27 Feb 2024

Great Teams Have Great Themes!
Every musical instrument in an orchestra is crucial in creating a symphony that the composer had envisaged, regardless of how faint or little its contribution. Without that particular instrument, the music would be incomplete and lacking. When google studied outstanding teams globally to understand what makes them great, the last thing that they would have expected is that it all boiled ...

26 Feb 2024

We are all Yogis
It is interesting how I get many requests from corporates and MBA students to incorporate ‘yoga’ in my sessions. They find it relaxing, relieving, and it helps them concentrate with clarity. Since I help them experience ‘yogaofthemind" which does not necessarily include any physical postures, I help them see that yoga truly means ‘union’ or ‘connection’, versus ‘viyoga’ which means ‘disc...

17 Mar 2022

STATE OF MIND OF A CHANGE-MAKER
Bringing new changes in any organization can unleash a very tough time, mainly for the one who decided to do so. The problems discussed so far might just be the tip of an iceberg for the decision-making members of any company. Where the game is all about watching details, it can teach an organization some things that’ll be beneficial for it in the long run. Let us now have a sneak-peek i...

10 Mar 2022

THE INGREDIENTS OF AN IDEAL LEADER
An organization is nothing without its leader, especially the one who is the bedrock of its decisions. The leader’s course of action determines the future of a company, as he or she is indeed, a facet or an ambassador of the goods or services the company might provide, and being a leader can come at the cost of sacrificing your entire self for the brand image, here are a few essentials t...

26 Jan 2022

HOW TO LEAD DURING UNCERTAIN & DIFFICULT TIMES
The most crucial issues faced by any organization in the current times through this crisis are caring for and inspiring employees, embracing purpose, and improving effectiveness. All these come down to just one simple thing - Leadership. The following points related to leadership have made our leaders even more effective especially since the pandemic started. Collectively, they summar...

17 Jan 2022

THREE TYPES OF COACHING LEADERS NEED IN 2022
As we are moving ahead strategizing and building more leaders, we came across the top three topics people wanted to address in 2022. The top three most important topics were coaching, leading teams, and change management. All three topics need to be addressed very closely and imply the importance of leaders working side by side with people and achieving their goals. Coaching Ma...

01 Jan 2022

Trust in the workplace is of paramount importance. It ensures team collaboration, productivity, and smooth execution of tasks in the organization. When considering the relationship between managers and employees, the whole relationship can be summed up in just one question, do you trust your leader? There are multiple reasons why building trust is important among employees. 1) Trust h...

13 Dec 2021

Delegation & Abdication
We are often advised that delegation helps us create more leaders in the group and we can conveniently free up some of our time to create things strategically. But as things start rolling, we start becoming overwhelmed and frustrated at things that start falling apart. Then the same advice that was supposed to help us begins to harm us. One of the most common ways to handle this situa...

07 Dec 2021

To be a successful leader or a manager, one of the most crucial skills is to aptly manage your leadership techniques. To be specific, each team member has to be approached differently according to their skills and efficiency. Skill can be anything varying from technical, non-technical, or even a certain competence level required. To handle each team member effectively, the below-shared m...

18 Nov 2021

Teamwork does not start on the first day itself. It takes time to gel in as a new team and work through your full potential. The most important part is that the team members go through the stages as they move from strangers to co-workers. This process comprises of four most important stages. These stages are precisely described under Bruce Tuckman’s Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing...