Every one of us wants to be successful, yet no one definition of success can be applicable to one and all. Success is very personal and unique to one and all, right from what success and happiness means to one to how they see themselves as successful and why they desire success. Is it a real and long-lasting success and the happiness derived from it? Listen to this episode to understand this.

We all want a rich and fulfilling life and are in constant search of and striving to achieve the optimal work-life balance. In this episode, I talk about this critical balance we need to achieve, how we can get the same, and whether there is a different way to look at the same, possibly giving us better meaning, success, and happiness in life.

Firstly, apologies for the delay in uploading today's episode. In today's episode, I speak of how to improve your productivity at work. Essentially, productivity determines how efficient you are in delivering the tasks that have been allocated to you and the better your delivery, achieved by being more efficient and productive the more you will be respected and trusted by your colleagues and managers and the better will be your progress in the organisation.

As very well stated by John Maxwell: If you want to do small things, Do them yourself If you want to do great things and make a big impact Learn to delegate. This is a profound statement that forms the core of today's episode. No leader can be a great leader and propel the organization and himself/herself and his/her team to lofty heights if the leader does not learn to delegate and to do it right. Today's episode just brings your attention and makes you aware of the same.

In this episode on helping someone develop into a great leader from a good one, I speak on the importance and character traits of a great leader and their level of a high EQ besides a high IQ. While technical expertise is a basic requirement, in today's times, having a high EQ and a high Emotional Intelligence is very important. Fortunately, a high EI is something that can be developed if we put in a conscious effort.

One of the most important abilities a leader needs to develop and be efficient is building, managing, and motivating teams. In this episode on Leadership development, I talk about some of the nuances of this crucial ability that a leader needs to have.

In this concluding episode of the current series on relationships, I speak on building relationships and managing them with people who are narcissists. It is an arduous and challenging task full of challenges both in maintaining your relationship and your mind.

One more episode on another significant relationship for all, relationships at work. We spend more than a third of our lives at the workplace and interact with so many different people there, hence what could be an unavoidable and more important kind of relationship? In this episode, I speak of this particular kind of relationship.

In today's relationship episode, I discuss the relationships with spouses. A significant relationship, which grows from one between 2 individuals to many different dimensions, including, each other's parents, siblings, and then their own children and way beyond. Hence, getting this right is very important.

We move to the next kind of relationship in life, this one unavoidable and yet with no real choice of our own - that of relationships with Family or "Familyships" as I call them. This relationship is challenging as there are different entities with different generational viewpoints all of whom play an important role in the family.

Continuing the series on relationships, today we continue the journey to look into what goes into maintaining great relationships with friends. These relationships are formed out of choice and we need to be able to maintain and grow them in a healthy manner.

Starting with this episode, I shall speak on relationships for the next few episodes. In today's episode, I start with the basic values and what one needs to be aware of and be mindful of to build healthy and satisfying relationships. In the next few episodes, I shall speak of specific relationships and what else one needs to understand over and above these base virtues I speak of today.

In this concluding episode, of the current series of talks on becoming a great leader, I speak about a crucial and necessary ability one must develop: managing team(s). More often than not, every leader will be leading and working with a team or multiple teams. Managing and getting the best from them is also the key to your success.

Continuing our journey to developing into a great leadership position, in this episode, I speak of the things not to do and how to address those things to be sure you are on the track to great leadership.

Now that we have covered the path to leadership, this week we shall delve into the type of leadership profiles and qualities you can develop and the pitfalls you have to be wary of that would impede great leadership. This episode focuses on the different types of leadership profiles.

In this final episode of the 3-episode series for new managers, we look at what is the process of going from being a great manager to becoming a great leader. I am sure these 3 episodes would have guided you to progress from getting into the new manager's role to developing your personality and skill set to becoming a great leader.

In this 2nd episode for New Managers, having looked at what the basic foundation of becoming a manager requires and what one needs to be careful about and not make some mistakes that can derail the path to becoming a great manager, we today specifically talk of what one needs to do to move from a manager to becoming a great manager.

Starting today, for 3 episodes, I will speak on the development of someone elevated to the manager role. We shall be speaking of various guidelines, do's, and don'ts on becoming a manager and what will help you to grow from a manager to a leader. Listen in and I am sure this will be of great value to new managers, and friends expecting to be given the responsibility of becoming managers and even existing managers to become better and grow towards becoming leaders.

In this episode, I focus on the topic of trust that I had addressed earlier on the personal request of 2 of my mentees who have just started their own new business ventures. Trust is, in my opinion, the most critical element of building and maintaining trust especially in today's times.

Having looked at how to build a strategy and what factors to consider, today we look at the final step of creating a strategy. As has been told to us repeatedly and ingrained in our minds, check your work before submitting it, whether at exams or work. Strategy is no different and today I speak about how to whet or stress test your strategy before activating it and going to market with the same. This episode completes the sessions on the topic of what strategy is, the process for building one, and stress testing the same before activating it.