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HR Interview Questions and Answers on Being Proactive at Work
Being proactive or action oriented at work is one of the most appreciated skills by HR interviewers. Along with talent, they always seek candidates...
Career Tips
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.
How to Grow In Your Career
Complacency and aspirations don?t go hand in hand. If you want to aspire and grow, you cannot be complacent. We all want to learn...
What to do and what not to when Asking for a Promotion
Putting in your 100% at work and getting impressive results is what professionals are told to achieve to warrant promotions from time to time.?...
How to draw up your career growth plan
The career growth plan creates a spirit of accountability by documenting your responsibility in making the future happen. You can take these steps to develop your career growth plan
How To Become A Top Performer In Your Company?
To become a top performer, the first step is to stretch yourself, go beyond your limits, for limits are set by the human mind and can be reset by you. By setting higher standards, you would place a challenge for yourself and strive hard to achieve it.
How to Turbo Charge Your Career
By focusing on three skills only, you can turbo charge your career.? While there are numerous competencies and behaviors that one needs to be...
Coaching Tips
What Can Entrepreneurs Learn From Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett, born on 30th August 1930 is commonly known as the Wizard of Omaha. After having less than $10,000 in the bank in...
Getting Ready For Developmental Coaching
Developmental coaching, in contrast, is focused on your long-term development as a whole, with an aim to increase your broader human capacities. It is geared towards equipping you to make a smooth transition to a higher level of functioning.
How To Become Good At Motivational Coaching
A motivational coach listens with empathy, really trying hard to imagine what it might be like to be the other person, trying to feel ?as if? they were in the other person?s shoes, communicating this attempt at understanding with reflective listening statements of varying degrees of complexity and summaries.
Interview Guides
100 Plus HR Interview Questions & Answers For Top MNC
Are you attending a job interview and you are worried on how to give a good answer to an HR Interview question. This is...
LIFESTYLE TIPS
Munnabhai, Gandhism And Corporate India
It is a sad statement on India that in recent times, Gandhi?s teachings only found a contemporary platform in Bollywood?s ?Munnabhai? film series. That...
How To Make a Request For Flexible Working Hours
The trend of flexible working hours is picking up everywhere. Across the globe, companies are now encouraging their employees to do remote work and...
How To Give Yourself A Salary Hike
It?s not certain which way the economy is heading right now, and saving money from your salary may currently figure high on your priority...
Want to stay on track with your New Year resolutions?
Last week I met up with a former client who I had not seen for some time. He was disappointed with himself because, although...
Leadership
Do You Have What It Takes To Lead?
Don?t let criticism prevent you from taking the lead, however, don?t be blind to the right suggestions. To do this, break the journey into smaller milestones, and after completing a milestone, reflect and see what could have been done better
Lessons from TaxiForSure – 200 Million $ Valuation in 4 years
If you have an idea, act on it fast. Think it through, work with friends to grow it, and the rest will follow. Invest in people ? help them grow ? as professionals and individuals - and they will be your biggest equity. During an entrepreneurial journey, you shouldn?t be afraid of making a wrong choice or taking a risk. Once you have taken a decision, don?t regret it, but learn from it and grow. Trust your instincts, if you don't no one else will.
How To Grow Leaders Effectively
For long the task of developing leaders has been outsourced to the Human Resources department, save a few most of them have spent millions...
Managing The Odd Person In The Meeting
You are in a important meeting debriefing the team about how to win the next big contract and here you have a team member...
Why Leadership-Development Programs Fail To Deliver Results?
With over 20,000 books and millions of articles about the critical elements of leadership and its overall impact, the issue of leadership really must...
7 Leadership Lessons from The Sinking of Titanic
Some of you may have watched ?the iconic American Movie?Titanic?starring?Leonardo DiCaprio?and?Kate Winslet?.The Sinking of the Titanic provides invaluable lessons of leadership. ?We have struck iceberg...
Career Tips For Aspiring Women Achievers
We are finally seeing the entry of women in board-level positions at leading multinational companies. However, the numbers are not stacking up as anticipated...
Are You On The Leadership Track
Leadership remains an enigma for most of the employees, prescriptions abound ranging from how to dress up, to using Freud?s psychoanalytic tools. Now all...
Importance of Pursuing Cross Functional Roles to Prepare for Leadership Roles
How to take one?s career to the next level, is one of the most commonly asked questions to HR experts and industry leaders. There...
How To Become Good At Motivational Coaching
A motivational coach listens with empathy, really trying hard to imagine what it might be like to be the other person, trying to feel ?as if? they were in the other person?s shoes, communicating this attempt at understanding with reflective listening statements of varying degrees of complexity and summaries.
