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Life Lessons from Bird Watching
I was a toddler when my parents used to take me to ‘Dinga Pull’, a local pond, near my home town of Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala District. The pond was full, of a number of local as well as migratory birds like cranes, black winged stilts, herons and geese etc. Those were the days when
Management Lessons from Ali Baba & Forty Thieves
Ali Baba and his elder brother Qasim are the sons of a merchant. After their father’s death, the greedy Qasim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, building on their father’s business. Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a woodcutter. *One day, Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting
- Published in Belief, Coaching & Training, Management, Self Help, Softskills, Storytelling, Work Life Balance
Tips For An Awesome Co-Facilitation (Last post of the series)
I my last post on ‘The Art of Co-Facilitation’ I talked about Co-Facilitation, its types, advantages and potential disadvantages. In this post I’ll share some tips for an awesome Co-Facilitation. A co-facilitation program is very different than conducting a solo program as a lot of planning and
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The Art of Co-Facilitation
I have been a trainer and facilitator for last 11+ years and have conducted a number of training programs successfully. Recently I got an opportunity to co-facilitate a Leadership training program with my colleague Mr. Kunal Chakrabarti wherein he was the lead trainer and I was second in command. This was my first ever
- Published in Coaching & Training, Management, Softskills
Why Organizational Change Fails?
In order to survive and cope up with new challenges in the market place, at some point in its life time, almost every business goes through a very tedious task of change under various names like restructuring, rightsizing, reengineering, turnarounds etc. History shows
- Published in Coaching & Training, Management
How to develop the habit of book reading?
Let me begin with the fact that I have been a reader in the past and then I was just busy like all of us and then I renewed by friendship with books again. On a serious note, I
- Published in Coaching & Training, Self Help, Work Life Balance
Govardhan Puja: Thanks Giving Day to our Parents- Lessons from our Puranas
Today’s the fourth day of Diwali festival and Hindu’s across the world celebrate this day by performing Govardhan Puja. In this post I’ll share the story of Govardhan Puja and one more story from our Puranas and my take on Govardhan Puja Story 1: Krishna was playing with his friends when he saw villagers of
- Published in Belief, Self Help, Storytelling
How to Choose your Training Partner and Plan for an OBT Program?
What was your last training program? Did you have fun? Remember the take away? I am really happy if you do but after having met and spoken to several connections in the industry, I am afraid that we do not remember much of the take away. Reason, is simple – the industry is facing a
- Published in Coaching & Training, Storytelling, Training Delivery Techniques
Developing Ownership
Business Ownership is a looked upon personality trait for leaders, team builders and those who are managing people as a resource. Taking ownership about things is a human trait. But taking ownership of situations, circumstances and people doesn’t comes easy. A number of business managers complaint about the lack of ownership among the team members.
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The Little Things Which Make Me Happy
Have you ever wondered what those little things which make you happy are? Following is list of those little things which make me happy Waking Up Early Without Alarm: You know you have more time to finish things. Cuddling In The Bed: It feels great to cuddle in the bed waiting for the bed tea.
- Published in Coaching & Training, Creativity & Innovation, Self Help, Work Life Balance
How to Conduct an Effective Training Need Analysis?
A number of Sales Managers complain that their sales teams don’t meet their monthly sales targets and this issue can be addressed by conducting a product training or a selling skills workshop. And they want this training program to be conducted as soon as possible so that their teams start performing and achieving their targets.
- Published in Coaching & Training
Life Lessons from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
It was around 7:40 pm when my wife told me about demise of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. I thought she must have seen the picture circulating on various social media wherein Jharkahnd Education Minister paid floral tribute to Dr. Kalam thinking he’s no more and I ignored the news. I was having dinner when I
- Published in Management, Self Help