Promises to our Children

I still remember very vividly one particular lesson during my primary school days about "children being the future owners of our country". It was about how, if we bring our children up to become useful citizens, we, as a nation would succeed.

In conjunction with the 2008 Work Plan Seminar, I will like to contribute my thoughts in the area of keeping promises to our children. As we strive each day, as a team of our firm (some of whom are previous educators themselves) to partner School to become enduring leading organizations, we find our work being more and more critical.

Our guiding principle when working with Schools has always been, serve the Schools to the best our abilities so that we can work alongside teachers as they go into the classrooms to make an impact on the children.

Here, instead of pretending knowing how to educate a child, I like to describe how, as a team, we need to keep pushing the envelope so that our vision of nurturing new generation leaders can materialize.

Trust, as defined by Stephen MR Covey, comprises of both character and competence. Hence, our team must strive to live by a certain set of principle-centered values to guide us in the way we conduct ourselves. This set of values, as I see it, comprises of 9 components. It is SERVES ALL. All in all, we ourselves must be a leader to begin with, so that we are able to influence with integrity. To have integrity, we must live by the values of SERVES ALL. It stands for Self-Discipline, Empathy, Rectitude, Visionary, Engaged Mastery, Synergistic, Abundance, Leverage, and Live, Learn, Love, and Leave a Legacy.

In the area of competence, we must strive to better ourselves, acquiring knowledge,learning skills, and developing competencies that are not just relevant but also anticipative. Further, we should not only be able to transfer those knowledge, skills, and competencies into practice, we must also strive to synthesize and create winning strategies that will benefit the Schools.

Having said that, we must also hold in our head a bold yet realistic vision. And that vision is to nurture a new generation of leaders whom we call Leaders In New Economy (LINE). These LINE will go into the classrooms to help their students become useful citizens of the future.

Finally, we must be guided by our moral compass, which is tied to our personal mission statement, where we ourselves find purpose in our work with LINE.

This, will be LINE's promises to our children.