Competency mapping and developing a succession planning matrix is an exercise that needs to be prioritized even in tough times. As more and more entrepreneurs mushroom every day in the industry, the need for retaining prospective leader becomes a need of the hour. Identifying and assessing potential leaders can be difficult. Creating a leadership pipelineContinue reading “LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES| ASSESSING PROSPECTIVE LEADERS|”
Category Archives: Coaching Tools
SETTING WISE BOUNDARIES| FINDING YOUR VOICE|
In an age of TRPs and stars, it is difficult to practice freedom of expression, without being judged. Recently, when I met some friends and industry colleagues, we resonated on the same thought, life is more than following the cheese!! It is more about finding your voice and expressing the same with your tribe. TheContinue reading “SETTING WISE BOUNDARIES| FINDING YOUR VOICE|”
INDIA’S PRIDE -INNOVATORS| VINISHA UMASHANKAR|
The youth of India is on the path of being saviors of earth. While we face a huge climate crisis across the world, and drowning in consumerism, the next generation has taken it as their purpose of life. In Success Studio’s Youth Series Bhaskar Natarajan -Passionate Millennial coach scouts for youth in oblivion doing path-breaking work. Bhaskar’s new findContinue reading “INDIA’S PRIDE -INNOVATORS| VINISHA UMASHANKAR|”
NURTURING HIGH POTENTIAL TALENT| TALENT WAR|
In the knowledge and the digital economy, talent deficit is the biggest crisis that organizations are facing in scaling talent pool and delivering the promise. In a world where things are rapidly changing, the ability to hire and retain minds who can learn at this meteoric speed is important for business success. Discussions of talentContinue reading “NURTURING HIGH POTENTIAL TALENT| TALENT WAR|”
IMPACT THROUGH INFLUENCE| INFLUENCE TO BRING CHANGE|
Leadership and management are primarily driven by your influencing abilities. Every department has an innate need for influencing skills starting with Sales -Marketing -Strategy to Human Resources, Learning, Finance, and other functions. We are negotiators, persuaders, conciliators, and maybe intermediaries and mediators at various times in our life journey. Organizations today realize this as oneContinue reading “IMPACT THROUGH INFLUENCE| INFLUENCE TO BRING CHANGE|”
SUSPENDING JUDGEMENT| FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTE OF A COACH|
Every day in our life our judgment precedes our ability to empathize. We alienate ourselves from people as soon as we start judging. This most often creates a vicious cycle. To be able to leverage the best from others the fundamental law is to Suspend Judgement. This is especially true for coaches and leaders, as they areContinue reading “SUSPENDING JUDGEMENT| FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTE OF A COACH|”
6 WAYS TO ADDRESS BURNOUT| WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Burnout is a psychological syndrome emerging as a prolonged response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job. The three key dimensions of this response are overwhelming exhaustion, feelings of cynicism and detachment from the job, and a sense of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment. Researchers from the Social and Psychological domain view interpersonal relations, emotionalContinue reading “6 WAYS TO ADDRESS BURNOUT| WORK-LIFE BALANCE”
SYMBOLISM OF SARASWATI IN KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY|
In the knowledge economy goddess, Saraswati is our guiding force. Every single day things are changing, the only way to cope with this is to be a voracious learner with an appetite for any challenging change brought to us. Our wellbeing, wealth, work-life are all dictated by our updated knowledge. In India, every god representsContinue reading “SYMBOLISM OF SARASWATI IN KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY|”
PEER LEARNING EMANCIPATION| SPREAD YOUR WINGS|
Sometimes, when I rewind my life on the time machine, life’s exciting moments and learnings seem to flash in. Still remember the juggling of sports and study responsibilities in school, when my friends used to be my biggest saviors. Getting up on stage and sharing my laurels and trophies from my sports career as aContinue reading “PEER LEARNING EMANCIPATION| SPREAD YOUR WINGS|”
ACCOUNTABILITY IN LEADERSHIP| ACCOUNTABILITY QUOTIENT|
A story our late President and missile man Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was particularly fond of related to the launch of a satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation in July 1979. Kalam was in charge of the project at ISRO and when some members expressed reservations about its readiness, he overruled them and orderedContinue reading “ACCOUNTABILITY IN LEADERSHIP| ACCOUNTABILITY QUOTIENT|”