Four Hats – The Knowledge Hats
People wear different ‘Hats’ in different situations. These ‘Hats’ depict the level of knowledge we display determining our journey with people and situations. They in turn become our image traps defining our positive or negative leanings. These image traps make us what we become and eventually are, impacting our persona relating to self-confidence and self-belief.
It is important we understand how these Knowledge Hats affect our thought process. This provides us with the freedom to divest the negativity surrounding us while sustaining the positiveness for an enduring world we create!
Fool – Ignore Him
One who knows not & knows not that he knows not
Child – Teach Him
One who knows not & knows that he knows not
Lazy – Wake Him
One who knows & knows not that he knows
Wise – Follow Him
One who knows & knows that he knows
In times of turbulence and change, it is truer than ever that knowledge is power
John F. Kennedy
Unlocking Your Full Potential…
FourHats Consulting, a management consulting firm established in the year 2004, offers an extensive range of coaching and customised training solutions, equipping individuals and groups to achieve their success goals. The enduring effort is to constantly seek innovation in learning to enable sustained performance levels, while providing a robust platform for positive personal transformation.
Coaching – Leadership, Business, Personal, High Performing Teams and Parenting.
Training – Sales, Customer Service and Leadership.
Consulting – Business Process Consulting, Sales and Customer Relationship Management, Change Management.
What Is Life Coaching?
Life coaching is a form of engagement to help shape people to make progress in their aspirations and ambitions. Life coaching supports individuals and the clientele to work towards enhancing their skills, competencies, and emotional quotient to have enduring relationships and rewarding careers. The premise behind life coaching is to target the existing potential, identify reasons for their dormancy, bring it to the fore for a fulfilling and joyful life!
A Life Coach is essentially a consultant, advisor and above all a friend who works towards your welfare, thinks for you, thereby ensuring the continuous learning curve is going northwards!
Life coaching is a solution-based personalised intervention to help and aid in augmenting personal and professional goals. The goals are achieved through a four-step process involving preparation, exploration, implementation, and review.
Coaching Expertise
Leadership Coaching
Supporting leadership executives at all levels to gain insight into their personal leadership traits, honing their emotional quotient to sharpen their ability to influence people and situations with ease and elan. Work in tandem with the leaders to fully leverage their inner potential by identifying and removing the mental blocks coming in the way as obstacles to their success.
Succession Planning
Partnering with organisations to identify and develop the second level of leadership to help transition in a smooth and seamless manner. Implement a robust plan to transfer both functional know-how and behavioral requirements of managing business situations and people with the confidence to the incumbent to be leadership-ready from word go!
High Performance Teams
The setting of clear goals and objectives, involving the team in a consensual decision-making process inculcates responsibility and ownership.
Conduct team cohesion exercises to boost team morale and manage healthy conflict to
raise the thought level within teams to drive strong performances.
Personal Coaching
Independently works with individuals to enhance their self-worth and confidence by providing a strong base in their ability to communicate up, down, and across. Provide insights into strategies to augment their self-resilience and emotional awareness as a tool towards self-development.
Parental Coaching
The parental coaching module involves identifying the ward’s behavior both in terms of their strength and delta areas while sharing suggestions and recommendations into the management of their aspirations and ambitions in line with the child’s requirement. The coaching also provides insights into the child’s genetic influences and personal leanings towards their interests and career paths.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Does hiring a coach indicate shortcomings or is it a positive move?
It is a misconception that coaching is only for people who need correction and hand-holding. Simply put, everybody needs a coach! As people when we are too close to the problem, we are with our blinkers on! This disables us to see the larger picture. This is when the coach’s intervention provides insights widening the scope, strengthens perspectives, and aids in making a combination of an informed and considered decision.
Coaching when seen from the lens of enhancement and development, supports the process of seeking higher powers of enablement.
Do you only work with established companies?
No. The services are available in an individual capacity. The coaching is done for professionals, parents in addition to counseling sessions for students from a career standpoint.
When do I know I need a coach by my side?
When you know you are stuck, or unable to find newer perspectives to the problems you are facing. Or, your instincts predominantly come in the way of your progress making you captive to a unidimensional thinking process, these are indications you need outside help!
Is hiring a coach expensive?
