Last week, I conducted an offsite/outbound program at Ranthambore for a highly reputed organization. One of my activity was a self-analysis through a detailed questionnaire designed by me. It has two parts: ‘Know Yourself as a Person’ and the 2nd part is ‘Know Yourself as a Professional’. Against
Veerendra K Jaitly
VK Jaitly is a motivational speaker, a consultant, a coach, a writer and a mentor for the corporate world. He is an ex IITian with 35 years of experience in corporate, academics and defence. His workshops on ‘Business Excellence thru People (BEP)’ have been highly acclaimed for increasing productivity and profitability of organizations.
Jaitly has a number of articles to his credit and has delivered lectures/ presentations at National and International forums and has travelled across the globe. He had been the Leader for an All India Motor Cycle Rally and was Oi/C for a Car Rally from Kanyakumari to Delhi. He loves to trek, plays Golf. His first motivational book ‘We Can! We Can!’ has been getting very good reviews.
We all know that communication takes place only if there is a speaker and also there is a listener. Further, communication is necessarily a two-way process that means communication is considered complete only when the listener or the receiver acknowledges that he/she has received the message, may be
A few days back, one of my mentee, Venky came to me and told that he was not able to cope up with pressure of work in his office. He told me that he was working even beyond working hours. He claimed that he was following my advice in letter and spirit in following ‘Time Management’ formulae as given
There is a saying: “ 50% people don’t care if you have a problem, And the other 50% people are happy that you have a problem.” This quote may seem amusing but you will agree with me that it is true to a large extent. Just look around the scores of friends and relatives you have and also hundreds and
It was mid night of September 29-30, 2016. Special Forces of Indian Army carried out surgical strikes for the first time in its history across the Line of Control (LoC) into PoK in several sectors, destroying terror launch pads. The raid came in retaliation to the Fidayeen attack by Pakistan-based
During last couple of years, there has been a lot of debate on being tolerant or intolerant. In fact, suddenly many unknown or hardly known literary personalities returned their awards in the name of intolerance in the country. Somehow, media tried to create an impression that India had suddenly
Have you ever thought why the motivation level of anti-social elements is extremely high compared to the decent, good and God fearing people? This question has always intrigued me for a long time. See the motivation level of terrorists, the dacoits, the street fighters and many more people who enjoy
“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society” -Theodore Roosevelt , Ex President Of USA Mr Roosevelt was very true when he highlighted the importance of morals. An illiterate person, if morally corrupt will do petty crimes or even heinous crimes and will get
Three MBA qualified girls were appearing for an interview. There was only one vacancy. All the three girls had almost same level of grades in their academics and from the same level of colleges. They were almost neck to neck in their interview too while demonstrating their communication skills
I learnt the art of appreciation and its importance from my mother since my childhood. I assure you that it has done wonders for me in my college as well as 34 years of my career life in different roles. The only thing is that appreciation has to be sincere and it should come from the core of one’s
Differences are a part of our life. Wherever there is a little bit of intellect, differences are bound to be there. In any team, howsoever strong it may be, if there are two or more than two members in a team, differences will be there. Can anyone show me any single organization, company, NGO, a
‘Simple Living and High Thinking’ is what we have been taught since our childhood days. My parents also told me this and so did my teachers. And I have actually tried to follow this dictum throughout my life. Or I can put it this way too that being from a middle class family, there was no other