In a recently concluded training program, a young participant (who had been nominated by his manager to attend the program) had a question,” What’s the use of learning this skill if we don’t have the opportunity to use it in our current job?” Many executives, both young and tenured, have this question. For instance, …
Often, at gatherings real and virtual, I hear talk of illustrious siblings, cousins and other relatives and friends. We love to talk about their intelligence in business or politics. Their smart thinking becomes a subject of case studies and eventually, the stuff legends are made of. Even children are not spared. At gatherings, one hears talk …
One of the most frequently used, over used and often abused phrases in corporate jargon is ‘soft skill’. To the uninitiated, it appears to mean a set of behaviours- all aimed at developing a pleasing personality, about being ‘nice’ to people. Many professionals I meet in training programs seem to hold this view. A person …
There is a child in all of us. It comes out every time we see a rainbow or every time we eat our favourite sweet. It comes whenever we meet a childhood buddy or when we read our favourite comic….but it never comes out in the workplace. And why should it come out in the …
A terrible calamity befell us at work the other day. I needed my usual mid morning dose of caffeine. I went up to the coffee vending machine and pushed the right buttons and… no milk! Just when I needed my coffee badly! It took me a while to calm down, get a hold on myself …
