Stars of Learning, features interviews from eminent industry leaders, management experts, entrepreneurs, educator and many more who has vast experience and in-depth knowledge on the L&D topic. The host, Jyothi G discuss challenges, solutions, latest trends, tools & technology, leadership and their journey in the learning. Mission of Podcast - Engage, Enlighten & Empower, the L&D fraternity to grow and fast track the learning phase and not reinvent the wheel. Sign up @ www.prajvitaknowledge.com
Episodes
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
The Art of Theatre Learning
Rangaraj Bhatracharya is CEO and Co-Founder of WeMove Solutions, a company formed out of the need for innovating Learning across the spectrum. Using the science of Theatre to disrupt classroom learning is the vision of WeMove Solutions. The company was founded in December 2013 and Rangaraj crossed over from corporate life where he had worked for more than 10 years. His last position was as a Technical Architect.
Through the initiatives via WeMove Solutions, Rangaraj is been instrumental in taking Theatre based learning to more than 15,000 employees across industries & more than 5000 students across various Educational Institutions. WeMove Solutions was certified as one of the most Innovative Startups in India by the CII (Confederation of Industries in India). Rangaraj is also the Co-Founder of an energetic theatre group in Bangalore called WeMove Theatre & also an actor with over 140 shows to his cap
Few questions I ask Rangaraj on Theatre as a medium for all your training needs? A number of theatre-based corporate training firms have sprung up in the past three years and how it is a differentiator is as follows: Time Stamps: 2:18 to 46:00
- His background on how he got into from Engineering background to Theatre based Facilitator, CEO, Actor & Story Teller at WeMove ...Pls, tell us how did this shift happen?
- Using the science of Theatre to disrupt the classroom learning…. how easy or difficult it is to start off?
- How do we add this new flavor breaking all the stereotypes of training? And, how?
- How theatre-based corporate training in India is evolving as a serious tool for leadership. So describe what Theatre-based training covers?
- How are you bringing theatre-based format into learning
- What is your intervention making learning fun and interactive with Theatre as a strong medium?
- How does theatre enhance employee’s mental well-being?
- Can one enhance problem-solving too with theatre?
- Name top 5 important skills you learn with theatre?
- How are you engaged to get this objective and if any specific competency to be addressed?
- Is there any other engagement you do with an organization that can benefit thru theater-based approach?
- Your implementation strategy is IEL - can you explain to my listeners what it is and how this is going to benefit when they go through this approach
- Where do you think HR or business collaborate and make the learning impactful?
- You had a high number of cubicle performances in 2018....what is it and what’s the output
- How does this help for New Hires ...especially Millennials in the journey?
- You have grabbed India's Most Innovative Learning Company from CII - what was that innovation that fetched you this award?
- Can we measure the impact of the program? How does L&D showcase ROI for the business?
- how easy it is to adopt in the professional environment?
- How do you moderate with the audience to derive the values and benefits with a theater-based approach
"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Timestamp at 46:30 to 57:30
- According to you, what is the “STAR” moment?
- What “inspires you” to do everything that you do?
- If you owned the company, what’s one thing you would do differently in learning?
- What are the three most important things you would like to accomplish right now?
- What are your strengths?
- What’s the best book you’ve read this year? or anytime you recommend for my listeners.
- What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coach you ever had? What made that person great?
- Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you?
- Are there any resources (blogs/website) you would recommend to our listeners?
- Your advice to people who are new and want to accelerate their career in HR?
Connect with Rangaraj Bhatracharya @
We love your recommendations!
If you have any recommendation on the topic you like us to cover or any leaders who you want me to interview…Please drop a line in the comment section.
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at LinkedIn or email @ prajvitapro@gmail.com
Like us? Rate & Review us! Please do show us your love by subscribing to this channel in iTunes, or any other podcast platforms and do add it your favorite’s list! Also, your feedback is definitely a feedforward & your rating help us build more credibility and attract new listeners. Hence please leave your comment and review as this will definitely ease me to keep making these shows better for you : )
Follow the Stars of Learning on
Friday Jul 05, 2019
Friday Jul 05, 2019
Topic: Design Organization for Scale: Holistic Perspectives for market fit & success
TN Hari heads the HR at Big basket and is an advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. He is also a Strategic Advisor at ‘Fundamentum’, which is a homegrown growth phase VC fund set up by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal. He has studied at IIT & IIM and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups and has been through four successful exits in different industries that are (Daksh, Virtusa, Amba Research &TaxiForSure). His passion is in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. He writes regularly on LinkedIn & LinkedIn has identified him as one of the Top Voices in India for three consecutive years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018). He has Co-authored three books. The last two books were “Cut the Crap and Jargon – Lessons from the Startup Trenches”; and also the other book “Cutting the Gordian Knot – India’s Quest for Prosperity” was published by Bloomsbury.
