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Changing Context

September 26, 2010
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| Categories: Blogging, Context, Contextual learning, Leadership, Management, organizational development, people management, Recruitment, Social Media

During a recent organizational development workshop that I attended, the facilitator talked about changing context. It was an interesting discussion that got me thinking about my changed context. I could recognize a few that I have experienced in the last couple of years.About two years ago my context as a manager and leader changed about the way I was managing my teams. I moved from "I have to do everything and I have get everything done” to “I have to enable people to do their jobs"This significantly changed my approach to…

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How to Become a Thought Leader

January 11, 2010
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| Categories: Leadership, Thought Leader

Three easy steps to become a thought leader: Have a thought. You can’t be a thought leader without a thought. Have a point of view about everything, be opinionated.Share your thought. It’s all very good to have a thought but it is quite useless unless you share it. To be a leader assumes you have followers. You can’t have followers if no one knows what your thoughts are. It’s easy to share. Share more at workplace, be a node of reference, start a blog, don’t pass on an opportunity to…

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Development Goals for Leaders

January 10, 2010
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Another great post by Dan McCarthy on 12 development goals for leaders. He is spot on for the 12 development goals for leaders. There are additional ones suggested in comments on his post, but I quite like the 12 he lists. Thank you Dan. Head over to his post for more. Strategic thinkingListeningCoachingFinancial acumenCross-functional knowledge and perspectiveIndustry, competitive, and customer knowledgeLeadership presenceChange leadershipRemote managementCollaborationTalent managementTime management

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5 Reasons Why You are Not Being Promoted

October 20, 2009
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| Categories: Career, Change management, coaching, HR, Jobs, Leadership, performance management, Promotion, Supervisor, Tips, Work

I came across Dan McCarthy’s blog recently. Dan is a practitioner in the field of leadership development for over 20 years and is currently the Manager of Leadership and Management Development at a Fortune "Great Place to Work", "Training Top 125", and "High Impact Learning" (HILO 80) company. He has a great blog on leadership that I would encourage you to subscribe to. Dan wrote a great post Head’s Up – You are About to be Promoted or Fired where he shares why you might get promoted or fired. I…

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What Type of a Leader Are You?

March 23, 2009
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| Categories: Behaviour, HR, Leadership, Lists, Management, people management, Reflection, Supervisor

It’s happened to me a few times now. We are going somewhere and I am asked to follow someone else’s car. I observed three types of leaders:   1.       The Highly skilled but somewhat Self-Centred Leader: The driver in the car ahead of me just zooms past leaving me to figure out the way myself. They are usually very skilled at manoeuvring through the traffic themselves. You will usually lose them at a traffic signal that they go past leaving you stranded waiting for the light to turn. They are…

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Case Study: First Amongst Equals

March 14, 2009
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| Categories: case study, HR, Leadership, Management, people management, performance management, Promotion, Supervisor, Work

In my second case study, we look at a situation when one of the peers is expected to take on the leadership position amongst the team. Looking forward to your responses to learn what we can do in situations like these.   A meeting alert window popped up on Ajay’s computer reminding him of his meeting with Sangeeta, his boss. He clicked the snooze button and continued making last minutes changes to the spreadsheet he was working on. He was compiling performance data for his team that would be discussed…

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Learn and Lead

March 7, 2009
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| Categories: About, Blogging, Leadership, Learning, Management

When I first started this blog I wasn’t sure specifically what I would write about but I knew it would be about my area of work. And so I named the blog to cover almost everything: ‘Life, the Universe and Everything about eLearning and Content Development’. About year into blogging, I realized that I was writing about more than just eLearning. And so I dropped the ‘e’ and renamed my blog to ‘Life, the Universe and Everything about Learning and Content Development’. A few months ago I created a Wordle…

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Employability, the biggest challenge

November 9, 2008
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| Categories: employability, HR, Leadership, Learning, Recruitment, Trends, Work Literacy, Workplace Learning

In my second part in the series, I share what Manish Sabharwal spoke at our annual strategy input conference. Manish Sabharwal is the Chairman and co-founder of TeamLease. Manish wanted to start a new company that was profitable, fun, and good for India. He co-founded Team Lease, a staffing company, and in six years his company has grown to 80,000 employees and $250 million company. It was great fun listening to Manish again this year.According to Manish, vocational training has to come with a job. There has been an employment…

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My Lessons in Change Management

July 17, 2008
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| Categories: Change management, Leadership, Management, Measurement

Last year I reduced my weight by about 16 kgs. It was an interesting journey. In the process I learned many things that could be applied to the corporate world, especially when one is required to bring about changes in the organization.The biggest challenge in losing weight was to have determination. And my wife was very determined that I lose weight. When bringing about major changes in an organization, it is important that senior management is determined and committed to making things happen.I tell my friends that the first step…

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