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When you enter a meeting, what is your approach or mind-set most often? Do you go with a…
A collection of articles on topics related to leadership and coaching, written by experienced members of the CFI Fraternity.
When you enter a meeting, what is your approach or mind-set most often? Do you go with a…
When a coached leader says that the coaching engagement ‘exceeded all expectations and was life altering’ and this is…
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand came into the limelight with her compassionate and decisive leadership during…
We don’t need no training programsWe don’t need more pulse surveysNo dark sarcasm around the water coolerTeam, leave…
It appears that these are hard times for some people in some places. Storied corporations with blemishless brands…
My friend Neeraj Sagar has founded a company whose mission statement is to “retire retirement”. I call it “making grey…
The latest Chatbot technology called ChatGPT has users all over the world excited and reasonably impressed. A news…
Hopin, a virtual events start-up (thanks to the pandemic) that raised over a billion dollars in less than…
I keep hearing more and more organizations urging that their leaders learn the art of “story telling” –…
The term “ownership” is used by leaders and managers most often to describe its absence at a time…
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty – responses to decline in firms, organisations and states(1970) is a treatise written by Albert O.…
There are several forces that determine competitive advantage. The labour force is an important determinant of competitive advantage…
As we look at generational differences, is there a broader framework that can be used by each one…
In our recent cohort-based learning session with the latest batch of the SheLeads Programme, we invited 5 male…
“Your network is your net worth!” screamed the poster. Anita took one look at it and wondered why…
The term “ownership” is used by leaders and managers most often to describe its absence at a time…
In continuation of our series on women leadership based on the research we carried out for the SheLeads…
It was Tulasi’s 20th annual school reunion in the evening. She was excited about meeting everyone after ages.…
GE’s famed Crotonville, started way back in 1956 to grow leaders from within has been put on sale.…
As an HR professional and consultant, I have spent a while designing forms that employees need to fill…
The manner in which we travel bears lot of similarities with the way we wish to live our…
A lot of sparks have been flying in the past few days on the subject of moonlighting, specifically…
As you think of retirement …You have just a few years left to retire and you have been…
I am for a few moments putting myself in the shoes of a young employee and taking an…
Managing Perceptions – A Special Challenge for Women Leaders Ms Marin, Prime Minister of Finland is in the…
The rise and fall of professionally unreasonable jobs A job that offers a certain level of stretch and…
Whenever you meet employees across levels – CXOs to front-line employees and engage them in conversations about culture…
First to wake up, last to eat and last to set her head down to sleep. An Indian…
Chances are most of us would say, “of course yes”. I start my work early and end pretty…
Sarita glanced at the clock. It showed 6.30 PM. Office hours were 9.00 AM to 6.00 PM. She…
How many times has this happen to you? You are standing in front of the stove to boil…
One of the common behavioural changes that leaders commit to make to their coaches is to listen better.…
I have been engaging with client organisations for their coaching needs for well over 15 years and I…
One of the common jokes that employees and line managers make about HR professionals is this: When you…
As more and more individuals contemplate becoming a coach and more and more contemplate opening institutions to train…
I read with great interest the bold experiment launched by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks to encourage his…
The success of HR professionals depends in good measure on the quality of their conversations with a wide…
The CEO has been talking about risks to key talent and the urgent need to do something. The…
What are the things that concern our employees today? What seem to be the most common causes for…
Every year, a clutch of consulting firms routinely release their “much awaited” list of best employers or workplaces…
This Guide is meant to help Potential Sponsors of executive coaching engagements help their team members (the coachees)…
Assessment has an important place in leader development, given that it creates the necessary disequilibrium to motivate change.…
Considering Coaching as part of your leadership development approach? Or perhaps you already have an institutionalized coaching process,…
Your organization has just offered you the opportunity of working with a coach as a part of your…
Every time I catch up with my friends who are CHROs in reasonably large organisations, one thing strikes…
For years now, many HR leaders have been busy implementing what is popularly referred to as the tripod structure…
A participant of CFI’s CEO Coach Accreditation Programme was looking forward to his coaching internship to apply the…
This article focuses on some of the ground level issues involved in setting up an effective relationship between…
As in every other profession, we have in the field of coaching, the good coaches and the not…
