Anubha Walia Blog

Month: May 2016

  • VISUAL AIDS

    DESIGNING COMPELLING VISUAL AIDS * Sparingly use relevant only props. Props should generally be avoided, because they draw attention away from the speaker and suspend the audience’s imaginati… Source: VISUAL AIDS

  • IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP : EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

    EMOTIONAL CONNECT The term “emotional intelligence” first surfaced in the early nineties, and has become one of the most useful (and used) words in the management lexicon. Managers should work to identify and develop emotional intelligence in their employees, or “the ability to recognize [their] own emotions and the emotions of others.” However, it is…

  • MANAGING ONESELF

    MANAGING ONESELF Peter F. Drucker People are working more years of their lives than ever before, often pursuing more than one long-term career in a lifetime. But will that work be fulfilling? It can be, if people can learn to properly manage themselves. Managing oneself to achieve ongoing success and happiness at work, whatever that…

  • INNOVATION

    INNOVATION: THE CLASSIC TRAPS Rosabeth Moss Kanter While every company champions innovation in theory, very few do a good job of being truly innovative. Not only that, the broad championing of innovation seems to run in cycles, with the majority of companies on the innovation bandwagon at the same time. Unfortunately, most companies have not…

  • LEADING CHANGE: WHY TRANSFORMATION EFFORTS FAIL

    LEADING CHANGE: WHY TRANSFORMATION EFFORTS FAIL John P. Kotter In the quest to best competitors, many companies undertake transformational efforts; unfortunately, these efforts often fail. This failure is due to errors in fulfilling one or more of the following eight critical steps to achieving successful transformations. 1. Establish a sense of urgency. The belief that transformation…

  • ALL IS BECOMING NEW

    THE GAME-CHANGING FUTURE OF WORK AND JOBS Disruptions from technological innovations will change work in the following ways: *Jobs of the future will exist in the innovation ecosystem. People will have to learn how to create knowledge value or how to manage smart machines, digital businesses, or mobile services. *New careers will be in Big…

  • Action Oriented Leader

    ACTION ORIENTATION Great leaders are action oriented. They have ideas or concepts and take action to make them happen. They do not spend a lot of time over analyzing things, but instead find new solutions. Leaders are the opposite of procrastinators, and when it comes to achieving goals, leaders follow seven steps: Decide what their…