List of the Blog – FocusU India

List of Blog

List of the Blog – FocusU India

August 15, 2021

How To Spice Up Your Learning & Development Initiatives?

A few years ago, in my previous job as a process trainer (for those who are new to the concept, process training is about imparting knowledge and nuances of a process or […]
August 13, 2021

How to Manage People Who Dislike Each Other?

Managing people is never easy, but the job of a leader becomes even more difficult when team members are openly hostile to each other. And, often, managers struggle to find the right way to help resolve such issues among their direct reports.
August 5, 2021

Why Women Make Great Leaders?

“I maybe the first woman in this office, but will not be the last.” –  Kamala Harris Mao Zedong, former President of the People’s Republic of China, famously proclaimed “Women hold up […]
July 24, 2021

How to Make Your Diversity Training Effective?

A recent meta-analysis survey on the effectiveness of diversity training programs smashed the prevalent perception that diversity training does not work. It shows that with adequate target awareness and skill development, such programs can bring about effective and long term behavioural changes within an organisation. So, how do leaders tackle the issue of enabling effective diversity in the work place?
July 23, 2021

Your Team Stepped Up During The Pandemic. Now, It’s Your Turn.

For most organisations, the pandemic brought to surface unexpected talent, creativity, and resilience. Many mid-level employees stepped up and took charge of the situation. They handled the unexpected challenges with unprecedented creativity and a strong bias for action. These entrepreneurial team members have really changed the game for everyone, everywhere. However, with the situation normalising across the board, leaders are facing a new challenge.
July 15, 2021

How To Effectively Collect Feedback For Digital Learning Courses?

I learnt things the hard way and this blog is an attempt to reflect on the mistakes I made while collecting feedback for online game-based learning courses and gamified content. In my experience this holds true regardless of the type of content – gamified, storified, serious games, elearning, microlearning or nanolearning. If you are an online learning designer or just someone who is learning using online courses, I hope you add to my points and further help me and other learning designers become better.
July 14, 2021

6 Leadership Development Trends To Watch Out In 2021

The organizations and the L&D ecosystems, worldwide, are witnessing an unprecedented shift in operational practices. And these changes bring a host of new trends and leadership practices for leaders to adapt to, and cope up with. Let’s take a look at the top 6 for this year.
July 10, 2021

Using the ‘State Of Flow’ to Curate Better Learning & Development Modules

In a state of flow, you feel extremely absorbed in the activity and it makes you extremely happy. Let’s take a look at a few simple, yet powerful steps that can help you in designing self-paced gamified learning and/or team building modules.
July 7, 2021

How Can You Make Better Defensible Decisions?

To make sense of the world around us, humans rely heavily on their intuition along with their intelligence. Intuition is marvellous, indeed. In the blink of an eye, in the absence of […]
July 6, 2021

9 Must Watch Movies That Celebrate Diversity

what does diversity at work place mean? is it just hiring women employees? Or is it about celebrating the team members who belong to the LGBTQIA+ community? Or is diversity an umbrella term for celebrating every kind of team member that makes the very DNA of any organisation? From sexually and culturally diverse team members to differently abled ones; and everything in between?