Posted on December 19, 2011 by Hemant

I have always found challenge in working from scratch using ‘first principles’.

I was fortunate to get such an opportunity to work on designing infographics for creating situational awareness amongst control room staff and managers in the control room of a large refinery.

The amount of information to be displayed was massive and the objective was to create situational awareness without causing distraction and cognitive overload to the control operators. The infographics would have to let the control operators do their jobs on the individual consoles with the above benefit.

Teams at Design Directions, Pune (Falguni Gokhale and Hemali Parekh) and Honeywell Automation, Pune (Ajay Deshmukh, Danish Shaikh, and Sanjay Dave) worked on this project. It was a great feeling to have contributed to this large and one of it’s kind project (probably in the whole world). The projects details (including pictures of the video walls) are here

Infographics for Large Video Walls

 

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Posted on December 3, 2011 by Hemant

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Just login, click the programs of your choice and pay through Paypal*. You will find yourself in the your program, ready to do your workouts, and develop your agenda for leading.

The fees are so affordable that you don’t need your employer to support you.

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Posted on December 1, 2011 by Hemant

As policies go this one is breathtakingly simple – DO NOT SEND EMAIL WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION.  Read the news below.

http://news.yahoo.com/tech-firm-implements-employee-zero-email-policy-165311050.html

Various comments on the news item are also interesting:

To talk about banning emails is talking about the wrong end of the problem -the effect and not looking at the causes.

There are many reasons for the deluge of emails within an organisation e.g.

-somebody has forgotten (reminder)

-somebody is late (chasing)

-bad quality (for re-doing)

-unwillingness to collaborate

-being continually in project mode (doing things somehow)

-Bad or broken processes.

-Bad project planning

There is no doubt that there are simply are too many emails out there. The the way to deal with the deluge is to fix and improve processes,  train people etc.

 

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Posted on November 9, 2011 by Hemant

Like the the writer of this blog post many assume that the (chronologically) young are tech savvy and smart communicators. I think this has more to do with those who think they are ‘too old’  to learn the new tech tools than with the kids themselves.

Mere possession of gadgets or tools is not enough for learning. You can find too-resistant-to-learn kids or young-enough-to-learn-anything  ‘old’ everywhere.

Another point:  You don’t need good communication skills just because you are in the age of all pervasive communication and not just because of what we call as ‘information overload’.

Information overload was there in the pre-computes era too -for the curious ones. For the non-curious types where is the information overload even now?

Good communication skills can make your (and others’) lives a bit easier and better. Oh yes, but if your tweet is going to be carried all the world not having good communication skills can be lethal for your reputation. Sure.

 

 

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Posted on October 24, 2011 by Hemant

Wishing you a happy festival of lights and a great new year!

Hemant

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Posted on October 17, 2011 by Hemant

Learning Leadership skills is always considered to be something that needs a lot of time away from work. The fees of many programs are also not insignificant. Even if you consider those fees as ‘investment’, you wonder what really are the returns.

Learning Leadership programs are now within the reach of people even at individual level. Being web based, you don’t have to spend time away from your work. Whatever time you spend on our programs you spend in thinking deeply about your life and work and have a powerful action list as a direct take-away.

Just register, log in, and to enrol in the paid programs, follow the instructions in “How to pay and enrol” on the page -Overview of my programs.

You will find that you have access to top class learning tools at very reasonable cost to you.

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Posted on March 18, 2011 by Hemant

If your company is planning to build a pipeline of leaders then please do not forget to ask for a sample copy of an individual’s Leadership Diagnostics & Development Report.

Learning Leadership’s executive coaching is based on comprehensive and rigorous work based exercises. These workouts let our experienced leadership coaches observe executives’ thinking. Our executive coaches

1. Study and diagnose factors that limit leadership development of of individual executives

2. Suggest individual development path to executives

CEOs or HR Heads of companies planning to build their leadership pipelines can ask for a sample report. Please register on http://www.learning-leadership.com and send a mail to support@learning-leadership.com

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Posted on February 24, 2011 by Hemant

Myth: Executive coaching is something very exotic and it costs a lot. Only Fortune 500 company CEOs can afford it.

The truth: Executive coaching is not an executive jet or a perk meant for only Fortune 500 CEOs. It is technique of coaching executives to be better at their jobs.

There are many expert written articles on this subject. But, I will explain this in plain words:

1. In coaching you (the coach) help the coachee to figure out what will be of help. In training you (the trainer) tell.

2. In coaching you observe the coachee in his or her work. In training the trainee observes (or hears) you.

3. In coaching you ask open questions. In training you give answers.

4. In coaching you may suggest. In training you prescribe.

5. In coaching the coachee is in his or her own work environment. In training, the trainee is out of it (even if in the office).

Why should I consider executive coaching?

To be better at your job you need

1. To improve functional knowledge e.g. product, process, accounting, selling points. Go for training.

2. To have appropriate values matching the organization: Reflection will help. Coaching can help reflection. But you alone can bite the bullet.

3. To have better leadership skills: leadership is all about thinking with passion, clarity, vision and courage and acting on thoughts. The best way is to apply leadership principles to your own work and get executive coaching for it. Only such thinking and acting practice can help you to be better leader. Here too, as in 2 above, the focus is on you. You alone can change yourself. A good executive coach can help through good work related exercises and observing your thoughts and actions. (Your coach can not sit next to you all the time!)

That is all there to it. Really.

Where to find such programs and coaches that do not cost like a CEO’s perk? Ask me! (hemantkarandikar@gmail.com or +91 88888 35883)

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Posted on February 15, 2011 by Hemant

Learning Leadership’s Executive Coaching programs have been running successfully in the US & in India.

We pioneered our powerful learning process & content based on agenda generating workouts and web based access & delivery. These programs offer a highly rigorous, dependable, easily accessible and flexible leadership development method to Large, Medium, and Small companies.

Learning Leadership wishes to enlist partners who can spread the word and get enrolments to its programs.

Ideally , our partners will have top level contacts in companies, universities, and other institutions and the enthusiasm for selling our path breaking programs.

Learning Leadership believes in long term relationships based on value addition & trust.

If you are interested, please write to me at hemant.karandikar@learning-leadership.com

Hemant Karandikar

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Posted on February 9, 2011 by Hemant

This is time when companies, who close their business year in March, get ready for that inevitable appraisals phase and for deciding who gets salary raises and who gets promoted. Suddenly , and more visibly,  almost everyone is unhappy.

In the list of promotions and salary raises, there are some who have shown great performance and who have good potential. But you wish there were more such cases. Instead, there are many, who are there for other reasons:

-was not promoted last year

-might leave

-needs encouragement

-won that big business from a new account

You may have been working hard to just fill up your list and make it look good. You know much of this is ‘trade-off’. In other words you are just pushing the problem to the next year.

Is there a way out? Yes. Your people, those with good potential, need to be put through a leadership development program while on the job. Such a development program would make your people of promise to think hard and deep about their work using powerful leadership principles. Experienced business leaders will review their thought processes and encourage improvisation.

If your high potential people go through such leadership learning and coaching programs you will certainly be not unhappy next year at this time.

Ask us at hemant.karandikar@learning-leadership.com how to do this. Or visit Learning Leadership

BTW: There are programs for your level too, and they will do a lot good to you -you can claim back your weekends!

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