Few questions I ask Hari TN on Building Organizations for Scale, business strategy, clear thinking, and execution concept is as follows: Time Stamps: 2:25 to 41:45
- His background and how he got to where he is today
- Why do we need to design an organization for scale while every CEO aspire for growth and expansion?
- So what must change to keep the organization from breaking as you have witnessed the explosive growth of the kind especially in your tenure in Taxi for sure? What’s your insight…
- What would be your focus or a strategy when you want to venture to scale up?
- How do we enable the organization and people to be prepared to manage that scale/growth—and to learn new ways of operating and behaving—as that stands a much better chance of making it in the long term success?
- Is there a churn at the top level? Especially the senior leadership level in the process? As these business leaders must be able to think strategically?
- How do you instill thinking in the leaders in the journey of scaling for entrepreneurs or organization?
- Have you come across the very skills in execution often make these c-suite leaders or top management ill-equipped, since their strategy thinking muscles have withered from disuse?
- When you say Execution – What does it involve, what is the role people play in the management ladder and in the organization as a whole?
- I’m sure with such c-suite leaders involvement – I’m sure there would have been a time you had to be firm in saying no? what was it like?
- Sometimes it is brutal to talk about the facts and figures...which is not a nice thing to hear...however can you tell me what kind of steps you took to ensure everybody is aligned from the very beginning as you have been a part of the Management Team at multiple start-ups/scale-ups and helped shape four successful exits in different industries?
- Is there a biggest failure/mistake you have made along the way and what have you learned from it?
- In one of your article, you learned how to handle three questions that haunt everyone: ‘So what?’, ‘Why?’ and ‘What if?’ In the process, You learned problem-solving. You learned to handle aggressive environments. You developed internal customer orientation. Can you explain to my listeners with one of the example and how this method helps?
- What are the key things one should do to be more part of the business strategy in this phase?
- What is it like to work at Big Basket?
- What is your opinion on the trends in the industry with regards to talent development?
- Reskilling /continuous learning is something important to grow …what is your views on the same?
"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 42:00 to 50:35
- According to you, what is the “STAR” moment?
- What “inspires you” to do everything that you do?
- If you owned the company, what’s one thing you would do differently in learning?
- What are the three most important things you would like to accomplish right now?
- What are your strengths?
- What’s the best book you’ve read this year? or anytime you recommend for my listeners.
- What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coach you ever had? What made that person great?
- Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you?
- Are there any resources (blogs/website) you would recommend to our listeners?
- Your advice to people who are new and want to accelerate their career in HR?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Connect with Hari TN @
We love your recommendations!
If you have any recommendation on the topic you like us to cover or any leaders who you want me to interview…Please drop a line in the comment section.
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at LinkedIn or email @ prajvitapro@gmail.com
Like us? Rate & Review us! Please do show us your love by subscribing to this channel in iTunes, or any other podcast platforms and do add it your favorite’s list! Also, your feedback is definitely a feedforward & your rating help us build more credibility and attract new listeners. Hence please leave your comment and review as this will definitely ease me to keep making these shows better for you : )
Follow the Stars of Learning on
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Dharmendra Rai - magnificent personality Mumbai's First Mind Map Trainer, who has Trained over 1,900 startups in Mind Mapping. Executives of Many Fortune 500 Cos & other giant companies like Google, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and many more have gone thru his Seminars. Comes with 25 Years of Work Experience in Training, Sales & Marketing, and has conducted training & coaching for people across the globe. He has appeared on prominent media like CNBC, BTVi, Times Of India ( TOI), Channel V and many other. He has been A TED x Speaker Not Just Once But 5 TIMES. He also gave rise to over 8 Million Reference Pages on Google and what more he has been declared a " Genius " by Tony Buzan - Mind Map Inventor & Nobel Prize Nominee! Again Ranked # 1 in an International Creativity Test by Tony Buzan & Chris Griffiths, and lastly has conducted 360+ Mind Map Seminars - Probably A WORLD RECORD!
