New Year 2025 Focus

Here's wishing you and your loved ones a very happy and prosperous New Year 2025. 

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Merry Christmas 2024

 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.

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Workshop Action - Behaviour Styles for Leaders

This is the next part of the Learning Journey for the two batches of Leaders, where Behaviour (Social) styles, The Tuckman Model, and Team management were covered.  We also worked on how to make performance discussions effective and discussed how to make our teams more effective and productive.  This organization is in the field of HR outsourcing.

This was the participants first experience of a workshop where a PPT was not used.  Participants felt more engaged and enthusiastically shared their perspectives during the discussions - thus enhancing their own learning.  This was made possible through some facilitative processes and lots of simple interactive discussion questions.

Here are some pics of the action from the workshop with the HODs:

Here are some pics of the action from the workshop with the direct reports:

The workshops ended with participants committing to ensure that they do their best to create environments where their teams are able to perform effectively and have effective performance discussions.

Do contact me on +919820155778 if you would like to have Leadership Development Workshops for your organization.

How I realized I made a positive impact with my workshop

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This happened to me during a recent series of Leadership Development workshops with a client, and a participant informed me that another participant would reach 30 minutes late because it was their birthday, though the company policy permitted them to stay home and celebrate with family.  Let me also mention that all the participants held work experience of 15 years to 22 years.

In my workshops over the years, I have always had participants come to me at the end of the workshop thanking me for helping them get their insights or results. This workshop too was no exception. 

But I was quite blown away by this revelation, more so, because the participant also offered me chocolates during the break and mentioned that they attended the workshop today because of me.

This gives me much confidence as a trainer and facilitator, since it tells me my workshop design met their learning needs, and my delivery approach made them want to attend the next session, even though they had a choice to take the day off.

I am extremely grateful to my mentors, clients and participants and the International Association of Facilitators who have been with me on this journey and provided these opportunities for me to perform, learn and grow.

Action from Leadership Quotient - Emotional Intelligence Workshop

Here are some glimpses of Workshop on Leadership Quotient - Emotional Intelligence conducted for the leaders of a Mumbai-based large organization.

There were 2 days of two separate batches of leaders, and let me say that the enthusiasm and curiosity of the participants in both batches really made the learnings more powerful.

We covered how Emotional Intelligence affects the leader's ability to build relationships with their team members and their peers, in addition to naming emotions, and what goes on in the brain.  The participants also went through a facilitated process on how to create positive emotions at the workplace.

Do connect with me on +919820155778 for conducting leadership workshops for your organizaion.

Whose Orangutan are you?

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What a fascinating article I came across   Here are some lines that made me think a lot:

• The late Charlie Munger had a hack for making yourself instantly smarter: explain yourself to an orangutan.
• Thinking is social even when there’s nobody around, because good thinkers have internalised the voices of others.
• In lieu of actual person with whom you can “be really human” in person, just speaking your ideas aloud - or indeed writing them down - can help you work out the best version of those thoughts. 

Please click here to read the article.

Now that you've read the article:

• Do you have an orangutan to talk to? or more than one?
• Are you an orangutan to someone? How was the experience for you?

A Performer's Reflections on the TED Talk - "The Tipping Point I got wrong"

I just saw this video today, and was struck by the candidness of the speaker Malcolm Gladwell.  He talks about what he got wrong in his book, The Tipping Point. 

Here are some of my reflections (in no order of importance) on this video:

• "This is what happened" - The way the world works is not as certain as it is in one's mind.
• An outstanding and thought-provoking line - "This is what I believe happened now".
• The ability to admit to yourself that you are or were wrong is critical for your growth.
• The ability to admit that you are are or were wrong to a public audience where you are being recorded for the world to see, is priceless.
• The willingness to be held accountable for errors in your work, make you an outstanding colleague or leader.
• While it's easier to say than do completely, we should do our best 
• What would the world be like if all influencers, particularly those in positions of power, would willingly admit their errors and work towards rectifying them? Wishful thinking, I know.
• Journalists and writers need to be more accountable for the content they put out.
• What would make a person (at any level) more accountable?
• As a coach, how can we encourage such authenticity in our clients?

What thoughts come up for you as you watched the video? What would you like to add to this list.

I'd love to have your points of view.

If you as a leader or influencer, have been sparring with some of these thoughts and questions for a while, and want to have a Strengths-coach as your sounding board, click this link to set up a pro-bono 30 minute Zoom call at a convenient time.  

If the time slots don't work for you, please write to me personally on ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com and we will decide on a mutually convenient time slot.