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• Shifting Mindsets April 7, 2012
  “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”  – Mary Engelbreit The story goes that many years ago two young boys went to spend their summers at their grandparents’ farm. Every morning the two boys would set out to explore the farm with their […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Leadership Development – Should it be about others or about you? March 8, 2012
  Recently I was running a leadership development program for a group of branch managers of a public sector bank. Repeated requests to turn off or put their cell phones on silent fell on deaf ears. As the session progressed one the issues that quite a few participants voiced was that it was hard to handle […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Online Training – A Platform for Leadership Development? February 23, 2012
  After 25 years of conducting face-to-face leadership training, one day I was introspecting on the new buzzword ‘Adaptive Leadership’. So I asked myself, “Am I an adaptive leader? With all the technological advances, am I hiding behind face-to-face training because it is in my comfort zone?” So what are the issues that businesses are faced […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Empathy – A necessary trait August 26, 2011
    I heard a story yesterday that I wanted to share with the world. A group of salesmen were returning home after finalizing a multi-million dollar deal. The negotiations took longer than expected and they reached the airport without much time to spare. They grabbed their luggage and raced through the doors of the airport. […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Thought Leadership July 11, 2011
    Gautama Buddha, SriSri Ravishankar, BabaRamdev, JKrishnamurti, Paramahansa Yogananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Osho Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba, Srila Prabhupada of ISCKON fame – What common thread binds all of these big names – yes they are all spiritual gurus revered and followed by millions all over the world. Apart from this they have another amazing […]
  Pramila Mathew
• The ‘Y’ in HAPPYNESS June 22, 2011
  In the movie ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ one of the characters wrote the word ‘Happiness’ on the wall but spelt it as ‘Happyness’. When questioned about using Y instead of I, he said that there should be no ‘I’ in Happyness there only should a ‘Y’. It took me a while to get the deeper meaning […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Creating Leadership Readiness Through Animated Movies May 21, 2011
   Where do the best learning’s take place – in schools? In colleges? At home? At work??  Well the best learning takes place in a movie hall – specially when we watch movies of the animated kind – have you ever noticed how these creatures we call animals so beautifully mirror thoughts, actions, behavior, attitudes and […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Leading from the Back – Kalaam’s Leadership Experience February 12, 2011
  “The idea is that leadership at its most fundamental is about moving people in a certain direction—usually through changing the direction of their thinking and their actions. And the way to do that is not necessarily by charging out front and saying, “Follow me,” but by empowering or pushing others to move forward ahead of […]
  Pramila Mathew
• Leaders – How Clean is Your Window? November 9, 2010
  Leaders see the world not as it is but as they would like it to be. For this they always need to have a hieghtened awareness of their own perceptions. This blog contains a real life incident about the impact of constrained perception. […]
  Srilatha Raju
• Leadership… Pointing the way. August 18, 2010
  Sandra stood up one more time and pat came the reply… this time louder than before, she was correct as always.  “Oh Sandra… Oh Sandra, not again”, I groaned to myself. The trainer in me could not allow this to happen. Sandra was a participant in a customer service training session. She was a very […]
  Srilatha Raju