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  Less than a Minute Life Lessons-1117 Move Forward Forgetting your past mistakes might be difficult but forgiving yourself is there in your hands.         It is better to move forward to give meaning to the rest of your life, rather than being a prisoner of guilt and regret. M.L. Narendra Kumar Director Instivate Learning Solutions PVT LTD www.instivatelearning.in    

  Less than a Minute Life Lessons-1116 Enthusiasm When you are enthusiastic, you go an extra mile, those extra miles add value to your life. Wake up with a purpose and fuel your day with enthusiasm, to explore the strengths within M.L. Narendra Kumar Director Instivate Learning Solutions PVT LTD www.instivatelearning.in    

  Less than a Minute Life Lessons-1115 Mistakes and Learning Life is a combination of mistakes and learning, where the student and teacher are the same person, surrender to the teacher within and free yourself from the burdens of life   Where there is a student within, there is a teacher everywhere   M.L. Narendra Kumar Director Instivate Learning Solutions PVT LTD www.instivatelearning.in    

  Less than a Minute Life Lessons-1114 Empty There are poor whose wallets are empty, but their heart is full of empathy and love. There are rich whose wallets is full, but heart is full of hate and enmity . It is better to have an empty wallet than an arrogant heart M.L. Narendra Kumar Director Instivate Learning Solutions PVT LTD www.instivatelearning.in  

  Leadership Lesson from the Terrace-Part-2-Crow A crow came and stood on the table where the young Leader was sitting and asked him what are your learning  from the Ant?   The Young Leader said:   Leaders do not focus on worries they focus on growth and development of others.   Leaders will increase their confidence to make the problem look smaller   Everyone might not know everything, but everyone will know something   The crow said, “good a small Ant’s words have gone into your mind” The young Leader said “These words, came in the right time” and he asked the crow “is there any Leadership Lessons from your life. The crow said, yes, we do have Leadership Lessons to share Number-1- We might not be admired like other birds, but still we keep ourselves busy, A True Leader should not worry about recognition, you should keep working towards developing your people   Number-2 -If one of our friends is injured, we come together and show our solidarity for the injured, True

  Leadership Lesson from the Terrace-Part-1-Ant After a long discussion with the Manager a Young Team Leader, came out with a sad face and he went to cafeteria on the terrace, in the midst of cold weather he picked up a hot cup of coffee to relieve his stress, while he was stirring his coffee he saw small Ant moving a piece of food that was left out, he just wanted to push the Ant and suddenly the Ant become bigger and bigger, he got up from his chair and moved back, the Ant said nothing to worry and told him to take his seat. The young Leader with fear sat and asked who are you? The Ant Replied “it doesn’t mind who I am. You look stressed, tell me what happened?”   The young Leader said “what can a small Ant do for me?  The Ant came closer and start biting him   The Young Leader started rubbing his hands and said “I will kill you” and he tried to catch the Ant, but the Ant stood opposite him like a giant and said “tell me your problem, I will try to give some solution”   W

                                 Leadership Lessons from Strategic Thinking Part-3 Strategic Thinking-6-Seeing Beyond- Seeing beyond is different from seeing ahead. The latter foresees an expected future by constructing a framework out of the past. The former constructs the future—it invents a world that would not otherwise exist. True Leaders can see what others don’t see or think, they take the organisation to A level which no one would have imagined. Today we are sitting and experiencing many comforts at our home due to the Leaders who used their ability to see beyond. True Leaders invest their time in innovation and encourages their team members to innovate too. Strategic Thinking-7 -Seeing it through -The term seeing it through means ensuring he or she must also systematically plan and implement the vision. True Leaders do not rest in board rooms after spelling the vision, they will ensure the Vision reaches everyone in the Organisation and they work towards it. in such scenario

  Leadership Lessons from Strategic Thinking Part-2 Strategic Thinking-3 - Seeing from Above-The term seeing from the above is to get a wholistic view from the top. Good Leaders will always see the wholistic view to understand what their Team Members are doing in the bottom; this will help them to take stock of what needs to be done from the top.   Strategic Thinking-4- Seeing Below- The term seeing from the below is to see things from the bottom. Though it is important to see from the top, but Good Leaders also believe that they need to go the bottom of the pyramid to identify each and every subordinates’ Talent, hence they know when to stay on the top and when to come to the bottom to build their Teams. Strategic Thinking-5-Seeing Beside- The term seeing beside is to see things from around to get different perspective. A Good Leader will speak to the people who are besides them to get a newer perspective to either solve

