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“What happened at the 400-m women’s final track at Finland may be an apt # metaphor for not just Indian sports but also the change in the way India looks at itself” — ET Blog In another brilliant piece in the same newspaper, @Economictimes by Garima Verma, quotes Hima who ‘describes herself as water that adapts and changes course at will”. Her metaphor is indeed water! Check out: Be Like Water, my friend: Bruce Lee (#Metaphor) “…the romance of ‘almost winning a medal’ i

“ Over the last 20 years, I’ve been focused on how coaches go from novice to good to expert. . . It’s easy to be a good coach; it’s very hard to be a great coach. How do we get better?” @ DavidBPeterson (@ Forbes )3 trends: 1. Self-directed development for leaders – Reflective, feedback: “Leaders are getting better at self-directed development. They are more reflective, trying things more, asking for feedback more naturally. Leaders are doing for themselves a lot of what coa

Executive Coaching has been glorified to amplify performance, enhance business outcomes and reshape the thinking of executives for excellence. While all this is true, an HBR study revealed that Executive Coaching can have serious pitfalls as well. To quote the study, executive coaches can actually turn a bad situation into worse because of their inherent biases, providing straitjacketed solutions & by ignoring deeper psychological issues! The link to the entire HBR article i

Mindfulness- Is it going to change your life radically? Probably not. But, will it help you transform yourself with every small step to greatness? Absolutely. In the previous article on mindfulness ( Mindful leadership: making work life better ), we noticed how inculcating mindfulness as an inherent trait benefits corporate leaders for a better and more rewarding life both professionally and personally. Now, let’s dive deeper into how to be more mindful and hence more remarka

Beyond Coaching Psychobabble: Let the Buyer Beware (Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change) ‘ The advertising pitches of many coaches raise false expectations and seem designed to fool the gullible ‘, says the author. Interesting perspective, I may add! Coaches Beware?! I am tempted to add. This post by the Prof is a timely reminder and a good opportunity for us (coaches) to step back and look at o

Had recently listened to a wonderful podcast on 2018 Best Countries on @WhartonBizRadio podcast by @Danloney21 . There were a few surprises. Listened to another brilliant podcast on # Happiness, with the author ‘Blue Zones of Happiness’ . (Bullet points are my random thoughts, rest of it is from the podcast) After Blue Ocean Strategy & it’s updated version recently, it is good we have something on ‘Blue’ zones of happiness. It is still sad we have a few zones of happine

Coaching & Regal Coach Certification for Young Leaders & Millennial by Subash CV | Oct 15, 2017 | Coach Certification , Coach Training , Uncategorized Every small change in life is like death & rebirth For example, deciding career stream, new job, marriage, move from executive to manager to leader, parenting, etc. For these important shifts we don’t get coaching/mentoring, but go by what others have done,... The fad of everyone being a coach easy to fail – Chicago Tribune by

‘The rapid growth of the coaching and consulting industry is staggering. According to a research study by IBISWorld , at the end of 2014, it was said that coaching is a $1 billion industry that the ICF expects to grow by 20% in 2017′. (Pls note it is coaching, consulting and all that broadly fits into two diverse areas – for coaching and consulting are totally different, like two parallel lines. In between lies, training, guiding, mentor by subject matter expert, therap