leadership training in Singapore splits into four lanes that buyers confuse. Here is who does what, and how to pick the lane your leaders need.

3 July 2026Read Article

A military formation on parade, the discipline behind decision-game training

Leadership Development5 min read

Business Wargaming in Singapore: A Buyer's Guide for Leadership Teams

Business wargaming rehearses how a leadership team decides against a situation that pushes back. Four tests separate a real one from a branded workshop.

3 July 2026Read Article

Hands pointing at a laptop screen while a claim is worked through together

Leadership Development2 min read

Is Leadership Training SFEC-Claimable? What to Check in 2026

Only if the course sits on the official SkillsFuture course list. How to check, the dates that matter, and where bespoke programmes stand.

3 July 2026Read Article

Prathap seated at the rim of a desert crater, taking honest stock of the ground ahead

Executive Coaching3 min read

Is Executive Coaching Worth It? The Real Return for Senior Leaders

Executive coaching is worth it when a leader's mistakes cost a lot and the leader is ready to do the work. How to judge the return beyond headline ROI.

27 June 2026Read Article

Prathap on a mountain trail in New Zealand, ground covered one steady stretch at a time

Executive Coaching3 min read

How Many Sessions Does Executive Coaching Take?

Most executive coaching runs six to twelve sessions over three to six months. What drives the number, why spacing matters, and when the work is done.

26 June 2026Read Article

A still lake holding a mirror reflection of the mountains, the quiet moment of self-recognition

Executive Coaching2 min read

Seven Signs You Need an Executive Coach

You need not be struggling to benefit from coaching. These signs show when a capable leader has reached the limits of operating alone and needs a coach.

25 June 2026Read Article

A cohort gathered on a Singapore rooftop at night, a group learning to perform as one unit

Coaching2 min read

What Is Team Coaching?

Team coaching develops a leadership team as one performing unit. How it differs from one-to-one coaching and team building, and when a team needs it.

24 June 2026Read Article

A facilitated group seated in a circle of tables, talking a scenario through together

Leadership Development3 min read

What Is Scenario-Based Leadership Training?

It puts a leader inside a situation already going wrong and makes them decide against the clock. Then it debriefs the judgement rather than the result.

24 June 2026Read Article

Prathap standing on a jetty over calm water, a place set apart for clear thinking

Executive Coaching3 min read

Therapy, Counselling, Mentoring, Coaching: Where Does Coaching Sit?

Four kinds of help, constantly confused. Two questions sort them: are you healing the past or authoring the future, and who holds the answers?

23 June 2026Read Article

A team working a wall of ideas in a workshop, development at group scale rather than one to one

Leadership Development2 min read

Leadership Development or Executive Coaching: Which Should Your Organisation Fund?

For HR and leadership teams deciding where the budget goes: coach the person, or develop the system around them. The test that tells you which.

21 June 2026Read Article

A military parade formation, standards drilled until they hold under pressure

Crisis Leadership2 min read

Can Decision-Making Under Pressure Be Trained?

The instinct says some people just have it. Two centuries of military practice say it can be trained. Most development trains the wrong part of the mind.

19 June 2026Read Article

Prathap presenting with a microphone at a KPMG FutureScape session, the person behind the credentials at work

Executive Coaching5 min read

How to Choose an Executive Coach in Singapore

Credentials, chemistry, and the questions most people forget to ask. A coach's straight guide to choosing one, including when you do not need one at all.

17 June 2026Read Article

Executive Coaching4 min read

What Is Executive Coaching?

Executive coaching is a confidential one-to-one partnership that helps senior leaders work on identity and behaviour as well as skills. How it works.

16 June 2026Read Article

A room of executives working through a structured session, capability built across a whole team

Leadership Development4 min read

What Is Leadership Development?

Leadership development builds leadership capability across a whole organisation, beyond one person. What that means, and how to tell if you need it.

15 June 2026Read Article

Two colleagues working through figures and notes on paper between open laptops

Executive Coaching6 min read

How Much Does Executive Coaching Cost in Singapore?

Executive coaching in Singapore typically costs SGD 300 to 600 a session, with packages from about SGD 1,000. What drives the price, and how to judge value.

