INSIGHTS offers opportunity to develop awareness, understanding and knowledge that will maximize performance in today's fast changing, complex and demanding business and social environment. This is inspired with the idea of “service from the heart” mindful with service and quality as first in the mantra of success. It is about creating wealth from ideas, finding value and turning them into streams of opportunities. This will become the venue for providing insights on values formation/re-orientation and on matters engaging human resources management (HRM), organizational management (OD)/change management, business development and entrepreneurship, labor and industrial relations, talent management including culture and the arts, tourism, OFW affairs and academe.

The column will generally push for advocacy benefitting the masses, workforce and the community from the practice of what is moral and best practices; thus, sharing the wisdom from seasoned leaders as assimilated by the columnist/writer, and ignite a generation of advocates of what is just, right and fair; and, how to be competitive in business and in the exercise of profession in the context of ASEAN integration and global standards. This effort would manifest an example of a desire to stay relevant with insights from persons of authority in the corporate world and society; that offers guides on a host of concerns from carrying out duties in various fields of discipline paving a sense of commitment in fulfilling a share in nation building and creating a responsive community.

Finally, the column hopes to keep a vibrant community of sharing and learning.

The Columnist/Writer

Jun Ayag is presently the Program Chair of the College of Business Administration at the University of Bohol and Consultant, Tourism, Culture & the Arts and Human Resources of LGU-Anda, Bohol and freelance HR/OD Consultant to many corporate organizations both local and overseas and a Researcher. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Management Accounting from the University of San Carlos-Cebu, Master's Degree in Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD candidate) in Human Resources Management at the University of Bohol. In his working career, he spent most of his HR trainings at the Center of Banking & Finance (CBF), the training center of Citibank, NA employees and affiliates for Middle East and Africa based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A multi-awarded professional having reaped awards as an OFW based in the Middle East exercising his profession for two (2) decades in international banking, oil and gas, petrochemicals and HR industries. Among the accolades: Service Excellence Award for Outstanding Performance with Saudi American Bank, 2009 Bagong Bayani for Culture and the Arts, 2009 Model OFW Family of the Year Award – Central Visayas, Most Outstanding OFW Achievement Award, Land Based Category – Central Visayas. He was also the 2010 Most Outstanding Alumnus – University of San Carlos for perpetuating Philippine culture and the arts in the country and abroad amongst others.

As a writer, he had been in campus and corporate newsletters, procedure manuals, annual reports, contributing writer in various newspapers both local and abroad. In the 80's, he was once a ghost writer on speeches and aide memoire to some in the highest echelon in government service; and continued his passion in writing for the local consumption. His foreign employment and travel to more than twenty (20) countries on either business and leisure has augmented his knowledge, competencies and approaches towards building a cadre of competent and productive pool of human capital. Recently, he has been elected to the national Board of the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) – representing the voice of the entire Visayas. PMAP is the foremost organization of human resources professionals and practitioners including industrial relations in the country; an active partner of the public sector in policy making and implementation of best management practices in the workplace in collaboration with the Dept. of Labor and Employment.