PENGALAMAN & KERJAYA

MUHAMAD FAZIL HJ. AHMAD

Idola: Nabi Muhammad S.A.W

E-mail: islah_project@yahoo.com

3 Ogos 1979

Temerloh, Pahang


Education Background:

Doctorate - PhD. Communication - Branding (UPM) - 2013

Master in Communication - M.A.HSc. (Comm. UIA) - 2006

Bachelor in Comparative Religion and Communication (hons.) (UIA) – 2003


Career Background:

Senior Lecturer DS51 Faculty of Applied Social Sciences - UniSZA

Ahli Jawatankuasa Projek FRGS B-F1 “Branding Index”

Manager Student Activities and Alumni Department.

Manager Graduate Affairs Department, Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Tim. Dekan Pusat Bahasa Komunikasi, Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Kordinator Fakultas Komunikasi, Universitas Islam Antarabangsa Jakarta

Pensyarah Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Pensyarah Technology Park Malaysia College

Penasihat, Kelab Debat dan Komunikasi Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Penasihat, IIC Alumni Association

Pengarah Istiadat Convokesyen 2008-2010, IIC

Penceramah, Motivasi di Eastana Event & Consultancy

Penceramah, Sesi Kesihatan Jemaah Haji Masjid Wilayah KL

Penceramah, Sesi Kesihatan Jemaah Haji Masjid Al-Hasanah Bandar Baru Bangi

Penceramah, "Program Empower", East Coast Economic Region (ECER)

Penceramah, Pertubuhan Kemajuan Sosial Malaysia. ECER Hulu Terengganu

Pengacara Rancangan TV "Chef Halal" (2012)

Jurucakap Produk Kesihatan SayHeart Singapore (2011)

Jurucakap Produk KOFAZ (2009/2010) – All One

Ahli Kumpulan Nasyid All One

Calon bagi Anugerah Industri Muzik Ke-16 - All One

Calon bagi Anugerah Nasyeed.Com - All One


Research Projects:

(1) FRGS Project (BF1) (2010 – 2011) – “Developing a new branding index in corporate communication for an Asian country” (Research Assistant).

(2) Research (2009 -2012) – “Leveraging country's reputation and nation brand index in Bandar Melaka: Potential strategies for developing Malaysian’s city brand index”.

(3) Project (2010): “Measuring Determinant of City Brand for Institutionalizing Strategic Communication: A Study of Malacca City”.

(4) Ph.D Proposal Dissertation (2010): “Measuring Determinants of City Brand: Investigating the Antecedents of Perceived Brand Personality Scale in Bandar Melaka (Bandaraya Bersejarah)

(5) New Research Project (2013 - 2014) – “Identifying the Determinant Attributes of Halal Brands Index (HBI) that Influence the Corporate Marketing Communication (CMC) in Malaysian Market”.

(6) New Research Project (2014) – “The upcoming of innovation: Integrating Technology and Human personality”.


Conferences and Proceedings:

(1) Zakiah, M. Othman, I. & Ahmad, M.F. (2010). “Halal Business Corporate Social Responsibility”. International University Social Responsibility Conference & Exhibition - IUSRCE 2010, PWTC Kuala Lumpur, UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

(2) Ahmad, M.F. & Abdullah. Z (2011). “Measuring Determinants of City Brand: A Varification Approach in the Corporate Communication Perspective in Malacca City”. MENTION 2011, UKM Bangi. Selangor, Malaysia.

(3) Ahmad, M.F., Abdullah. Z., Ezhar Tamam & Jusang Bulong (2012). “City Brand: An Application of Brand Personality Scale to Bandar Melaka”. 21st AMIC Annual Conference 2012, Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam, UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

(4) Ahmad, M.F., (2013). “The Stakeholder Interpretation of City Brand Personality Determinant for Strategic Communication”. Seminar Hasil Peyelidikan, Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi 2013 - Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, 2 & 3 July 2013 at EDC Hotel, Universiti Utara Malaysia, UUM Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia.

(5) Ahmad, M.F., (2013). “The Antecedents of Halal Brand Personality in Malaysian Takaful Industry: A Preliminary Review”. 1st Insurance and Takaful International Symposium. 7th - 8th October 2013 at Puri Pujangga UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.

(6) Ahmad, M.F., (2013). “CSR implementation in Islamic Philanthropy: A Preliminary Review of Halal Brand Personality Concept in Malaysian Takaful Industry”. World Universities Islamic Philanthropy Conference 2013. 4th – 5th December 2013 at Menara Bank Islam, Kuala Lumpur, UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

(7) Ahmad, M.F., (2013). “The Issues of Future Innovation: Integrating Technology and Human Personality for Reputation Management”. 2nd International Management Conference 2013 IMaC'2013. 14th – 15th December 2013 at Taman Tamadun Islam, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia, UniSZA Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.

(8) Ahmad, M.F., (2013). “The Role of Halal Brand Personality Determinant in Malaysian Takaful Industry”. 2nd International Management Conference 2013 IMaC'2013. 14th – 15th December 2013 at Taman Tamadun Islam, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia, UniSZA Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.

