Webinar - Sell Yourself into Your Next Job on 30 May 2020

Use this lockdown time to redo your #resume and prepare for your #interview based on your #strengths. Register for this highly interactive and reflective #webinar on 30 May 2020 that will change the way you think about presenting your candidature in your resume and in your interviews.

Why this webinar is needed -

The job market is terribly crowded, especially with the COVID 19 layoffs. Resumes are flooding the recruiters tables. There's a paucity of time to read through every resume, and as a result, they skim through the pile of resumes, trying to shortlist as quickly as possible. Now, if you happen to have a standardised template for your resume, it's extremely difficult for it to standout from the others, especially in a short time frame.

So you need to make your resume talk about you, come alive to the reader of your resume so that you get shortlisted for an interview. After this, you also need to prepare for this interview so that you create "Recall Value" in the mind of the interviewers, even if you don't get the job. It helps build your reputation. To know more about "Recall Value", please read my article here.

In this webinar you will learn to create a resume that you will be proud of, as well as prepare for interviews based on your personal strengths. We will also have a specific Q&A session focused on Interview Tips. What you will learn specifically
• How your strengths can make your resume stand out
• Strengthening your Lead letter so that the recruiter prioritizes your interview.
• Video Interviews.
• Tackling tricky Interview Questions
• Creating “Recall Value” during your interview
Date and Time 30 May 2020 4 pm to 6 pm Venue: Zoom Link will be provided to registered participants only. Your Investment Normally, this is priced at Rs. 2,500/- per person for an online session.

However, given the Covid circumstances we are in.

Your special Covid Price is Rs. 800/- per person

Click here to register

Your Facilitator - Ryan Barretto
Ryan is India’s 1st Strengths Strategy Coach who specializes in leveraging his client’s strengths to help them achieve success. As a coach, he works in the area of career transition, self development  and executive coaching. He is also a Corporate Trainer and an HR Consultant.

A graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Ryan brings to the table 25+ years of rich experience in all HR domains. His work experience also pans across multiple industries ranging from Telecom, IT Education, Logistics, Marketing Services, Health Insurance to Time Share and includes a startup where he set up.

He has coached college students, fresh graduates and working professionals. He has been part of hiring teams that have interviewed both campus students and working professionals, and has seen some major errors that could have been avoided with some more preparation

Visit www.strengthsdecoder.in  or www.linkedin.com/in/barrettoryan to know more about him and his work.

Your Career Path

It's important to find your own path, or how will you know what your capable of? You will never discover your strengths and limits if you walk someone else's road.  So if you need help defining your career path, write to me on ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com or call +919820155778 for an appointment.  Both Domestic and international inquiries are welcome.  Sessions conducted in person and on Zoom / Skype / Gtalk.

What Coaching can do for you?

"You can now use a coach to get your personal life together, set and reach goals, start and expand a business, get ahead faster in a corporation, improve your job performance, and communicate better with everyone. There are literally hundreds of things you can use a coach to help you solve, master, achieve, or develop." Thomas J. Leonard


The Strengths Strategy Coaching approach I offer will provide sustained results and enable you to consciously use your strengths.

Call me on +919820155778 or leave me a message here if you want to know how to decode and leverage your strengths.

Career Guidance for the future

This is a super article on managing your career for the years ahead.

Career Guidance for 2020

Super tips

Leading a remote team

Leading a remote team

Timely article to help those who manage #remoteteams

Here's why from a line in the article - "Managing remote employees is different from managing in-house teams, which means a manager who successfully leads in-house teams might struggle with managing remote workers"

#workfromhome #remoteleadership #remoteworkers #performancemanagement

Displaying Lighthouse Leadership - A Different Perspective

I recently attended a Global Table Conversation organized by IEDP which had Mr. Krishna Thapa as a speaker.

Krishna Thapa is a Gurkha from Nepal who shared his story of growing up in a traditional Nepali village along with the lessons and insights he gained from watching how his community leaders dealt with natural disasters and other challenges. He also detailed the realities of the selection process to become a Gurkha in the British Army and subsequently to be the first Gurkha to be invited to join the SAS.

Among the many gems of wisdom that he shared, here are some that stood out for me.

1) Will I be ok with my decisions 30 years later?

My insight - We make decisions everyday.  Some big (in terms of impact) some small (mundane).  Some are successful, some aren't.  Taking a decision means allocating sufficient time to identify the variables involved, assess them and their possible degree of influence on the current situation, and of course the impact of the decision.  We sometimes miss out on giving sufficient careful thought to the impact of our decisions.  Some of the impacts of decisions are immediately apparent and others invisible to us at that time, and become visible much later.  The reasons for the impacts being invisible are many.  In today's fast paced world, it is difficult to identify and understand those reasons within short timeframes.  So his (Krishna's) method of checking his decision "Will I be ok with my decision 30 years later?" is to ensure that:
a) I have taken into account whatever information is available to me in the given timeframe
b) I have applied my own knowledge and experience in the best manner possible,
c) I have done whatever I could to make sense of the circumstances.
d) I have consulted and pooled my knowledge and experience with whoever I could, as quickly as possible in the given timeframe and taken their inputs, applying them wherever possible.

Whether you lead a team (never mind the level) or not, these are great guidelines for taking decisions.

2) Save others to save ourselves.

The background to this statement was how he and his team went about assisting others and themselves during an avalanche in the Himalayas during a climb, and how he listened to their suggestions - thus enabling a higher survival rate among the climbers with him.  He spoke of a helping mindset which was developed as he grew up in his village, where the survival of one meant the prosperity of all.

My insight - The importance of teamwork and collaboration is critical to the survival of the team and the organization.  In fact, the situational leader will match his input according to his team members needs and capabilities to execute specific goals / KRAs.  He will encourage them to help one another as well. It's tough to call one's department a team if each team member is too preoccupied with executing their own KRAs at the cost of the department goals.

3) The leader is like a lighthouse.  

My insight - This is because, like a lighthouse, he / she shares their light (knowledge and experience) at all times, as much as possible, so that others can learn, be guided and make better decisions on their course, and reach their goals.  It means that he/she  don't wait till it gets completely dark (urgent) but starts sharing information with the team as early as possible.  He also won't bombard them with information all the while, or too soon, again depending on the goal at hand, and his team members' capabilities.

An insecure leader who hoards knowledge and experience is going to bring down not just himself but the organization.  How?  The pace of work will reduce due to bottlenecks created by information hoarding and slow approvals because the team is not empowered to share information or take decisions. Soon the competition will overtake such an organization.

By doing all these three things, the leader would have achieved the highest level of leadership -

He would have created more Leaders

Would you like to have your leaders coached ?

Would you like your next line of managers groomed for leadership in the Situational Leadership Model?

Then write to me at ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com or call me at +919820155778 to set an appointment for a telephonic discussion.