Inspire Someone Today

A man who has seen the growth of Indian sports and its stars in close quarters gives interesting anecdotes and life lessons through the lens of this much-acclaimed journalist. Rajaraman, is a respected sports journalist who has seen the journey of Indian sports and sporting heroes in close quarters. Raj is among a handful of sports communication professionals with diverse multimedia experience -- daily newspapers, wire service, weekly magazine, news TV channel, websites, sports organizations -- over the past 37 years. In this episode, we had great chat on changes in the broadcasting industry, key moments in Indian sporting history, life lessons from sports, and much more.

• Rajaraman’s career journey - 1:34
• Evolution of Sports journalism over the years - 4:45
• Indian sports “rising like a phoenix” moments -  10:48
• What makes a great team - 15:57
• IST Message - 29:36
• Advice from Sachin Tendulkar - 32:02

Key quotes from the episode:

• Key to success, have the right intent and intensity
• Believe in yourself and your teammates and have the trust - you can conquer the world
• Making dad proud with Ricky Ponting’s discussion - Confronting truth
• Life is about introspections and learnings
• Sports teaches you to take victory and defeat in your stride like life’s ups and downs
• Sports reflects Life
• Keep evolving so that your value keeps enhancing
• Satisfaction is like a hand brake of a car

Raman K Attri, is a corporate business researcher, learning strategist, and management consultant with a strong zeal to enable people to unravel human learning and performance. Hardships of physical disability from post-polio paralysis and lack of mobility since childhood have given him opportunities to develop efficiently “how-to methods" to speed up personal learning, accelerate professional performance, a faster rate of skill acquisition, and speed to proficiency/expertise. Equipped with over 60 educational credentials including doctorate degrees, three master degrees, and tens of international certifications, he pushes boundaries of time and speed

In this episode, “ Disability to Desirability”, Raman shares research-based tips to accelerate learning.

• The early life of Raman and the defining moment for speed - 2:54
• Speed learning techniques - 8:36
• Interleaving Technique - 20:15
• Learning Vs Career differentiation, designing career - 24:10
• Research insights behind Input skills vs Output skills - 27:15
• IST Message - 33:02

Key quotes from the episode:

• The secret to staying ahead is to run fast
• We are born to learn, it has to be purpose-driven
• Build a network of coaches, mentors & trainers
• Progress on skills required to produce outcomes

Arun Maira is a thought leader on social and economic development and transformational change and leadership. He is an author of several books, including The Learning Factory where Arun Maira narrates people-centric episodes that bring alive the values of the Tata Group, standards that combine the high-velocity practices as well as the old-fashioned principles that make the Tata Group the giant it is today.

In this episode, “ The Learning Factory”, Arun provides insights on nation-building, institution capability, and key insights from his book. Arun’s much-followed talk “purpose of life” and what it means to practice it and being a life-long learner.

• The early career of Arun Maira - 2:16
  
• Making of the Learning factory - 12:12
  
• Reasons behind China’s economic success - 14:54
  
• The Sudha Murthy story - 22:30
  
• What’s the purpose of life and how to build it- 28:52
  
• Lesson Arun learned from his mother - 36:06
  

Key quotes from the episode:

Welcome to Episode 11 - This is an amalgamation of the last ten episodes and is presented as 4 key lessons,

Lesson # 1 - Make continuous learning the cornerstone of professional and personal growth  1:15  (Snippets from E10, E5, and E4)

Lesson # 2 - Leaders & leave a legacy 6:18 (Snippets from E1, and E8)

Lesson #3 - Physical well being propels all-round development 9:40 (Snippets from E7, and E5)

In the words of Leo Tolstoy, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Lesson #4 - Bias towards Action 13:20 (Snippets from E2, E3, and E6)

Welcome to Episode 10 - Your Best Version is a two-part series (Episode 9 & 10). In this episode learn the tenets of successful leaders through the lens of Anil’s web series. Anil shares the tools and framework to build your best version and what it takes to dig into your passion. Impactful anecdotes that teach about caring for your people and the path of forgiveness and reconciliation. We sign-off by discussing the maxim from Chinmaya Mission.

Anil Sachdev is the Founder and CEO of Grow Talent Company Limited and the School of Inspired Leadership-SOIL. Grow Talent was created in July 2000 and became the leader in the strategic HR consulting industry by 2006. It enabled a large number of global and local firms to achieve breakthrough performance by realizing the potential of their people and creating a talent advantage.

