Navigating Cross-Departmental Fights
Another critical aspect of handling cross-departmental conflicts is the ability to maintain your well-being. Constant exposure to workplace conflicts can be draining, both emotionally and mentally.
Your team members see you as arrogant; however you are being direct – What...
Do your team members see you as arrogant? There’s a very thin line between being direct and being arrogant. Unfortunately, most people don’t realise that they have crossed this line and...
Thinking of Leaving The Job: What to Do?
Depending on your situation, leaving the job can be rather easy or equally tough. There are times when we all give up and want to throw in the towel. It could...
Joining a New Company: What Not to Do?Â
In this potpourri of anxiety, stress, and excitement, here’s a list of do’s and don’ts to help you sail through the first days of joining a new company.
Negative Impact of Technology on Your Workplace Productivity
Technology can be a bane or a boon depending on how one uses it. In this rapid-changing world where digitalization has become the norm, technology has helped to make things faster,...
How To Crack The Job Interview
While it's natural for you to be worried and anxious (the term terrified may apply for some too), it is possible to do crack a job interview despite these insecurities. Though conventional, job interviews are a crucial part of getting any dream job. Here’s how you can nail it.
Mastering Salary Negotiation: A Guide to Securing a Win-Win Outcome
Asking questions is a powerful technique in any negotiation, including salary negotiation. It allows you to gather more information, which can be critical in understanding the other party's position and interests.
How To Manage “Office Politics”: Essential Strategies
In recent year, management teams with have continuously struggled with politics and its negative impact on teams and individuals. Corrosive politics has a long lasting negative impact on an organisation and most of us have been its victim at one time or other.
How To Lead A Cross Border Team
As a team leader, you need to remember that leading remote international teams requires creating new ways to work together. These tips will help you in deciphering the complex task of leading a remote international team successfully.
Tips To Create a Sense of Oneness Within Your Team.
By starting with a clear direction from the top, everyone on your team can understand the importance, the urgency, and the goals of the assignment from day one. After that by nudging your key team members for exceptional individual effort and the close collaboration between the senior members and other team members will propel the deliverables forward at a super high speed.
Top 5 Interview Questions & Answers for Career Changers
The interviewer wants assurance on two fronts, one that you are a quick learner and second you have the persistence to stick around even if going gets tough in the new role. Sound off the hiring manager that you understand the new role and plan to stay for the long term in the sector if hired.
Why You Need To Set High Life Standards For Yourself
Elevating your life through setting high life standards is both a journey and a destination. It's about continuously challenging ourselves to grow, improve, and achieve more than we ever thought possible.
Managing Change For Success
Change management is an amalgamation of art and science and requires a combination of both people and system-focused skills. Depending on the kind of change being undertaken, different skills will come into play. The key skills needed you will need to be a change master are
Are You Sitting To Death?
Having a corner seat in the office has been one of the most cherished achievements in an employee?s life, a desk, which has a good, view and can comfortably seat the incumbent for eight to ten hours daily. Did you know that, having a permanent seat in the office might be doing more harm to your health than what you have envisaged. The peril of being fixated to the office seat came into limelight after James Levine, a Scientist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, reported in 2006 that sitting down for too long isn't just bad for you, it can also kill you
How To Avoid Getting Duped By Your New Employer
Immediate joining should ring an alarm bell, it a sign that some one just walked out of the job without serving the notice period. In normal circumstances this is rare, people do not like walking away unless the place is making them go mad.
Recognizing Office Politics: Strategies for a Positive Workplace Culture
Creating an organization that is free of toxic political behavior is likely an unattainable goal; it is within your reach to mitigate the conditions that allow such activity to thrive. As a manager you need to be aware of the factors that are the primary drivers in creating a consistently effective environment that mitigates political behaviors.
Mentoring Will Fast Track Your Career Growth
According to the Greek mythological legend, Mentor, a friend and counselor to Odysseus was entrusted with the education of Odysseus? s son, Telemachus. As a trusted senior adviser, Mentor was responsible...
Race Ahead In Your Career: Unleashing Your Full Potential
Continuous learning and skill development are indispensable in your quest to race ahead in your career. Staying updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and skills can set you apart from your peers.
Embracing Change: The Key to Escaping Your Comfort Zone
The journey beyond your comfort zone is not merely about avoiding obsolescence; it's about seizing the opportunity to grow, learn, and achieve fulfillment.
How To Develop Perseverance
Perseverance is easier said than done, standing up like the Great Wall of China in the face of adversity requires stamina and conviction. Lets look at some of the ways to develop perseverance. As Thomas Alva Edison said, ?Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.?
How To Be A Quick Learner
Our brain is an expert at making logical connections when it encounters an issue; now this may work if you have previously encountered and tackled a similar situation. When you hit a roadblock with a new issue, a good starting point is to ask ?Why? five times and see how many causes you can come up with. This increases the odds of a better solution because you can see more connections