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WORKING IN A
POST COVID
WORLD
By Rajesh Narula

Working In A Post-COVID World

EXPERIENCE RECONSTRUCTING VISION OF THE

SHARING LIFE FUTURE

Experience Sharing
◦ Who all have battled COVID ?
◦ What was your experience ?
◦ How did you feel then ?
◦ How did you handle anxiety ?
◦ How do you feel now ?

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A Quick Survey
◦ https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NL3B5DF
◦ No personal data collected

Learnings
◦ Has the pandemic changed you ? How ?

Expectations
◦ What are your expectations from the Post-COVID work environment ?

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Exercise
◦ Draw on the chart, as a team, your journey of the past 3 COVID years and your hope for the future.
◦ Draw images for 4 years – 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023 and beyond – One in each corner.

Meditation
◦ Relaxation - Yognidra

Working In A Post-COVID World

RECONSTRUCTING
LIFE

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The Business Environment Post COVID

◦ Pandemics
◦ War
◦ Scarcity
◦ Crises in PEST environment
◦ Technological Transformations
◦ Globalization – Localization ?
◦ Megacorps rule the World
◦ Pivotal Role of Media and Information

The Post COVID Business Imperatives

◦ Supply Chain Flexibility
◦ Crises Management Skills
◦ Agility in the Organization
◦ Customer Retention
◦ Cost Management
◦ Increased Pace of Revenue Generation
◦ Innovation
◦ Technological / Digital Deployment from Production to Delivery
◦ Workforce Safety

Personal Skills Post COVID

◦ Change Management
◦ Stress Management
◦ Crises Management
◦ Relationship Management
◦ Trust and Resilience
◦ Cognitive Skills
◦ Technological Skills
◦ Creativity
◦ Agility
◦ Multit-skilling
◦ Productivity under resource constraints
◦ Spiritual Quotient – Holistic Approach

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SWOT
◦ Personal SWOT
◦ Business SWOT

Challenges
◦ What are your challenges ?

Change is Constant
◦ Who Moved your cheese
◦ Neuroscience of Change
◦ Change activates the pain areas in the brain
◦ Source elements of neuroplasticity
◦ Sefl-esteem
◦ Meaning and Purpose – increase dopamine and serotonin
◦ Gratification from Job
◦ Achievement anticipated or experienced raises dopamine
◦ Value Contribution towards self, personal environment or extended environment
◦ Negative emotions anger etc impede neuroplasticity and change

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Changing Entrenched Habits

◦ Relabel – Recognize limiting behaviours
◦ Reattribute- Why do they repeat ?
◦ Refocus – Replace with new behaviours – 21 days
◦ Revalue- Assign priority and value to new behaviour Dopamine reward on success,

Creativity and Neuroscience

◦ Science says refresh the brain with :
◦ Meditation,
◦ Pulsing : 90 minute work intervals
◦ Intense Activity followed by a Break
◦ (Sleep/walking/daydreaming/doodling/music)
◦ BCG Work Policy

Who AM I ?
◦ https://youtu.be/9-c93ql8Tag

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The soul lives in another body

The soul lives on

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Watch what you think

◦ “Mind is the cause of bondage, Mind is the cause of freedom” – The Bhagvad Geeta

Vibrate Higher
◦ The covid has a vibration of 5.5hz, dies above 25.5hz.
◦ The frequency of the earth today is 27.4hz. but there are places that vibrate very low
◦ Pain 0.1 to 2hz.
◦ Fear 0.2 to 2.2hz
◦ Irritation 0.9 to 6.8hz.
◦ Noise 0.6 to 2.2hz.
◦ Pride 0.8 hz.
◦ Abandon 1,5hz.
◦ Superiority 1.9 hz.
◦ Instead : Generosity 95hz
◦ True thanks 150 hz
◦ Compassion 150 hz or more
◦ Love of neighbor and all living beings 150 Hz and more.
◦ Unconditional and universal love from 205hz

The Biology of Belief

◦ DNA is not deterministic. Limiting beliefs are.

