As implementation of the vaccination drive gains momentum it’s time to look into the near future and plan for a post-pandemic world. While we laud the scientists, healthcare workers and frontline workers for their tireless efforts in the last 11 months, we cannot but...

1. If you’re managing others, focus on outcomes rather than activity Checking up on people can signal a lack of trust. Once you have entrusted someone with a task don’t keep tracking it too frequently. The other person may find it annoying and get de-motivated....

Last week, we had delved into four levels of active listening. Level 1: Downloading Level 2: Factual listening Level 3: Empathetic listening Level 4: Generative listening We also briefly touched upon how this can help us develop improved strategies and contribute to...

Two words in the English language appear to be ambiguous and have over-lapping meaning:  Hearing and  Listening. Are they the same or do they mean different things? Let’s examine and understand. Hearing is the act of perceiving sound and receiving sound waves or...

As most educational institutions around the world remain shut due to the ongoing pandemic, speculations continue over when and how they can be reopened. Whenever they do, special precautions will need to be taken and measures will need to be put in place for the...

This is one song we’ve all heard and whole-heartedly sung at some time of our lives. Strangely, when we sang this in school it was not quite clear what it was that we were going to overcome. Or that, what was that Utopian existence that we were fearlessly striving for...

As most of the world is in self-isolation the situation is fraught with certain challenges. One of these being the effect on our mental health. In view of  this WHO has issued the following suggestions. As countries introduce measures to restrict movement as part of...

The dictionary meaning of the word isolate is to cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others. And so isolation is the process or fact of isolating or being isolated. The literal meaning of another word - solitude - too is the state or...