By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

1. Lead high-performing teams with confidence by applying effective leadership practices, coaching skills, and strategic delegation to develop people and achieve sustainable results.
2. Build a culture of growth, resilience, and continuous improvement by fostering a growth mindset, inspiring positive change, and delivering constructive feedback.
3. Make sound and agile decisions in complex environments by applying adaptive decision-making approaches to navigate uncertainty, manage challenges, and drive team performance.

Participants will leave the programme with:

1. Effective leadership practices to lead with confidence.
2. Practical delegation skills to develop people and improve performance.
3. Coaching skills to build stronger team relationships and support growth.
4. Strategies to foster a growth mindset and resilience.
5. Better decision-making skills to lead through change and uncertainty.
6. Effective feedback techniques to improve performance and accountability.

Unit 1: Leadership Foundation

• Brief History of Leadership
• Practices of Leadership – how are you progressing

Unit 2: Intricacies of Delegation

• Delegate to enhance performance
• The 4 Principles for Effective Delegation that drives results

Unit 3: The 1:1 Coaching Conversation to build team relationships

• Learning how to conduct 1 on 1 coaching conversation for team member and turn team vision into reality
• The Coaching Conversation framework for Growth

Unit 4: Growth mindset

• Growth, Fixed mindset & Neuroplasticity
• Actionable strategies to create a growth mindset in your team
• Reframing strategies for Growth

Unit 5: Inspiring Change and making Effective decision making

• Inspiring positive change to enhance team resilience and adaptability
• Rational vs Adaptive Decision Making to manage challenges at work
• System 1 & 2 Thinking and its impact in Decision Making
• Managing tasks as the leader that inspires confidence, trust, and action within the team
• Rational vs Adaptive Decision Making to manage challenges at work
• Decision Traps & Pitfalls at work

Unit 6: Agile decision making

• Pressure and its impact on Performance
• Potential Team Challenges in a VUCA & BANI global environment and how to make agile decisions in a volatile uncertain situations

Unit 7: Giving feedback

• Adapting the SBIR Feedback and the Sandwich Method for effective performance communication

“One of the few trainers with deep expertise and the ability to keep participants fully engaged from start to finish. I truly enjoyed being Maximus’s student.” – Satish Shanmugam, Project Director

“Maximus delivers highly engaging, practical, and impactful training. His clear teaching, real-world examples, and professionalism make complex concepts easy to apply. I highly recommend him.” – Paul Ng, General Manager, Contract Logistics, Yamato Transport (S) Pte Ltd

“An exceptionally professional and enthusiastic coach who inspires critical thinking and brings out the best in every participant. I highly recommend Maximus to anyone seeking to excel in work and life.” – Lucas Yeap, General Manager

“Maximus transformed our management mindset and strengthened our leadership skills. His guidance extended beyond training, inspiring both professional and personal growth.” – Tommy, Sales Manager, Overland Total Logistics Vietnam JSC

“Maximus creates an engaging and inclusive learning environment where everyone is involved. His passion for developing people and remarkable energy make him an outstanding trainer.” – Mrs. Preyatip Dangmee (Pond), Senior Manager – Digital Strategy & Business Planning, Yamato Unyu (Thailand)

• Bite-size knowledge sharing with skills practise.
• Demonstrations and Role-Plays
• Experiential workshop setting
• Activities are designed with real-work scenarios to facilitate learning transfer at the workplace

This course is ideal for:

• Experienced managers, Supervisors, and Team leaders gaining new insights and updates on High Performance Team Management
• Emerging leaders who are experienced individual contributors
• New Time Leaders formally leading a team of their own

Maximus Sia
Leadership Psychology Coach

“Gain the Psychology Advantage” – Lead from the INSIDE-OUT

As a Leadership Psychology Coach, Maximus Sia drives the following mission:

“To help leaders gain the Psychology Advantage in Leadership, cultivate Inner Clarity, build Mental Immunity, and develop the Psychological Capabilities to lead decisively and confidently in any conditions.”

Over the past 16 years, Maximus has engaged more than 50,000 leaders across Asia, from SMEs to global organisations, facilitating leadership workshops, seminars and executive development programmes for professionals, managers, directors and senior executives. With over 35 years of leadership experience, he has evolved into a seasoned Corporate Trainer, Master Practitioner in NLP, Public Speaker and Leadership Psychology Coach.

Gain the Psychology Advantage in Leadership

Through years of engaging with leaders, Maximus observed that today’s workplace has become increasingly complex and psychologically demanding. He believes the greatest challenge facing modern leaders is no longer a skills gap — it is a psychological capability gap.

“Psychological challenges require psychological capabilities.”

This conviction inspired him to develop The Psychology Advantage™ in Leadership, an evidence-informed framework that integrates psychology into leadership development to build resilient, adaptive and psychologically capable leaders. To further advance this work, Maximus is pursuing a doctoral research paper on this subject, with a PhD in Professional Coaching and Human Development at the International University of Professional Studies (IUPS, USA). Maximus advocates the integration of psychology as a core pillar of modern leadership development.

Clientele

Singapore Airlines, Applied Materials, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and its agencies, A*STAR, Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX), MINDEF, SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), Yamato Transport, Singtel, OCBC, AIA Singapore, and many others.

SG60 Showcase

In celebration of Singapore’s 60th year of independence in 2025, NewInAsia Singapore recognised Maximus Sia as one of 60 distinguished speakers and trainers featured in the SG60 Independence Showcase publication.

Professional Profile

Maximus is professionally certified as:

• International Associate Coach (ICI Germany)
• Neuro-Linguistic Enneagram Practitioner (IEA)
• NLP Master Practitioner (American Board of NLP)
• Master of Science in International Marketing (MScIM), University of Strathclyde, UK

As a Sales Coach with over 35 years of sales leadership and coaching experience, Maximus previously built a successful career in the Financial Advisory industry spanning over 16 years, where he was consistently recognised as a top performer, multiple award winner, and global convention qualifier.

He is also an SSG DACE and ACTA-certified facilitator, having delivered more than 100 SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) WSQ modules in leadership, people management, service excellence, and professional development.