Team Leadership Excellence Newsletter
Vol.32 October 2014
Welcome to the thirty-second monthly newsletter.
Learning is a life long pursuit for everyone. In addition to sharing my knowledge I am blessed with the opportunity of not only learning from those I train, but also having the opportunity to learn from the best professional development guru’s in the world. This was such a month where I had the privilege of being at two such sessions.
Firstly on the 11th of October I had the privilege of being at the launch of the book; ‘Magical Book of Affirmations’ by Jack Canfield and Ram Ganglani in Dubai. It was a treat listening to one of the authors, Ram Ganglani and his philosophy on which the book was based on during the launch.
Secondly I was privileged to learn from David Allen who developed the GTD System (Getting Things Done) at his full day learning event in Dubai on the 30th of October. See details of the learning’s from this event in this newsletter.
Here are my insights for the month …
The Beauty of diversity!
A new client of mine recently requested me to design and run a workshop for their top team on ‘valuing differences’. I was excited about the prospect of doing this as this is at the core of Sensei and our mission statement also states it explicitly:
The Sensei International mission is: To be the best possible global catalyst in organizational and personal transformation. To help the world celebrate its diversity and re-discover its unity … That’s Sensei!
Inspired by our mission and the prospect of designing a new workshop that resonates so well, I named the workshop ‘The Beauty of Diversity’ which the client loved too.
The objective of the workshop was to help participants realize that we are very different from each other in many ways, that all the different versions of us add value in different ways, one person alone does not have all the different aspects and therefore we need to work with others who are different to ensure all angles are covered, that the diversity adds synergy and by celebrating the beauty of this diversity we not only add synergistic value but also re-discover our unity.
I approached the design of the workshop by helping participants to look at 4 areas of differences;
Click here for the whole article that includes 4 areas of diversity
Getting things done … Superbly!
Do you generally find that your email inbox clogged with unattended mail?
Do you find that there are many important things to attended to?
Do you find that some important projects don’t get your required attention?
Do you find that some important task are neglected or delayed?
Do you feel that there are some tasks that you need to attend but you get drained trying to do them?
Do you find you just don’t have enough time to do tasks you enjoy doing that energizes you?
Well if the answer to one or many of these questions is yes, then many of the answers are with David Allen, the author of many books including, ‘Getting Things Done’ and inspirational speaker.
I was fortunate to be at David’s session recently, organized by Right Selection, the company who also represents me in the Middle East. While I generally have an empty email inbox, have things quite well organized with most things done by the end of each week with adequate time to do things I am passionate about, I found David helps put things in perspective and provides concepts and a process that helps get things done.
Here is a summary of the learnings for you.
Click here for the whole article that gives a summary of the GTD process.
Blog posts
Two blog posts was published during this month taking the total to 65. The new blog posts are listed below for your information. The excerpts of the blog posts can be read above.
Getting things done … Superbly!
Read the full post at: http://ranjandesilva.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/getting-thing-done-superbly/
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The Beauty of Diversity
Read the full post at: http://ranjandesilva.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/the-beauty-of-diversity/
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The new blog posts can be viewed at: www.ranjandesilva.wordpress.com
Gallery
Photos of various events conducted by Ranjan and Sensei can be viewed at: http://www.ranjandesilva.net/#!gallery/cirw
Articles
14 articles have been published since the launch of this website . They are in the areas of leadership, teams, personal excellence, marketing and world affairs with relevance. Please click below to read them; http://www.ranjandesilva.net/#!articles/cp7n
Tweets
6 tweets were sent out during the month, some of which are listed below
- I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things - Saint Theresa.
- #marketing2025 Congratulations CIM on the new brand identity and the new initiatives such as the Marketing 2025 Hackathon. Wish you success.
- As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others - Bill Gates. http://www.sensei-international.com
