July 9, 2009 • 8:23 pm 0
Who has the responsibility for choosing a coach for the CEO? Is it the CEO himself/herself? Is it the Board that sees this need in the first place? This and other aspects of how important coaching has become to CEOs comes out in Ray William’s post ” Why Every CEO Needs A Coach” in the Financial Post. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , corporate governance, Executive Coaching, Ray Williams
May 18, 2009 • 8:57 am 0
Those who have participated in executive coaching sessions often speak of the benefits they have derived from that experience. I came across a lucid list of such benefits put together by Gary Wood. Gary is an executive coach from Ontario, Canada and runs G.E.Wood & Associates.
Filed under: Uncategorized , benefits of coaching, Executive Coaching
November 16, 2008 • 7:00 am 0
Cathleen Benko is the Vice Chairwoman & Chief Talent Officer for Deloitte L.L.P. She writes in the New York Times about how the old order is changing for the new in corporate America. Only about 15 % of families there now have the traditional pattern (which many of us grew up in) where Dad went to work and Mom stayed at home to bring up the kids. Career mean different things to different people. The days when moving up the organizational hierarchy was equated with career progress are over.
Filed under: Uncategorized , A Step A Day, Careers, Cathleen Benko, Trends
November 15, 2008 • 2:05 pm 0
Many attend learning events, say they enjoyed them a lot but later wonder what they gained from them. They are part of a large number of people who do not make and implement action plans. To my mind, action planning is by far the best way to effectively transfer learnings from a learning event or training program, to where it matters the most-back on the job. This is a weak area for most simply because they don’t take responsibility for this process. They forget an important learning principle: “If it is for me, it has to be by me”. Here are my 7 Steps for Action Planning:
Filed under: Uncategorized , A Step A Day, action planning, self-development
November 14, 2008 • 2:17 pm 0
It is not uncommon for managers to shy away from telling the truth. To duck issues because of the adverse reactions it may create in their team members or even among their customers. They live for the moment and hope that the issue they have temporarily warded off will simply fade away. More often than not, these issues come back with a vengeance to haunt us. How much better it is for managers to tell it like it is. It may make them unpopular at first but it will pay them back many times over in the long run.
Filed under: Uncategorized , A Step A Day, Executive Coaching, Feedback, Nina Simosko
November 12, 2008 • 8:05 pm 0
At the first signs of a downturn, up goes the cry “Cut Costs”. But how? By reducing people? By vacating markets? By thinking here and now and hell with the long term? Different organizations react differently to the challenge of cutting costs. What would be the worst way to cut costs-and the best?
Filed under: Uncategorized , A Step A Day, Capt. Mike Abrashoff, cutting costs, Executive Effectiveness
October 25, 2008 • 6:08 pm 0
We are facing tough times. The Sensex like all the other barometers of economic progress is nose diving. Job offers are hard to come by. People fear imminent job cuts in many industries in different parts of the world. There is a certain amount of gloom- but don’t lose heart. The Festival of Lights is around the corner. Diwali signifies the victory of good over evil in every human being. May the festival of lights bring peace and happiness to you and yours. Happy Diwali.
Filed under: Uncategorized , Diwali
September 11, 2008 • 9:40 am 0
Certain incidents remain etched forever in the minds of people. Unfortunately, tragedies seem to grab top recall. All of us remember with pain the events of September 11, 2001 – which has since gone down in history simply as “9/11″. Who can forget the sight of the World Trade Centre Towers being struck by aircraft – deliberately crashed into them. Earlier that day, Al-Quaeda hijackers had in a well planned move hijacked four commercial airliners in the United States.
Filed under: Uncategorized , 9/11, A Step A Day
July 3, 2008 • 7:00 am 5
The entrance examination (called CAT) to the Indian Institutes of Management is considered to be one of the most competitive of its kind in the world. Each year thousands of aspiring Indians try to get admission to the prestigious IIMs. The reason is obvious- on graduation they are assured of plum jobs in some of the world’s leading corporations.
In this context, the career choice made by Kaushalendra on passing out from IIM Ahmedabad, often rated the best IIM of the lot is quite astounding. He has started selling vegetables off a cart in the sweltering heat of his hometown- Patna in Bihar. His dream is to make his home state a vegetable hub.
Filed under: Uncategorized , A Step A Day, Careers, Kaushalendra
April 26, 2008 • 7:29 am 0
With the internet being an influencing factor in almost every decision we take: seeking information as we do on what to buy, where to buy it from, the options available etc, it is inevitable that organisations, and may I add, individuals too have to keep an eye on their online reputation.
What is your online presence like? Does it convey confidence to the reader? Is it inspiring for the person who wishes to do business with you? Do people who come across you and “meet” you, as it were, go away with a positive impression of you? They could be your blog readers, the consumers of your product/services or as is more likely the casual surfer who stumbles across you.
In Practical Ecommerce, Paul Chaney writes that you can no longer afford not to listen to what people are talking about you. He has a few tips on how to track what people are saying about you in Online Reputation Management.
I, for one, believe it is what people say by way of the quality of comments you get rather than the number of times you “feature” which really matters.
If you don’t have a web presence, get one now.
If your reputation on the web needs improvement, attend to it now.
We simply don’t know who will read about you next. It could be the guy next door, some chap in another corner of the world or a potential customer.
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This is the 145 th of the “A Step A Day” series : To provide perspective and provoke thought to facilitate self-development across a wide spectrum of issues- big and small- crucial for executive success
Filed under: Uncategorized , A Step A Day, Online reputation management