14 June 2026Read Article

Leadership4 min read

From VUCA to BANI: What the New Acronym Demands of Leaders

VUCA named the conditions. BANI names how they now feel and behave. The shift matters, because it changes what a leader is actually being asked to do.

13 June 2026Read Article

The original hand-drawn C4 Theory flipchart

Leadership3 min read

The C4 Loop: How Leadership Actually Compounds

Competence, confidence, cohesion, commitment. See how the four feed each other, and what happens to a team when one link breaks.

12 June 2026Read Article

LEGO Serious Play kits laid out before a strategic facilitation session

Facilitation4 min read

What Is Strategic Facilitation?

Strategic facilitation is a designed process that helps a group think together and reach decisions it owns. Here is how it differs from a meeting.

11 June 2026Read Article

LEGO duck warm-up builds on a workshop table, the same bricks holding four different forms

Leadership3 min read

Anchor, Coach, Architect, Steward: The Four Roles a Leader Holds

A leader holds four roles. Most are fluent in the one their career rewarded and avoid the other three.

11 June 2026Read Article

A leadership cohort gathered outdoors in Singapore

Leadership Development4 min read

How Do You Build a Leadership Team That Holds Under Pressure?

Most teams look strong until the pressure arrives. Building one that holds means finding the weakest link before a crisis does.

10 June 2026Read Article

A military formation running at dawn, the discipline built long before pressure arrives

Leadership4 min read

What Makes a Good Leader Under Pressure?

The leaders who hold under pressure are rarely the most confident in the room. They know themselves well enough to act when the plan stops working.

9 June 2026Read Article

Prathap in ceremonial dress with sword drawn at a Singapore Armed Forces command ceremony

Leadership Development4 min read

Mission Command: What Business Can Learn From How the Military Leads

Mission command pushes decisions down to the people closest to the problem. Most businesses copy the delegation and miss the trust that makes it work.

7 June 2026Read Article

A silhouette on a ridge facing the sunrise, weighing which kind of support to take next

Executive Coaching4 min read

Coaching vs Mentoring vs Consulting: Which Do You Actually Need?

A consultant gives you the answer. A mentor shares the answer that worked for them. A coach helps you find your own. Know which you need before you spend.

6 June 2026Read Article

A road toward mountains under a heavy sky

Crisis Leadership4 min read

How to Lead a Team Through a Crisis

In a crisis, your first job is to give the team one calm point to orient to while you work out what is happening.

5 June 2026Read Article

The Leadership Identity Matrix, two axes and four quadrants

Leadership4 min read

What Is the Leadership Identity Matrix?

Most leadership development fixes performance and ignores identity. The Leadership Identity Matrix maps both, and shows why capable leaders feel hollow.

4 June 2026Read Article

Military discipline and team leadership under pressure

Leadership6 min read

What People Get Wrong About Military Leadership

The most disarming thing I said as a Commanding Officer: "I don't know. You tell me." That admission was one of my most important leadership decisions.

22 March 2026Read Article

Abstract technology and human connection, the questions AI cannot reach

Coaching7 min read

The Question AI Cannot Answer

We are more connected than ever and lonelier than in a long time. A client had not called a close friend in over six months. The phone felt heavy.

12 May 2025Read Article

Colourful LEGO bricks, creativity and strategy made physical

Facilitation6 min read

What Is LEGO® Serious Play™, And Why Do Serious Organisations Use It?

LEGO® Serious Play™ has leaders build their answers in bricks, so every voice reaches the room. What it is, when it works, and what a session involves.

7 April 2025Read Article

Leadership and team cohesion, from military service to civilian career

Coaching4 min read

From Battalion to Boardroom: Translating Military Leadership

Leaving the military is one of the most underestimated leadership challenges. Veterans have the capability. What they need is translation.

10 March 2025Read Article

Two professionals in a focused one-on-one coaching conversation

Coaching4 min read

Executive Coaching vs Therapy: Which Do You Need?

Therapy works primarily with the past. Coaching works primarily with the present and the future. Here is how to tell which one you need.

17 February 2025Read Article

Mountain landscape, vision, clarity, and the space to lead

Leadership2 min read

Thoughts on What Leadership Should Be

What is leadership? Or, rather, what should it not be? Five things I believe, from a heated but heartful conversation with my men.

5 November 2024Read Article

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