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Vinod Wadhwani is long-time executive coach, who works with corporate leaders to help them in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization. On this podcast, he shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.
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How Do I Hone My Persuasive Communication Skills?
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Persuasion is not to be seen as tricking or forcing other people to your point of view, it is to be seen as understanding what engages and opens other people up to new ideas and insights. In Focus How do you define persuasion? How does engagement influence persuasion? What is physical and temporal proximity? What are some techniques for increasing …
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Why you must build bridges with your boss?
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Many middle managers make the mistake of relying too much on their job performance, consequently leave too much to chance and fail to effectively manage their careers. In Focus Are modesty and quiet work not virtues in the corporate world? But doesn’t good performance help you secure your job? Is there a weak link between job performance and promot…
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Why do you feel dissonance despite having career success?
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Recent research on people’s life satisfaction by social scientists suggests, that in general, life satisfaction follows a “U” shape. It starts at the upper range in youth, bottoms out in 40s, and then picks up again in older age. In Focus Why do you feel anxious despite being successful? What are some of those specific things that start to get in o…
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Bad managers are the top cause of unhappiness in the workplace. According to a survey by an HR consulting firm, more than 50% employees leave their jobs to get away from a bad boss. Everyone who’s had a bad manager knows what it can do to your stress levels and job satisfaction. In Focus Keeping you in an off-balance state Passing along second-hand…
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How to overcome distraction and regain focus at work?
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Is multitasking a strength? Are human beings good at it? Or is this a delusion that majority of us have fallen for? In Focus: Where do we start in this distracted world to regain focus? How can you slow down in a world which takes pride in speed? What are the costs attached to constant switching? Does constant switching makes us slower? How do we f…
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Making and keeping new year's resolutions!
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There is usually a lot of optimism this time of the year as the world slows down and people get time to reflect about what actually matters. Amid this hope what resolutions are people making for the new year and how to keep them. In Focus: Many people set personal and professional goals this time of year. Why choose new year to set resolutions? New…
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A study by Professor Michael Posner at the University of Oregon found that if you are focusing on something and you get interrupted, on average it will take twenty-three minutes for you to get back to the same state of focus. Another study of office executives found that most of them never get an hour of uninterrupted work in a typical day. If this…
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Why candor in organizations so important?
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Candor is not just about telling the truth. It requires openness, sincerity and some degree of vulnerability. Lack of candor is not just remaining silent, it’s deceit by omission, which means that an element of honesty and truth is intentionally ignored IN FOCUS: When we say there is lack of candor in organizations. What does it mean? Why is candor…
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Why many of us give up new year's resolutions?
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IN FOCUS: Many people set personal and professional goals this time of year. Why choose new year to set resolutions? New year’s resolutions can be as fleeting as fireworks, one study found that about 25% give up after 2 weeks and only about 12% actually achieve their goal. Why is that most of us fail at sticking to new year’s resolutions? How do we…
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Is critical feedback important for high-performance?
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POINT OF VIEW: There seems to be a belief among managers that critical feedback is essential to push out complacency and drive performance in employees. But behind this belief we may be overlooking a fundamental question “Should managers point to weaknesses or nurture employee’s strengths to drive performance?” What is the issue with feedback revie…
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Can human beings be reliable raters of other human beings?
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POINT OF VIEW: 360-degree reviews are well entrenched in performance review systems of companies, then why the skepticism around their utility? Does our evaluation of others tainted by our own understanding of abstract qualities like "assertiveness", "business acumen" etc? Does it mean 360-degree reviews are meaningless and companies will eventuall…
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Do feedback reviews help employees perform at their best?
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IN FOCUS: What is the issue with feedback reviews? Isn’t it that we humans crave feedback? If feedback is perceived as a threat, how do managers point to employees when they are not performing well? And push them to do better? Won’t employees prefer the manager tell them something that they are doing wrong rather than what they are doing right? 360…
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Why leaders need to be mindful how they are treating employees?
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IN FOCUS: What is workplace incivility? And what kinds of behaviors in the workplace can be seen as uncivil? Why is workplace incivility so prevalent? If leaders know that treating employees with respect is critical, why is then they struggle to demonstrate it? Do leaders need to tread carefully on how they are treating their employees? What can le…
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POINT OF VIEW: Many successful executives get worn down with putting on a mask of confidence while burdened with internal feelings of incompetence. How can they navigate this duality? The inner critic in high achieving executives can be quite strong. How can one treat his or her inner critic? Related Episodes: #14: Better Things Happen When We View…
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Better things happen when we view ourselves as work in progress
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POINT OF VIEW: What can one do to alleviate the negative effects of Impostor syndrome? How can people with Impostor Syndrome, overcome intense performance pressure, they build on themselves? Related Episodes: #9: The Pitfalls of Impostor Syndrome #15: How to handle our Inner Critic? #13: Reprogramming Our Internal Compass to Overcome Imposture Host…
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Reprogramming our internal compass to overcome impostor syndrome
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POINT OF VIEW: Learning Vs. Performance Mindset Identifying consequences through series of “what” questions Reframing and correcting negativity bias – simple techniques to overcome imposture Related Episodes: #14: Better Things Happen When We View Ourselves As Work-In-Progress #15: How to handle our inner critic? #9: The Pitfalls of Impostor Syndro…
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IN FOCUS: What can one do to alleviate the negative effects of Impostor syndrome? How can people with Impostor Syndrome, overcome intense performance pressure, they build on themselves? How can one program his or her internal compass to overcome Impostor Syndrome? People having Impostor Syndrome put on a mask of confidence though internally tend to…
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How do leaders with impostor syndrome impact their organizations?
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POINT OF VIEW: Does perfectionism play a role in Impostor Syndrome? The underlying traits that researchers connect with Impostor syndrome; perfectionism and Neuroticism; seem to be a dangerous combo. You seek perfection, but you’re also neurotic, which probably makes you anxious, when you don’t achieve perfection. Seems like a vicious cycle? How do…
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POINT OF VIEW: What is Imposter Syndrome? Is it real? What are some common thoughts and feelings, exhibited by people who seem to have Imposter Syndrome? Do events and experiences, in an individual’s formative years, have a bearing on developing Impostor syndrome in adulthood? Related Episodes: #11: How Do Leaders with Impostor Syndrome Impact thei…
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IN FOCUS: In a survey of senior corporate executives on what are some of their deep-seated fears, researchers found that the biggest fear among these c-suite executives was the fear of being discovered to be incompetent, also known as the “impostor syndrome.” Host: Vinod Wadhwani is an executive coach and facilitator. Vinod founded Life Acumen LLP …
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Why high-achievement oriented employees do not "speak up" in the work-place?
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IN FOCUS: Increase in fear of speaking up in the work place is a worrying trend as it may not only hamper innovation, productivity and performance but could also lead to circumstances that may cause more corporate debacles in times to come. In this episode we will discuss How do speaking up and high achievement orientation stack against each other …
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