Here is a question for you: “When was the last time you did something for the first time”?
Category: Corporate Leadership
One of the things we love about our work is the opportunity to have conversations with various business leaders about the challenges they face. In one such recent conversation, a business leader raised this interesting topic – with teams becoming more spread across geographies, and technology becoming an all pervading force, a lot of the interaction with team members happen virtually – specifically on the phone. While conventional leadership programs address behaviours related to leadership, most of them are focused on face to face interactions that the leader has with teams. More and more, leaders need to demonstrate leadership behaviours even in the virtual world of smartphones and internet.
“Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any good facilitator will tell you that powerful stories are worth their weight in gold while conducting a workshop. Nothing captivates a group’s attention than a powerful story told in the right context.
Ever so rarely, there comes a movie, which makes a deep impact and also teaches a few lessons. Lagaan: Once upon a time in India, the epic drama written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, was one such movie that offers us several management and leadership lessons.
Storytelling is an enchanting art. And as an organisation, as it must be evident from our blogs like 4 Short stories to spark conversations, we are absolutely in love with it. Some of the most celebrated business books are also written in a similar format. The 5 dysfunctions of a team is one of the celebrated examples of the same.
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