Quote: “World’s best followers are the best leaders”

Takeaways from the Your Best Version series - 2:20

• Virtuous leaders have a sense of gratitude for their success
• Self-awareness is very high
• Having a different world view by holding paradoxes
• Taking responsibilities for the shortcomings they had
• The humility of serving a cause that’s bigger than yourself

Discovering your best version - Reflect on things that gave you long-lasting happiness, what do I deeply care about, pay attention to the inner voice - 9:15

Better Yourself Tools - Goal Setting - Action Taking - Introspection - Feedback - Learning Methods - 12:24

Finding passion - Deeply care about what am I good at, what do I care about, and what opportunities are available - 14:29

Power of forgiveness and reconciliation - 21:12

Maximum happiness to maximum people to the maximum time - 26:10

Rajeev Dubey, Group President (HR & Corporate Services) & CEO (After-Market Sector) retired from the Mahindra group on 1st April 2020 with over 45 years of corporate experience. The charismatic and fascinating personality of Mr. Rajeev Dubey can be heard in full flow as he speaks about his life journey, outlines the framework of unleashing potential (3Pillars + 5 Behaviors). His leadership motto of Satya (Truthfulness & Ethics), Prem (of Compassion), and Seva (Servant leadership)

• The career journey of Rajeev Dubey - 2:00
  
• Role at ILO and its impact on India Inc - 7:20
  
• Future of work principles - 12:05
  
• Behaviors to unleash potential - 17:01
  
• Servant leadership - 25:25
  
• How can you be a multiplier - 28:28
  
• Impact of Guru Gobind Singh - 32:27
  

Chandra Gopalan at the age of 60 completed 48 hours run covering a distance of 208 kilometers and now at 62 has set sights of achieving this target in 36 hours!!

This episode is a tribute to her tenacity and inspiration to all of us and rightly the episode is titled “Defying Age”. Chandra talks about the importance of physical fitness, how it helps to shape mental well being in the process. Timeless advice on the approach to set and achieve goals. Power of visualization and finally a message to practice “being the best version of ourselves”.

• Mental benefits of being physically fit - 7:20
  
• Overcoming the inner voice - 15:00
  
• Goal setting and visualization - 18:38
  
• Importance of enjoying the journey - 22:50
  
• Inspire Someone Today message - 26:30
  

At the age of 34, RamG Vallath was the youngest ever COO for Airtel before life handed a hard blow on this successful career professional. How did he pick the thread and reinvent himself to be the inspiration he is today is the highlight of this episode, “Bounce”. Ramgopal Vallath fondly called as RamG has embarked on a mission to touch a million lives positively. In this episode, RamG talks about the importance of a growth mindset, simple steps to practice and create a growth mindset through his life experiences. Keys for happiness and positivity. Listen to all of it and much more from the man who is a role model of redefining life!

• Decoding growth mindset - 4:15
  
• Being a keen learner  - 8:54
  
• Reinventing oneself “mantras” - 16:07
  
• Great leaders are coaches - 22:41
  
• The secret of happiness - 27:12
  

An entrepreneur who has embarked on a journey “To build the world’s largest youth sports platform that gets 100 million kids to play”. Saumil, with over two decades of entrepreneurial journey, decodes his audacious goal, talks about the importance of play in our lives. Easy to practice approaches that each of us can adopt to make play possible for us and also in our neighborhood. A timeless piece of advice for someone looking to pivot into entrepreneurship. Listen to all of it and much more from the man who is redefining sports and play in education across India!

• Making the world a better place with the notion of Play - 2:45
  
• Benefits of Play - 7:35
  
• Overcoming constraints to play - 14:50
  
• Adult society supporting the movement of play and sport - 19:10
  
• Pivoting as an entrepreneur, tips to look into - 25:40
  
• Experience of play and playfulness - 30:58
  

India’s leading Executive Presence coach, Shital Kakkar Mehra sharing her years of research and training through her new book Executive Presence - POISE formula for leadership. Shital talks about the skills to develop an executive presence quotient, enhancing one’s visibility in the pandemic environment. She speaks about her Not for Profit, Katalyst which aims at liberating women from low-income communities, through the pursuit of professional education and calls for people to volunteer and contribute. Finally, Shital sums-up with practical tips on developing “Putting thought to the word” concept.

We all look for role models to build our careers and conviction needed as leaders. Hear from a leader, who has built careers across sectors through the practice of simple but profound leadership traits of being genuine, vulnerable, and challenging status-quo.

In this episode, Prabir speaks on varied themes that professionals need to consider in building career, pointers to consider in a VUCA world, and much more...

➔ planning for long career - 5:45

➔ being better professional and person - 16:55

➔ Small acts to make a difference amongst your team members - 24:30

➔ Power of positive psychology and gratitude - 27:0

➔ Message for senior leaders and upcoming leaders - 28:45

“When life throws a lemon at you make lemonade out of it”, Sudha Sampath shares her personal story of challenging life experience. How she has been a fighter, has committed to traverse a path of optimism and positivity. Listen to her as she talks about her personal journey of fighting a curve ball thrown at her. Her newfound passion and a commitment to following it and the impact of “Bhagavad Gita” during her tumultuous situation in life. She says so beautifully “playing small doesn’t serve the world”.

What does it feel like to snatch life back from the claws of death  4:55

How embracing positive affirmations helped overcome a precarious situation? 6:43

Life lessons from the experience going through 10:58

A beautiful rendition from “ Our Deepest fear” 23:08

A young changemaker who is on a mission to save lives and makes roads safe in India. On an audacious mission of making India potholes free. This social enterprise Pot Hole Raja is also creating jobs in other sectors through its innovative model and partnerships. Sourab Kumar speaks about scaling, innovation and making a career in the social enterprise,

• 3:00 - finding answers to the “Why”
  
• 15:00 - breaking mindsets working in social enterprise
  
• 26:50 - making a career in the social sector
  

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