Thriving as a First-Time Manager: Key Strategies for Success
By far, the most significant risk of underperformance occurs during the transition into first line management, most of the new incumbents struggle to gain traction for their new roles.
What Can Entrepreneurs Learn From Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett, born on 30th August 1930 is commonly known as the Wizard of Omaha. After having less than $10,000 in the bank in the mid-1950s, Buffett today commands a net...
Unveiling the Potential of Developmental Coaching
Success in developmental coaching means building the capacity to navigate life's challenges with resilience and authenticity. It's about taking ownership of your past, facing the future with courage, and maintaining genuine relationships without losing your sense of self.
How To Become Good At Motivational Coaching
A motivational coach listens with empathy, really trying hard to imagine what it might be like to be the other person, trying to feel ?as if? they were in the other person?s shoes, communicating this attempt at understanding with reflective listening statements of varying degrees of complexity and summaries.
How To Design a Great Mentoring Program?
With the rapid changes in the world economy coupled with geopolitical divides, organizations are going through challenging times. The unexpected changes have left employees grasping for direction and support; Mentoring is...
Harnessing Strategic Leadership: Unlocking Your Corporate Potential
Strategic leadership is pivotal for anyone aiming to ascend in the corporate world. It involves mastering the language of strategy, recognizing the value of planning, looking beyond the immediate horizon, and embracing the complexity inherent in strategic thinking.
Do You Have What It Takes To Lead?
Don?t let criticism prevent you from taking the lead, however, don?t be blind to the right suggestions. To do this, break the journey into smaller milestones, and after completing a milestone, reflect and see what could have been done better
Demystifying Corporate Culture
As a leader have a role in making the cultural change work succeed. You have to make an endeavor to establish the formal conditions for a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable effective interactions in a cross - cultural framework.
Measuring Potential: The Key to Ascending the Corporate Ladder
By focusing on the holistic measure of potential, we can unlock new opportunities for growth, innovation, and leadership. Whether you're an individual aiming for your next career milestone or an organization looking to nurture future leaders, understanding and measuring potential is key to unlocking success.
How To Lead A Cross Border Team
As a team leader, you need to remember that leading remote international teams requires creating new ways to work together. These tips will help you in deciphering the complex task of leading a remote international team successfully.
The Strategic Advantage of Electing a CEO
Electing a CEO isn't just about choosing a leader; it's about aligning the company's strategy and cultural attitude. Through the election process, employees and leaders come together to reflect on the company's direction and how it should evolve.
The Pain of Being In A Matrix Structure
The matrixed employee is also saddled with the additional burden of negotiating among the competing objectives of multiple bosses, some of who may be rarely seen in person. No wonder the matrix is so difficult to make it work and most of the employees call it a nightmare.
Master Continuous Learning for Career Success
The most successful individuals recognize the power of continuous learning. Regardless of your current skill set, it's vital to understand that what you know today may not suffice tomorrow.
Managing The Odd Person In The Meeting
You are in a important meeting debriefing the team about how to win the next big contract and here you have a team member who is asking stupid questions or reducing...
Managing Change For Success
Change management is an amalgamation of art and science and requires a combination of both people and system-focused skills. Depending on the kind of change being undertaken, different skills will come into play. The key skills needed you will need to be a change master are
What Does Leadership Signify
??A good leader does not become so based on what he says. He becomes so based on what he does. Followers or peers will watch you and make impression about your leadership ability based on your actions and not on your speeches. Any ?saying-doing gap? and the leader will lose credibility. Gandhi will remain as one of the best leaders in world?s history as there was no saying-doing gap.
Race Ahead In Your Career: Unleashing Your Full Potential
Continuous learning and skill development are indispensable in your quest to race ahead in your career. Staying updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and skills can set you apart from your peers.
How To Be An Effective Leader of A Remote Team
Leading is sophisticated and sometimes difficult task; leading from a distance appears to be even more so because of the extra complexity introduced by the remote context. This is both a good news/ bad news situation.
