Business Communication And Personal Branding From the Eyes of a Budding Entrepreneur

 

Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni is the co-founder of Darwin Tech (www.techdarwin.com); a B2B startup based on travel technology. The startup works on products for the leisure holiday market. Nikhil Kulkarni is an alum of NITIE PGDIM, earlier worked with KPMG for 10 years. Nikhil Kulkarni is  born and brought up in Bhopal, studied in Bhilai-Durg and Mumbai, and currently working in Mumbai. He is a technology entrepreneur and an independent IT consultant, currently, head technology for hi startup Darwin, and advise clients looking for business innovation using technology. He spent close to 11 years with KPMG's IT Advisory team working across Financial Services, Telecom, IT/ITeS, and Retail in domains of core and emerging technologies. In personal life, he is a speaker, writer.

After working for KPMG for 11 successful years he decided to choose the journey of an entrepreneur. We today require such entrepreneurs to realize the dream of self-reliant INDIA.

 

Highlights of the session of Mr Nikhil -

1. Business Communication in consulting

2. Principle - How to structure the content.

3. Create a 'Personal Brand'

 

1. Business Communication in consulting-

Consulting is 80% communication and 5 % research. It is important to have a better Relationship which could be built by better communication only.

 

It is important to have not only technical skill but also how you present your ideas to the team with whatever tool you are using which creates long-lasting impact on listeners.

One should put a quotation, question or a video to keep the audience engaged.

 

2. Structuring your content - Pyramid Principle

Key factors for structuring your thoughts are Situation, Compliance, Questions and Answers.

 

It is important to organize our idea and provide supporting documents. For this, we should follow IDFL and MECE techniques.

·         IDLF: We should organize as per - Idea, Data, Facts, and Logic.

·         MECE (Mutually Exclusive and collectively exhaustive):  this is one of the widely used techniques in consulting.

3. Create a 'Personal Brand':

•  It is important to create personal branding. As its impact is large.
• Have a Blog, YouTube Channel, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram account. Meet new people and learn from them.

 

Special Thanks to NITIE Mumbai and Professor T. Prasad for organizing such wonderful sessions.

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