Our Krafted Offerings

Behavioral and Leadership Learning

Grow As You Go1

Trainings to help new & young talent thrive.

What can ensure your organization scales up while creating a path for its new hires & young employees? We believe it is training that looks at upskilling as a fresh way to discover latent talent. We trust it is rigorous learning spaces that can let them get out of their comfort zones while letting them know their organization is invested in them.

These beliefs made us come up with our training series – named ‘Grow As You Go’ for a good reason. From managing performances to honing presentation skills, it covers a vast workscape.

Behavioral Interviewing Skills
Time Management Program
Leadership Training for First Time Managers
Inspiring Performance for Managers
Interpersonal Skills
Presentation Skills
Managing Virtual Teams
Decision Making and Problem Solving
Negotiation Skills
Stakeholder Management
Change Management
Art of Delegation
Assertive Communication Skills
Design Thinking

The Light of Leadership2

Executive Coaching that combines process & results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American essayist and philosopher, once said, “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

Going by Emerson’s words, what every organization needs at every turn is leaders who can drive business forward while being able to retain the right people. At Novel Kraft, our team of executive coaches make the leader their focus. Partnering with them over a sustained period, the following outcomes are worked towards:

Discovery of deep personal strengths –

Deeper awareness of their own process –

Connection & alignment with organizational culture –

Action in alignment with goals, self and organization-

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BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWING SKILLS

Duration: 1 Day

Objective:

  • Knowing the core principles and concepts of behavioural interviewing
  • Understanding the structure and know the types of behavioural questions and when to use them
  • Avoiding discriminatory questioning
  • Gaining knowledge, skills and tools to conduct optimum interviews
  • Confidently hiring top talent!

TIME MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Duration: 1 Day

Objective:

  • Identify the main obstacles to effective Time Management in your daily role
  • Understand the nature of Time Management
  • Understand a range of tools, techniques and concepts for Time Management
  • Use these techniques to build an effective Time Management process that will enhance your productivity and lower your stress

LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR FIRST TIME MANAGERS

Duration: 2 Days

Objective:

  • Transition from Individual contributor to people manager
  • Roles of a people manager
  • Understanding team members
  • Build rapport with the team members
  • Setting goals, imparting regular feedback and coaching
  • Conducting team meetings
  • Handling escalations
  • Effective communication with the manager and client

INSPIRING PERFORMANCE FOR MANAGERS

Duration: 3 Day

Objective:

  • Building trust in the team
  • Understanding the team profile and dynamics
  • Setting goals which align to organizational strategy
  • Inspiring and building high performance teams
  • Dealing with difficult situations
  • Art of giving feedback ( specially senior employees)
  • Coaching the employees for performance
  • Conducting an effective appraisal discussions

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Duration: 2 Days

Objective:

  • Determine their communication style
  • Develop strategies for interacting with communication styles unlike their own
  • Identify and use conflict resolution styles appropriate for different situations
  • Identify barriers to communication and strategies to overcome them
  • Listen effectively to ensure they have received messages as intended
  • Use nonverbal communication to express interest and demonstrate that they are actively engaged in conversations
  • Develop strategies for building and maintaining relationships

PRESENTATION SKILLS

Duration: 2 Day

Objective:

  • Presentation - How good am I?
  • Analyzing and Understanding the Audience
  • Delivery Methodology and Persuasion Techniques for an Effective Presentation
  • Crafting the Storyline
  • Writing the Introduction
  • Different Presentation Styles
  • Using Appropriate Body Language and Voice Modulation while Presentation
  • Techniques of Persuasion
  • Principles of Powerful Presentation
  • Designing powerful visual aids
  • Handling Questions During Presentation

MANAGING VIRTUAL TEAMS

Duration: 1 Days

Objective:

  • Apply strategies critical to creating and leading a virtual team
  • Identify potential barriers to a virtual/multinational team's success and discover strategies to overcome these
  • Recognize the criticality of group team building and use practices for creating trusting relationships and setting group norms
  • Acquire cultural intelligence and steps for competency in any country
  • Recognize and resolve causes of conflict within a multicultural team
  • Determine how dispersed managers can work as a team
  • Use online tools to collaborate

DECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING

Duration: 1 Days

Objective:

  • Decision and Decision making
  • Decision making process
  • Avoiding Psychological Bias in Decision Making
  • Emotions in Decision making
  • Tools for problem solving
  • Decision making individually and as a group
  • How to moderate group decision making process

NEGOTIATION SKILLS

Duration: 1 Day

Objective:

  • Determine their own negotiation style and evaluate it for effectiveness
  • Understand when to negotiate and when to employ alternative strategies
  • Explore the three modes of negotiation
  • Move a negotiation toward a win-win or interest-based solution
  • Differentiate between "sales" and "ideas" negotiation and use each effectively and appropriately
  • Create a negotiation plan of preparedness
  • Using negotiation currencies to influence
  • Understanding BATNA(Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) and use it appropriately
  • Persuasion to overcome resistance and closing a deal

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

Duration: 0.5 Days

Objective:

  • Who is a stakeholder?
  • Stakeholder analysis - Identify Your Stakeholders
  • Power/Interest Grid for Stakeholder Prioritization
  • Communication plan mapped to Power/Interest Grid
  • Different strokes for different folks
  • Building trust - connecting at a personal level

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Duration: 2 Day

Objective:

  • What is Change?
  • Importance of managing change
  • When change is not managed...
  • Organizational change and its effects on a team
  • Understanding 8 step model of change management
  • Tools to facilitate change at each step
  • Manager's role in orienting the team on the change
  • Understanding individual journey to change
  • Tips to manage resistance in an organization
  • Coaching the employees during change

ART OF DELEGATION

Duration: 1 Day

Objective:

  • Recognize when delegation is an option
  • Types of delegation
  • Successfully communicate the delegation of a complex task
  • Psychological contracting for commitment
  • Instill confidence in delegates
  • Define degrees of authority
  • Evaluate delegated tasks in terms of the Objectives of delegations

ASSERTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Duration: 1 Days

Objective:

  • Self evaluation - Understand my style of communication
  • Types of behaviors - Assertive, Passive and Aggressive
  • 7 Assertive skills
  • Self talk and its effect on behavior
  • Practice

DESIGN THINKING

Duration: 2 Day

Objective:

  • Introduction to design thinking and designers, design principles, design thinking and other methods
  • Design thinking strategy and capability: Build design thinking strategy and capability (structure, culture, skills, process) in an organisation to define the organisation’s design journey
  • Explore: Discover challenges, interpret through empathy study, understand various tools of empathy study and perform risk assessment
  • Ideate: Generate ideas, shortlist a workable solution, perform risk assessment
  • Create: Develop prototypes of a big idea, get feedback, perform financial analysis of the solution and risk assessment
  • Evolve: Track success and scale the solution
  • Design for services: Product vs. services, service development and experience lifecycle.