“I am an ordinary man with extraordinary desires, and I will persevere till I become an extraordinary man with ordinary desires.”
The Person
Vijay Michihito Batra (19 July 1962) is driven to spread the message of positive thinking and work ethics since 1998 in India. Electrifying, intensely involved, down to earth, amazingly humorous, extremely driven, passionately connected, highly effective are some of the adjectives participants have used to describe him. He believes in an anchoring thought that he lives by -“the harder you work, easier life becomes, the easier you work, harder life becomes.”
Vijay brings a unique blend of Indian, Japanese and American ways of success and ensures that he connects to his audience. Having worked in India, Japan and America over extended periods of time, he has realized the principles of success which are universally applicable, and shares it in a manner that facilitates transformation.
Vijay received his education in India, America and Japan. After completing school and graduation from India, he did his post graduate education in America and Japan.
The trainer
Through his international exposure, Vijay has gained insights into ways by which success is achieved. He focuses on creating enabling beliefs, which trigger the desire in his participants to develop skills that lead to success and happiness.
He believes that adult education is a combination of learning and un-learning. He guides the participants to become aware of their limiting beliefs and leads them to unlearn the limiting beliefs and learn enabling beliefs. He uses a combination of techniques that ensure effective learning and unlearning takes place to create transformation during the short duration of the workshop. He is known to infect his participants with intense beliefs and desire to succeed.
He honed his skills as a facilitator of adult learning at the PHP Institute, a Think Tank affiliated to Panasonic, founded by Matsushita Konosuke, considered to be the ultimate authority in management and leadership in Japan. Having interacted and studied with numerous successful people India and other countries, he has co-authored a book with his father Dr. Promod K. Batra, Walk on Sand, before you Sleep on Silk, published by Full Circle. The book chronicles the success principles which lead to success of Indian Entrepreneurs like Sunil Bharti Mittal, Anil Aggarwal, and numerous others. The book has become a guide and a reference for the young budding entrepreneurs so they avoid making the mistakes and do what works. The quest to research what makes people successful enables Vijay to facilitate success among the participants. Vijay’s workshop is a journey that takes the participants from theory to practice.
Vijay practices the art of effective questioning, asking questions such as “Why do you work?” to “why did you join the organization in which you work?” Often the answers given are pre-conditioned and not pre-thought. The participants realize that working for money in not the primary reason; working to become better is the primary reason. Similarly the primary reason to join an organization is to make the organization better; in the process the individual becomes better.
He asks questions such as “What is the opposite of “happiness”? Many answer it as “sadness” and he impresses upon the participants that it is “boredom.” If we engage ourselves in our lives at work and at home, we vibrate with positive energy. Similarly many confuse patience and tolerance, punishment and torture to be synonyms. When participants become clear that patience is active and tolerance is passive, punishment is an act by which a person becomes better, where as torture makes a person bitter, clarity leads to focus and results.
Having interacted with over 2,00,000 participants in over 2000 workshops. His amazing breath of experiences, encountering innumerable questions and situations, has made him an “Outlier.” Vijay’s owes his vast and varied experience to the rare ability to connect to small intimate groups of just ten participants for duration of three days, to large group of a hundred to 5,000 for duration as short as 30 minutes. He has conducted over 15,000 hours of active learning sessions.
Vijay is intensely involved in guiding a team of trainers to impart and facilitate ways to enhance people’s lives through positive thinking. He is keenly involved in writing books and articles. His creative team is committed to develop learning content and marketing items that further positive thinking.
Vijay is also a one on one coach to successful entrepreneurs and senior executives to overcome challenges and create new thought processes by learning the art of questioning and challenging limiting assumptions to scale new heights. Living in Japan, India and America in the impressionable part of his career has been a wide exposure, allowing him to see things through a new lens and facilitate his coachee to gain new perspectives. He is truly enjoying living in a ‘flat world’ and is constantly helping the Indians, Japanese and the Americans to understand the dynamics of the new flat world. He conducts sensitization workshops for Indians wanting to succeed with the Japanese and for the Japanese wanting to succeed in conducting business in India. In all his interactions, he is constantly striving to create the energy among participants to pursue success and happiness. Like the Japanese constantly are wishing each other “gambatte kudasai” he also drives people to do their best, and not rely on luck, chance or fate.
His Clients for 2010 -2011
Audi, Airtel, Aircel, Alstom, Areva, American Express, Apollo Munich, Aviva, CSC India, Dell, Dainik Bhaskar, Eicher, Essar Power, EIH Magnetti Marelli, General Motors, Hyundai Motors India Limited, HCL, Idea, Jaypee Hospitality, Jindal Power, Leela Kempinski, Maruti Udyog, Motherson-Sumi, NDPL, NEC-HCL, Oberoi, Panacea Biotech, Philips, Reliance, Ranbaxy, SAP labs, Spectranet, Skoda, Samsung, Steel, TATA Docomo, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Virbac, Valvoline- Cummins, Whirlpool.
