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Empowering Excellence: Navigating the AI-Powered Digital Business Landscape
Embark on a journey into the future of digital business with insights from the AI-Powered Digital Business Bootcamp. Discover the synergy between AI and human brilliance, explore transformative AI tools, and learn ethical strategies for responsible AI integration. Join me as we navigate the digital landscape with excellence and innovation
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The Excellence Mindset: How to Do Your Best Work?
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be truly excellent at something? What mindset allows some people to achieve at the highest levels consistently? I just worked with a group of corporate leaders on “Leadership Excellence” a few days ago. One of them said, “Siva, I don’t think we
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Why you shouldn’t advice teenagers
Do you generally like unsolicited advice? Do I like it either? – No…No…No. I hate it, You hate it and I am sure our children hate it too. In spite of knowing this, we end up giving advice all the time. Recently someone from a leading academic institution called me
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Why Communication is a Strategic Skill Not a Soft Skill
Last week, I received a phone call from a leading organisation’s HR department asking me to conduct a “Soft Skills” program for their Team Leaders. When I asked few specific questions, then came the answer, “we need them to be better communicators with their clients, colleagues and managers.” Communication is
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Why aren’t your team as passionate as you are
“Is your team as passionate as you are?”, is the question I asked while interacting with a group of Senior Managers on Leadership Pipeline and Succession Planning. It was in an organisation with aspirational goals of moving from 7th place in the market to 2nd place in 3 years timeline.
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ThinkFluence – Train your brain to make effective decisions
Have you ever wondered how your decision making, memory and emotions work? I keep thinking, studying and researching about this astounding design called Human Brain. To me, it’s fascinating to understand this more and better. Why is human brain so special? In simple terms, Human Brain has three basic layers
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Public Speaking is NOT Professional Speaking
Are you looking for a Key Note Speaker for your next Conference, Seminar, All Hands Meeting, Executive Summit, Annual Strategy Meeting or any Big Ticket Event…? How do you select a Guest Speaker? How often you invited a speaker and ended up thinking of not listening to him or her
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Millennial personality traits that you can’t ignore
Are you noticing that annual performance reviews and rigid working hours are slowly fading away from the workplace in recent times? The formal work environment is fast changing into a casual and informal workplace that increases better communication and connect within the organisations. Millennial workers in specific are the influencers
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Mastering change during the times of unprecedented volatility
Almost every day we encounter changes and increasing complexity driven by volatility in the business environment. Managing and responding to changes rapidly and effectively is going to be a competitive advantage to any business or professional. However, when I ask this one question “Are your people well equipped to identify,
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Key Takeaways from my Masterclass on “Strategic Teaching”
I am getting lots of accolades after my widely acclaimed masterclass on “Strategic Teaching”. Here I am sharing some key takeaways. Three truths about education system: Three things that matter the most for an education system are: Six critical components involved in Strategic Teaching are: Learning Objectives, Teaching Methods, Levels
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My Exciting Journey to DTM – Sivakumar Palaniappan
On a rainy Friday evening in the month of December 2007, I walked into one of the classrooms of St. Joseph College in MG Road, Bangalore. I was afraid, anxious and uncertain. I was profusely sweating in spite of being fully drenched in the rain. I was supposed to deliver
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How to initiate, inculcate, implement and institutionalise change in organizations
Many CEOs and senior managers are aggressively trying to bring radical changes and transform their companies to maintain their competitive advantage. It’s imperative for organisations to dynamically change in today’s ever-changing business environment. However, most organisations aspiring to transform have their top management envisioning for a change, while rest of
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How Lucid Dreaming Can Transform Your Life
Have you ever been fully aware that you are in a dream? Have you ever consciously tried to construct a dream of yours? Have you tried to exert control over your dreams? If yes, then what you experienced was Lucid Dreaming. Let me explain it first. What is Lucid Dreaming?
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Communication isn’t as simple as just saying what you want
A Senior Manager was running a team meeting on project review. Everyone in the team stood up one by one, shared their work in progress and proposed further ideas. There were many decisions to be taken in few minutes on issues they may have worked for weeks. There was a
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Change is inevitable, here is how you can manage it
My son and I were driving back from his school a few days ago. After the daily rituals like, “how was your day? what did you guys do today in school?”, I reminded him that it’s just a week more for his summer vacation to start. He was happy and
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Campus placements: Is that the only purpose of education?
Objective of education in India largely culminates with the placement training programs those offer short term abilities to solve aptitude tests and soft skills aimed at campus placement interviews. The ability of a student to secure a campus offer is considered as success while there is no measure of performance,
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5 Ways to improve your Strategic Thinking
5 Ways to improve your Strategic Thinking “It’s really frustrating when I’ve to spend all my time in managing trivial things and solving simple problems. I don’t have time to think big and strategic”, said a Senior HR Manager of a leading organisation. We were discussing on various Organisational Development
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