Do you struggle when it comes to writing? Are you unable to write an important email? Confused how to structure your report?Not sure how to get started writing?Want your writing to be flawless?Can you spare just 90 minute every week to improve your writing?Alchemy: 7 weeks to better writingAlchemy: the 7-week online writing workshop is a simple guided online workshop that will te...
26 Jul 2019
Three Years can mean so muchThree years! It's been three years with my own venture: AbacusYellow, based on the principle of simplicity. I'm three years older, three years wiser and yes, three years more optimistic. In the past few days, I’ve been flooded with congratulatory messages on my ‘work anniversary’ on LinkedIN. (I'm grateful to all those who sent me those messages and I've ...
25 Jul 2019
So who needs customer experience?For the longest time, customer experience was limited to the hotels or the hospitality industry. The world of hotels bends backwards for this. In India, 5 star hotels have tall large turbaned men welcoming you at the entrance, women in traditional attire garlanding you with the saffron flowers and walking you through marbled passageways to your luxu...
25 Jul 2019
I’ve built a stellar team that has degrees and portfolios and awards filling reams of resume pages. I’ve interviewed newbies who come with truckloads of certificates, certifications and diplomas that cover all the letters of the alphabet. I've got the skill sets, capabilities and prerequisites to run this tight shop to perfection. Truly I think I’ve arrived.And then someone from my tea...
10 Jun 2019
The LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) methodology (LSP) is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem-solving technique for organisations, teams and individuals. And this was wonderfully played out in the team-building workshop we recently did.When a team comes together, the nuances, the connections, the ripple effects are too many to fathom. How does one garner the collective potentia...
01 Nov 2018
Online cross culture coaching: not a silver bullet
As a lead in Learning & Development, you feel that the availability of an online cross culture module is the perfect answer to remote working teams. After all, look at the advantages.One module serves so many
Each module can be taken at an employee's convenience
The pace of learning can be determined by the learner himselfW...
23 Oct 2018
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® MethodologyThe LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) Methodology is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem-solving technique for organisations, teams and individuals. It draws on extensive research from the fields of business, organisational development, psychology and learning, and is based on the concept of ‘hand knowledge’. As one of the Master Trainers of the...
18 Oct 2018
Pink. The Colour of Health and HealingPink. In view of the #MeToo, Pink is ruling right now... though not for very happy reasons. Pink has always been associated with the feminine, but pink is also the colour of health and healing.Pink. Rani Pink. It rules.It’s the colour of hope and healing, a colour that tones down the fire of red but still imbues you with the assertive...
17 Oct 2018
Sky BlueSky Blue is the colour of the day. In India, in Hindi, the word would be Aasmani – literally translated – that of the sky.I know sky blue is a particular light blue but empowered with Shakti (Power), and the wealth of wisdom, sky blue empowers you with not only calming effect of blue, but also the metaphor of the sky. Look at the sky, sometimes it’s clear, sometimes cloud...
16 Oct 2018
Discover the Passion in the RedSTOP! It's time for Red now!It's time to draw all your attention to the high energy, high activity, high energy colour.Think of all the brands that use red and you'll sit up and take notice."Gimme Red" proclaimed a popular brand of battery cells, some years ago - bringing in the energy, the light and the passion of the colour into the brand....