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Your Manager Is a Control Freak, How To Handle It?
If your manager is a control freak, Initially, it will seem that your manager is just trying to keep a tab on things, making...
Tips to Make Your Career Development Plan Work
"Relax? It will all work out, my company loves me" simply isn't true for a career. We have to make things work for ourselves,...
Stop Living In The Past During Performance Reviews
Future orientation is the degree to which individuals engage in future-oriented behaviors such as investment and development to prepare the workforce to meet future organizational needs. Now lets look at the three key elements of performance review and how to incorporate future orientation in them.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
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
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
How to Keep Motivation Levels High
People come in different shape, sizes and motivation drivers. As a manager you need to be cognizant of the diversity and that the one shoe fits all approach is doomed to fail. You can use these tips and tricks to keep your colleagues motivated.
101 Top Employee Engagement Experts You Can Follow
Kevin Kruse in his new book - ?Employee Engagement for Everyone: 4 Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment at Work?encourages you to follow these 101...
Be Thyself: The Secret to Being Happy and Engaged at Work
??Know thyself? was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, ?Be thyself? shall be written.? --Oscar...
How to be your best at an offsite company trip?
Offsite company trips are often organized for business purposes. And while mixing in a bit of leisure is quite tempting, you should know where...
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
You Are Planning To Settle Abroad, Should You Inform Your Manager?
Settling abroad is indeed an opportunity that a lot of people eagerly await. However, while the grass does seem greener on the other side,...
Your Colleague Is Taking All The Credit, What To Do?
The presentation just finished and, your colleague is taking all the credit for the same.not to mention that, you have spent the last few...
Your Company Has Cancelled Your Long-Awaited Vacation – How To Respond?
You get a shock, your company has cancelled your long-awaited vacation. What do you do in such a scenario? A long-awaited vacation involves lots of...
Your team members see you as arrogant; however you are being direct – What to do?
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...
SETTING GOALS
What?s your next gig?
Whilst the numbers move northwards, the resources are at best constant or get shaved off by a few percentage points. The front line managers are expected to identify areas of improvement and get the plan delivered. Here are few pointers, which will guide you in selecting action projects.
How To Set Your Goals This Year
George Harrison said it all when he sang ?If you don?t know where you?re going, any road will take you there??
Goal setting is about...
What Are Your Needs In Life?
Needs are a very personal part of our makeup, ranging from a deep desire to be recognized or to be independent.
We do not consciously...
How To Race Ahead In Your Career
Its easy to get cynical and believe that successful people are political or sell out, suck up, stab people in the back, use their contacts and so on. The facts are dramatically different from this;
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Moving To a Six Day Work Week, How To Balance?
With economies around the world sagging, your company may be moving to a six day work week, how can you balance work and chores?
While...
Heading For Divorce, What to Do at Work?
Are you heading for a divorce, here are few tips on how to handle this at work. A marriage going awry is not unheard...
Diagnosed With Cancer, How to Handle It at Work?
Life is in pits, you have been just diagnosed with cancer, here are few ways to handle it at work.
Cancer is a severe and...
Suffering From Depression at Work, What to Do?
If you are suffering from depression at work, rather than not-sharing, it’s critical that you tell your company know about the same.
According to Mental...
How to build your LinkedIn visibility for career growth?
LinkedIn has changed the way recruiters find candidates, in case you have not, starting now, you should build LinkedIn visibility for career growth.
There was...
How to Survive & Benefit From a Market Slowdown
You can survive and even benefit from the market slowdown, if you follow the time tested principles. A market slowdown may come with or...
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How to Find a Job During Economic Crisis
It is not simple to find a good job with high salary especially during the economic crisis. Strong competition in job market forces job...
How To Crack Job Interview
You have secured a job interview, great news, but remember so have another several people. The objective ahead is to secure the role and...
Is It Time For A New Job
If you're considering quitting your job, you may be indecisive about whether it's the right decision or not. On the one hand, you're pretty...
India Job Market in 2014 & What’s Next in 2015
Wait and watch policy kept the hiring market subdued in the first quarter of 2014, thereby limiting the increments and bonuses, which were rolled out in April 2014. The only exception was the Startups market, which saw hordes of dollars flowing in, the sector continued offering larger than usual pay raises and kept the job market warm.
How to Reply to a Job Advertisement
You see a job advertisement and jump into it with a lot of excitement. Energy and speed of response is good when applying to...
Five Questions Great Candidates Ask in a Job Interview
Many of the questions potential new hires ask are throwaways ; But not these five questions which great candidates ask in a job interview....
