“I hate my manager, I want to quit” — This was the first sentence I heard when I spoke to my ex-teammate a few days back. How many of you have ever had a similar thought? I certainly did, and when I heard it from my ex-teammate I just smiled…

Are you thinking of running a design thinking workshop? Please read this first. Over the past decade, it has become imperative to develop and refine skills which allow us to act on quick changes in our environment and behavior. The world has become challenging, interconnected, and complex, and need solutions…

A few weeks ago, I coached my ex-staff on career management. He started his career in accounts payable about 15 years ago and gradually grown within. He enjoyed the work and having spent so much time on developing a career in the said area; everything was so easy for him…

Research suggests 90% of startups fail before 5 years and most startup fails due to Lack of Product Fit or Market Need or Ran out of Cash among the top reasons for failures among other people related issues. I will focus on the people side which contributes to Failures which…

Gaining influence in the modern workplace is getting difficult, according to Nick Morgan, author of Power Cues. “It’s never been harder to influence others because they’ve never been more distracted,” he says. “Information overload and the pace of our digital lives have led to short attention spans.” And yet, “it’s…

According to Bersin by Deloitte and Gartner, “employee engagement has become the top issue on the minds of business leaders, leading to a new management model”. Let’s understand what employee engagement is and is not. Employee engagement is not the same as job satisfaction, nor does it mean job happiness…

Change isn’t just hard for employees — it’s hard for leaders, too. Leaders empowered with setting change strategy and making sure change implementation is successful. Driving change is a complex and laborious process if it is not well planned. Before driving a change, one needs to diagnose / access whether…

Many leaders often think they have a robust leadership pipeline, for some, leadership pipeline is about identifying the Top talents and earmarking for certain positions. An example of typical old-school thinking to grow leaders, we are living in a disrupted environment, and If we don’t disrupt our way of thinking…