Building Courage, Inclusivity & A Learning Culture Ft Bindu Vinodhan

Voice of Achievers

Can courage be taught?

How can people managers inculcate learning cultures?

Is it harder for people to digest if women are calling the shots?

On this episode of our special People & HR series, we discuss topics ranging from inclusive leadership, inculcating a learning culture, finding and transforming lenses and world views, and more.

Our guest is Bindu Vinodhan, an ICF-certified executive coach, and an HR professional with almost 3 decades of experience in Learning and Development. She is the founder of TILLT(The Institute of Leadership Learning and Transformation) & the Mauna Dhwani Foundation (an NGO).

She was Global Head- L & D, at WNS Global Services in her previous assignment. She has handled ‘Organizational Effectiveness and Change’ and ‘Organizational Learning and Development for companies like Vodafone, Hewlett Packard and Bank of America where she was instrumental in designing and developing capability solutions for next-generation leaders. She also delivers guest lectures at Oxford on the subject ‘Applications of Learning Technology at the Workplace’

In part 1 of this conversation, hear her talk about:

(02.45) - Embracing constant change as learning and development professionals and HR leaders

(03.15) - The Year on Year learning plan

(04.45) – Evolution of L & D- from dragging people to learn versus intrinsic learning

(05.50) - Awakening the fire within as a people manager- asking questions like Who are you? What are you here for?

(06.15) - Exploring uniqueness and strengths of team members as people managers

(07.45) - Role of the facilitator & learning manager/coach creating space and allowing miracles to happen

(08.30) - Building an exponential learning journey

(09.30) - Generic vs Specific learning & development

(11.45) - Technical vs behavioural training in physical and digital atmospheres- how and why?

(12.15) – The 3 levels of training

(13.15) - Inclusion and self-awareness and understanding blocks as people leaders

(14.30) - Understanding lenses and perspectives

(16.00) - Senior leadership and understanding their views before building an inclusive program

(18.00) - Judgement free views- an interesting story of inclusion involving men and women

(19.30) - Dealing with casual jokes wrt women and men- an interesting story of men/women climbing a tower

(20.15) - Men and the softer touch; women and aggressiveness- removing conventional approaches & unboxing

(22.00) - Women calling the shots and women being co

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