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Author: Manish Mohan

Measuring Training Delivery Quality

July 26, 2021
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Measuring quality of training is always tricky. In this webinar Neeraj Agarwal, CEO, Ruralshores Skills Academy, shares his insights for managing training effectiveness and parameters to track for measuring training delivery. Understanding the inter-linkages of student capability, student effort, trainer quality and of course the course material.Assessments as a method of tracking delivery of training.Reduce dependence on student feedback on quality that can be easily influenced by training company/trainer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1GYTPUeZLE

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Design Creative Social Media Posts

July 26, 2021
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In this webinar held on 17 Jul 2021, you will learn to design creative social media posts using services like Canva, Desygner or PosterMyWall without the knowledge of Photoshop or any other photo editing software. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1KlznRwMokk

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Building an Ecommerce Website

July 26, 2021
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| Categories: Ecommerce, Webinars

The webinar held on 24 Jun 2021 introduces you to building an ecommerce website without knowing how to code. This webinar presents a roadmap to create and run an ecommerce website. The recording of the webinar has been edited into 6 videos and is available as a playlist. Installing WordPress and getting your ecommerce website structure up and runningDesigning your ecommerce websiteAdding products to your ecommerce websiteSetting up website lifelinesPreparing your ecommerce website for successIntroducing online course on Building ecommerce website

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What’s Your Tag Line?

November 13, 2016
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| Categories: HR, job search, Learning, management tip, people management, Recruitment, tag line, Training

Many years ago a recruiter connected with me. During our conversation he asked me what's my tag line. My tag line, what's that? I asked. He said, you know, like someone is a "Problem Solver", or "Deal Closer" etc. You need to have a tag line that describes you, he said to me.The conversation got me thinking. Before that time I had never thought what was my tag line. After some thought, I chose "Enabling People" as my tag line. I like to enable people deliver better, by creating an…

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India as a Skill-based Society

June 15, 2016
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| Categories: education, India, Interview, Skill Development, Skill-based Society, skills

My interview published in Times Jobs site on 12 May 2016. You can read the original article here.‘India still gives more importance to degrees than skills’CommentsBy TimesJobs.com on May 12, 2016The country still has a long way to go before becoming a skill-based society, says Manish Mohan of Wadhwani FoundationNeha Singh Verma, TimesJobs.comThe government should review minimum wages for different skills and set up policies to recognise skilled workers, says Manish Mohan, executive vice president-Skills Development Network at Wadhwani Foundation.“In the quest to meet numbers, we should not forget to train youth…

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Retail – The sunrise sector for employment opportunities

April 18, 2016
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| Categories: FDI, GDP, India, Industry, Jobs, NSDC, Retail, Retail Industry, Skill Development, skills

I recently wrote an article on the Retail sector in India and the employment opportunities it provides. Here's the link to the original article on ET Retail.Few months ago, a small paanstall mysteriously appeared on the footpath near our office. I saw a young man at the helm, selling paan, cigarettes, chewing gum and some toffees. As I walked by his stall in the evenings, I occasionally bought a packet of chewing gum to encourage his endeavour. In a short time, I found that he didn't need much encouragement from…

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Skilling India: Mine the Young Workforce

January 26, 2016
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| Categories: GER, India, Skill Development, Skilling India, skills, Vocational training, Workforce

My article originally published in Deccan Herald on 21 Jan 2016.Prosperous countries with high GDP and per capita income tend to have high skill capital. This also translates to better quality of life and growth in the Human Development Index. As economies evolve from being commodity centric to knowledge centric, growth is increasingly dependent on availability of skills.Our country has a great opportunity in terms of its demographic dividend. While we are growing to be the most populous country, expected to overtake China between 2022 and 2028, the opportunity lies…

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Can Acrimony Lead to Higher Performance?

November 18, 2015
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| Categories: acrimony, high performance, Organization culture, organizational development, team leadership, team performance, teams, Teamwork, working in teams

If you have been following the Delhi state's political situation, you would know that the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his party are constantly at logger heads with the political powers at the Center. Given the nature of how the capital state is governed, not everything is under the Chief Minister's hierarchical control. It's a bit like matrix structures in large organization. There have been many public spats between the Delhi Chief Minister and the Police Department (which is under Central rule). There is a widespread acrimony between the…

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Diverging Convergence

August 12, 2015
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| Categories: Apps, Convergence, Devices, Divergence, Information, Internet of Things, Trends

There is a divergence of devices. We are no longer limited to the desktop or a laptop. Mobile devices have overtaken the desktop and laptops. These mobile devices may be tablets or phones. Wearable devices is no longer a thing of the future. We have devices that control refrigerators, air conditioners and a host of other appliances. We have devices controlling our television and even our automobiles. The devices are everywhere. The Internet of Things is here.And yet, we want the same information on all devices. Whether we are using laptop, or tablet…

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