"We are a B Corp Organisation Anjali." This is what I heard from a client last week. Confused, I started to research on B Corp Organisations. After several hours of searching online, I found this 1min 57sec video which does a great job in explaining what a B Corp Organisation is. After watching this video, I was immediately reminded of a comment that PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi, made...

Karen is responsible for Change Management in her organisation. Every time she announces a change initiative, there is group of people who would hijack her presentations. They question everything and anything which usually dampens the little enthusiasm that exists for change. This group of people are super smart people. Karen's biggest worry, for a long time before any change announcement, was...

I have a question. No, I don't need you to give me an answer but just answer it to yourself. When was the last time you gave generous feedback on a feedback form? If your answer is recently or always or even sometime ago, you are rare and a minority. The problem is feedback forms are not designed to demonstrate generosity. Generosity, where we take time and effort to help someone improve. I am...

Learning and Development and its sour relationship with cost cutting. " Sorry Anjali, the business priority is else where at the moment. So, all learning and development initiatives are on hold' " When we get busy learning and development is the first to get out of our agenda" These are just a couple of sentences I have heard in the recent past all implying that corporate learning and development...

The rising obsession with methods, frameworks and methodologies is rotting the Learning Culture. Perhaps it is time for Learning Culture Change. For the longest time I looked for blogs, articles and books that could teach me a method, structure, pattern or a framework of doing something that interests me. For example a method to craft a story. However, recently I have formed a completely...

What do you do when your Change Management Process and Strategy start to derail? Recently, I had an opportunity to work with a leading Telecommunications company in curating* a Change Story as one of the key strategies of their major IT Change Management Plan. My task was to 1. Curate the Change Story involving 9 Business Divisions involving conversations with over 100 staff 2. To equip the...