  Leadership Lessons from Strategic Thinking Part-1 Henry Mintzberg is a Management professor and Author on various books related to management From Canada. In his work on Strategic thinking he has developed seven dimensions of strategic thinking as ways of developing Strategies for an organisation, in this Leadership series, I have adopted his work for Leadership development. Let us understand Leadership development through seven dimensions of Strategic Thinking Strategic Thinking-1 -Seeing Ahead- The term Seeing Ahead means Foreseeing an expected future by constructing a framework out of the events of the past. Good Leaders will see, and act based on the future. In simple words they look forward, but they consider the Past, because they believe that they can’t see ahead unless they see behind, because any good vision of the future has to be rooted in an understanding of the past.   Strategic Thinking -2-Seeing Behind Why do Good Leaders see the Past to see the Future? There a

  Leadership Lessons from Books on Self-Development Part-4 A Reader sees the value in the book, when it addresses-The WIIFM - What's in It for Me? A Self-Development book ends with some vital tips   what should be done on a regular basis depending the content of the book, there are readers who seriously implement in their life based on the Tips which they feel is relevant to them.. Let us understand what we can learn from the following points Tips to Improve Self A good Author will connect all the below three parts with Tips to ensure the Reader is able to connect the tips with his needs 1.Establish the Pitch 2.Develop A Sense of Realisation. 3.Reinforce the Need to Improve Self A good Performance related interaction with a Leader starts with the objective, it helps the subordinate realise their potential as well as areas to improve followed by a reinforcement. A good Leader will create the need to improve and he ensures that the subordinates seeks tips, rather than he/

Leadership Lessons from Books on Self-Development Part-3 Change happens through constant reinforcement & a good book on self-development reinforces the need to develop those qualities required to achieve. Let us understand what we can learn from the following point: Reinforce the Need to Improve Self A good author will keep reinforcing the need to improve self by either sharing his/ her experience or by citing the experience of people who have accomplished in their life. Reinforcement is a mental impression that persuades the reader to follow those qualities written in the book. The Lesson we can infer from the above point is, Leaders should reinforce the good qualities exhibited by the subordinate and keep reinforcing the qualities that needs to be developed. Only through constant positive reinforcement the Learning becomes actionable items and the same will help the subordinate to achieve the desired results. A set of subordinates are governed from within, who might not req

  Leadership Lessons from Books on Self-Development Part-2 Self-Development is a continuous process and it doesn’t happen with one book; hence the Authors also keep publishing more, as and when they complete a book, they do realise what they have missed in their earlier book and bring it up in the next book. One of the components of growth is realisation, let us understand what we can learn from the following point Develop A Sense of Realisation While reading a book on self-development, readers will slowly start realising their potential, their short comings etc, these realisations are the starting point of change, those who are serious about changing themselves will start applying the learning from the book. The Lesson we can infer from the above point is, Leaders should help their subordinates realise their potential and shortcomings, such realisation can only happen when there is a regular engagement between the Leader and the subordinate. There are set of subordinates, whose

  Leadership Lessons from Books on Self-Development Part-1 There are millions of books on Self-Development in the world which is written in many languages by various people ranging from bestselling Authors to a first time Author. These books convey the importance of Self, Reasons to Improve Self and tips to Improve Self. At the end of the reading, we will realise our importance and motivate ourselves for a betterment. The writings in these books can be divided into 4 parts:   1.    Establish the Pitch   2.    Develop A Sense of Realisation   3.    Reinforce the Need to Improve Self   4.    Tips to Improve Self Though the book does not explicitly state the above division, but still the overall writing will follow a similar pattern. Let’s understand what we can learn from these books to improve Leadership Skills. Establish the Pitch: In a Self-Development book the Author establishes a strong pitch by reasoning out the purpose behind the book and establish the sense of import

  Less than a Minute Life Lessons-1113 Words are like fire         Words are like fire, it can either burn others life or brighten others life. Choose your words before you fire it from your mouth M.L. Narendra Kumar Director Instivate Learning Solutions PVT LTD www.instivatelearning.in  

  We are stronger when we are together When it stands as a single flower, the flower might look beautiful, but when many flowers come together the place will become a garden, as an individual you might shine, but when you work along with others the place will become bright. A single tree will not become a farm, but when there are many trees standing tall, it not only becomes a farm, it also becomes a place to rest below, as an individual you might be helpful to few individuals, but when you are a part of a team you will be helpful to community as a whole. Collective we stand, stronger we grow M.L. Narendra Kumar  

  Leadership Lessons from Village Life-Part-1 Lesson-3-Life Skills In those days only few houses had TV Sets in villages & connectivity   was not so good, hence my evenings were not as entertaining like city life but I used to have a good time in the mornings with my relatives and their friends in the village We all meet in one of our home Thinnai and discuss our plans for the day, one of the favorite  activities was swimming in the well, which was a strict no from my family members, but I used to go along with my friends. One of my relative was an expert in swimming and he will force us to enter the well, which some of us will avoid but others will try it out. I have seen amazing leadership skills exhibited by that expert while teaching how to swim. First of all, he will enter the well and swim for some time and create a feeling it is easy to do it, a good Leader should demonstrate how to do it before teaching or delegating a task Second, he will talk with confidence and s