How To Become A Better Manager
Smart management techniques can help you in creating a positive impact on your staff. A good manager is often one of the driving factors behind a successful and productive team. Managing,...
Notice Period- Make a Graceful Exit Because Paths Will Cross Again!
When an employee plans to leave an organisation, he or she needs to serve a notice period, the duration of which depends on the joining norms and conditions of the company....
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 a high flier in the corporate race,...
How To Become Better at Global Thinking
The world is flat, boundaries are left in the physical realm only, and the internet has connected the world like never before. Social media platforms like Facebook, microchannels like tweeter connect...
Most First Time Managers Get Derailed After Promotion, How to Avoid It
By far, the most significant risk of underperformance occurs during the transition into first line management, most of the new incumbents struggle to gain traction for their new roles.
The Art of Salary Negotiation
There is no point in jumping directly in the salary negotiation arena; you start slow until you know where the other party is coming from. You should pay attention to positioning. The traditional style of you and your team on side and they on the other side set up unhealthy contests unnecessarily
5 Tough HR Interview Questions Worth Preparing For
Clearing the HR interview requires dexterity in handling technical and non-technical questions with the same finesse, here are five HR interview questions that can throw you off the guard and reduce your chances of securing the job.
Practicing Mindfulness Can Boost Your Career
Off late, the corporate world has started noticing the benefits of introducing mindfulness in the workplace. Here are some reasons why practising mindfulness may be good for your career.
Four Actions That Prove You Don’t Have Strategic Ability
If you want to be perceived as someone with a strategic mindset, be tolerant of long brainstorming sessions and debate before things start simplifying.
How Does Your Company Measure Your Potential?
Sages and researchers from HR define it in the following way ? Potential is not only the skill but also the will to develop or perform at a higher level in future.? As we see it, potential refers to the capability of an individual to perform at a particular level and, as such, it is a prerequisite for performance. It sets the upper limit of the achievable performance level.
How To Up-skill The Team
We as adults are interested in learning that will lead to a better quality of life and higher self-esteem, not just in higher pay or promotion. You can help your team members understand that learning new skills may allow them to exhibit their expertise and creativity to influence more people and different projects, leading to a more satisfied career.
What are you doing to avoid being fired from your job?
It?s a tough world out there, with newer technologies eating the older behemoths and pushing them in oblivion. It?s a matter of time before we see organizations restructure themselves to face the new world order, that is hyper-connected and hyper-automated.
So what can you do to avoid slipping into oblivion when restructuring happens, try doing these things to stay ahead of the pack, you need to make your career resilient to the future shocks, don?t be a sitting duck.
Why You Need To Set High Standards For Yourself
People, who set low standards, usually don?t realize it because whatever standards they have set, seem normal. Picking up the gauntlet to do anything different is initially uncomfortable, however, you will not achieve your true potential and will continue to operate on a drain basis.
Become A Leader By Learning Continuously
Knowing that you are weak at something is half battle won because you will work towards supplementing the deficiency by either learning new skills or getting help from others to fill up. The best way to handle development areas is by scripting a development plan, which involves three key milestones
In 2016 These Four Sectors Will Need One Million New Hires
As the Indian economy moves northwards, the job market looks very bright. In a survey conducted by Michael Page, an international executive search firm, 76 % of the employers said that they plan to increase their headcount in 2016. Now it is up to you to ride this wave by getting a handsome pay raise and promotion with your current employer or by jumping ship to a place where you are valued rightly for your contribution, remember to tell the company if they give peanuts, they will get monkeys only. Don?t settle for less, jostle for more for you deserve a better lifestyle, avoid getting swarmed and fooled by the company loyalty and emotional drama.
Taking Charge Of Your Career Or Else You Will Be Redundant
One of the biggest hurdles in career planning is the fact that careers are lifelong events. Short-term plans are needed to be on track however one must be able to improvise and plan for future as well.
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;
The Benefits Of Knowing Oneself
Known weaknesses won?t get you into as much trouble as your blind spot would, for you can loop around and compensate for your known weakness. In case of a blind spot, you are completely unprepared and at your wits to tackle the blizzard as and when it hits you in the face.
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone or Become Obsolete
Your comfort zone is a dangerous place to be, it is where everything is wonderful, everything is familiar, and things are working well. So why is it dangerous? Because it keeps you inside the box where the world you know is familiar and there are no risks, as everything is tried and tested.
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.?
Patience Pays In Corporate Life
Impatient people interrupt, finish other people's sentences when they hesitate, ask people to hurry, urge people to finish and get to the point. All these behaviors of impatient people intimidate, irritate and demotivate others.
How To Improve Your Listening Skills
Humans have the ability to think more than twice as fast as they talk, leaving the mind to wander whilst it is listening to someone. At the workplace, more and more multitasking is happening and interruptions abound, this too has impacted our listening skills quotient.
