Life Coach India

Uncomplicate Your Relationships – Understand Perspective

Relationships are vital for our sustenance. However, relationships are the same reason we are disturbed. We always feel what we know, believe and understand is right and when the other person comes from a different point of view we feel he is not informed or is naïve, otherwise, how can he disagree. What we don’t understand is every human being has its own values, belief systems which shape his or her point of view. This is simply because we are born and brought up in a different environment and what we see, hear, and feel shapes our beliefs. Since we are different we also have a different perspective, failing to understand which creates friction. Understanding the other’s perspective can be tough. However, with little patience, flexibility and time you will not only be able to understand the other’s perspective but it will also add greatly to your own vision and…

Follow These Steps to Achieve Your Business Goals

As a corporate leader, your work life largely revolves around achieving business goals. The challenge with business goals is as they are set at the beginning of the year and with the lapse of time they become more daunting and unachievable.The situation gets more complicated as the team part of the goals also feels the goals are unachievable and surrender even before they begin working on them. Follow these 5 steps to set and achieve your business goals. Assess Where You Are – As you start the exercise of setting goals make an honest assessment of where you are and where you want to go, think about external and internal factors that will affect your goal achievement. Write down the list – Write down the goals you want to achieve quickly, say in 10 minutes. Whatever you want to achieve in this business year. Don’t edit write them down as…

Resolve Conflicts with Coaching

Conflicts can kill an organization’s productivity and personal relationships. In the corporate environment employees work in teams and different teams work on a common project. Many assignments and initiatives suffer because of conflicts between HOD’s and team members. If we look at personal life, conflicts in a relationship can result in divorce, family disagreements and business conflicts. Coaching can help to support people to resolve conflicts by putting forward and understanding others perspective. Conflict coaching allows the coachee to talk about the conflict with the coach who is neutral and assists the coachee to discover solutions and identify ways to discuss the conflict with the other person. The onus of the resolution lies with the coachee and not the coach. The coach asks powerful questions which allow that opens up the thought process of the coachee which enables him to evaluate solutions not thought of before. Another important area where…

Get Over Those Bad Incidents

Bad incidents have a huge impact on your behavior, thought process and reaction. These incidents get stored as bad memories and do not allow you to move on and severely affect your daily routine & well being. Also, people around you including your colleagues, friends, and family get impacted as your behavior towards them change for the worse and they don’t really know the reason for this change. Bad memories could be anything ranging from a fight at your workplace, negative feedback or public scolding by your manager. Death, accident or any incident that impacts you negatively. People affected by bad incidents impact their companies as well: Productivity falls as there is a loss of concentration. Also if the incident is related to the office the employee loses respect for the company Relationships with team members and managers take a fall which impacts team working Client management takes a hit…

How Can Coaching Help Your Organization

Professional coaching can help an organization by helping its employees improve in multiple areas including productivity, confidence, interpersonal skills and leadership skills. Below mentioned are some areas where coaching can help achieve measurable results Achieve business goals – Coach can help employees and senior leaders set SMART goals and work with them on developing strategies and frameworks to achieve the goals. Employees no longer think achieving goals are distant dreams and work systematically to achieve the same. Work Life Balance – Coaching can help answer the most difficult question plaguing the corporate world. A coach can help an employee in attaining clarity on what he wants to achieve personally and professionally & works with him to identify and work on steps that help him achieve work-life balance. An employee with a good work life balance is happier, and a happier employee means he is more productive and loves to work…

Understand Your Team to Become a Good Leader

Lately, I have been reading a lot of posts on leadership with senior executives either writing or commenting on what makes a leader successful. The common attributes are the following: A good leader Is a good listener Is a good motivator Has an eye for identifying performers and laggards and coach them Rewards appropriately in terms of incentives, promotions, training and learning opportunities and much more…. I agree with all the above but the big question “Do you as a leader really understand your team?” – Which is very important in building a solid relationship because if the relationship is weak all the above mentioned won’t work either. During a recent coaching session with a sales leader, he mentioned that he is struggling with two of his team members and fails to understand why they don’t work/perform as compared to the other two. The work, opportunity at hand, the reward,…

Work Life Balance – 4 Steps to Answer the Big Question

Life has become a race with everybody striving to reach at the top. However, what you lose out are moments with family, friends and most importantly yourself. To add on, so much time has been spent in this routine that you have given up, that someday you will achieve this illusive ‘Work Life Balance’. Let us also look at the situation from the other side. Are there circumstances at home or your personal life which have stopped you from progressing in your career? You want to go back to your job or want to take that promotion and execute more responsibilities but factors in your personal life don’t allow you to. Today a lot of us struggle with the dilemma of achieving equilibrium between work and life. The situation gets even more complicated as relationships start getting affected which further compounds the problem. Before we move towards the solution let…