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DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the same month, I also had a huge privilege of being on my #sketchnote guru Mike Rohde’s Sketchnote Army podcast where I shared about how I integrate visuals into my training and consulting business. You can listen to the full episode here. Listen to all my podcast appearances here.

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MAY 21, 2012

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently released a fantastic collection titled “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ”. In her foreword, Betsy Myers writes, “The book in your hands is a remarkable compendium of fresh perspectives on management and leadership.

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MAY 8, 2012

In a hurry to generate a buy-in for our shiny new initiative, we often fall in trap of excessively training and preaching people about processes. Give them necessary training, facilitate them and handhold them as required. In extreme cases, improvement leaders start forcing people to comply with those methods.

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QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

We have moved beyond traditional one-way forms of training (learning events) to continuous streams of on-demand learning (learning journey) that combine synchronous and asynchronous forms of learning. Communication and clarity across the board works like grease to reduce friction, enable clarity and therefore, improve engagement.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2019

Our school system trains us to be passive learners and we always rely on someone else for our learning. My leadership improved when I looked at my role as a way to serve those I was responsible for. When we play at the intersection of passion and effort, we elevate our game and improvise without even noticing it.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Deliver induction trainings to all new joinees and constantly train them thereafter. Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem. Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Check it out if you haven’t already !

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QAspire

JULY 31, 2013

Coaching takes the baton where training leaves it! Coaching complements training and induces behavioral change. - – - – -. Improvement & Development Leadership Leading People Team Building Coaching Culture growing others Management Mentoring' . - – - – -. " Bob Nardelli, former CEO, HomeDepot.

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QAspire

MAY 24, 2017

Our education system trains us to do things efficiently. If you belong to the latter, Seth Godin has some simple (yet profound) guidance for you. He wrote about three ways to add value – by doing things, by taking decisions and by initiating.

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QAspire

MARCH 13, 2011

Both are crucial and striking the right balance between improvement and business efficiency, between standardization and evolution is a big leadership challenge. On going trainings, one to one facilitations, interactive audio/video based training go a long way in ensuring that people are aligned.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? re-hiring/training new hires when your experienced people leave? not training your workforce? setting wrong examples? not treating people well? not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? long unnecessary meetings and deadlocked debates?

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

Next post dealt with the issue of training effectiveness and offered 5 Ideas to ensure that your training program effectively delivers value. My next post underlined the fact that thinking abundance is the key to great leadership. I explored Nine roles of great leadership. RSS feed for comments on this post.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling Last week, I had a short conversation with one of my colleagues in HR about the all important topic of employee engagement. When I train trainers, we discuss and practice the impact of storytelling on adults. I have noticed that in Prof.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

To deliver higher value to customers, business leaders implement complex strategies, restructure the organization periodically, lay out new initiatives, improve upon they existing processes, focus on sales, training, people etc. Somewhere, in this process of constant realignment and improvement, ‘waste’ is introduced. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

My Writing at QAspire Blog Excellence: Lessons From Anupam Kher The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives? (You can also visit monthly round ups of Jan 2010 , Feb 2010 , Mar 2010 , April 2010 , May 2010 , June 2010 and July 2010 ).

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes. QAspire Blog was featured in Management Improvement Carnival Blog Review by Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership Blog. They treat processes and improvement as an investment in future.

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 160

QAspire

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Change involves lot of training and counseling, but real acceptance of any significant change only happens when people actually apply the new practices and experience the tangible benefits of the change. People learn and adapt at a different rate and it is important to “facilitate” change than to “push” it. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists can serve as a training/reference material for new comers. From a management and leadership standpoint, broad-level checklists can be helpful. What is important about the tool as a checklist is in how people are trained to use it. Some training can also help. Checklists are a great communication tool.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Largescale innovations need Leadership of cross functional teams based on competence need of the time not based on hierarchy. Culture and Leadership are the others – Vipul Agarwal. Leadership and strong cultural to ‘be the change’ fosters innovation – Mayanka Batra. “If – Gurprriet Siingh.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

For certification, you can have a phase named “Preparation&# with activities like identifying the scope, body of work, spending time learning, special training needed etc. Identify the resources you will need to get into action e.g. books, training material etc. Remember - that which does not get scheduled does not get done!

