About Prayas Rajopadhyaya

Prayas Rajopadhyaya – Bio

Director, Jobs Dynamics | Behavior | Management | Career | Listener | Shoshin | Equanimity | Stoicism

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional development consultant. A human behavior enthusiast, management consultant, and a corporate trainer with more than eight years of professional experience in understanding people, bringing the best out of them and helping them excel in life. As both practitioner and academician, he intends to make peoples’ lives easier through introspection and reflection of self-behavior.

As the director of Jobs Dynamics, his primary areas of work include organizational development (OD), human resources (HR) interventions and consultative assignments specialized in intra/inter personal problems, facilitate crucial and difficult conversations, policy drafting & implementation, and design & deliver training/workshops.

He also frequently blogs about human behavior, management, and career at boredconsultants.com.

Areas of expertise: Organizational Development, Human Resources Management, Inter & Intra Person Awareness, Crucial & Difficult Conversations, Listening, Human Behavior, Decision Making & Biases, Negotiation, Habits & Productivity, Career Management.

Prayas’ Personal Values

Intellectual Humility: Be open to new learning, practice beginner’s mindset, gain and spread knowledge to help people make their lives easier.

Intentional Living: Living the life of authenticity and purpose; living by design not by default; courage to live volitionally.

I-Thou Mindset: Understanding people as people; cultivate and nurture meaningful relationships; practice nonviolent communication.

Conscious Awareness: Inward and outward understanding of self; making conscious choices; being mindful and taking pauses.

Social Media

Can too many cooks not spoil the broth?

October 23, 2022
"Too many cooks spoil the broth" -- this popular idiom implies that when too many people work together or are involved in an activity, the final outcome or result becomes inferior. While we all agree to the idioms with our versions of experiences, a popular management term "synergy" comes into mind. On a flipped perspective of the idiom, shouldn't multiple cooks be rather reinforcing the broth with their own camaraderie and united strength than spoiling...

Dreading the Difficult Conversations

June 9, 2022
We probably have faced difficult conversations, at least once in our lives. Ending a relationship. Asking your friend to repay his share of debt. Giving a critical feedback to your supervisor. Talking about financial issues with parents. Discussing about personal possessions with coworkers. We absolutely dread talking out these difficult and crucial issues and either do it badly or postpone it for some other time, which never seems to come. Crucial & difficult conversations can...

Why do we judge (and continue being judged)?

May 17, 2022
"You know me, not my story. So don't judge me!" "Before you judge me, why not take a good look at yourself?" "Never judge someone. They're fighting their own battles." These are some common statements we see and hear most of the times. As educated and rational beings, we know that we should not be judging others. But why do we still continue to judge people? We do not like being judged, yet we continue...

Practice, practice, practice

October 19, 2021
The famous Spartan warriors had a credo for their war - "Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war". Practice is probably the greatest thing humans can do, yet people ridicule it. For every new thing or an idea that has been brought into the world, people have laughed at it, criticized it, and ridiculed it at the beginning. As the famous quote wrongly misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi goes, "First they ignore you, then they...

The antidote to toxic positivity – Tragic Optimism

September 9, 2021
Amidst all the global health crisis and unrelenting optimistic quotes floating on Instagram and Pinterest, "Tragic Optimism" serves as a way of living. Viktor Frankl - the Holocaust survivor and Austrian psychiatrist - first coined the term tragic optimism. Frankl explains first about the tragic triad of human lives - pain, guilt, and death. Thus, tragic optimism is an optimism in the face of the tragic triad and in view of the human potential which...

Recipe for Content Life: Awareness and Courage

August 18, 2021
I first saw the combination of awareness and courage in Tim Urban's tweet. Tim called it the ingredients for the recipe of "good future for humanity". I wouldn't be far-fetched to call it a good future for "humanity", but let's just focus on us "humans". https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1320869780774096896 Upon reflecting on this tweet for nearly about a year, I have had epiphanies of this piece of insight being more and more relatable. I have come to realize...