Natasha Baisiwala
Gig Consultant, Hacking HR Ambassador
Natasha has spent 15 years in Global and Indian organizations (including start-ups) as Advisor, Coach and Strategic Partner to C-Level Executives.
Meet the mentor
Tricky Workplace Situation Handled
- He didn't have a real life story and experience to share. It came across as script that was learnt and being attempted to put forth. He wasn't prepared for Q&A and he couldn't tackle the unprepared moments.
- It distances speaker from listener, lack of spontaneity and if you forget the memorized parts in the speech, you will not know what to do next.
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- Role play
- It helps in identifying the solution for their problem instead of making a generic sale.
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- Attentive listening and asking right questions
- Without your customers you don't have a business
- You need to ask, always ask ,ask, ask
- Customers choose you because you are offering a differentiator
- You need to identify what your market is and then advertise in that market
- Role play, case study from my entrepreneurship journey, mini project to demonstrate the customer lifecycle experience
- It saves resources, finances and time and generates interest in the ideas. It gives an assessment whether the idea appeals to your potential clients.
- Build Minimum viable product in the form of prototype Interview/survey Crowdfunding A/B testing
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- By using live experiential lab method and making the individual go through the experiential journey of the process
- It helps one go from surviving to Excelling in the face of massive change. A combination of curiosity and problem solving enhances adaptability to meet the goals.
- Q&A are unpredictable and intimidating. Approaching them with open mind is essential. Unexpected interruptions. Therefore prepare all versions. Gauge the room and go with the flow
- Asked for feedback from peers and team Listen and observe Challenged myself for new roles To enhance further: Understand emotions and social cues Self direction through exercising choices
- Role play and real life examples and experiences to help them reflect on their behaviour and action
- Filter available information to put it in context and quickly make decisions while taking into consideration the possible changes with more data availablity
- How to interpret and perceive information differently? How to make choices? What happened? What are we being asked? What do we know? How much confidence do we have with the assumption? What explains my confidence with this assumption? What must exist for this assumption to be valid? If this assumption proves wrong, will this change my line of thinking about the issue? Where are the patterns of bullet holes not located? What are we missing? Where are the gaps? What are the relationships? What are different perspectives?
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- 5 Revisit the assumptions/hypothesis and gather datapoints to get more different perspective.
- Real life situation application
