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Everybody needs Coaching. Period. As Albert Einstein puts it – no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it – In Organisations or as Individuals, having someone come in with a neutral paradigm is so important to bring in objective understanding, reflecting thinking and holistic problem solving. The only question that then needs to be answered is, Are you ready for it? In my years of consulting practice, I have developed a simple 3 step test, aimed at uncovering the beliefs of the leaders to check for their readiness for consulting work. As a Leader, even you can check…

People ask me, why is my focus so much on Groups, when the whole world is focusing on “the Individual” – Leadership Development, Coaching, Counselling, Trainings, Workshops, etc. etc. My well-wishers tell me, there is a lot of money that can be earned in the stream of Individual development, as organisations and HR departments already have budgets allocated for the same. My response to that is, true there is indeed a lot of focus on the Individual we have today in our development profession and indeed there is a lot of value in that too. I myself have gained tremendously by…

In Hindi, there is a saying “Akal Badi ya Bhains” ( अकल बड़ी या  भेंस ), which quite literally means, “Is Intelligence bigger than the Buffalo?”. And it isn’t a question actually, it is more of a rhetoric, highlighting the importance of Intelligence and how Intelligence is bigger and much more powerful than size and brute force. Taking the metaphor to organisations and groups, with no aim of denigrating the leader by relating him/her to a Bull or a Buffalo – the metaphor can translate as, “Is the Group Intelligence bigger and better than that of a Leader alone”. Systems theory…

Assume there is a group of people wanting to travel from Point-A to Point-B. The leader of the group has spent a lot of time deciding that Point-B is the best place for the group and it is where the future lies. He is excited about the trip and has also designed a detailed travel plan to reach Point-B. So far, so good. He then makes an extensive communication plan to cascade the travel plan to all the group members. And the journey starts. It is only after some time that the leader realizes that the travel is not going…

A lot of emotions and energies are blocked in organisations in the Unspeakables. Unspeakables are those which people don’t speak about in meetings, to their bosses or in front of top management. As a consequence organisations miss out a lot of its potential because of this blocked energy in the system. So what are these Unspeakables, really? These Unspeakables contain a lot of wisdom (tribal wisdom) about what is really happening in the organisation. And this wisdom is an essential input to decode some of the complex issues that an organisation faces. These inputs are usually about deeper aspects of problems which…

It seems all so common and accepted that there are things in Organisation which are not spoken about. Well not really, actually some parts of them are spoken between close friends, and the spicy ones around the water coolers, coffee machines and the long drives in office cabs. So, what is it that Organisations are missing and losing out on, when such conversations are not done in open; when there are the Unspeakables which “cannot” be spoken in meetings, with bosses and in front of top management? Organisations are missing out on valuable information from the floor – which have…