Women, Will and Work
March 2019 marks my 11th work anniversary at Learning Minds. It has been 13 years since I started my journey with my soulmate and business partner, Sohail Zindani. Being a working woman who has spent over a decade in the corporate world, I feel that women in the workforce are still viewed as an exception, despite […]
Making the Most Out of Virtual Learning Shift
Today, all progressive and human-valuing businesses are questioning how to move forward with learning and development during a time of social distancing. While context is out of control for literally all of us, business models are evolving and hence, new capabilities must be mastered. With food places concentrating on call centers & delivery channels, television […]
Train the Trainer
Presentation Mastery Use the AIDA Formula in Developing Your Presentation AIDA is one of the core elements of the Instructional Design module in our Train the Trainer Bootcamp. AIDA is an acronym based on the names of the four major steps into which a presentation or segment of a training program can be divided. Attention […]
Cutting Your Employee Development Budget? Wait…Read This!
Sohail Zindani’s perspective on employee development in uncertain times. Budget cutting is a necessary sin – that’s how, the budget cutting companies would like to say. Having said that, you need to do it to help your organization survive in the long run. But then, how deep the cut will be? Budget cut is like […]
Relationship S.E.C.R.E.T.S
By Naveed Ilyas Saya, Sales & Negotiation Specialist – Learning Minds Relationship management is the cornerstone to establishing any successful business. Be it, customers or teammates, one must manage their relations to lead the stakeholders towards a single objective. After spending more than a decade of learning the subject, training and consulting thousands of clients, […]
4 Secrets of Mastering Influence
By Dr. Arif Pyarali -Senior Consultant, Workplace Relationship & Performance Expert, Learning Minds Influencing is considered to be a manipulative art by some, for some individuals influencing is only necessary for salespeople and others think it comes naturally to conversationalist and extroverts. However, that is not the case, when two people meet, certain chemistry is generated by rapport, […]
The Communication Gambit
By Meena Valli Mohammed, Training Consultant – Learning Minds We have been victims of a deep divide and brain washed into thinking that though communication is important, it’s not a front runner, other areas have higher importance. So,master the art of communication it has many benefits and a good communicator is usually successful,but even if […]
5 Ways to Take Better Care of Your Mental Health
By Dr. Anam Zehra – Trainer & Consultant Just as we are trying to comprehend and cope with the fear of what this strand of corona virus can do to our lives and taking all the possible prevention against it – similarly now there is a need to address the stress and anxiety its bringing […]
How to be Effective in Managing a Remote Team
By Dr. Anam Zehra – Trainer & Consultant Remote working now is more than just a trend; the recent COVID-19 pandemic forced a lot of organizations globally to let their employees work from home. Being quite a fresh concept for most of us it would likely take us some time in getting used to as […]
Selecting Work Life Integration over Work Life Balance
By Dr Anam Zehra – Trainer and Consultant 2020 made us learn things like no other year. As much as the concepts of work from home and remote working were impossible in organizations before COVID, we must appreciate ourselves for adapting so well and embracing it whole heartedly and swiftly. At the beginning of the […]