Sahiba Singh Dhupar: Communication Skills Trainer, Image Consultant and Etiquette Coach

1. What is your philosophy of efficient leadership in a corporate setting ?

I truly believe that great leaders are those who leave a legacy and create more leaders like themselves for the future. This is not just for illustrious leaders of gigantic platforms but applies to every individual who has even one person they are accountable for. Being intellectually sound makes you efficiently discerning, but a magnanimous heart makes you an efficient leader beyond everything. Work, KRAs, targets and deadlines all can be dealt with with a meticulous approach to leadership, but an efficacious leader is he who knows how to give!

2. Given the chance how would you redefine women entrepreneurship.

I don’t really see much difference between a gender based entrepreneurship in the first place. An Entrepreneur holds no gender roles, the society does! That’s what we need to redefine. It may seem as a digression from the question but the truth prevails. We need to have egalitarianism in the opportunities for Men and Women in the dynamic world of Startups and Freelance Professionals. I, being the latter, possess no inhibitions to be a woman in a patriarchy. Times are evolving, slowly but it needs to gradually turn tables and invariably begins with us. But from a Woman to Woman perspective, We need to be empowering each other and grow together. We need more fellowship and uplifting camaraderie between women entrepreneurs.

3. What are the services you provide?

As a Communication Skills Trainer, I deal with the opportunity to upscale a person’s Communication through three aspects. Firstly, Practical English, leading to Business English for working professionals, ending with vocal communication. As a Soft Skills Trainer, My services pan from life skills to people skills that help in enhancing an individual’s personal and professional relationships. A few topics I cover in this domain are, Emotional Intelligence, Interview GD skills, Body Language etc.

The role of an Image Consultant, Etiquette & Grooming Coach enables me to empower people by developing their inner strengths and then reflecting it through appearance management. Building a powerful presence through the aforementioned capacitates me to call myself a Personality Consultant that amalgamates all the domains above.

I am a Freelance Professional Trainer in the fields aforementioned and provide my services to age 5-115. My services are majorly absorbed by Schools (for both students and teachers), Colleges (for both students and lecturers), Companies (For young and middle level officers), NGOs for relevant and fundamental training modules.

4. What are your core values and vision?

As a Trainer of holistic personality development, the focal point of my professional life is to help people witness the champion in themselves and their relationships. Unravelling layers of under confidence and overcoming unhealthy self image is my prime motive as a Soft skills Trainer and Image Consultant. Integrity and Empathy are my left and right hand at work. I envision to utilise the power of transforming lives all my life, step by step. My fingerprints should not fade from the lives I touch.

5. What would you choose between following your passion and being practical ? Why?

I’d rather be a passionate realist!

One needs to realise that you need not be ecentric to be following your passion. If a pragmatic thought process is your friend, you can be successful in your choice of profession as well. What matters is, are we being equipped with the right skill set to even identify our passion?

I couldn’t identify mine until I was 24 after an MBA in HR and a well paying job, which I left very happily to realise, I never wanted this. Nobody forced me to pursue MBA, but I did not possess the right judgement to identify my true calling. This, we need to change, from our formative years itself.

Help children identify what they are naturally gifted at, and what they are effortlessly inclined towards. Most of our answers lie there and not in which field will fetch you fatter paychecks. I am a public speaker, someone born to address people, I could find that out when I was representing my state in theatre but I couldn’t! I am a commerce student and you are supposed to do an MBA. Today, I am a multiple international certifications holder and a certified trainer by NABET, but my natural skill set of a public speaker is being utilised at its best.