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Team PerformanceWhat First-Time Leaders Can Learn from the Performing Arts
Stepping into a management role can be overwhelming. With the role transition comes the responsibility of getting your team to perform at their collaborative best! Not sure where to start? Here are some lessons from the creative directors and their performing arts troupes on how leaders can build high-performing teams.
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Gender and Inclusive LeadershipHow to Be More Inclusive at Work
Being exposed to difference can be a jolting experience. Here are 5 conversational strategies that can help manage our tendencies for judgments and ‘stay’ in conversations with people who are different. So that together, we can embrace our diversity and make inclusion as come alive in our workplaces.
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Personal LeadershipA 3-Step Guide to Overcoming Performance Anxiety
We’ve all known those jitters that come before that important presentation - when you really want to be at your best for your boss or your team. Here are some lessons from theatre performers on how they manage the butterflies in their stomach. Harness these techniques to step into the limelight…. and shine!
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Personal LeadershipHow to Be More Agile at Work?
Swati Apte and Dr. Sangeetha Rajan on tips to succeed in a constantly changing business environment. The latest article in Harvard Business Review’s Ascend
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Team PerformanceInsights from TAQ’s Research Desk
Use practices from the performing arts to get your team into synergy Watching a ballet troupe perform ensemble on stage...
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Personal LeadershipArchery and Conversations
Use personal tools to hit the bulls-eye in conversations. A few reflections from archery.
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Personal LeadershipHow to Master the Art of Continuous Learning
“The patterns in music and all of the arts are the keys to learning.” – Plato Sarah, a junior analyst,...
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Team PerformanceWhat Japanese Bunraku Puppeteers Can Teach Us About Excellent Teamwork
More and more, people are finding themselves on teams of people who are in different geographic locations or show cultural...
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Personal LeadershipWhat Circus Jugglers Can Teach Us About Multitasking Successfully
We are increasingly called upon to hold multiple responsibilities and roles at work. We’re multitasking, or at least trying, even...
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TAQ SpeaksLooking beyond CSR spends
Swati Apte co-wrote this piece with Urmee Mehta Mankar on redefining Corporate India’s approach to Giving. http://idronline.org/looking-beyond-csr-spends/
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TAQ SpeaksA Culture of Support
Business needs to engage more actively with the Arts towards creating a more inclusive creative and joyful world. The Business India...
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Personal LeadershipThe Physiology of Thought
The ability to think has long been thought to be a special gift of the human species. Cogito ergo sum....
