My Instagram feed, filled with quotes on insecurity, has done a brilliant job of equipping me with an ability to catch myself feeling negative emotions like insecurity, greed to do more, anxiety that I am not enough. I catch myself feeling those emotions and I say, ” Stop it, you don’t have to feel this way. ”
Interestingly though, the built awareness…
“Our head of sales, Natalie is excellent.. and I wish everyone was like her.”
“Mariam is top of class in her grades, hope all students can become like her.”
“Sandy is a great writer, she always comes up with best articles.”
We have all heard such statements and perhaps rolled our eyes when listening to them too!
Often the teller of these …
“We are a B Corp Organisation Anjali.” This is what I heard from a client last week. Confused, I started to research on B Corp Organisations. After several hours of searching online, I found this 1min 57sec video which does a great job in explaining what a B Corp Organisation is.
After watching this video, I was immediately reminded of a comment…
Karen is responsible for Change Management in her organisation.
Every time she announces a change initiative, there is group of people who would hijack her presentations. They question everything and anything which usually dampens the little enthusiasm that exists for change. This group of people are super smart people.
Karen’s biggest worry, for a long time before any change announcement, was this…
I have a question. No, I don’t need you to give me an answer but just answer it to yourself.
When was the last time you gave generous feedback on a feedback form? If your answer is recently or always or even sometime ago, you are rare and a minority.
The problem is feedback forms are not designed to demonstrate generosity. Generosity,…
Learning and Development and its sour relationship with cost cutting.
” Sorry Anjali, the business priority is else where at the moment. So, all learning and development initiatives are on hold’
” When we get busy learning and development is the first to get out of our agenda”
These are just a couple of sentences I have heard in the recent past…
What do you do when your Change Management Process and Strategy start to derail?
Recently, I had an opportunity to work with a leading Telecommunications company in curating* a Change Story as one of the key strategies of their major IT Change Management Plan.
My task was to
1. Curate the Change Story involving 9 Business Divisions involving conversations with over 100…
Change Management Storytelling. How to communicate your change effectively.
This blog is for you if you are like Min Lee. Min Lee is responsible for change management communication.
At the start of the project Min Lee has created key steps to manage communication on various change activities – Surveys, Leadership Talks, Updates, Engagement Activities etc. Her plan is robust and thought out.…
On why I chose this quote from Muhammad Ali in the header image : Muhammad Ali’s motivation was a prerequisite to his successful practice without which the practice is not as effective. This quote clearly demonstrates the depth of his motivation.
This blog is for you if you are like Azira. Azira is responsible for learning and development for a MNC.
At…
I have recently been working with TEDx Singapore to convert the selected speakers’ ideas into stories. In preparation for the sessions with the speakers, I looked at many successful TED talks and I read Talk like Ted by Carmine Gallo. Through this research I gained some fantastic insights that I wanted to share on one of the talks that was rated as…