TAQ Speaks

Voice is a powerful tool that influences people’s perception, drives communication and helps you articulate your vision, especially now when dealing with this COVID crisis, all our communications have been shifted to a digital platform. Here are few essential practices that an help you create an impact with your voice.

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.

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.

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!

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

Use practices from the performing arts to get your team into synergy Watching a ballet troupe perform ensemble on stage...

Use personal tools to hit the bulls-eye in conversations. A few reflections from archery.

“The patterns in music and all of the arts are the keys to learning.” – Plato Sarah, a junior analyst,...

More and more, people are finding themselves on teams of people who are in different geographic locations or show cultural...

We are increasingly called upon to hold multiple responsibilities and roles at work. We’re multitasking, or at least trying, even...

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/

Business needs to engage more actively with the Arts towards creating a more inclusive creative and joyful world. The Business India...