Increasing Performance: Learning To Expand Our Comfort Zone

Oct 30, 2018 • 1 Min Read

In today’s context, the term comfort zone is regarded lowly, and even associated with low performance in the corporate world.

However, from another perspective, comfort zone can also denote the much-needed point of stability which is again much needed, in order to grow further. The question is how do we have both at the same time?

In this Raise Your Game session, Caroline Ong shares about the need to increase performance by expanding our comfort zone.

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