How To Turn Negativity To Positivity
At times life may be wrenching and testing your will power to the limits, everything may be off track and each passing day piles on more of it. Even in the darkest of the days, there would be moments of joy, however small and inconsequential it may seem. Pick any three tiny golden straws that made you smile
Tips For Entrepreneurs: Thrive In Business Despite Hard Times
Entrepreneurs may be independent in comparison to those in service, but they may face tough times. How do you thrive in business even in hard times?
Do you want to turn entrepreneur...
Tips to Become Famous in Your Company
True success is not just keeping your job, but being famous by excelling in the workplace. Being famous in your company for the right reasons is an uphill task especially if...
Tips to Overcome Fear
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, ?The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ? He was very right we fail to live because of one or another fear. Facing and...
How To Be Happy In Life And Career – The Zen Way
Can you be happy in life and career at the same time; in today?s world it seems impossible, You are no different than others.?Bronnie?Ware an Australian nurse who spent several years...
Five Leadership Tips for Women in Organizations
"Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder," writes Sheryl Sandberg in her new book, "Lean In" which prompts women to take up leadership roles in corporate organizations.
It is an acknowledged...
How To Fast Track Your Career
It is the goal of every young professional starting his or her career to climb the corporate ladder as quickly as possible.However, only a few of them manage to make advancements...
How To Be A Better Manager
Being a manager in today?s environment is not easy. The key is to find the right balance. Here?s how you can be a better manager:
1. Know what you?re doing
Are you aware...
Changing Jobs – How To Evaluate A Potential Employer
In the current volatile business climate, it is important to evaluate a prospective employer and the new job from various angles. Remember that it is your future that you are taking a call on. There is no scope of snap decisions in such a scenario and no point jumping from the devil into the deep sea.
An Ounce of Positivity | Be Happy & Live Happy
You can make it happen.
Strike out ?I don?t know what to do? from your vocabulary.
You?ll figure it out.
Everything you have ever done has brought you to this point.
The force of life...
10 Things Most Successful People Say Every Day
There are many roads to success, however there are some commonalities between what the most successful people say every day. Jeff points out what most successful people say every day.
If you...
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 miserable. On the other hand, if you...
What Are The New Year Resolutions of Most Successful People
Well, it?s that time again?time to start rolling out the New Year?s resolutions.
How about learning from most successful people and their new year resolutions? Have you noticed how the most accomplished...
How To Get A New Job next year
With the onset of the holidays and a brand new year just around the corner, along come the traditional resolutions. I will lose XXkgs, I will complete a marathon, I will...
Why am I here? What am I here to do?
It's time for the big questions everyone asks themselves: Why am I here? What am I here to do?
Suddenly, I knew what I wanted. It was the eve of my...
Are You Effective at Work
Once a quarter?or so, I find it valuable to step back and ask:?How am I doing?
Otherwise, you can end up consumed by work for years at a time and not be...
Four Questions That Haunt Our Life
One of the biggest issues for me over the years has been how to make the mind an ally instead of an enemy. Everyday suffering is primarily mental. We obsess and...
How To Be Successful Like Richard Branson
Richard Branson founded Virgin in 1970 at the age of 20, and he hasn?t looked back.
He?s the only entrepreneur to have built eight separate billion-dollar companies in eight different industries ?...
10 Business Cliche’s That Prove You’re Lazy
Recognize any of the platitudes on this list? Here's why you should stop using them--now. Whipping out a platitude isn't just annoying. Using some platitudes also shows you're lazy--and not just...
Neil Armstrong – 5 Lessons From His Life
?That?s one small step for a man, one giant leap for Mankind.?
Neil Armstrong has finished his current inning on Earth for the time being; he is and will remain a legend...
What Successful People Do In The 1st Hour Of Their Work Day
How much does the first hour of every day matter? As it turns out, a lot. It can be the hour you see everything clearly, get one real thing done, and...
Failure is an opinion not Reality – Story of 360 million web hits -Susan...
How long can you dance to someone else?s tune, it?s time that you try dancing to your own tune. Go through the records of most successful people and you would see...
How to Handle Panel Interviews
As if a one-on-one interview wasn?t stressful enough ?. there is the dreaded Panel Interview! If the thought of facing a panel of interviews sends you into a tailspin, you are...
How To Handle One-on-One Interviews?
These are by far the most popular style of interview. You meet one-on-one with a representative of the company, more often than not, the manager you will be reporting to, or,...
How To Handle Telephone Interviews ?
The key to a good interview lies in your ability to research, prepare and rehearse. There are many different styles of interview and understanding how these work can help you prepare...
Got A New Boss Again: What To Do?
It is a well-known fact that established teams experience ?transition pains? under the leadership of newly appointed managers. The stress levels go up, and both the parties use moves and countermoves...
