Timothy Low
Farrer Park Hospital
Board member
This book really makes an attempt to fill the void, to give the first time leader tools to be successful sooner rather than later.
Cristina RECLAMADO
HR Consultancy
Founder
Being a "first-time leader" is daunting because of the plethora of role models, stereotypes and expectations. Daniel Lee encourages you to have your own take on it.
Thivi K
Resources Leader
Senior Human
If you are looking for a book that will impart the finer-points of leadership traits in an easy-to-read format, then you have found the right book.
Lawrence YOUNG
Senior Business Leader
First Time Leadership, brings you on a journey through which most of these can be attained, best blended with guidance & mentoring.
Janet YUNG
Trilogy People Performance
Founder
A great read and reference for anyone who is new to leadership, who would like to influence and lead with more effectiveness.
Garry Ridge
WD40 Company
Chairman of the Board, & CEO
The authors have approached leadership skillfully and have portrayed it for what it truly is, which is a combination of human behaviors applied to specific leadership situations.
Sam NEO
People Mentality Inc APAC Top 10 HR & Employer Branding Consultant
Founder
What I truly appreciate is how authentic the stories are and the powerful lessons that I learned in the process of reading them.
Andy SCHMIDT
6i Communication
CEO
The authors break down leadership to its individual components in a real-life story format. I bet you will find yourself in some of those stories.
Ashley DUDARENOK
Founder
Alarice & ChoZan
The book highlights that everyone can be a leader. There’s a pattern to superb leadership we can and shall learn.
Valerie CHOW
Marketing and Business leader
Truly rich with leadership wisdom from first-hand situations that provided good insights to boost my leadership knowledge and capabilities. This is a must-read for those wanting to learn more on leadership.
Narumol Sunanchai
Prestige beauty retail industry
Head of HR
If I had read this book before becoming a leader, I would’ve gained a broader perspective on how to care for and approach different leadership situations.
Noel YEO
Senior Vice President
Universal and timeless principles of leadership through pragmatic and relatable real-life stories. A must read for veteran leaders, growing leaders, and aspiring leaders.
Bee Kheng
TAY Managing Director
First Time Leadership shows employees what traits to develop their leadership in, and inform organisations on the traits that need attention and investment.
Malgorzata PRZEBINDOWSKA
President
This is a seminar book in the making.
Michaella RUGWIZANGOGA
Chief Executive Officer
A must read for anyone looking for a fresh, genuine and authentic guide on management and leadership.
Abeer QUMSIEH
Founder and CEO
An amazing job of creating a leadership development book that delivers a very inspired read.
Ken LIM
Senior Human Resource Manager
I would recommend this book to any Business or Human Resource Leader who is serious about developing the right First Time Leaders, as it will enable them to start leadership conversations in their organisations.
Fabian WANDT
CEO
A fresh voice of the ‘Whys’ in a leadership field full of ‘Hows’ and ‘Whats’.
Boon Hui KHOO
Board Director
Insightful, practical, inspiring and written with great passion, this book is a must-read primer for anyone who aspires to be a successful leader.
The First Time Leadership book
First Time Leadership draws from the insights of 220 successful leaders from 37 countries on 6 continents, and compiles them into 30 principles brought to life through stories based on real-life experiences.
These principles reveal the specific competencies needed for anyone to become an effective team leader, if they are willing to become one.
Available here, and on Amazon.
About the co-authors
Daniel Lee
Over 20 years of working in Australia and Singapore, Daniel Lee has accumulated a vast experience and know-how in speaking, training, and coaching participants from different cultures and work backgrounds.
He started his career with the Singapore Police Force and achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant. After which he pursued his Double Masters in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Then he continued on a career in the Human Resources industry across the Manufacturing, Professional services, and Facilities Management sectors in Australia, and with the Banking and Finance sector in Singapore.
From 2017 onwards, Daniel did a career switch with a focus on the education industry working with youths, and later on from mid 2018 onwards, to working with adult learners.
With his signature programme, First Time Leadership, he enables team leaders to engage their team with effectiveness and Enthusiasm, resulting the outcomes of improved leader Confidence, higher employee Engagement, and reliable team Performance.
Having become a published author in 2021 with his book ‘First Time Leadership’, which he co-authored with Avi Liran, he knows that leadership is an amalgamation of skillsets and mindsets. His research allows him to reveal the science behind how leadership works, and walk others through the journey on how to become effective team leaders.
In 2022, Daniel began to interview Heads of Departments in his latest research, Leading from the Middle, to uncover what it takes to be an effective leader of leaders.
With an ever evolving understanding of team and organisation leadership, along with its practical real world applications, Daniel takes the view that learners already subconsciously know how to achieve the desired outcomes. His role is to bring awareness to them, so they can become intentional professionals in their own fields.
Daniel has received many positive client and participant testimonials and Google reviews from his work in the Leadership space.
Avi Liran
Inspirer, writer, humourist and TEDx/IDEASx speaker, Avi Liran (CSP) believes that everyone is a Chief Delighting Officer. An incurable optimist, he’s always been fascinated by the power of positivity, as well as the ability of words and tones to transform people’s lives and experiences. That’s why he’s devoted his life to what he thinks he does best: teach and inspire, helping leaders and organisations to delight people.
He has travelled across the Asia-Pacific and Europe, sharing his thought-provoking, inspiring, interactive and always delightful insights with audiences of all backgrounds, from Fortune 500 leaders to students, community leaders to service frontliners. Above all, his passion lies in helping others find and tweak their inner delight and lead with their values so they can convert employees and customers into raving fans and reach a higher purpose.
A firm believer in edutainment, Avi is the creator and designer of Delivering Delight and Leading with Values. His most recent articles have been featured in Business Times and European Business Review.
When he’s not inspiring anyone, you can find him shooting hoops with his youth basketball team or challenging random service staff to delight their customers.
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