Doha: ICC Advanced Toastmasters Club organizes an “Ignite Possibilities” session on self-leadership

Press release

Doha, December 15: ‘Ignite Possibilities’, the acclaimed online lecture series led by ICC Advanced Toastmasters Club conducted its concluding and successful 14th segment on ‘Self Leadership’ to help people harness their incredible inner potential and reach new heights of success and of fulfillment.

Participants had the privilege of listening to Manoj Keshav, one of the leading international NLP trainers, psychologist and therapist with over two decades of experience conducting life-transforming experiential workshops.

He is the founder of the NxtNLP Research Institute and the author of the famous book titled “The Life Transforming power of NLP” and has published extensively on NLP. [Neuro Linguistic Programming]. He enjoys researching topics like neuroscience, emotional well-being, mind-body connection, learning psychology, and more.

Alar Mel Mangai, G Division Director, said the trainer started with a profound statement on the importance of self-leadership: “Without self-leadership there is no life”. He said: “By attributing everything to a puppet show about how the bites are controlled by someone invisible, many channels are controlling us and our leadership style.

“They try to please others, push to rebel and do the opposite, a life motivated by ego, a life motivated by blame or excuse, etc. He stressed that we have to realize that we are responsible. of the quality of life we ​​lead. We also need to change the way we think about who I am to who I am for better self-realization and acceptance, ”he said.

He enlisted the 6 Habits of Highly Ineffective Leaders as given by famous authors Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, namely

– Filtering – Receive only filtered information
– Turning Out – Hear only what they want to hear
– Wishes – Leaders want something so bad that they are not objective.
– Shyness – Employees are afraid to share information with managers
– Excessive engagement – Too much emotional attachment prevents leaders from being realistic.
– Myopia of value – Making promises that are unrealistic and then struggling to keep or even ignore.

He then explained the preponderance of accepting reality. “The factors that cause us not to accept reality are denial, the projection of blame on circumstances or on others, rationalization, and so on. To overcome them, we need to improve our self-awareness. do not want, not live in the past and always have a vision for the future are the qualities to develop in order to be successful leaders, ”he said.

The brainstorming question and answer session featured a wide range of interesting questions about anger management, myopia of values ​​in corporate culture, how luck and circumstances influence success, tips for improve self-awareness.

The trainer gave a detailed explanation and the session proved to be interactive and engaging the audience in a strong passion. Among the participants were many dignitaries from all over the world.

TM Madhu Nair, the event organizer anchored the show with the support of DTM Q&A moderator Nalini Mathur.

DTM Christopher AlMeida extended the opening and closing remarks of the meeting. DTM MI Farid, organizer of this Keynote series thanked all presenters and attendees so far for making the 14 episodes very successful.