Raise Your Game: Assessing Leadership

Dec 15, 2010 23 Min Podcast
Alt

One trait that Padalam Kalaivanan has when it comes to achieving goals is the desire to succeed. We must think if we have set ambitious goals or strategies right. To find the right strategies, we should keep learning and keep correcting ourselves.

Padalam believes that if we are facing obstacles, as a manager, if we get our team together, we would be able to find solutions to the obstacles. Also, obstacles are opportunities for us to work with our teams and for us to learn new skills.

He learns to adapt to the career changes that he has been facing in his life through the understanding of his job roles. He makes sure that he would continue doing his job well. He would also learn to acknowledge the gaps that he has in the process of performing his jobs.

Share This

Leadership

Tags: Be A Leader

Alt
Tune in to listen to various Leaderonomers interviewed on pertinent leadership topics on BFM radio.

You May Also Like

Alt

When Technology Scales Faster Than Judgment: The Leadership Gap Few Organisations Prepare For

In most organisations, capability has always grown faster than wisdom. What has changed is not the existence of the gap, but its speed and reach. Systems no longer wait politely for explicit direction. They observe, infer, and act across environments that once depended on layers of human review. Leadership today is not struggling with complexity alone. It is struggling with velocity. Decisions now unfold continuously. Often quietly. Sometimes invisibly. And long before leaders have time to reflect on whether the organisation is prepared to own the outcomes.

Jan 12, 2026 4 Min Read

Alt

Be A Leader: It's Reflection Time!

When you set some time for reflection in your every day routine, you give allow yourself to focus better and to become more productive.

Nov 27, 2013 3 Min Video

Be a Leader's Digest Reader