Those who invest in coaching (like in the case of training), coaching constantly wonder if their investment is…
As more and more research points out to the impact of managerial styles on employee engagement, companies are…
ABSTRACT Smart CEOs understand the interdependence of strategy and execution and do not get carried away by the…
A monkey and a fish were caught in a terrible flood and were being swept downstream amidst torrents…
Will the approach and perspective of a counsellor who is counselling a client who is an adolescent be…
The Coach is listening intently to his client as the client narrates in great detail the specifics of…
Leveraging the power of Alternative Interventions in Coaching – an NLP perspective The term Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)…
Abstract “Mergers & Acquisitions are a business reality among mid-size corporations. In such contexts, entrepreneurs constantly seek coaches…
Leveraging the power of Alternative Interventions in Coaching – a transactional analysis perspective As change catalysts, Executive Coaches…
The ultimate test of a coaching engagement is often the visible change that your client is able to…
One of the most common coaching needs is this – to help a leader think and act more…
You could be a leader, manager, team member or colleague. How do you know if you are communicating…
We keep hearing more and more organisations talk passionately about “their culture” and how they wish to preserve…
First things first, here are a few examples of what typically gets addressed under Transition Coaching for executive…
In the field of Insurance, a pre-existing condition is defined as a health condition that existed prior to…
First things first. I am not using the term wounded healers in the same way that Psychologist &…
Ever so often, we hear the story of a very successful leader’s career suddenly getting derailed. He or…
Have you ever coached leaders who tend to take the moral high ground but do it by ending…
The ability of any manager or leader to develop the people working for them has always been considered…
The most important step in setting up a successful coaching engagement is the process of the coachee finding…
Over the years, we at CFI have received several hundreds of requests for coaching support for executives. Most…
I am sure all of you are reading a spate of reports about organisation after organisation announcing their…
For decades the Harvard Business Review (HBR) has shaped global thinking about management. Let’s not forget that several…
Downshifting as the very term indicates means moving from a higher gear to a lower gear in a vehicle. Derailment is…
In recent weeks I have been hearing the term acqui-hiring (the practice of buying out a company essentially for its…
Every organisation of some standing has some form of a shared leadership platform or forum. These forums are…
One of the biggest contradictions that I encounter in the HR profession and function is the perennial gap…
I must start by clarifying that this article has nothing to do with the subject of capital punishment. Thanks…
Here is a typical (but fictitious) discussion in a talent council meeting in a typical company: You see,…
Coaches are human beings – they did not descent from heaven. Coaches also play several roles in addition to…
Ryan Bingham works for an HR consulting firm that specialises in termination assistance – basically firing employees. Ryan…
If you walk the streets of any of our cities, you will see innumerable scan centres, imaging centres,…
The ability and inability to delegate at a level that is appropriate to one’s position in the organisation…
Until Valentines day, love was in the air. Soon after, we find that fraud is in the air.…
Now is the time of the year when managers sit with their employees to discuss and sign off…
The impatient executive Imagine this conversation between a Coach and his client, a hugely successful but impatient executive.…
The song Chingaree Koee bhadake sung by Kishore Kumar for the film Amar Prem raises some philosophical questions. I find one particular…
In the last few weeks my office assistant who is updating my contact list has been asking me…
Every organisation of some standing has some form of a shared leadership platform or forum. These forums are…
The original title of this article did not have the parentheses. I hastily added it because I thought…
The world has seen several business cycles, economic ups and downs. In the throes of each of these…
As more and more individuals contemplate becoming a coach and more and more contemplate opening institutions to train…
Our first brush with enhanced self-awareness through feedback was perhaps in school when our teachers wrote something about…
From the 38th floor of the St. Regis Hotel the view of Mumbai was romantic. However, the three…
Every new CEO in today’s world will acknowledge that “people” and therefore Human Resources management is one of…
My wife and I were visiting our relatives who live in a fast developing suburb of Bangalore. Their…
In the last few weeks my office assistant who is updating my contact list has been asking me…
Given my involvement with the field of executive coaching, I receive several calls from professionals who are seriously…
In my post of March 25th, I spoke about the gap between functional excellence and service quality. Using…
You are waiting in the plush lobby of a large and reputed organisation to meet someone. As you…
Talent, Resources, Human Capital – well, you can use any fancy term you wish to, but a Labour Court…