Category: General

  • What’s holding you back?

    What’s holding you back?

  • Life with Zoom!

    Life with Zoom!

  • Listening

    As a leader, what is the one skill you definitely want to demonstrate during these tough times? My pick would be listening. Listen with your whole being. Pay undivided attention. Do not judge. Create a sense of safety for the other person. Confirm/validate their feelings. Follow your natural curiosity. Ask…

  • To train or not

    To train or not

    A HR head was recently debating whether to go ahead with a series of big-budget trainings for his leaders. What if we invest so much and they go elsewhere? The following quote by Richard Branson helped him gain clarity: Train people well enough so that they can leave. Treat them…

  • Be yourself!

    Be yourself!

    Are you losing yourself trying to please others? Stay true to who you are. ““You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” – Dita Von Teese Photo by Jessica Rockowitz on Unsplash

  • Happy giving!

    Happy giving!

    What makes you happy? 1) Giving/helping? 2) Getting thanked for giving/helping? If 1) makes you happy, your happiness is in your hands. If even a small amount of 2) comes in, you have given the remote control of your happiness to others. You lose your happiness the moment you do…

  • Life’s assets

    Life’s assets

    What do you need the most right now? Time? Money? Knowledge? Whichever one you need, use the other two to get it. (Adapted from “The Four Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss)

  • Leading through the pandemic

    Leading through the pandemic

    As a leader, here are a few basic things you can do in this time of crisis. 1) Send an email or a message reassuring employees that you are there for them. Please do this immediately if you haven’t sent one already. Do not underestimate the power of this. 2)…

  • Helping handle grief

    Helping handle grief

    This is a very difficult time for many of us. One of the companies I consult with has a majority of their employees in Delhi and is taking a hard hit. As I was going through past research, I came across this HBR article “Helping your team heal” by grief…

  • Do it!

    Do it!

    Want to save money? Invest.Out of shape? Exercise.Tired? Take rest.Don’t know something? Learn. Knowing what to do is simple.Getting out of the comfort zone and doing it is hard. Go do it.

  • Beliefs

    Beliefs

    Our beliefs are our personal truths. We bring them to work every day. A common belief I see among many of my coaching clients is that remote work is not productive. Imagine this: The place where I did one of my coaching certifications also believed this for a long time.…

  • Zoom-ed

    Zoom-ed

    Zoom fatigue is real. There is even a word for it now – Oysgezoomt. Avoid back-to-back meetings. Allow yourself short breaks between two Zoom calls.

  • Viewpoint

    Viewpoint

    What’s your viewpoint in any situation? 1. Looking at your own needs 2. Empathizing with the needs of others 3. Detached and looking at it from a larger/wider context Which of these viewpoints do you find yourself the most in?

  • Failure to Success

    Failure to Success

    “These celebrities are so successful. Success evades people like me” said a participant in a recent training program. I asked her who were these celebrities she was referring to. She said people like Amitabh Bachchan, J.K. Rowling and Thomas Alva Edison. So I googled and found this: Amitabh Bachchan’s job…

  • Wake up!

    Wake up!

    Once upon a time, a chicken farmer found an eagle’s egg. He placed it with his chickens. The egg hatched. The young eagle grew up with the chickens and did what the chickens did. The chickens could fly for a short distance. So the eagle learnt to fly a short…