The Benefits Of Knowing Oneself
Known weaknesses won?t get you into as much trouble as your blind spot would, for you can loop around and compensate for your known weakness. In case of a blind spot, you are completely unprepared and at your wits to tackle the blizzard as and when it hits you in the face.
How To Grow Leaders Effectively
For long the task of developing leaders has been outsourced to the Human Resources department, save a few most of them have spent millions of dollars without any fruitful results.? Leadership...
Are You On The Leadership Track
Leadership remains an enigma for most of the employees, prescriptions abound ranging from how to dress up, to using Freud?s psychoanalytic tools. Now all these look good on the paper, but...
Lessons from TaxiForSure – 200 Million $ Valuation in 4 years
If you have an idea, act on it fast. Think it through, work with friends to grow it, and the rest will follow. Invest in people ? help them grow ? as professionals and individuals - and they will be your biggest equity. During an entrepreneurial journey, you shouldn?t be afraid of making a wrong choice or taking a risk. Once you have taken a decision, don?t regret it, but learn from it and grow. Trust your instincts, if you don't no one else will.
Giving Feedback To Super Stars In Your Team
Over the years I have met scores of senior executives, one question that I would get from them every year would be ? ? What?s the best way to give feedback...
Why Leadership-Development Programs Fail To Deliver Results?
With over 20,000 books and millions of articles about the critical elements of leadership and its overall impact, the issue of leadership really must be important to organisations.
Most organizations have lavish...
Women Leaders: Strategies for Corporate Success
For women leaders, this might mean reaching out to mentors, peers, and even individuals outside their industry to gain fresh insights and perspectives. Failing to invest in these relationships can lead to a narrow view of leadership and missed opportunities for collaboration and growth.
Three Things Bill Gates Has Learned From Warren Buffett
Last month, I went to Omaha for the annual?Berkshire Hathaway?shareholders meeting. It?s always a lot of fun, and not just because of the ping-pong matches and the newspaper-throwing contest I have...
10 Things Most Successful People Say Every Day
There are many roads to success, however there are some commonalities between what the most successful people say every day. Jeff points out what most successful people say every day.
If you...
7 Leadership Lessons from The Sinking of Titanic
Some of you may have watched ?the iconic American Movie?Titanic?starring?Leonardo DiCaprio?and?Kate Winslet?.The Sinking of the Titanic provides invaluable lessons of leadership.
?We have struck iceberg ? sinking fast ? come to our...
What Can You Learn from Justin Bieber’s Life
Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber echoes in the hall where he makes an appearance. Justin Bieber has 43 million Facebook fans, 22 million twitter followers and 2.9 billion...
Embracing Failure as an Opinion: Lessons on Resilience
Embracing "failure is an opinion" as a guiding principle can dramatically transform our approach to life and success. It encourages us to believe in ourselves, persevere through challenges, seek guidance, dream big, stay focused, discover our talents, and, most importantly, learn from our setbacks.
How Becoming a Leader Can Help You Get a Promotion
Many companies today are looking for leaders, not just managers, to take on greater roles within the organization. As a result, competition for higher-level positions can be fierce. Leaders have the...
Munnabhai, Gandhism And Corporate India
It is a sad statement on India that in recent times, Gandhi?s teachings only found a contemporary platform in Bollywood?s ?Munnabhai? film series. That said, we have to give due credit...
Career Tips For Aspiring Women Achievers
We are finally seeing the entry of women in board-level positions at leading multinational companies. However, the numbers are not stacking up as anticipated - many businesses continue to have a...
Gender Diversity ? Women In Leadership Roles
Why is gender diversity at the workplace important? One could cite any number of politically correct reasons. However, those have already been done to death by others. Also, they are not...
Are You A Manager Or A Leader?
It is a known fact that people who do what they are good at are happier people. As a happy adjunct - happier people tend to be better at what they...