Few questions I ask Dharmendra Rai on Mind Maps and its applications and how we can do better with a Mind Map. is as follows: Time Stamps: 4:05 to 53:04
- A little background about Dharmendra and how he had an amazing journey in his career from the financial background into sales & Marketing and ..and now only in training and that too specialization in Mind Map? 4:05
- His profile as a master practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming; How did NLP influence him to get into the Mind Map program? 7:00
- Can you help my listeners understand about Mind Map - maybe you want to share its definition, meaning or whatever makes my listeners know what it’s all about? 8:13
- I want my listeners to understand and benefit knowing about Mind map, hence I thought that I will shoot you 5w's and 1 H technique as I'm keen to gather all the required information on the Mind map. Why Mind Map? 9:45
- What can I use Mind Maps for? 16:40
- Who created mind mapping? 17:43
- When can I use mind maps? What are the techniques used in the Mind map? 20:40
- Are there any advantage or benefits of mind mapping? Where can you source the right methodology of the Mind map? 26:00
- When would we be able to use this...I mean when can we start using it (is there a limit on the age or any prerequisite) Can you help my listeners understand how to use the mind map to unleash our potential? 29:55
- Is there a connection with heart and soul in mind mapping? 33:10
- Are Mind maps effective…do you want to share any story where your participants have used it effectively? 38:01
- what is best mind mapping example and are there any software or app? 44:31
- Would this help arrange our thoughts in order or logical? As when the idea strikes there are loads of input coming and structuring is important and to achieve their goals? 45:13
This is not the end!
Our conversation continues on the Quest for Mind Mapping & Brain Literacy as a Part 2 episode and and we will deep dive on the approach which Dharmendra has taken and how he has transformed connecting with great leaders through the Mind Map Journey.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan
- How to Win Friends and Influence by Dale Carnegie
- How to have a better memory
- Trump: The art of deal by Donald Trump
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
- Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono
Connect with Dharmendra Rai @
We love your recommendations!
If you have any recommendation on the topic you like us to cover or any leaders who you want me to interview…Please drop a line in the comment section.
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at LinkedIn or email @ prajvitapro@gmail.com
Like us? Rate & Review us! Please do show us your love by subscribing to this channel in iTunes, or any other podcast platforms and do add it your favorite’s list! Also, your feedback is definitely a feedforward & your rating help us build more credibility and attract new listeners. Hence please leave your comment and review as this will definitely ease me to keep making these shows better for you : )
Follow the Stars of Learning on
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Subramanian Chandramouli is an Author, Entrepreneur, Sales Trainer, Keynote Speaker, and Negotiator. Subramanian has more than 15 years of experience in the field of sales and mentors many startups in the field of Sales in collaboration with well-known Accelerator and Incubators. Subramanian is an International Sales and Negotiation skills Trainer & his specialization is to take assignments on Negotiation Projects & represents Clients on Negotiation for specific deals. Trained more than 4000 people in various aspects of Sales across 15 different nationalities and he consults for many companies in improving their sales performance. He is a prolific speaker at conferences, forums, and business schools.
Few questions I ask Subramanian Chandramouli to unveil the secrets of sales is as follows: Time Stamps: 1:31 to 29:27
- A little background about Subbu and how his journey from Electrical and electronics engineer to a Sales trainer and author & also how you got into entrepreneurship and training journey?
- What is a Sales Super Star?
- How do you recognize that this is the person with that hat?
- You say Sales is 90% conviction and 10% communicating with confidence. Can you explain your thoughts to my listeners and how do they practice it during sales?
- What is that one or two strategies to make an impact in Sales and how does this help in client handling?
- Can you share what was key aspects you learned from Brian Trach on Psychology of Selling and Sales Mastery program by Blair Singer?
- What are those SECRETS you are still practicing and making an impact to Sell your Product effectively?
- What's your insight as You mentor many startups in the field of Sales in collaboration with well-known Accelerator and Incubators like T-Hub & Forge Accelerator
- What is your best advice for handling criticism? Also, how to handle sales objections?
- About his book `Anybody can sell' How did you begin writing? Did you intend to become an author, or do you have a specific reason for writing a book? Can you tell a little more about it and what inspired you to write this book?
- From his book, are there any Core Principles and any practical tips to master the art of Selling?
- Can you throw some light on your content `power of asking’ in sales?
- Give the mantra or experience from failure to success for the people in sales and startup and how you moved on?
- how do you convince and get things done to close the deals?
- As a Mentor, what is your message or guide for startups on Sales on what’s in it for them when they get there?
"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 29:45 to 38:30
- According to you what is the “STAR” moment
- What are the three most important things you would like to accomplish right now?
- What are your strengths
- What’s the best book you’ve read this year? or anytime you recommend for my listeners.
