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Culture is the Most Critical Element of Any Workplace, Culture is the most critical element of every corporate workplace. A shared culture unites all employees towards achieving a common purpose. Organizations that do not build a common culture have disconnected silos of functions or departments that are not delivering their true potential. Shared core values that everyone follows are the foundation of a culture that may include communication, excellence, integrity, passion,

Consider an executive recently promoted to a leadership position. Her career progression has been from being a brilliant technical expert to an effective project manager to a program manager, mentoring several project managers, delivering a lead, and becoming the chief technical officer of a Bangalore headquartered Indian IT company. She operates from Bangalore but travels worldwide to manage relationships with global clients.  Her reliable track record has helped her influen

Team-Coaching-Competencies Coaching was mostly 1-1. We always did group coaching and team coaching. We have done team coaching for a leading bank in the middle east for their auto finance team, a leading hospital chain in India, an exporter in the food business, and a leading NGO in Bengaluru. Members of these groups had transformational shifts as a team and as individuals. Just as individuals make organizations, team coaching includes 1-1 coaching too. Maximizing team potent

He says why, and that is more important. (Disclosure: I mentor coaches, coach leaders – my views may be biased!) 1. Cuban views hiring a coach as a “shortcut,” he said : Sadly a lot of ‘coaching’ is not coaching. A lot of ‘coaches’ are not trained, certified, credentialed (ICF/EMCC), and are ‘helping’ people. Even many certified/credentialed coaches are helping. So what happens is actually consulting, mentoring, guiding, or telling. And that is NOT coaching. The moment the co

9 Months of Covid19 We have got so caught up with our day to day life, we have forgotten to dream. We have forgotten what were our old dreams. We have stopped reflecting.  Covid19  was an opportunity to pause for perspectives. But are we making full use of it? We have forgotten we can set goals, work for them, and #ManifestMagic. As a friend mentioned recently, I have gained an inch or two around my waist, maybe gained a kilo or two screen time has gone up would have loved to

To learn & grow is a deep need within. #Reading  habit comes up during our coaching and mentoring sessions. For various reasons, most of us have left behind our love for books. While all of us would like to continue learning, we have also adopted different learning styles over the years. Sometimes we tend to romanticize the diversity too! Sometimes it becomes a belief. For example, ‘I can no longer read books like before’! And s/he is on a coaching or coach training program,

In a leadership role, the most important thing you can do is help your team members make progress on what is meaningful for them. That is the most powerful motivating experience at work. Many leaders neither take out time for development conversations nor have the skills to do it. Consequently, employee growth, engagement, and retention suffers. Leaders who engage in coaching conversations , create a better connection with their team members. When they help someone achieve so

What is your learning style? Which of these, or a combination of these? Coaching is about adult learning styles. No specific style is thrust on the coachee/client. In our coaching, we just go with what the coachee prefers, what works for him/her. In our ICF Coach training session last evening, one of the learner-coaches mentioned how he has started reading books again. His learning style had become through audio/video. He is a techie too. Then in a coaching demo with the same