Influence Quotient

Charging your Influence Quotient

Charging your Influence Quotient An idea is resilient. Once planted in someone’s head, it can’t be gotten rid of easily. If you have watched Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, Inception, you might have heard the line – ‘An idea is like a virus. It can grow to define or destroy you’. Although…
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Webp

Well-being, a multidimensional concept

Well-being, a multidimensional concept If you search for the definition of well-being in the Oxford dictionary, you will come across the terms “comfortable”, “healthy”, “happy”. Well-being is defined as the state of being healthy and happy. Would this definition suffice when you ask yourself – “Am I doing well”? Is…
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Michael Afonso

High Performing Teams 101: Getting the Basics Right

High Performing Teams 101: Getting the Basics Right A team is a group of people with defined skills committed to achieving set goals. In any context, the compatibility of its team members is the differentiating factor between an average or low performing team and a high performing team. It is…
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Emotional Intelligence

Empathy, Leadership, and the Communication that binds them

Empathy, Leadership, and the communication that binds them Intelligence is a trait valued dearly in our professional lives. The ability to quickly grasp and implement new skills comes in handy, whatever your profession might be. A sharp mind can help you gain ground. You can always rely on your wit…
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the flow profiler

Culture, Results and Everything in Between

Culture, Results and Everything in Between A few years back, Deloitte’s conducted research that uncovered a strong relationship between companies with strong cultures and workers with higher job satisfaction. 94% of executives and 88% of the employees claimed to be firm believers of the fact that a distinct corporate culture…
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Critical Thinking

A Quick Guide to Critical Thinking

A Quick Guide to Critical Thinking The human mind is a wonderful thing. Millions of neurons come together to form cohesive thoughts, which are then reflected in one’s actions. These thoughts are meant to be fluid: circumstance and facts should be able to sway us in the right directions. Alas,…
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Avoid Death

How to Avoid Death by Q&A

How to Avoid Death by Q&A You prepared well for your presentation. You spent hours structuring content and getting your slides designed. You practiced on your own, and with a critic.  On the day, your delivery was spot on. Your audience smiled, nodded, made affirmative noises, and even clapped at…
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Stylish presenters get more ‘YES’?

Stylish presenters get more ‘YES’?

Stylish presenters get more ‘YES’? Think of a time when you saw someone making a presentation and made you feel, “Wow, I wish I could present like that!” It can be a colleague, a vendor, a client, or maybe even the future president of the United States! What do any…
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Slides Visualisation

WOW Slides Visualisation

WOW Slides Visualisation With big environmental changes coming in the next 10 years, influencing people in organisations to adapt to change will become one of the most in-demand skills for future leaders. When you think about the word ‘influence’, it’s a broad verb. Influence can be done through asserting authority,…
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