Shalini's blog

Can you pick tomorrow’s future leaders out of the bunch of kids? It's not necessarily just the bossy ones should be picked. Think about the real leaders in your daily life, and what qualities they exhibit. Those that lead by example, encourage others to do better, and bring others together to work towards a common [...]
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Leadership is the expertise to encourage the process of decision making through the capacity to listen and observe. Leadership is not the measure of a person’s skill of performance; rather it is the measure of a person’s capacity of leading the performance. The most gifted athletes rarely make good coaches. The best violinist will not necessarily [...]
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Micheal Jordan – An outstanding athlete –  a winning combination of finesse, speed, adroitness, focus, resilience and an ambitious attitude. Jordan's basketball beginnings were not promising. He was actually cut from his high school basketball team in Wilmington, North Carolina. At 5′11″ (1.80 m), he was deemed too short to play at that level. Motivated to prove [...]
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“Never felt better” is used as part of common parlance while reciprocating a greeting upon being questioned after one’s health. The phrase flows upon impulse, however, to feel the same, necessitates an attitude which includes a range of optimistic and constructive sentiments wrapped around an idea of life and not just living.   No matter how optimistic [...]
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One of my favorite books on coaching is: Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving performance for leaders, coaches and the individual by Stephen Neale, Lisa Spencer – Arnell and Liz Wilson. http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-Coaching-Performance-Individual/dp/074945458X#noop What made me pick this book was the Foreword written by Sir John Whitmore – “I believe that Emotional Intelligence and coaching are inseperable…..the book focuses on [...]
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There are many coaching models which are used by coaches world over to bring structure to the coaching conversations. One which is preferred for its simplicity and easy application is the GROW coaching model. This model allows flexibility and can be used to structure both a coaching conversation as well as a longer coaching intervention. GROW [...]
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      “Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.” Stephen Covey   T : Together E: Everyone A: Achieves M: More   What is the level of  trust, communication and cohesion in your team?               Video Courtsey: YouTube. Original Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w3Or_A15gk&feature=related Posted in COACHING MODELS, INSPIRATION, WORDS OF WISDOM [...]
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This article appeared in The Economic Times, a leading financial newspaper of India, on 5 Jun 2009. The author: Dibeyendu Ganguly   Two years ago, Reliance Mutual Fund was in a quandary over one of its star managers. The individual in question had had quite a dream run in his   eight years with the company, averaging a promotion [...]
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I attended a book launch today : “Throwing Sheep In The Boardroom – How social networking will transform your life, work and world” By Dr. Soumitra Dutta – Dean of External Relations Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology INSEAD and Mathew Fraser, PhD – senior Research Fellow at INSEAD. The book was released by [...]
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I never get tired of asking questions – explains exactly why I am  a Coach. Here`s the latest I asked over LinkedIn : What is the relationship between leadership and coaching? This is what well meaning folks had to say: - Leader is the person who take the lead of a group try to gave them the agenda, [...]
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