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I believe one of the biggest “no-balls” of Corporate Training & Development is not having a defined “why”. (Read as non-alignment of purpose, objective, and expectations). Sure, it’s a power packed 6 that’s knocked off the roof of the stadium and the crowd has gone nuts… except, the crease was overstepped even by a fraction.… Continue reading A No-Ball is a No-Ball, even if you hit a Six

It’s that time of the year again when all of the world and its mother rave about the number game.Not finances, I’m talking about “The Results”. It’s that time where several Boards across the country announce their earth-shattering “Board Exam Results” This brings me to share a quick moment of nostalgia with you… When I… Continue reading The Journey or The Destination ?

From school assemblies and class teachers, to meetings, conferences, seminars, event anchors, jocks, speakers and trainers- this dialogue just never gets old, does it? We’ve all grown up hearing it. We’ve eye-rolled at and side-eyed the enthu-cutlet yelling at the other end of the room. Cut to, when I was affiliated with educational institutions, onboarded… Continue reading “Who’s not had breakfast today? I can’t hear you….GOOD MORNINGGGGG!”

As you know, this year marks my 10th year working. Not gonna lie, this decade-long career trajectory has been equal parts of enriching, abundant, wholesome, angsty, erratic, and turbulent. Over the decade, I’ve dabbled into 7 industries. Some jobs, I flirted with; some others, I had a long standing affair with. And then finally I… Continue reading 10 years and 7 industries later…

Just this morning, I wrapped up a first-level client call.What was supposed to go by like a butterfly flapping its wings, turned into a linchpin. The client approached the call with a requirement of a “hard core sales training” for their sales team that often works on targets.A detailed conversation, and a couple hundred questions… Continue reading Contracting: The Small Hinge That Swings Big Doors of Learning Interventions

As a facilitator, its quite common to ask this question to the participants for closure. It gives us an insight on what stood out for the participants, what’s a new discovery they made, any realisations and/or revelations they’ve had, and more. During a recent session for a senior leadership team, I had my Aha moment… Continue reading “What’s your Aha! Moment from the session?”

Over the last 3 years, I’ve had the absolute pleasure, privilege, and joy of working with 33+ Brands widespread across 17+ vivid sectors and industries.And that’s not even the real prize. Each new industry I associate with, I spend copious amounts of time researching about that business. The competition, the breakthroughs, the challenges, the loopholes,… Continue reading Research: the salt in the recipe 

Never did I ever think that out of a battery of mind-boggling and brain-teasing activities of the previous the OBT, what would really get the participants’ goat was a Jigsaw Puzzle The participants were divided into teams and simply asked to put together the puzzle. That’s it! And, much to everyone’s surprise, only 1 team… Continue reading Perspective

A couple weeks ago, I was in Bangalore for a workshop, catching up with an old client over coffee. We were talking about the way forward, and some dire circumstances that demand attention. The usual stuff. Along the way, they mentioned about how the teams were struggling keeping up with too many (rather unproductive) meetings… Continue reading Can Facilitation only be used in “Training”?

Session Synopsis “No use of PPT”“No lecturing or gyaan because this audience is too seasoned for all of this”“Make it interactive and engaging”“It should be facilitative”“Everyone must have at least 1-2 meaningful takeaways by the end of it”“It has to be application based, not at a topical or superficial level”“We would like you to use… Continue reading Design Thinking on Steroids