- What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coach you ever had? What made that person great?
- Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you?
- Are there any resources (books/blogs/website) you would recommend to our listeners?
- Your advice for those who want to accelerate their career in Sales
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The magic of thinking big by David Schwartz
- How to win friends and influence by Dale Carnegie
- You can sell by Shiv Khera
- Anybody can Sell by Subramanian Chandramouli
Authors:
- Dale Carnegie
- Zig Ziglar
- Shiv Khera
- Brian Tracy
- Jack Canfield
Connect with Subramanian Chandramouli @
We love your recommendations!
If you have any recommendation on the topic you like us to cover or any leaders who you want me to interview…Please drop a line in the comment section.
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at LinkedIn or email @ prajvitapro@gmail.com
Like us? Rate & Review us! Please do show us your love by subscribing to this channel in iTunes, or any other podcast platforms and do add it your favorite’s list! Also, your feedback is definitely a feedforward & your ratings help us build more credibility and attract new listeners. Hence please leave your comment and review as this will definitely ease me to keep making these shows better for you : )
Follow the Stars of Learning on
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Jayakumar Director for Emertxe which is one of the top-notch IT Finishing School catering to skill development needs of fresh engineers, corporate organizations and working professionals. They are also into Skill India affiliated training partner with a core focus in Embedded Systems & IoT domains. Jayakumar brings with him 12+ years of industry expertise for handling global customers by launching products in consumer, telecom and SMB segments. At Emertxe, Jayakumar is responsible for Strategic Planning, Marketing, and Technology Delivery functions.
Time Stamps: 4:02 to 47:59
Few questions I ask Jayakumar on holistic development for engineers as their Vision is to Globally make ‘Life-Easier’ by innovation, technology, and education in multi-disciplinary fields by maintaining high standards of quality is as follows:
- His background on how he got into from Engineering background to Entrepreneurial Journey. What made him make this shift?
- What is the L&D landscape for Fresh Engineers | Corporate organizations | Working professionals at Emertxe?
- How are you catering each one in a different approach…are you saying that their learning needs & goals are different? And can you explain how?
- Over the years you have trained over 60,000+ students who are hired by their 366+ placement partners. How Emertxe has made a difference to Students in building a great career?
- How do you build that awareness for students and promote career counseling and it’s also important to provide the role models or mentors…who can guide them in the journey as well?
- How is their first Journey & post academics: What do engineers look for, I sense it is important how this start will be a key decision for them to make a right career) How does your organization help to kickstart this long journey?
- We also see that around 1.5 million engineers passing out of college, & only hardly 7% have employable skills? like you already looked at the problem statement So, how has Emertxe looked at this problem statement and have you explored for any solution on this employment issue?
- With the rapid change in technologies, it is crucial that we ensure that the training is contemporary and relevant. Is Emertxe moving at this speed of the industry in hiring context in terms of better hiring conversion?
- Emertxe also focuses on strong continuous learning and it is very important to adapt to changing work demand. So, how is Emertxe supporting Corporate organizations & Working professionals in Continuous Learning?
- How do you enable the professionals to adapt to the changes, learn and you know and is it good to move between the stack of technologies?
- What is your deep experience of the Role of technology in learning? You may know there could be any challenges, anything on online learning? what is the right path?
- Emertxe - Best Training Institute of the Year 2017 and what was it like for you?
- You have been Presented the talk titled "Demystifying IoT skills organized by Electronics for You? can you share broadly what it is about?
"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 48:01 to 56:29
- According to you, what is the “STAR” moment?
- What “inspires you” to do everything that you do
- If you owned the company, what’s one thing you would do differently in learning?
- What are the three most important things you would like to accomplish right now?
- if I may ask you…..What are your strengths
- What’s the best book you’ve read this year? or anytime you recommend for my listeners.
- What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coach you ever had? What made that person great?
- Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Amul's India 3.0: Based on 50 Years of Amul Advertising by Verghese Kurian
Connect with Jayakumar @
- Email ID is: b.jayakumar@gmail.com
- Blog URL is: http://jwritings.in
- Company URL: http://www.emertxe.com
We love your recommendations!
If you have any recommendation on the topic you like us to cover or any leaders who you want me to interview…Please drop a line in the comment section.
