No more a smooth career ride!
You may have a new Boss every year. You end up losing all the history and credibility that you built by working hard and excelling over last year. Can you build from scratch again? Only to be reset at the end of the year?
Our inability to perceive small changes may limit our ability to “Change”
Remember the days when our kids were growing. Our perception of the growth of our own kids was challenged by the fact that we witnessed, small continuous change. But a neighbor, a friend or a relative visiting us after a month or so could easily point out the change. We would then look for evidence […]
A leadership parallel from creative world
In a beautiful parallel from the “Creative World”, John Maeda from MIT Media Lab says the following in an article at Brainpickings- “When you make things with your hands, you force something into being. You sand it, you cut it, you fold it… You do everything to build it from end to end. Whereas leading requires […]
A leader knows it all? Does He/She?
There are a lot of times when leaders think – · Either they know it all · Or they should know it all A Know-It-All leader is someone who rarely listens to opinion of others and offers information or advice whether it is asked for or not. A know-it-all leader has a smug, superior attitude […]
How Listening can help you succeed in a new role?
Active listening paves the way to start building commitment and respect in new team.
“Pause” in a Coaching Conversation
‘Pause’ – a moment of Silence in a coaching conversation. When I was under-going my coach training, one of the lectures, we had was about ‘Pause’. I never thought then that it is going to be a big thing to discuss and deliberate so intensely. Now after a few years working in coaching, I […]
I wish I could…
Rita is a mid-management level executive with an IT company that she joined 5 years back; she has a total of 15 years of experience. She has done well for herself in all these years and has grown in her career; she has been promoted twice in the last 5 years. She has a 7 […]
Have you earned the right to lead?
After 2 weeks travel when a client (Business Development Leader) came for a coaching session, he took an official call just before the session and this is what I heard him talking “You have to do it, this is not my job, I have other things to do, I can’t spare the time to get into […]
Be aware – Your perceptions being a Leader can hamper execution of a strategy/project!
We all know that strategies/projects fail sometimes and it happens due to various reasons. One of the reason that may cause a failure and which is neglected many time is Leader’s own perceptions. In a recent discussion with one of the senior leaders, he mentioned that he is not keen to take women in his […]
TRUST – Is it so important?
The word ‘team’ in very simple words stands for bringing different people together for a common goal. I find “Trust” being one of the very important elements when people work together in any situation. But practically I have seen that it is a rarely found element in teams @ workplace. To manage a team wherein […]