Getting Ready For Developmental Coaching
Developmental coaching, in contrast, is focused on your long-term development as a whole, with an aim to increase your broader human capacities. It is geared towards equipping you to make a smooth transition to a higher level of functioning.
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...
Four Actions That Prove You Don’t Have Strategic Ability
If you want to be perceived as someone with a strategic mindset, be tolerant of long brainstorming sessions and debate before things start simplifying.
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.
How Does Your Company Measure Your Potential?
Sages and researchers from HR define it in the following way ? Potential is not only the skill but also the will to develop or perform at a higher level in future.? As we see it, potential refers to the capability of an individual to perform at a particular level and, as such, it is a prerequisite for performance. It sets the upper limit of the achievable performance level.
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.
How Electing a CEO Benefits the Company
It simply makes good business sense to empower employees to elect the people they will be following every workday for at least the next year. True democracy in the workplace ? based on trust, transparency, and partnership ? demonstrates at the most fundamental level that we?re all in this together
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.
Become A Leader By Learning Continuously
Knowing that you are weak at something is half battle won because you will work towards supplementing the deficiency by either learning new skills or getting help from others to fill up. The best way to handle development areas is by scripting a development plan, which involves three key milestones
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.
How To Race Ahead In Your Career
Its easy to get cynical and believe that successful people are political or sell out, suck up, stab people in the back, use their contacts and so on. The facts are dramatically different from this;
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...
Five Leadership Tips for Women in Organizations
"Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder," writes Sheryl Sandberg in her new book, "Lean In" which prompts women to take up leadership roles in corporate organizations.
It is an acknowledged...
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...
Failure is an opinion not Reality – Story of 360 million web hits -Susan...
How long can you dance to someone else?s tune, it?s time that you try dancing to your own tune. Go through the records of most successful people and you would see...
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...
Redefine Your Limits – Live to your Full Potential
We are limited by the beliefs we set in our mind, history shows that successful people are able to break these shackles and unleash their potential. The difference is 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...