Speaking ‘Up’
Introduction Many managers and emerging leaders have trouble with speaking up – may be expressing their opinion in a peer forum, speaking in the presence of senior leaders within the organization, expressing their views with customer leaders, etc. They then worry about lack of visibility. This problem reminds me of the story of the beautiful […]
Dealing with Fear@Work
In our Full Stack Leadership program and Leadership Coaching engagements, one of the common challenges we come across is about dealing with Fear. People are afraid to bring this up initially. But as we establish trust and confidentiality, being external to the organization, people open up on their vulnerabilities and personal-professional issues, beyond just the […]
CHOW # 309: Taking responsibility for one’s feelings
In Nonviolent Communication, Dr Rosenberg recommends that “We take responsibility for our feelings, rather than blame other people, by acknowledging our own needs, desires, expectations, values, or thoughts”. In the following sentences, select the sentences where the speaker is acknowledging responsibility for his or her feelings: (Yes or No) <scroll down for solution> Suggested Solution:
Language that shapes compassionate communication
Introduction Have you ever wondered at times why you said what you said? It happened to me a couple of days back: I said something cheeky to my mother during a normal conversation in the evening and her facial reaction revealed ‘mild hurt’, but she quickly recovered and moved on! ‘Mild’ is my interpretation. I […]
“i-fi” – A Model for Designing Your Future and Personal Change
Abstract This article is the author’s narrative based on his ongoing journey of personal change. Emphasis is on proactive personal change fueled by the desire to shape one’s future. The author progressively outlines a model that could help the readers in their journey. Many ideas are stitched together in a unique way based on author’s […]
Tweaks in the traditional approach… Agile
As a coach, I often reflect on how the approaches and the practices have evolved from the traditional to the Agile. I can recollect many instances and moments, when we did things differently, improvised a bit, in the traditional world. These were steps, tips, tricks that improved the effectiveness in the traditional approaches. Over a […]
Chow #216: How best to multi task?
Raveesh was the chief architect at 9to5 corporation. He company had seen significant growth in the last 4 years in a very niche market of Enterprise Application Integration. Their eBbus – or the enterprise business bus, was highly scalable and modular in design and that helped their customers configure and deploy solutions quickly. Raveesh was […]
CHOW #213: Engagement challenges during remote working context
As an Agile Coach, I have observed that many people are struggling with the new engagement context due to remote working arrangements – multitasking at home with kids & other family members and house hold activities, managing attention/focus, not coming on video because of the background context at home, network connectivity issues and so on. […]
Three 3-minute Mindful Practices for remote working hazards
Covid-19 has brought in forced locked down and remote working situations all over the world. It has also forced online learning classes for students of all ages. All this means all people, young and old, are spending more time with computers, mobile phones, tablets etc. This too much sitting and watching screens for long hours […]
Challenge of the Week (CHOW #191) – Jest Kidding!
Refer to the blog WFH – Child’s Play for the context of this CHOW. The Child has been overhearing her WFH Dad’s calls for quite a while now. Since Dad always had his ear phones on, the Child could hear only one side of the conversations. Despite that, the Child has figured that there were […]
