If you are ever involved in creating, developing, or running a corporate mentorship program in the GCC area, I’m hoping that you will find the tips below really helpful. 1. Consider the cultural and religious expectations of both mentors and mentees. For example, you might need to make the meetings in public places as opposed […]
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From a Cog in the Wheel to Intrinsic Motivation
With New York Times Best Selling Author Daniel H. Pink’s motivational workshops based upon his book on motivation and engagement – Drive – launched in the Middle East by leadership training outfit, we asked him for some insight into why people should sign up. Over a decade ago, I had a life-changing thought: “I realised, […]
Where is the Conflict in Your Team?
It’s an interesting observation – “10% of conflicts are due to the difference in opinion and 90% are due to the wrong tone of voice.” In today’s organizations with employees from multi-cultural backgrounds, there are bound to be misunderstandings and inevitably conflicts will raise their ugly head now and then. As a manager, you will […]
Training The Next Generation
“Is there an App for this somewhere?” “Can I download this information online?” “Are these online courses accessible from my phone?” “Is there a way to integrate the training towards a more interactive structure?” If these are some of the questions that you encounter while trying to train your next batch, you’re definitely training the […]
The E in Team
“Teamwork is required to achieve the ambitions of the Gulf nations and to provide prosperity and stability so that they can devote their time and effort to social and economic development and to avoid the spectre of war, which always results in the destruction of humanity.” – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Teamwork could […]
Finding the Right Mix: Building Teams as a Social Enterprise
Finding the right team members with the right kind of skills and a lot of chemistry to boot is not easy for any organization, but it can be particularly stressful for a social enterprise and for startups. Social enterprises compete against for-profit companies for top talent and usually cannot offer the same sized paycheck, but […]
Using Gamification in the Workplace to Increase Employee Productivity
The concept of gamification is sweeping through the business world, with hundreds of companies jumping on the bandwagon over the past few years. Gamification is the practice of applying game design and game playing techniques into normal business operations. Modern workforce engagement programs such as gamification can increase employee engagement by 50% or more. The […]
Using NLP Meta Programmes to Motivate Your Coaching Clients Part 2
To read part 1 of ‘Using NLP Meta Programmes to Motivate Your Coaching Clients’ click here. The Meta Programme covered in this article is Reactive – Proactive. Imagine each Meta Programmes as a scale, with the most extreme example at each end of the scale. Some people will be extremely ‘proactive’, others extremely ‘reactive’, but many […]
Value of Eliciting Life Purpose in Leadership
Identifying, acknowledging, and living according to a life purpose is perhaps the most important step that successful people take. Without a purpose to guide your client’s goals, the actions you advise them to take may not fulfill him/her. It’s easy to get side-tracked, to wander and drift, but with a clearly defined life purpose, everything […]
Does Your Organization Have The “Coaching” Gene?
The success of many organizations depends largely on the performance of its people and the development of their Human Resources. What is commonly understood is that this is a domain of the HR specialist and the training department, but a little bit of digging deeper will make us realize every manager in the organization is […]