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 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,...
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.
If You Don?t Ask, You Won’t Get It
In any negotiation, the goal should be to avoid an outcome where the final response is a ?no.? What-if responses help you in driving the conversation further by suggesting pointed actions that you can take to implement the suggestions or roadblocks brought to the table by your manager.
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 Electing a CEO Benefits the Company
It simply makes good business sense to empower employees to elect the people they will be following every workday for at least the next year. True democracy in the workplace ? based on trust, transparency, and partnership ? demonstrates at the most fundamental level that we?re all in this together
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.
The Art of Brainstorming
Brainstorming is not a random activity. It needs to be structured and follows key rules. In brainstorming, a problem or challenge is defined in neutral terms. Participants then spontaneously share ideas for solving the problem, these ideas are offered under specific conditions. Osborn, father of the Brainstorming sessions, set forth these guidelines for a session:
Is Your Idea Worth Pursuing ?
Restraining forces act to restrain or decrease the driving forces. For any idea to be successfuly implemented, the driving forces must exceed the restraining forces. Equilibrium or balance gets achieved when the sum of the driving forces once again equals the sum of the restraining forces.
Using Mind Maps To Win The Corporate Game
Mind maps have a variety of applications in business, educational, and personal situations as aids in problem solving, decision making, and learning. You can use them for these purposes:
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.
5 Working Style Blunders That Will Make You A Sitting Duck
Most of us underestimate change and when it engulfs our careers, we repent and blame the environment or our managers. Run for your life and be prepared to be nuked, if the following symptoms are common in your in your working style.
Using Senior Level Sponsorship To Propel Your Goals.
During the review, a managerial candidate is introduced by his/ her reporting manager and other senior members of the management team are invited to share their views on the candidate?s competencies and leadership potential. These discussions can exert a major influence on the manager?s future career progression. It?s at this point that having support and sponsorship of your senior management team can have a crucial and positive effect on your career trajectory.
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;
Does Your Team lack Foresight?
Teams that suffer from lack of foresight are more likely to be jolted by unpleasant surprises. Without an efficient early warning system, such teams are frequently blinded by problems. In addition, they employ a reactive approach that allows problems to mushroom out of control before they are eventually addressed.
Worlds Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire – Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at 19 with a plan to start her own company, Theranos. To fund Theranos, she dipped into the pot her parents had saved for...
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.
5 Lessons from Oprah Winfrey’s Life
Change is the only constant in life; failure to keep pace with the change will make you extinct. Tuning your life to the change and adapting to it is the only way to survival. If you want to get ahead life, embrace change instead to cribbing about it. Oprah says, We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
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.
From a KFC-reject to $21 Billion in net worth – Jack Ma’s life
Ma started his career as an English teacher and failed in numerous ventures, including being rejected for a job in KFC, before he founded Alibaba in 1999. Today, he is China's...
How to Improve The Quality Of Your Decisions
In your career, one thing is for sure that you will make quite a few decisions. Good decisions will bear fruit for some time and the bad ones will haunt you...
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...
The Difference Between Winners and Losers Is Resilience
Riley Pat said - "You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again." The difference between...
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...
Three Things Bill Gates Has Learned From Warren Buffett
Last month, I went to Omaha for the annual?Berkshire Hathaway?shareholders meeting. It?s always a lot of fun, and not just because of the ping-pong matches and the newspaper-throwing contest I have...
Story Of Dani Johnson From Broke & Homeless to Millionaire In 2 Years
We are limited by the beliefs we set in our mind, history shows that successful people are able to break these shackles and unleash their potential. The difference is the?? T...
How To Be Your Company’s Next Rising Star
You may often have asked yourself, ?How do I get on my company?s rising star list??. This article gives you practical tips to navigate your rise to the top.
Most organizations don?t...
5 Tips From Richard Branson On Starting A Successful Business
As LinkedIn is a business that started in a living room, much like Virgin began in a basement, I thought my first blog on the site should be about how to...
How To Build a Successful Career Even if You aren’t from an Ivy League...
One of my favorite leaders, a guy who is enormously successful and likable, has built thriving businesses, and is deeply ?followable,? revealed to me some years ago that he had been...
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...
5 Reasons People Fail & What Can You Do To Be Successful
Why do some people achieve their goals while others fail? I believe it's because successful people manage to overcome five barriers that, in many cases, guarantee failure. Here are those barriers...
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...
What Can You Learn from Justin Bieber’s Life
Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber echoes in the hall where he makes an appearance. Justin Bieber has 43 million Facebook fans, 22 million twitter followers and 2.9 billion...
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...
How Becoming a Leader Can Help You Get a Promotion
Many companies today are looking for leaders, not just managers, to take on greater roles within the organization. As a result, competition for higher-level positions can be fierce. Leaders have the...
5 Habits Of Highly Productive People
From the top rungs of the management to the first line worker, everyone across sectors is looking for ways to be more productive at work. There are no magic pills to...
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 he had set himself some career goals...
How To Delegate Effectively?
The biggest limiting factor which hinders growth of successful young managers to middle management is their inability to delegate effectively. There are only so many working hours in a day and...
Myth of Work-Life Balance
Work- Life Balance is one of the most debated topic in today?s world. Some believe that this is?not being looked at holistically?and may not be doable. Jack Welch, former GE CEO...
Managing e-mail Overload ? 10 Tips for Success
One of the common challenge employees face is how to manage?e-mails, not be managed by it. Time is a zero sum game. You can spend your precious time on an e-mail...
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 choose our needs, they emancipate from our...