(9) Ahmad, M.F., (2013). Halalan Taiyyban: The Application of Brand Personality in Malaysian Food Industry”. International Conference on Halal Global 2013. 15th – 16th December 2013 at Perdana Hotel, Kota Bharu Kelantan, UiTM Machang, Kelantan, Malaysia.


Publications:

(1) Ahmad, M.F. (2006). Communication Technology and Organizational Performance: An Analysis of The IIUM Community’s Web Sites Usage and Perceptions. Research in Master Thesis IIUM Library. IIUM.

(2) Ahmad, M.F., Abdullah. Z, Tamam. E & Bolong. J., (2013). Determinant Attributes of City Brand Personality That Influence Strategic Communication. Canadian Social Science. Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture. Vol. 9 No.2.

(3) Ahmad, M.F., Abdullah. Z, Tamam. E & Bolong. J., (2013). An Application of Brand Personality to City Brand for Strategic Communication. International Journal of Social Science Tomorrow. Society for Promoting International. Vol. 2 No.5.

(4) Ahmad, M.F., Abdullah. Z, Tamam. E & Bolong. J., (2013). Involving Internal Stakeholders in Developing City Brand Personality for Strategic Communication. Asian Social Science. Vol. 9 No.10.


Editorial Board Members:

(1) Editorial Board Members for the Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research – [ISI-Thomson] (13th November 2013), International Society Applied Sciences, Cairo, Egypt & United States of America (USA). - Global Impact Factor = 0.432


Invitation to Paper Review:

(1) Reviewer for the Journal of Place Management and Development – [Emerald insight Journal] (10th September 2013), Institute of Place Management, 1 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, London.


My Inspiration:

“The comprehensive excellence achievement is balancing of our life journey”

-Fazil, 2009-


“The requirement of comprehensive excellence achieved is balancing of our life journey” -Fazil, 2009-

TEACHING SPECIALIZATION:

1) Public Relations

2) Corporate Communication

3) Advertising

4) Branding & Reputation

5) Crisis Communication

6) Public Opinion & Propaganda

7) Islamic Studies

8) Moral Studies

9) English Language



Convo UIA'08

Friday, June 1, 2012

The Dangers of Overestimation


Dear Muhamad,

I read an article recently that says that people tend to seriously overestimate what they can accomplish in one year.

A tendency to overestimate in the short term is one reason for a lot of dissertation frustration and failure. Imagine how frustrating it would be if you were trying to train your pet in a new behavior, and you initially set the criteria that your pet, (let's say it's a dog) your dog would need to sit up and beg, and you would reward it with a treat.

Let's say that your dog sits up and begs, and you give it a treat. Your dog does it again, but then you decide that you should change the behavior, and so you don't give your dog a treat. Then, the third day your dog does it again, and you don't give your dog a treat, and so on, and so on.

What ends up happening is very quickly the dog will extinguish his learned behavior. Without a proper schedule of reinforcement and reward, certain behaviors will die off.
How this relates to your dissertation process is this: Most of the time you don't give yourself adequate rewards and reinforcements for continuing your behavior. Let's say that you decide you're going to sit down and work for a half an hour today, which by the way, is a very good amount of time to work.

So you're going to work for 30 minutes today. You sit down, and you accomplish that, and you may give yourself a reward, and that feels great. Then somewhere between today and tomorrow you're going to think about your progress, and if you're like most of the people that I've worked with or that I know, you're going to start criticizing that. You're going to start saying-Well 30 minutes is really nothing, I probably could do an hour tomorrow.

Then what is going to happen is you are going to sit down and you are going to do kind eke out maybe an hour; or maybe you wont, maybe after between 30 and 45 minutes, you'll find yourself not really making any progress, and you'll eventually just give it up for the day.

But you will leave that saying-Well I didn't reach my goal, so I'm not going to give myself a reward.

Then you'll say--Well, if I didn't really quite meet an hour, the intelligent thing, or the emotionally relevant thing, would be to say-Well I didn't quite meet an hour, let me backup and see if I could do another 30 minutes or another 45 minutes.

What most of you will do, is you will end up saying--Well ok, what I should do then is probably just put in a two-hour block or four-hour block. Again, you will go into the work, you may or may not reach that goal, and you're not going to give yourself reward.

Then pretty soon, like teaching your dog a new trick, the behavior is going to be extinguished because you haven't reinforced it.

A better situation, or a better way to approach it, is to give yourself the time to meet reasonable and doable goals. So you would work for 30 minutes, and then reward yourself. The next day work for another 30, and reward yourself. The third day, 30- reward; the fourth day, 30-reward, etc., etc.

Now in a week of doing this, five days of doing this, you'll have put in at least 2 1/2 solid hours on your dissertation, which for some of you will be more than you've been over the past month or month and a half.

The idea is that you need to be consistent, and you need to set doable and reasonable goals along the way because you don't want to be caught in the trap of overestimating what you can do and then extinguishing any positive behaviors before they have a chance to actually become part of your repertoire.

Until Next Time,

-Dr. Rachna-

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