The Essentials of Lives

16/12/2020

Executive Presence: The ACE Model Creating the X-factor in leadership! “A person exhibiting executive presence is someone who, by virtue of the effect he or she has on an audience, exerts influence beyond that conferred by formal authority.” ___ , Gavin Dagley, Executive Presence is an evolving ...

14/12/2020

There are many successful leaders today and the way outside world looks at success is defined in terms of level or position in the organisation, power they wield and money that the leader earns. But how many of them actually lead? Agreed, that they might have grown faster than others, might have got...

12/12/2020

Coaching is regarded as a self directed learning experience for the person being coached (the “coachee”) – what does it do to the coach?  I have been an executive coach for over the last seven years and have found that it could be fascinating journey into personal growth for a coach. Every se...

11/12/2020

Leader as defined (as a noun) is a person who leads or commands a group, organization or country. One more definition is Principal Player in music group, but the definition which attracted my attention most is “A series of Dots or Dashes across the page to guide the eye” as used in Printing busi...

04/12/2020

Are you the type of person who looks for what’s wrong or the person who looks for what’s right? That is what I mean by asking “Do you always look for the hole in the ceiling?”. Basically we keep on noticing the small hole in the ceiling and keep getting irritated by it and forget […]

28/11/2020

In this age of Artificial intelligence,  machines can do almost anything that human beings can do.  In fact machines have become so smart that it can even do almost anything for human beings (from surgeries, to making coffee to cleaning clothes, etc) . But we, “Homo Sapiens” are social animal...

24/11/2020

Past decade has seen a phenomenal growth in coaching industry with people from varied backgrounds joining this profession. Coaching industry being highly unregulated with no universal professional standards, it is important to establish high standards of competencies and professionalism in this dyna...

17/11/2020

What is Coaching? The term coaching ordinarily refers to strategies for helping other people to enhance, create, learn new abilities, discover individual achievement, accomplish points and to oversee life change and individual difficulties. Coaching regularly addresses attitudes, practices, abilitie...

07/11/2020

We are constantly told we learn from our mistakes (very often when someone is trying to make you feel better about just having made a mistake!) But how comfortable do we really feel about putting ourselves ‘out there’, this is as much a comment on how we feel about ourselves as it is about how others perceive us.

https://www.jyotinarain.com/mistakes-are-a-powerful-gift-dont-leave-the-lessons-within-them-concealed/

20/10/2020

City noise impacts our hearing and health

In a 2012 study, researchers at the University of Michigan surveyed 4,585 New Yorkers about how often and how long they spent in noisy environments and activities, including their jobs, their subway commutes, their attendance at sporting events and concerts, their use of power tools and listening to music. The researchers then calculated average daily exposures and found that 91 percent of transit users and 87 percent of others were exceeding the noises limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. Exceeding these limits regularly put people at higher risk of noise-induced hearing loss.

07/10/2020

She is the German champion in deaf golf and in 2017, as the youngest competitor since the competition began in 2009, she came third in the European Deaf Golf Open Championships. In July 2018 she took part in the World Deaf Golf Championships in Ireland and won the 2019 European Deaf Golf Open Championship in Sweden. Amelie is looking forward to learning Spanish, her mother’s native tongue, at school soon.

Despite the classes being relatively small, the biggest challenge was the noise in the background. Even with an implant, Amelie only hears s

09/09/2020

Don’t Fear the Future
Still, this life makes us shudder. We keep physical distance to protect ourselves from unknown viruses, avoid airplanes for fear of terrorist attacks, dread natural disasters, and our existential fears even keep us from stepping off the hamster wheel of life until we end up in burnout.

Our lives have never been better, yet we look towards the future with less optimism. Where does this contradiction stem from? And what can we do about it?

Statistics prove that we don't need to worry: In the 1970s and 1980s, the number of victims of terrorist attacks was significantly higher th