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A practical primer on ensuring that your investment in up-skilling programs will pay you back ...

Similar looking training programs are as harmful as giving the same medicine for different illnesses ...

L&D managers often have unrealistic expectations from training programs. This post busts some common myths ...

My admittedly outlandish take on how practising managers can understand what makes high performers tick ...

Role plays can be effective teaching tools, only when you can tame their unpredicability somewhat ...

Are there ways to get more out of feedback forms? Here are some actionable ways ...

If you’ve been saying to yourself, “I am no good at Maths”, here is hope! ...

Everyone loves trainers who can captivate audiences. But there is a dark side to it ...

This post explores different reasons why people resist change; and how one can them. My ...

Self-help books that teach better conversations tell you that it’s very difficult to master. Really? ...

How many well-intentioned training interventions are inadequate, because they ignore the elephant in the room! ...

The challenge that a diverse learner group creates, and what trainers can do about it ...

The story of an experiment I conducted, to apply Kolb’s theory to a practical context ...

Prevention is better than cure, they say. How does that work in the L&D context? ...

Is it really true that all interventions can and must be done in preventive mode?  ...

What are the ways in which a preventive intervention is different from a curative one? ...

Mistakes I made during some of my interventions. And what you can learn from them ...

Trainers can size up what’s needed in an intervention, just like a rocketship mission does ...

Ashok advocates a flexible approach to leadership skills development. But the L&D Head has doubts ...

Pemba, faculty and coach, takes over. She supports learners to apply theory to real life ...

Armed with data and tact, Lilette manages to extend the intervention to the next level ...

Lessons from interviewing 60 executives and writing half a dozen case studies over 4 months ...

A light hearted take on my profession, through the eyes of my 7 year old ...

Very short summaries of my conversations with startup Founders about Building Capability in their teams ...