Ei Cafe with Azeem

Strategy is what drives decisions in business. By helping organizations identify their strengths and weaknesses, an effective strategy will help you decide where your efforts and resources are best spent. These decisions are crucial in ensuring your business has a profitable and sustainable future.

Press the reset that button, reimagine yourself & your business how are you going to drive your business in a Turbulent world. Build an inclusive strategy, inspire your people to rally around the strategy to execute it. Poom Narudee Khristhanin- Cheif Executive Officer & Lead Facilitator with LEGO Serious Play Method, Eureka Global Thailand checks in to the café & shares her insights ,experiences & tips on developing strategy in a turbulent time. More Importantly How Lego Serious Play methodology can shape up towards building a stratergy. To listen to fully episode check in to the café by pressing that Play button.

Strategizing in the Turbulent world with Poom Narudee

“Hiring the right person is essential. Your business is only as good as your employees. From the front desk to the executive offices, every employee represents a facet of your business to clients, and to the community at large. Hiring the wrong person can cost you more than just money.

World Economic forum states Emotional intelligence will be an essential skill look for in people. Look out for values, integrity & the soft skill side of the candidate rather only focusing on hard skill, managing stress. Resilience, self-management are some key element look out for in your candidates. Debbie Muno- Managing Partner at  Genos North America, checks in to the café & share her experiences in terms Hiring people. press that play button & check in to the café to listen to the full episode. 

Though reading might seem like simple fun, it can be helping your body and mind without you even realizing what is happening. Reading can be more important for these reasons and not just knowledge.  For those who don’t enjoy reading, you might change your mind after hearing about the benefits. 

Reading creates a positive mindset, more than anything it gives great amount of learning to our work & life. Every author who writes a book by penning down their own experiences & of course if we are facing similar it can be a solution our challenges. Ragulan & Ramesh KVT - Co - Founders of Pick a Book checks in to the café and shares their experiences and insights on how books can transform a person.

Customer experience is ultimately built on customer expectations. Companies must understand what consumers expect from their brands, which includes customer support that, at a minimum, meets their needs but ideally surpasses what they've anticipated. With the new global experience, we are in, the restraints and limitations in place to protect our health and well-being mean that companies must find new and innovative ways to deliver on their brand promise if they are to remain connected to their customer base.

Bringing in more empathy & more Engagement with customers can lead to a long term relationship. Ryan O Reilly-Author, Speaker, Executive coach shares his experiences and insights how provide superior customer experiences in a Pandemic situation. Press the play button & check in to the café to listen to the full episode.

“Give validity to their issue by expressing understanding and keenly listening to their emotional response and how they feel about the issue. Use that empathy as the fuel needed to show compassion for their issue and then act to find a resolution that reflects your care and concern for them“.

Is Compassionate Leadership new for us ?  Why now ? Wasn't it in existence 20 year ago ? how can we coach leaders to turn empathy to action ? Angela Payne -Co-founder of Leed HR, National Board President for Lean In Canada, answers these questions and shares her experiences & insights how Compassionate leadership can be practiced. Angela Highlights that Empathy does play a key role in compassion but there are other elements which come along. to get to know more what Angela has to say, press that Play button & check in to the café.

Leaders may reconsider the skills required for themselves and their workforce to guarantee successful performance in an increasingly interconnected world. Leaders may engage in reflection and work toward stronger emphasis and development of skills in which they consider themselves weak.  With The global Pandemic hitting the globe, the question raises have the landscape of Leadership changed ?

Ciara Aspinall - Director, Pin point potential- UK shares her experiences on how you can facilitate the change of leadership landscape, by being more people centric, building engagement with your people , look out for every small achievements of your people & recognize them. she further states that Leadership will not look back at the traditional way anymore. It is not managing the Past & it is about Shaping the future where leaders will have to adopt the the new landscape.

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Ei café with Azeem, A 30 minutes of Valuable learning

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Watching a once-successful leader derail can feel a lot like watching a bicycle crash. By the time you can see the wreckage start to happen, it seems like it’s too late to stop it. A derailing leader often has a negative impact on subordinates, colleagues, and the entire organization. To limit the killing, we need a solution – something better than yelling “LOOK OUT. We need to expect the crash before it start.

Some great insights shared by Vidusha Nathavitharana, founder and Destiny Architect of High5 consultancy & Luminary learning solutions- Sri Lanka.  Vidusha shares his thoughts & experiences of why Derailment happens & how to spot it. not that all He did share a great technique of Hot Seat technique to spot the Derailment.  Most importantly Vidusha states that, it is Followers duty to hint the leader of the track. Authenticity, Values & Openness are some traits  for a leader to stay on track. To listen to the full conversation please press that Play button & check in to the café.

Pressure cooker businesses suffer greater stress-related health care costs, lower engagement, higher absenteeism, and less employee loyalty. Any decent manager will recognize how these trends harm not only employees’ well-being, but also a company’s financial performance.

Some Organizations get misled with the success turned it to grief & Jealousy and get in to unethical practice. ultimately the business get impacts as they forgot their organization Values & their people. Live your value of your business, create that sense of belonging & connection with your emotions which will result in treating your business with the same emotions. Create that compassionate working culture by asking your employees how are they feeling & have conversation with them which will result in better performance. In this Episode Dr. Ben Palmer- Founder & CEO of Genos International check in to the café and shares' his experience & why Business leaders need to adopt emotional Intelligence as part of practicing compassion. Press that play button & check in to the café to listen to the full episode.

Global Pandemic made working virtually necessary as a result of quarantining at home and social distancing. This means that learning to successfully lead in a virtual environment is now an essential core competency of organizational leaders.  What are the key element as a leader you need to focus in virtual environment ? how do you create that engagement & connectivity in virtual environment ? What are some key component need to be added in your leadership more than before ?

Paul Corke - Author, Speaker, Founder & Leadership Futurist, who checks in to  the café & shares some key insights how Leadership should be redefined for the future in the organization. creating an human centered approach which is with Compassion & empathy, leaders need to embrace the technological advancement as it is here to stay & need to get engage with people more than ever.  Paul talks about how Artificial Intelligence will be implemented & the change which is going to take place.

So press that play button check in to café & listen to Paul's great tips to emerge as a leader in a virtual environment. 

“Your negative emotions can dictate how you live your personal life and manage your business. They will certainly limit your ability to motivate and inspire others. That's why successful leaders manage their stress and build resilience by developing high levels of emotional intelligence “.

Is Managing Stress is real ? Can it help people to become more resilience ? Will it help people to reach their goals ? Amantha King - NLP coach  & Development Consultant shares her insights on why managing stress so important & how it can be done in our day today life. 

Amantha says " Stress curve is here to stay & it is us who need to navigate it", to get to know the tips & techniques to manage stress press that Play button & check in to the café.