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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. John C. Maxwell

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Develop a strong mid and senior level leadership team through Personal Effectiveness Programs

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Deliver projects on time and within cost by enabling your managers with the right project management skills

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Control vs. Influence

August 17, 2009
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| Categories: coaching, control, influence, Management

This is a guest post by S Ranganathan. I got a chance to interact with Ranganathan during a leadership development program that I attended at ISB. Ranga, as he would like to be called, is a regular Executive Coach at ISB where he partners with different trainers in their Global Leadership Program. Ranga holds a Post Graduate degree in Management from IIM Bangalore preceded by a Post Graduate degree in Mathematics from IIT Chennai. Ranga is the Founder-Director of SymIndia Training and Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.—an organization based in Bangalore that…

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I Don’t Want to Measure!

August 4, 2009
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| Categories: Behaviour, Change, Management, Measurement, Resistance

Now don’t get me wrong. I love measurement. Heck, I measure everything, Everything! I am the epitome of measurement. Okay, perhaps that’s stretching it too far but you get the picture. I believe measurement is a critical step to bring about any change and improvement. Yet, I have been shying away from measurement lately. Well, I am still measuring but am generally becoming resistant to pushing the envelope too far on measurement. Which got me thinking. When does measurement become a pain in the wrong part of our anatomy? When…

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Why an Updated LinkedIn Profile is Important

July 24, 2009
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| Categories: Career, coaching, HR, Jobs, LinkedIn, Professional Networking, Recruitment, Tips

I recently discovered how I can effectively use LinkedIn to find potential candidates for recruitment. I simply update my status message with what I am looking for and get responses from interested candidates. Okay, I know this isn’t really new but hey, it’s new for me. Anyway this post isn’t about this discovery of mine. I received a few responses to my status updates. These were from people I know and have worked with in the past. Unfortunately, a few of the people who responded did not have an updated…

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Great Work is not Recognized

July 22, 2009
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| Categories: Career, coaching, Life, Management, performance, recognition, Work

I recently read this in one of the blogs that I follow (which unfortunately I can’t remember, apologies). Great work is not recognized by managers, exceptional work is. Great work is expected from you anyway. This is so true. I have heard many people complain that they got no recognition for the work they did. In some cases they said they got no recognition for the great work they did. So how can we do exceptional work that will be noticed and recognized? Well, to start with stop focusing on…

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Staying Up to Date with Instructional Design Skills

July 20, 2009
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| Categories: Career, coaching, eCube, eLearning, Instructional Design, Jobs, Learning, Learning professionals, skills

I recently came across a question posted on the eCube LinkedIn forum that I responded to. While the question was how a person in between jobs could keep their instructional design skills up to date, I think it is important even for those with the jobs to keep their skills up to date. How can an experienced Instructional Designer with very limited experience in current instructional design software tools update their skills in order to be recognized and considered as a candidate for e-Learning positions? How does a person in…

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Have You Participated Yet?

July 16, 2009
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| Categories: eLearning, India, Instructional Design, Jobs, Salary, Survey

Update: Survey is closed for the year. You can view the elearning and content development salaries in India for 2009 here.Have you participated in the Unofficial Salary Survey for eLearning / Content Development Jobs in India for year 2009 yet? More than 60 people have participated in the survey so far. Join the growing number of people who have already participated. Some highlights of responses received so far: So far, Chennai and Pune are leading with most participants, with Bangalore and NCR following closely. Hyderabad and Mumbai are the other…

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4 R’s Meme: Favorite Posts

July 15, 2009
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| Categories: favorites, Lists, Meme, postsofthepast, Tags

Ken Allan tagged me to a rather unique meme, the 4 R’s Meme: Favorite Posts. He asks those tagged to select 4 of their favourite posts from their own blog, one from each of the categories: Rants, Resources, Reflections and Revelations. The posts are then listed with a brief summary on each describing: * why it was important, * why it had lasting value or impact, * how you would update it for today. The intrepid bloggers are to tag all of their selected posts with the label postsofthepast and…

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To be an Entrepreneur

July 9, 2009
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| Categories: business, business plan, entrepreneur, Life, Making money

Coming to Chennai has introduced me to many new things. I started using Twitter! I have also had the chance to meet up with budding and experienced entrepreneurs. As part of the Chennai Open Coffee Club I experienced un-conferences. I tried one in office and it didn’t quite go off very well, but then that’s another post. The charm of being an entrepreneur is huge and draws a lot of people to it. I spoke to many people and listened attentively to many a discussion to understand various business models.…

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THANK YOU!

July 3, 2009
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| Categories: Announcement, Milestone, Reflection

Last month this blog completed two years. It’s been an interesting journey of self discovery with 3 name changes, 116 posts, 263 comments, nearly 20,000 page views and most importantly 200 RSS and email subscribers. THANK YOU for reading and contributing to my learning. Do drop a line about how this blog has been able to contribute in your learning and how I can make this blog better.

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