Coaching for Change

Help your child overcome Public Speaking fear I dedicate this article to my favorite age group… the youth of today. This is a topic about which a lot has been said and written and yet it remains an enigma to most of us when it really shouldn’t be. It should be as easy as it is for a 4-year-old to tell a story. Recently I was invited to mentor a bunch of kids to polish their Public Speaking Skills. These kids were going to present their project to a group of judges and the best idea was to win an award to fund their idea. I first asked them to tell me about their project. As they told me about why they chose the project, the passion, enthusiasm, and energy in their gestures and body language was apparent. Then I asked them to present their idea to me as they would to the judges. Suddenly the whole dynamics changed, the same bubbly bunch became uptight, nervous and robotic. When I asked them what the reason was, they said:  -It’s a formal presentation so we need to look and...

IN THE MOMENTS OF CHOICE... What you sow, so shall you reap. In other words, our actions decide the results we get. So we have all heard. But even before we act, there are 2 steps that happen in our mind which we most of the times do not pay attention to. In fact, these 2 steps that we are unaware of are so crucial that they actually dictate the action we take and the result we get. These 2 steps that quietly take place in our mind unknown to us are … ATTENTION and CHOICE. Most of us, at any given point in time, when we choose to undertake a particular action; we actually choose based on where our attention at that point in time is. Every minute is a tradeoff. The fact that you are reading this piece is because you chose to over every other thing on the earth you could have done. And that you chose this is because something about this piece caught your attention. Let me explain further. The video games these days have almost every teenager hooked to it. While coaching a teena...

RECEIVING COMPLIMENTS One evening I was Coaching a student of mine for Public Speaking when her 4-year-old sister came in. " Hello Dear ..... you have such beautiful big brown eyes," I said. Immediately, the child's eyes lit up, became bigger and her face became bright with an angelic smile. And softly she said "Thank you" I knew instantly my compliment had been received, accepted and appreciated. On my way back from the session, I was on Whatsapp and happened to notice a profile picture of a friend of mine with her child. "Both of you are glowing. Beautiful display picture" I wrote to her. Within seconds I got a reply " Glowing because of the sunrise that time" Her reply made me wonder... - why do we try to give reasons when we get complimented? - why do we try to compliment back? - why do we try to negate it? A genuine compliment means the giver has taken out time to notice you and found something about you that...

CAREER PATH FOR NEXT GENERATION The corporate career progression today is being called “jungle gym” in contrast to "ladder" as it was traditionally expected to be. Which means instead of taking a predictable series of upward steps from graduation until retirement, today’s professionals are making lateral moves and unexpected jumps. Goldman Sach's CEO, Solomon’s advice, he likes to tell ambitious millennial's of their career path, “You don’t have to know where it’s all going to go. Just live it and try to enjoy it as much as you can.” Does your teen have what it takes to be in the "Jungle Gym"? Read what Goldman Sach's CEO has to say to the next generation here .