Is the professional socialization process broken?
Have you heard team leads and managers lament about today’s young employees not being passionate, not having the…
A collection of articles on topics related to leadership and coaching, written by experienced members of the CFI Fraternity.
Have you heard team leads and managers lament about today’s young employees not being passionate, not having the…
If we look around, we will find ample evidence about role of hardship in shaping the character of…
Friends, I have a question for you. Do you have an operating manual to live your life? Hard…
I tend to agree with Elton John when he said sorry seems to be the hardest word. I…
Are you aware of the Under 40 Did Not Show Up (DNSU) Awards for Men? Well, truth be…
Friends, let’s talk today about buzzwords and responsible semantics. I was introduced to the idea of responsible semantics…
Why is managing other people very hard in today’s time? Lets take a somewhat empathetic view about the…
Can captains of teams in organizations also play the role of coaches for those teams? It is natural…
Friends, In the world of work today, is it getting easier or difficult to give feedback? It would…
Friends, Have you ever heard the term “being professionally unreasonable”? What does it mean for a leader to…
Friends, I’d like to share with you a somewhat strange phenomenon that I’ve been observing in the last…
Friends, I am delighted to let you know that on 11th of June, 2000, totus consulting, my boutique…
Dear Friends CFI believes strongly in the power of journaling as a daily habit and tool to promote…
A few days back, I had announced the launch of MeHR, a Mentoring program for HR professionals who…
Ganesh Chella, at work since May 10, 1984! 40 years ago, on May 10, 1984 I started my…
Is communicating effectively a critical leadership competency? At first glance, one may assume that by the time one…
In continuation of my efforts to demystify some of the critical leadership competencies, I focus on the subject…
The ability to network and engage meaningfully with diverse stakeholders within and outside the organization is seen as…
Behind every leadership hiring move and every talent management move is a significant transition for the leader involved.…
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is “Inspire Inclusion”. We therefore believe it is only appropriate…
When a leader undergoes coaching, especially to address some aspects of his or her style or behavior based…
Mentoring as we all understand is an at-will collaborative value-adding relationship, traditionally between someone who is older and…
Disclaimers: AI in my lexicon is Appreciative Inquiry, not Artificial Intelligence. I am a student of Leadership and…
We keep listening to leaders of organizations and teams lament about the fact that there isn’t enough collaboration…
Anyone involved in leader development and coaching including leaders themselves will recognize that stakeholder management is seen as…
What I believe to be true is what is my personal truth. The operative term is “what I…
Power and coaching? What is the connection one may wonder. One would at first glance even feel uncomfortable…
Have you heard promoters, founders and leaders claim that “we are family” when referring to their relationship with…
We seem to be more accepting of challenges around physical health. On the other hand, the subject of…
The world is filled with advice and tips and secret recipes on “how to manage millennials” or other…
When we discuss the subject of grooming or developing leaders, the role of a sponsor often comes up.…
When an organization hires a coach and gives the coach a brief, does the work of the coach…
For several decades the world has been obsessed with striking the right balance between the two factors of…
Leaders in organizations become “eligible” for coaching often based on their level, given that coaching is considered expensive.…
I was in a workshop with a group of Managers trying to impart the skills and tools to…
In this video, I share nine ethical dimensions that coaches may like to bear in mind while they…
I often get asked this question: How much does it cost to hire a coach? I find it…
HiPo are individuals identified as displaying the potential to raise to future positions. Organizations typically identify such HIPOs…
Attitude: “predisposition to behave in a specific way in certain situations”. Skills: the learned ability to do something…
Over the past few years the corporate world including the start-up world has been seeing a series of…
Legend has it that Maharishi Valmiki was Ratnakara, was a young boy who was found by a hunter…
Every once in a while, during my life time, I have witnessed some new technology idea that appears…
Have you in the recent past felt vulnerable, felt you were not sure, did not have the answers,…
Can we make a list of “the world’s top 50 friends”? or “The world’s best Spouses” or “The…
Imagine someone says this to a surgeon: “Doctor, I ran some diagnostic tests, detected what needs attention. In…
An entire generation of senior leaders (including business owners and Promoters) are shocked that the people they thought…
I saw a recent press announcement about Krish Shankar retiring from Infosys soon. Krish is my classmate and…
When you enter a meeting, what is your approach or mind-set most often? Do you go with a…
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” –…
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…
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)…