“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker The Executive Training and Managerial Training conducted by MMM focuses on transforming managers into leaders. Often the words managers and leaders are used synonymously but there is a world of difference between the two. Henry Kissinger put it very aptly [...]
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The ‘Y’ in HAPPYNESS
June 22nd, 2011 
Pramila Mathew 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 [...]
Leading from the Back – Kalaam’s Leadership Experience
February 12th, 2011 Pramila Mathew “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 [...]
Leaders – How Clean is Your Window?
November 9th, 2010 Srilatha Raju 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.
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No Comments »Leadership – Asking the tough questions
June 15th, 2010 Pramila Mathew Being a leadership coach I often have the privilege to be in the presence of future leaders. There is one question that I ask in every session, “Who is the leader that you emulate?” I get answers like, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and disappointingly………… Hitler. It happens session after session. Regardless of how [...]
Business Communication Requires Tact – A Story
March 31st, 2010 Pramila Mathew I trust that my readers have been able to understand the concept of Emotional Intelligence through the stories I brought forward in my previous blogs. For a few weeks from now, I shall be focusing upon communication, the backbone of all successful relationships – be it personal or professional. The focus of MMM Training Solutions [...]
Posted in Communication, Executive Coaching Tags: business communication, Communication Skills Training, Corporate Training, interpersonal communication skills, listening skills, Personality Development, soft skills trainer, Soft Skills Training, training in communications, verbal communication, workplace communication skills 1 Comment »Emotional Intelligence Leadership – The Key to Success
February 27th, 2010 Pramila Mathew Assuming that Emotional Intelligence is directly linked to leadership, there are three questions that need to be answered: • What is Emotional Intelligence? • Why is it important? • How can Emotional Intelligence Quotient be increased? We looked at the answer to the first question in my previous article titled, What Is Emotional Intelligence? Let [...]
Posted in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Soft Skills Training Tags: Corporate Training, developing emotional intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence coaching, emotional intelligence leadership, emotional intelligence skills, emotional intelligence training, Leadership, leadership training, motivation training, motivational training, Personality Development, soft skills trainer, Soft Skills Training, success 5 Comments »The Leader Who Bought the Ferrari He Wanted
October 7th, 2009 Pramila Mathew The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Warren G. Bennis Am I a leader? Am I [...]
Leadership Skills – The Gandhi Way
September 30th, 2009 Pramila Mathew Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2nd October 1869 – 30th January 1948), is lovingly known as Bapu (Father), and is the Father of modern and democratic India. As we stand at the threshold of his birth anniversary, we need to remind ourselves that there [...]
Integrity – The Stronghold of Successful Living
September 7th, 2009 Pramila Mathew As a Soft Skills Trainer and Executive Coach, I believe that training would be starkly incomplete without touching upon the importance of Integrity in one’s life. It is the foremost value essential to success in all that we undertake. The essence of integrity is beautifully summed up in the quote by Don Galer, “Integrity is [...]
