I have read a lot of blogs and books about leadership and found them very valuable. However I still needed some clarity specially on: What are the top capabilities that a leader needs to have that defines his or her leadership style and framework? So I decided to talk industry leaders and did my own independent research. After my analysis, [...]
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Build your Leadership Framework
Posted in business, Coaching, Development, Key to success, Leadership, Management, tagged ability of a leader, leadership, leadership skills, qualities of a leader, top 5 qualities on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Magic Potion!!
Posted in business, Career, Coaching, Communication, Corporate Culture, Development, General, HBR, Key to success, Management, Matter to you, Networking, tagged communication, Do's of communication, Don't of communication, effective, effective communication, key to success, magic potion, personal growth, two-way communication on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We all dream of having a magic potion that can change our life positively. Believe it or not we all have the power similar to magic potion to change many aspects of our life, its all about how we execute it. Two-way communication is the magic potion for effective communication, building relationship and having coaching [...]
Handling Difficult Conversation!!
Posted in business, Career, Coaching, Development, General, Key to success, Management, Matter to you, tagged arguments, avoids, conversation, difficult situation, emotional, fierce conversation, frustrated, shocked, uncomfortable conversation on May 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How many of us have got stuck in an uncomfortable or difficult or fierce conversation? Studies shows 45% of the conversation are difficult, fierce and uncomfortable, however only 1% books are written on this topic. Be it work or personal life I have been in some really difficult and uncomfortable conversations. Sometimes I don’t know [...]
6 Step Coaching Model
Posted in business, Career, Development, Management, tagged 6 step model, coaching, effective coaching, employee development on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Coaching can be used by managers or mentors to accelerate employee learning, improve their performance, facilitate development and support retention. Coaching conversations also are an opportunity to demonstrate a commitment to diversity. Diversity leaders coach and develop all their people, and adapt their coaching style to the needs and preferences of the individual. The Coaching Model, [...]
Qualities to Get Ahead in the Rat Race
Posted in business, Career, Corporate Culture on March 25, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday I attended a Jam Session “Career GPS” by Dr Ella Bell. It was a very insightful and informative session. The qualities that Dr. Bell talked in her book and session is focused on women but can be used by anyone and everyone in my humble opinion. After researching more on this topic, I came [...]
Series3- Power of Good Communication
Posted in business, Key to success, Leadership, Management on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the final series in the genre of communication. Earlier we read how to save time while communicating and also we understood the key elements of good communication. Now that we have learned few tricks in communication, lets understand the “Power of Good Communication.” One of my mentor told me “Communication is a profound [...]
Importance and Steps for Effective Feedback
Posted in business, Career, Key to success, Leadership, Management on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the last few weeks, I have interviewed few accomplished leaders in their field.They shared their success, challenges and work-life balance philosophy. One thing that was key to their success and personal growth was “Feedback” throughout their professional career. Feedback is an essential part of keeping a company or organization running efficiently, as it is [...]
Success Secret of Global Icons
Posted in business, Entrepreneurial Ideas, General, Key to success, Leadership, Management on February 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Some leaders are born, while some possess special skills that they groom it over period of time and build companies like Microsoft, Google, Dell, Time Warner, Virgin Atlantic and many more not really famous companies that have demonstrated MAGIC FORMULA (read below to know more…). I have been a big fan of understanding what takes [...]
Lie and Fake to get in!! Is it worth it?
Posted in business, Career on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I was just surfacing the net when I came across a website careerexcuse.com that helps people to get fake a reference or even a company just to get a job. The founder said that all he is doing is trying to give someone a second chance so that he/she can provide for their [...]
Networking is the name of the game
Posted in business, Networking on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week I attended a networking event which was full of wine and cheese, can you go wrong with it? Never, and to top that there were chocolates too… All evening I was sipping on my favorite wine Moscato d’asti and enjoying Brie with crackers. The amazing part of this event was that the team [...]