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at LinkedIn or email @ prajvitapro@gmail.com
Like us? Rate & Review us! Please do show us your love by subscribing to this channel in iTunes, or any other podcast platforms and do add it your favorite’s list! Also, your feedback is definitely a feedforward & your ratings help us build more credibility and attract new listeners. Hence please leave your comment and review as this will definitely ease me to keep making these shows better for you : )
Follow the Stars of Learning on
Thursday May 09, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
Nisha Dhanuka is a highly qualified and experienced finance professional and brings with her a multidimensional academic approach. Following her passion for people development, she started her own venture called C2X She works closely with corporates & students in enhancing their skills in the domain of employability and professional development. She has also been featured as top 10 inspiring women entrepreneurs by an online magazine “She Rules”. She has been invited as guest speakers & chief guest at various professional forums like ICSI, ICAI, LUB, IMS etc.
She is very passionate about Women Entrepreneurs & Women Leaders & works very closely with them at various forums. She has a high passion for people development and this makes her aptly suited to mentoring and guiding talent and channelizing latent potential in the chosen direction.
Time Stamps: 1:05 to 29:00
Few questions I ask Nisha Dhanuka on ` Powerful insight on her journey from entrepreneurship to a women leadership role is as follows:
- A little background about herself who got into from finance background, working in the multinational bank with a full-fledged professional to an entrepreneurship journey
- Her biggest achievement in her life, which makes her a star?
- What is C2X
- Her role/responsibilities and how are you driving your passion
- Her accomplishment in People development so far
- Her aspiration to do what she is doing now.
- Women in Leadership….why it matters?
- You are one of the Inspiring women entrepreneurs and "SheRules" covered your story too….What is your definition of an Entrepreneur? &
- She has also been selected as Vice Chairman of South India Start-Up Support "ALL". What is her role and her focus& her goal .
- How do you inspire & support women leaders to scaling to newer heights.
- What does that one action you have taken for your growth journey
- What are your strengths and what is your strategy? Between the workplace and life outside of work, women often wear multiple hats each day. What is your motivation each day?
- Your biggest failure/mistake and what did you learn from it
- One of the biggest challenges you see in talent development for women today & What is your suggestion on investment in women talent?
"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 30:03 to 39:00
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcastfor complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at prajvitapro@gmail.com
Books
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (Author)
Connect with Nisha @
- c2x.co.in
- Phone: 9742311008
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Surya Prakash Mohapatra, currently the Global Head- Talent Transformation at Wipro Digital Operations and Platforms has 23+ years of experience in various leadership roles in several leading IT and ITES organizations.
Few questions I ask Surya on `Global Workforce Learning’ is as follows: Time stamp at 4:45 to 34:27
- Surya’s background and how he got into this full-fledged HR professional in Talent Transformation
- What is Talent development’s role in building the workforce of the future at the organization
- His insight on how to manage organizational knowledge? As this is the one not gained much attention.
- His insight on how the organization should focus and also knowing the fact that it is not an easy task to arrive at a common goal with diverse culture. What would be his strategy and how to scale up?
- How should L&D drive learning strategy with C-suite leaders and most importantly to create leadership commitment?
- Every year, he penned down his thoughts on the Global Workforce Learning Trends - how has L&D space has evolved over the years. What were his nuggets for the HR or L&D to facilitate Global Workforce Learning and are these members ready to take off this journey?
- What should be the role of L&D and how should L&D get adapted, most importantly familiarize with it and disseminate too to meet the organization objectives.
- His insight for our L&D professional on how to create a meaningful ecosystem in the L&D space.
- How did he enhance his knowledge to be there and move on?
- What is `Future of workforce learning’? How does he see companies or the organizations gearing up?
- Future of Learning is essential for talent transformation and for business success. What was his message for L&D to contribute to it?
- What are the critical challenges he has faced to get what he wants & lessons learned in leadership development
- How can L&D create that environment --I mean sowing the seed on how critical it is for the success of any individual in the organization and that in-turn leads to organization success.... how easy or difficult for him to walk this path.
- His take on Learn, unlearn and relearn...does he instigate it with his team and how does he make this happen to the organization.
- His thoughts on community practice learning to bring this transformation in the workforce.
- His enlightening story/message for my listeners on Global Workforce Learning
"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 38:56 to 50:06
Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at prajvitapro@gmail.com
Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
In this introductory episode you will take a quick tour on what you can expect from this podcast series.
My name is Jyothi G, founder and host of “Stars of Learning” Podcast, where I interview eminent industry leaders, management experts, entrepreneurs, educator and many more from various industries. who has vast experience and in-depth knowledge on the L&D topic.
This podcast series will expose best practices of learning in the 21st century. We will also discuss challenges, solutions, latest trends, tools, technology integration, leadership and their journey in the learning field