Transforming Careers with Coach Abhijit: Recent Episodes
Abhijit Prakash
In Part 2 of the MBA admission interview prep series, we discuss how you should prepare on three most important areas where the interview is usually focussed - Academics, Work Experience and Hobbies and interests.
In Part 1 of the MBA admission interview prep series, we discuss how you should create the right mindset before starting to prepare for your MBA admissions interview. As a part of creating the mindset, we outline the optimum strategy to position yourself and importance of knowing your values, strengths and skills. In next two parts, covered in next two episodes, we will discuss a few tips for preparation in key areas like academics, work experience and hobbies and interest.
Your year-end appraisal is one of the most important processes of your professional career. Writing your self-appraisal is the first step in this process. In this episode, we discuss why it is important to write an effective self-appraisal and some do's and dont's of this process. We focus on some mindset hacks and some operational hacks to ensure that you are able to create the best version of your self-appraisal.
In the ninth episode of 'Transforming #Careers with Coach Abhijit', we address a few #myths about #sales profession. In my ~15yrs of career as well as while coaching clients, I came across most of them. If we have a rational approach on what sales profession entails and what it does not (the episode deals with the second part, will do another one for the first part), we will have a better approach to evaluate sales roles when they are offered to us (during #MBA #placements / #midcareer switches within same organisation etc)
In this episode, we are going to explore the world of introverts, especially in context of careers. We will discuss some common myths and misplaced perceptions about introverts in organisations. We will attempt to understand why those myths exist and how they are totally unfounded. Finally we will understand how introverts can cut through this clutter, not get demotivated by it and up their professional game.
'Influencing without Authority' is one of the most invisible skill needed for your career success. It is an invisible skill is because you would never see this expressed anywhere as an important skill – neither in a job description, nor in your annual goals/KPIs. And yet, time and again, we see people around us who do very well in their careers because they know how to influence without authority. It becomes even more important when your work has a lot of interdependence on other people, especially those, whom you don’t have any authority on - either direct authority – like they don’t report into you or indirect authority– like you and them don’t have a common boss, or you two are not in the same department.
This episode is divided into three parts. In part 1, we review the key skills you need to possess or develope to be good at this. In part 2, we will look at some short-term tactics, at a transactional basis, typylically when you need someone’s help at a very short notice. In Part 3, which is probably the most important, we will see some long term measures, which are useful if there is a specific employee with whom you have regular work dependencies.
In the sixth episode of Transforming Careers with Coach Abhijit, we disuss how using social media frequently at your workplace and during your worktime is affecting your career negatively. It is a problem, where the impact is slow and not clearly visible, but it has many negative consequences. In this episode, we discuss those and also give a few hacks to ensure social media does not become a problem for your career.
Working with an accountability partner is one of the most effective ways of ensuring consistency in any activity or efforts which you have decided to do on a regular basis. It addresses the most important challenge that most of us face - Inability to be consistent in our efforts. In this episode of Transforming Careers with Coach Abhijit, we dig deeper into the benefits of working with an accountability partner, how to find the right accountability partner and how to set the right process.
Professional Networking is one the most misunderstood skill required in your career. Some think that they just can’t do, its not their cup of tea. Some others think networking is a sure-short way of succeeding in corporate life. Also, there is enough material on professional networking in public domain – in form of podcasts, blogs, opinions, youtube videos etc. So how am I going to make this any different? I decided to look back at my 15yrs of professional journey and note down the specific things that either I implemented or I have seen others use very effectively. So all of it is first hand experienced by me.
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One of the most commonly faced problem, especially by early stage professionals is a job that looks very reptitive and as a result, boring. The last I checked, around 40% of my coaching clients had this problem. In this episode, we are going to talk about this issue. The episode is divided into 3 parts. Part one will deal with creating the right perspective and mindset. Part 2 will deal with understanding how bad your problem actually is. And Part 3 will deal with some of the solutions to this problem of having repetitive tasks in your job.
In an attempt to address one of the most popular and controversial issue in careers, I try to give a 4-step guide to dealing with your bad boss. We start with working on our mindset first, followed by some introspection and analysis of issues surrounding the bad boss and finally outline an action plan. I hope the listerners enjoy the episode as much as I enjoyed creating it. I would eagerly read your feedback, pls send it to abhijitprakash@gmail.com - Also follow my FB group 'Coach to Potential' https://www.facebook.com/coachtopotential/ for more such updates.
This episode is structured into four parts. In Part ONE, we will discuss how to develop the right mindset even before we start working on this specific issue. In Part TWO, we will get to specifics about what exactly 'bad' about your boss. In Part THREE, we will get clarity on how a bad boss affects us and why it is important to work on it. Finally in Part FOUR, we will discuss an efficient action plan. You may be tempted to directly jump to the action plan, but the intial three parts will give you clarity and confidence in executing your action plan.
The easiest way to succeed in your job interview is to ACE the introduction at the start. In this episode of Transforming Careers with Coach Abhijit, I give you some interesting hacks on how to ace your introduction, what are the commonly made mistakes and how to avoid them.