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Transitions Intl / Posts tagged "leadership"
19 July 2012 In Coaching, Leadership By Lalita Raman

Coaching for Success – Top 9 Reasons To Hire A Coach

A leader is one who inspires by their actions and receives a buy-in to their vision by what they are, how they act, and what they do.  A leader need not necessarily be one with a title. Leadership is not about the use of authority.   Most organizations have managers but not necessarily many of them are leaders in a true sense. Many managers rely on authority and control to get the job done. They are directive in their management style and instruct, no matter how enthusiastic or self-starter some members of their team may be. Described conversationally, it’s “I talk, you listen … I direct, and you adhere. “Described attitudinally, it’s I’m the boss and I alone have the authority to decide how things are done. However, no matter how junior or inexperienced your team may be most of us don’t like being bossed around.  Ask yourself if you'd like to be commanded and instructed - fact is most of us including you resent it and the team whom you are managing resent you for doing it.  Authoritative and directive style management stifle creativity, enthusiasm, learning, transition, commitment, morale and the tenacity to stay on is broken. There are some managers who

9 July 2012 In Coaching By Lalita Raman

Coach : Why You Must Hire One?

With the information overload that we have on a daily basis from Social Media, and the Internet, many times you find it difficult to get to where you want to go. Let's say you are a top performing executive in an organization and have consistently surpassed your targets. You have never shirked responsibility nor have you disappointed in your commitments. However, you feel you are reaching a saturation point and are not able to grow. You speak to your boss and he tells you to enroll in a leadership and motivational course. He also sends you some web links to read. You attend the course for 2 days, you read all the links he sent you and add some of them to your other regular reading sources. Yet, you feel that you are not able to make the progress you want to make. You have tried to tell this again to your boss, Human Resources and other seniors within the organization but to no avail. You don't want to leave the company but sometimes you feel that is probably the best option available. Sounds familiar? I could give you several similar examples where you probably feel stuck or you have been assigned a new

28 June 2012 In Coaching By Lalita Raman

What is Your Hat – Leader v/s Manager v/s Counselor v/s Trainer v/s Coach

In organizations and day-to-day life we come across people who call themselves managers, coach, trainer, teacher, mentor and some consider themselves as leaders. Often some of these terms are used synonymously. Though a person can play the role of a mentor, manager, leader, coach, within an organization, each of these roles are different and unique. Leader - one who inspires others by their actions and behavior. Leadership is a philosophy of life. Leadership is not about managing things but about developing people. It is about helping people to liberate the fullness of their talents while they pursue a vision that you have inspired them to buy into as a worthy and meaningful one. Great leaders can be great teachers and great coaches. Manager - managers direct and tell their team what to do. They plan for the achievement of day-to-day tasks and the goals of the department or group whom they manage. Managers, by nature, are concerned with outcomes. Mentor - Mentors help to shape or influence a person's beliefs and values in a positive way by resonating with releasing or unveiling a person's wisdom frequently through the mentor's own experience. Mentoring is based on wisdom and role experience and tends to be more

7 June 2012 In Personal & Professional Development By Lalita Raman

Commitment : Top 15 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”-Hafez. How many times have you heard friends or colleagues or family members or yourself say, "I've tried to convince the person so many times on this idea, but fail to do so." Sounds familiar? Have you ever evaluated why does that happen to you or others? Is it because the other party has not bought into your vision or is it because you fail to keep your commitment? In other words, have you failed to live up to your word innumerable number of times that the person doesn't trust you enough, to buy into your vision? Failing to keep your commitments is an indication that you don’t care about your vision, or word, your client, their time, and the outcomes. Questions you need to ask yourself when your actions are not in sync with your word are: Do you have a clear goal and vision Are you trying to pursue one too many goals or things to do at the same time Are you trying to get some brownie points by agreeing to do something but have no real intention of doing it Are you trying to avoid a situation of open communication and dealing with the situation Have you

1 June 2012 In Customer Service and Sales By Lalita Raman

Customer Service Excellence – 11 Key Questions

You decide to go to a restaurant with some friends for dinner. This restaurant prides itself in impeccable customer service, excellent delicacies, a new menu every week and the freshness of the dishes they serve. You look at the menu and decide on some dishes. You have some diet restrictions and request of the restaurant manager to serve you a salad without some items.  The restaurant manager refuses and tells you that the dishes have to be ordered as they are.  This is an expensive restaurant and you are not pleased and swear never to go back. On the other hand, now imagine a restaurant where the menu is simple, has limited variety but again prides itself in almost similar qualities as the first. However they are willing to be flexible and in terms of price is almost equally priced as the first one. Which one would you go back to Where do you see a value added service Where do you think the price is justified Who is actually walking the talk Does pricey always mean value? The same dynamics of value creation can be extended to a sales role in any industry. In every sale, in every field if you have no real

28 May 2012 In Personal & Professional Development By Lalita Raman

5 Steps To Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs

Did you know that our self-limiting beliefs are one of the worst obstacles to moving forward in whatever we seek to achieve.  Self limiting belief is that inner thought in our head of doubting oneself and not trusting ourselves. What are some of these self-limiting beliefs that sabotage our career, our development and our life Could it be I'm no good at public speaking I'm no good at keeping time I'm no good at job interviews I suck at relationships I mess it up in organizing I'm ugly I just can't be an entrepreneur There is no way I can be bold like you I make a mess in organizing events Just writing some of these negative statements has had a debilitating effect on me, so can you imagine what a cascading detrimental effect you create on yourself, every time such a negative thought rests in your head. Obviously some of the self-limiting beliefs listed above are easier to work through than others but all of them require you to start somewhere. Life has taught me that there are many things to which we are predisposed and we refuse to try out many things that we are capable of.  We allow our negative thoughts and frustrations to deter our ability to adapt, to learn,