Oct 2019: Creating a Strengths based Career / Resume / Interview - Calling Freshers and Experienced Professionals

I'm planning a series of 3 sessions on "Building a Career based on Your Strengths" in Mumbai (venue to be finalized). These sessions would be held in October 2019 (exact dates to be finalized) over a period of 3 weeks. The sessions would be of 3 hours duration and would cover the following:

1) Building a Strengths Based Career (for freshers and Experienced professionals who are looking for more satisfaction in their work)

2) Scripting your life - Resume Writing & Leveraging LinkedIn (for freshers, though experienced professionals)

3) Interview Preparation Skills (Anyone who wants to make a strong impression during their interview)

Please write to me here or on ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com or call on 9820155778 in case you are interested.

Watch this space for the venue and other details.

#interviewingskills #resumewriting #careerplanning #careers #strengthsbasedcareers

Upcoming Workshop : The Selection Discussion 21 September 2019 at Mumbai

Glad to announce my open workshop on Behavioural Interviewing Skills - The Selection Discussion on 21 Sept 2019 at Mumbai.

Early bird pricing available. Group Pricing available.  Click here to register.

Book Review - Liar's Poker by Micheal Lewis

I should have read this book at least 15 years ago. There's loads of wisdom and learning for people from any function, particularly, HR and sales. As an HR person, I learnt about compensation and reward strategies, hiring, and organization culture.

His writing style makes this an enjoyable read, where you also get to laugh. He's given a complete breakdown of how greed works in the financial system. Having read this, you will see parallels with the 2008 financial collapse.

This is a must read for students / professionals in the financial sector, as well as HR and senior management.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2696847018

Book Presentation - Strengthsfinder 2.0 by Tom Rath

Pleased to share some feedback received from the session. Feels really good to receive this especially since I had only 180 minutes time.

I'm happy to be presenting the book hashtag#Strengthsfinder 2.0 at the Book Loversclub at Mumbai. This will be fun. Thanks to Binda Kanayalkar and Arun Vishwanath - CPF, CPC, PCC from The Trainers Forum for this opportunity. hashtag#behaviors hashtag#strengthsstrategy hashtag#books

Mindset and Emotions

In response to a query on LinkedIn, I said -
I think mindset and emotion are interlinked.  One can drive the other.  If a mindset is a set of ideas and beliefs, contradictions to them will generate emotions that are likely to be negative.  Whereas confirmation of another person's mindset as similar to our own will generate positive feelings, and reinforce the beliefs about that mindset.  Perhaps this can be part of a fixed mindset?

A growth mindset is likely to not get too affected by emotions, because it is willing to be open- minded, accepting of different views, and explore possibilities, especially to establish new ground which can be common to both parties.

Just my thoughts.

7 ways emotionally intelligent people handle workplace pressure

Here's an excellent article on one of my favourite topics "Emotional Intelligence".

https://www.fastcompany.com/90385601/7-ways-emotionally-intelligent-people-handle-workplace-pressure

A line from the article is given below:
"We feel before we think. When our emotions overwhelm us, we are in danger of reacting from our emotions."