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

so that people ‘want’ to change) Because the fact is, people only change when "they want to change’ In organizational context, constant training and support on change is essential to remove barriers for people who are impacted by the change. Trying to change everything at once is a sure recipe for failure.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

But manipulating behavior by offering rewards, while a sound approach for training the family pet, can never bring quality to the workplace. To do a good job, people need a good job to do. Doing these things is much more difficult than dangling goodies in front of workers.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This year, I contributed a 23 page chapter in “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ” published by American Society for Training and Development. Every project we execute is a glorious opportunity to practice leadership , to make a difference in a customer’s business, to nurture the talents of our people.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The business owners invested a great deal in expensive interiors, they did not think enough about investing in getting the right people, training them and managing their attitudes. Frustration amongst customers was visible. From selling shoes to writing software, every product has to have a strong “service” layer. People enable this layer.

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2011

Whether you are into sales, technology, project management, teaching, training or mentoring – remember, in effective communication, substance comes first! These are important lessons I have learned from people I have worked with. These are the same lessons I share with people I work with.

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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

What started as a two member team was now a successful fitness center running round the clock with a number of trained instructors and some very good facilities. Life Lesson on Endurance Other Links to this Post QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life! We have more strength and capacity to endure, than we think.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

But the crew were trained professionals, presumably intelligent and trying to do the best they could. By Tanmay , November 10, 2009 @ 5:42 pm @TwistedbyKnaves - I have seen trained professionals committing elementary errors in pressure situations. The idea is to make it more beautiful. Learning that came a hard way. Don’t Kill It!

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Travel Airlines Learning-by-Doing Quality 84

QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2012

People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals. Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

March 2009: Personal Leadership - It shines in difficult times We are all leaders - but our education, upbringing and organization structures suppresses our leadership traits. This post talks about how personal leadership comes to the fore in light of difficult situations. Quality is not just conformance to requirements.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training worldwide. This guest blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni celebrates the September 18 launch of her book with Beverly Kaye, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want.

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QAspire

AUGUST 30, 2023

This mindset of seeing conversations as a medium to exchange energy helps me immensely when I coach, train and facilitate people and teams. Conversations are the currency of great leadership because they have the power to guide other people’s journeys, foster collaboration, build culture and tackle challenges as a team.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

That means that to intentionally mold a culture starts with the leadership deciding those values that are important, and then modeling them in everything that’s said and done. Drive Culture through Leadership. Everyone gets together for lunch and a team member leads the training. Too often lofty values end up simply rhetoric.

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QAspire

JULY 2, 2013

Because managers excessively rely on some “training and development” department that is far away from day to day realities of how a business operates. Because leaders think that training and/or certification is the only way to develop skills of people. This is where HR/Training teams can provide interventions. What can be done?

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QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

A2 Beyond training, experiential learning sessions & workshops involving problem solving, thinking and writing helps. A2 Developing CriticalThinking needs practice to train the mind to think in a certain way. a) Leadership to Demonstrate open culture to challenge status quo b) L&D to Drive c) People to be naturally inquisitive!

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Lisa Haneberg is an expert (and lifelong student) in the areas of organization development, management, leadership, talent management, and personal and organizational success. What this means is that the leadership actions that increase accountability are not the same as those that increase engagement.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2011

If no, what additional training/counseling is required? Most large organizations manage their scale (and sheer number of people they have) by ensuring rigid compliance, and in the process, turn people into well trained cogs who simply do repeatable work according to written instructions. Is the necessary guidance/references available?

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Compliance Process Bottom-up Blog 139

QAspire

JULY 12, 2010

Get the buy-in from teams and then train everyone. Trainings, review meetings etc. But make sure that lessons learned are visible to people. Lessons Learned” as inputs to Process Improvement : Convert each lesson into a process. Lessons are only ‘learned’ when they find their way into the future projects as positive experiences.

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Document Project Learning-by-Doing Maturity 149

QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

It means what role is leadership playing in making sure that all actions of people on projects/initiatives are in line with the values set out. When people buy these important things in, leadership is said to be successful in aligning people. August Leadership Carnival By Tanmay , August 6, 2010 @ 1:23 pm @working girl (Laura) - Yes.

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