Take the guesswork out of employee training

Take the guesswork out of employee training
Is training providing the right solutions for your problems?

  • Is training bringing the results you want?
  • Is it cost effective?
  • Does it meet your needs?



With Dialog Services, the answer is YES to these questions. (Read More…)

 

rashmi datt

Rashmi Datt is the founder and Director of Dialog Services, with over two decades of rich industry experience in the domains of Organisational Development, learning and development, content management and instructional design.

She set up Dialog Services 18 years ago, and has facilitated a movement of participants ‘taking charge of their development’ as they build their EQ, in over 50 Organisations in the Corporate, Government and Not for Profit sectors. Her workshops convey the urgency of Gandhiji’s credo ‘Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever’.

Members take away not just insights in the way we relate, interact, deal with difficult situations, conflict, or utilize resources, but concrete skills and practical steps, which they can implement in their lives from day-one.
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From the Blog:

‘Mirror, mirror, who is the most irritating of them all?’

recognising and integrating our shadow

To form a successful relation with others, we need to relate with our own negative qualities I had been feeling guilty about not spending enough time with some houseguests who were staying for the weekend. Being in their seventies, the couple was quite happy to chat with my mother who had also come over to [...]

The art of networking and selling

Posted in Networking/Marketing/Selling by teamrashmi@etlabs on May 2nd, 2012
marketing & Selling

Many businessmen do good quality work but are hesitant or squeamish about selling their goods or services. I have met several who say ‘I’m not good at it’ or ‘its demeaning to make business calls’. But the truth is that selling like any other work requires planning, persuading and perseverance. Recently I was at a [...]

Self-regulation or the art of locking the door before the horse bolts

Posted in Managing our emotions,Personal Effectiveness by teamrashmi@etlabs on May 2nd, 2012
self control

A lot of the times we end up saying or doing something we regret later.  One aspect of Emotional Intelligence is self-regulation- or impulse control, or simply self-control. Recently I was discussing this subject with Prof Sudhir Jain, Director of the new IIT at Gandhinagar, who is a rare combination of an academic with international [...]

Managing Emotions at the Workplace (2): Communicating confidently with a tough boss

manage emotions

What is assertive behaviour? Assertiveness is the middle ground between aggression and passivity. It is about reasonable behaviour and finding solutions that suit both sides. Assertiveness means: Acknowledging your own feelings to yourself (“My boss gives me bits and pieces of tasks without total responsibility of the entire project, and I am feeling restless and unfulfilled”); Understanding [...]

Managing Emotions at the Workplace (1): Why do we get emotionally hijacked?

Posted in Communication skills,Managing our emotions by Rashmi Datt on March 11th, 2012
passive behaviour

Communication at the workplace (particularly with the boss) is as important as lubricant for our car engine. Without it our career will sputter and stall, and work life will be full of breakdowns and headaches. In quiz, you saw a few situations, which if not clarified, have the potential to worsen our irritation with time.  [...]

Balancing Emotional Intelligence with Creativity- An Interview with Dilip Chhabria

Posted in Uncategorized by Rashmi Datt on February 29th, 2012
Secrets of success

(Dilip Chhabria is the founder of DC Design, internationally recognised for quality services in vehicle customizing and modification) The first thing that strikes you about Dilip Chhabria as he walks into the restaurant where we are meeting him for dinner is his utter ease with himself, as he laughingly explains why he wife couldn’t make [...]

Handling a low audience turnout with aplomb

Posted in Communication skills,Managing our emotions by Rashmi Datt on February 25th, 2012
audience-drawn-by-vibhuti

Yesterday, I was at a Best Practices seminar organized by one of the reputed MBA colleges of India. After the inaugural session when the Chief Guest and Guest of Honour had left, there was a tea break followed by a talk by Srikanth Surampudi, the Regional HR Head of one of the largest IT firms [...]

Crack That Interview

Posted in Communication skills by Rashmi Datt on January 9th, 2012
interview

Polishing your interview skills View more presentations from Rashmi Datt.

Your selection interview-Presenting your best

Posted in Communication skills,Featured by Rashmi Datt on January 9th, 2012
job-interview

Recently I was at the IITs on the invitation of the placement cell. They wanted some grooming tips on facing interviews. Running the workshop for 300 students was fun! One of the questions which needed the most preparation was the seemingly innocuous question: “Tell me about yourself” . Interviewers often ask this question at the [...]

Do you throw stones at every barking dog?

Posted in Conflict management,Featured by Rashmi Datt on January 5th, 2012
barking-dog

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks”, said Winston Churchill. Earlier, I wrote about the importance of Choosing Your Battles to Win the War: You need to ignore the small stuff— minor setbacks, obstacles and conflicts; so that you focus your energies for the big [...]

Choose Your Battles Wisely

Posted in Conflict management,Featured,Managing our emotions by Rashmi Datt on November 24th, 2011
AngryGirl

“How do you react if your bottom were pinched?” Yesterday, our 14-year old daughter, worry writ large on her face, hesitantly raised this question at dinner time. Welcome to the grown-up world, I thought inwardly. So what had happened was that in her school bus (unusually crowded as they were heading from school to a [...]

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