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Life is a Perspective
◦ WYSIWYG
◦ Frame of reference determines everything

Vedic Wisdom
◦ Success in life is achieved when there is harmony between MIND-BODY-SPIRIT

Fear Management
◦ You can Live your life with fear or live it with love – Swami Sukhabodhananda
◦ Shraddhavan Labate gyanam

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Stress Management
◦ What are the sources of stress ?
◦ Can you do anything about it ?
◦ Change what you can, accept what you cannot.
◦ Adopt techniques to de-stress in your daily routine. Even when you are not ‘ feeling’ stressed

Relationship Management
Expand Your Comfort Zone
Learn to be comfortable with more types of people, circumstances,
events etc than you are currently

Relationship Management
Commitment Should be at the Core of the Relationship

Expectations

Even if expectations are not fulfilled, relationship should not suffer while
you strive to fulfill them.
Commitment

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Relationship Management

Convert Bad Movies into Cartoons

Would you repeatedly watch a bad movie ? Why do it with all the past hurtful situations,
and people that you replay in the mind ? Learn the skill of converting them into cartoons.

Relationship Management
Stop Creating a Balance Sheet of Life. Start Creating Art

Life is not mathematics. Start creating art from the colours of life given to you. Be Creative

Relationship Management
Problems are Inevitable. Suffering is Optional

Even Lord Krishna’s life was full of problems. (Or Lord Rama for that matter). Yet they taught us to be Happy and do the right thing in
every situation.

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY

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Relationship Management
Convert Samsara Scale to Nirvana Scale
Be grateful for the good things in your life and reationships instead of looking
at what is missing according to your expectations. It could be worse.

(www.swamisukhabodhananda.org)

The Case of the Dog Lover

◦ Rashmi loves animals. She loves all animals, but most of all she loves dogs. She thinks they are nature’s gift to us and must
be always sheltered, fed and protected.
◦ At 30 she is still single and stays with her aged father in an upmarket residential complex. She has two dogs as pets at
home but she has adopted all the stray dogs in the colony. She is often seen feeding them at various places. She is an
activist associated with Maneka Gandhi’s organization and generally stays aloof from others and does not have many
friends. Even the women in her neighbourhood avoid her for her aggressive dominating behaviour.
◦ Neelam is a middle aged spinster working as a Chartered Accountant. She is quite afraid of most animals and specially
dogs. She is quite popular and social and has an active network of women friends in the neighbourhood.
◦ The stray dogs have bitten a number of people including children, causing severe trauma. They have killed a neighbours
pet rabbit and badly injured other pet dogs. One of them had even to be put down because it became rabies infected
after a bite from a stray dog.
◦ Neelam blames Rashmi for feeding stray dogs, In her opinion this encourages them to live in the colony and she thinks
they will go away if they do not get food. Moreover, Rashmi has started feeding them even in the basement parking lot
and Neelam does not park her vehicle there for fear of being attacked by stray dogs.
◦ Whenever anyone talks of evicting strays from the colony Rashmi threatens them with police action. She quotes a Delhi
high court order permitting residents to feed stray dogs.
◦ What should Neelam do ?

Trust and Resilience- We Can

◦ Shraddhavan Labate Gyanam
◦ When one door closes another WILL open

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Tools to Reconstruct Life

◦ Remember Who Am I
◦ Meditate
◦ Yoga and Exercise
◦ Good energy diet- Satvik
◦ Music

◦ Connect with People

◦ Give
◦ Share

Together We Can
◦ Together
◦ Empowered to
◦ Achieve
◦ More

◦ The Indian Crabs

◦ The Corn Farmer

Working In A Post COVID World

VISION OF THE
FUTURE

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Success Mantras
◦ Vision
◦ Belief
◦ Bigger Purpose
◦ Empowering Others
◦ Interdependence
◦ Good Relationships
◦ Inaction -Climbing a Mountain jjust by Looking at it ?
◦ Massive Action
◦ Determination and Perseverance – KFC, JKR, Batman

Define Your Future Now

◦ Set Your Goals Now
◦ Set A Timetable
◦ Set your commitment

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Vision
◦ The timber merchant –Datun
◦ Workers at a temple
◦ Minds eye- Sports Psychology

Goals - Worth Your While

◦ “I am not worried that I will set high goals and fail to achieve them. I am worried that I will set low goals
and DO achieve them”

Celebrating Life
◦ Celebration
◦ Gratitude

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Exercise 2
◦ Sharing blessings with Empathy

Thank You
◦ Acknowledgements :
◦ Swami Sukhabodhananda (www.prasannatrust.org)
◦ Brahmakumariis Ishwariya Vishwavidyalaya (www.brahmakumaris.org )

◦ Rajesh Narula
◦ https://expertfile.com/experts/rajesh.narula

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