Talk CXO Life

Is Salil superstitious before a run? What is his favourite comfort food? Did you know that Salil had interviewed Sir Arthur C Clarke as a journalist?! Find out more such interesting titbits on Salil through this CXO FunFacts segment!

Listen to Salil share how his biggest commitment is to keep alive the curiosity within him and his son. It's this that led him to understand what he loves to do and presented to him a myriad opportunities. Even though Salil applied this simple and diligent approach with the intent of only ‘achieving certain local maxima’, he amazed himself at the way it magically led him to constantly reinvent his own potential, without planning or obsessing over any particular outcome.

In this segment, Salil shares the importance of having a positive work culture that promotes bringing one’s most ‘authentic self’ to work, the tone for which, Salil ascertains, is set at the top. He shares numerous initiatives undertaken at General Mills to encourage and empower its 500 employees, whom Salil feels most accountable towards. 

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This segment is about Salil’s love for golf. He had won quite a few corporate tournaments in Singapore before winning the Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup for Bombay in 2016. He has represented India at the World Amateur finals in Turkey. More recently, in 2018, he also won the Indo American Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament at ITC Classic, Delhi. Salil shares how what began as hitting a grounder a decade ago, became a joy for Salil that now comes close only to him spending time with his family.

In this segment, we discuss running. Salil is an avid runner, having participated in numerous marathons across the globe, including four Abbot World Majors. He ran his fourth world major in Berlin in September 2018 (a few months before the interview).  From struggling to complete a kilometer on a treadmill to running races around the world, backed by his competitive spirit, discover how Salil surprised people around him including himself with his self-driven, feisty flight.

In this segment, Listen to Salil share key life milestones encircling the roles he identifies himself with primarily - of a husband and father, a leader at work, a runner and a golfer. Want to crack the code on work-life balance? Salil, simply boils it down to gaining clarity about what one likes to do, is good at doing and what gives one satisfaction and well.. then focusing on those aspects.

Hey! you are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail!

Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a dish whilst at work. No, we aren’t talking about working from home which is what offices the world over have had to adhere to, almost overnight. But about actually playing and having fun at work. Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young.

In this conversation we speak of his foray into employee engagement, his perspectives on the subject, why he believes the HR has been inappropriately perceived to be responsible for this function which actually forays into marketing, how fun proved to be a business game-changer, how easy/difficult and important it is to infuse fun into engagement and how clarity regarding engagement objectives matter in the long run. We also speak about some of the unique service propositions offered by engage4more including CTC - Corporate Talent Championship - a one-of-a-kind corporate reality show, judging employee talent on music, acting, singing and dancing for companies across the length and breadth of India, how technology remains the solution for the problems it is set to pose in engaging with employees increasingly in a gig economy or with a scattered workforce and three engage4more apps suitably designed to address these concerns, and also Nishant’s future plans. We also delve briefly into a bit of his background while also having fun listening to him beatbox and sharing his experiences on a past love, standup routines.

Ok! That’s it for now. Stay tuned for this fun conversation! Happy Listening! Stay safe!

Hey! you are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail!

Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a dish whilst at work. No, we aren’t talking about working from home which is what offices the world over have had to adhere to, almost overnight. But about actually playing and having fun at work. Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young.

In this conversation we speak of his foray into employee engagement, his perspectives on the subject, why he believes the HR has been inappropriately perceived to be responsible for this function which actually forays into marketing, how fun proved to be a business game-changer, how easy/difficult and important it is to infuse fun into engagement and how clarity regarding engagement objectives matter in the long run. We also speak about some of the unique service propositions offered by engage4more including CTC - Corporate Talent Championship - a one-of-a-kind corporate reality show, judging employee talent on music, acting, singing and dancing for companies across the length and breadth of India, how technology remains the solution for the problems it is set to pose in engaging with employees increasingly in a gig economy or with a scattered workforce and three engage4more apps suitably designed to address these concerns, and also Nishant’s future plans. We also delve briefly into a bit of his background while also having fun listening to him beatbox and sharing his experiences on a past love, standup routines.

Ok! That’s it for now. Stay tuned for this fun conversation! Happy Listening! Stay safe!

Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young.

In the concluding segment of our conversation with Nishant Parashar we speak of his love for beatboxing, stand up routines and running. Nishant also shares how he is committed to keep alive the curiosity spark within him forever.  We also have some fun when Nishant beatboxes to one of his favourite songs ‘Kabhi kabhi mere dil mai’ and one of my favourite Rafi Sahab hits – Likhe jo khat tujhe. 

Happy listening.

Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young.

The seventh segment is all about taking a trip down the memory lanes. We speak about Nishant’s formative years and his personal milestones. Nishant reveals how he acquired a defined direction in life only when he started college. Hostel life proved to be a major transformative part of his life. It was in college where in spite of his reticent nature he discovered his love for organizing events, connecting with people and enjoying the thrill of evoking responses and handling them, since events don’t always go as planned now, do they? 

Stay tuned.