Engaging a coach is often perceived as a costly affair. However, when you weigh it with the returns you are in essence paying only a fraction for the gains you accrue for now and the foreseeable future. Coaching is more importantly an investment bearing fruition slowly, gaining momentum as time progresses.
What is the duration of the coaching?
The duration of coaching can vary from a period of a month to 6 months depending on the individual’s goals and requirements. The coaching period is decided in line with the seriousness of the goals to be achieved both from the short-term and long-term perspective.
About K S Ramanand
Author, Coach & Consultant
Kalkunte Seetharam Ramanand (Ram) is an experienced, Strategic Executive Coach who creates an environment of learning combined with reflection, empowering leaders to pause and think.
Combining over 30 years of experience in the field of sales and operations, strategic planning and leadership development, he brings into his coaching an instinctive understanding of the root-cause of the issues. Ram’s rich experience in coaching and facilitation of knowledge through training courses for individuals and groups enables him to provide rich insights and positive outlook towards situations with an eye on sustainable solutions both for the present and future.
As a coach, Ram focusses on reading and understanding instincts as a guide to open the door into the workings of the human mind. This way he positively challenges leaders, teams and organisations in their current way of engaging in both business and people practices. With a clear single-minded purpose in shaping the culture of individuals aligned to organisational requirements, he empowers them to enhance their performance, and the capability to adapt to situations with ease.
Ram is based in Bangalore, India with his wife, daughter and Rocky, the German Shepherd Dog. He regularly participates in half-marathons and is an active member of groups involved in trekking and exploring nature. He takes pride in idling by taking time for himself to rejuvenate his thinking in understanding the trajectory of the human mind to provide impetus as a coach.
About K S Ramanand
Author, Coach & Consultant
Kalkunte Seetharam Ramanand (Ram) is an experienced, Strategic Executive Coach who creates an environment of learning combined with reflection, empowering leaders to pause and think.
Combining over 30 years of experience in the field of sales and operations, strategic planning and leadership development, he brings into his coaching an instinctive understanding of the root-cause of the issues. Ram’s rich experience in coaching and facilitation of knowledge through training courses for individuals and groups enables him to provide rich insights and positive outlook towards situations with an eye on sustainable solutions both for the present and future.
As a coach, Ram focusses on reading and understanding instincts as a guide to open the door into the workings of the human mind. This way he positively challenges leaders, teams and organisations in their current way of engaging in both business and people practices. With a clear single-minded purpose in shaping the culture of individuals aligned to organisational requirements, he empowers them to enhance their performance, and the capability to adapt to situations with ease.
Ram is based in Bangalore, India with his wife, daughter and Rocky, the German Shepherd Dog. He regularly participates in half-marathons and is an active member of groups involved in trekking and exploring nature. He takes pride in idling by taking time for himself to rejuvenate his thinking in understanding the trajectory of the human mind to provide impetus as a coach.
Training Portfolio
Managing Business
Sales Training – Selling your way to success
Key Account Management
Channel Sales Management
Successful Negotiation Skills
Value Selling
Managing People
Leadership Development Program
Mentoring Skills
Interviewing Skills
Managing IP Relationships
Team Motivation
Conflict Resolution
Managing Customers
Customer Orientation & Sensitivity
Service Excellence
Business Communication
Managing Self
Personal Effectiveness & Creativity
Planning & Goal Setting
Time & Stress Management
To Err is Human… To Give Feedback is Divine
Are you a manager, a teacher, a coach, or a parent? Do you find yourself giving feedback all the time? Do you find the whole affair cumbersome and challenging? Are you frequently assailed by doubts such as:
· Do I really need to do this?
· How and where should I begin?
· Will they agree or accept what I am going to tell them?
· What if the person starts to argue or justify their action?
· Will it have an impact on our personal relationship?
· Or, do I just ask someone else to do it?
If you have answered YES to any one of the above questions, this book is a must read. Discover the practical techniques of giving critical feedback in a subtle, yet potent style. The book is packed with case studies, tips, and enduring communication techniques, helps you give feedback in a structured form. Whether you want to give feedback to improve performance, raise awareness, motivate or provoke an action, the suggested strategies and tactics enable you to deliver feedback effectively and seamlessly!
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