Lightbulb moments at the Coaching and Mentoring Course

​Rene B. Ronquillo (RBR), Hedcor President and Chief Operating Officer, joined the Coaching & Mentoring Course with a degree of hesitation, asking himself if he really needed to learn it after being in a leadership role for about 30 years.

But by the time the three-day course ended however, RBR discovered that his most important take-away from the program was all about listening.

In the practical setting, this may be easier said than done. More often than not, RBR would already know or predict what someone is going to say and how to reply. But as he catches himself, he realizes that he is hearing, but not really listening—and sometimes, that makes all the difference. After all, the value of giving a solid 5 minutes of your time to really listening to what someone has to say, would possibly be 5 minutes of someone’s life that can change his future.

Robin Patrick R. Sarmiento, AEV AVP-Strategy and Corporate Finance, on the other hand, experienced a wake-up call after Day 1 of the three-day Coaching and Mentoring course: he discovered that there exists a mastery level of this discipline and that he was nowhere near it.

The Coaching and Mentoring Course, an initiative under the Aboitiz Leadership Brand, is a requirement for all officers (AVP level and up) across the Aboitiz Group. Three batches of leaders have completed this program, beefing up our capability as a Group to truly optimize Talent and support our A-people in their quest for self-driven career development.

There remain five more batches of Coaching & Mentoring courses laid out through the remaining part of the year and the registration roster has almost reached full capacity. We hope you have already set your course dates, and if you haven’t yet, you may get in touch with Dianne Ponciano or Mia Zamora of AEV HR for details. We will be coming back to you with more insights from the other batch graduates in the succeeding issues of Aboitiz Eyes. Pin this!