Tips For Getting Your Sabbatical Approved
In theatrical or traditional terms, a sabbatical involves a break from work. The employer based on a mutually agreed-upon time period usually grants the leave period. However, not all sabbaticals go...
Coping with Gender Discrimination Issues at Work
We live in a day and age where awareness about gender equality is higher than ever, however, the same may not be reflected everywhere as some of the gender bias can...
The Business Case For Gender Diversity
Mother nature is diverse, and it benefits are seen everywhere, we have multiple species of animals and plants. Together all of them make up the ecosystem and grow with and through...
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.
Blind Hiring Can Reduce Discrimination In Hiring
A company providing Blind Hiring in the United States conducted 1,200 auditions across 13 companies to study if real change is happening or not. The results were way better than the industry average,
Countering The Male Ego
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology after a research study in 2013, found that men don?t feel great about themselves, when their wives or girlfriends get successful, with their self-esteem dipping...
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 who is asking stupid questions or reducing...
How To Make Diversity Recruiting Work?
Although commitment to diversity must begin with the senior leadership, it must also be disseminated throughout the organization because senior management?s buy in is not sufficient to create the day-to-day atmosphere necessary to promote the retention of diverse employees on an ongoing basis.
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.
Do women get a fair chance at workplace?
Gender Equality seems to be media?s darling these days and every week one or another company gets highlighted for its women friendly practices. The reality on the ground is strikingly different....
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...
Early Preparation is the Key to Successful Negotiation
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail is a very old saying and fits in aptly for negotiations. Any successful negotiation is about mutually agreeing to terms which lead to a...
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...
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...
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 said, we have to give due credit...
How To Do A Good Performance Review
The ingredients of a bad performance review are haste, lack of focus, a non-empathic attitude and a mechanical approach to the process. A good performance review obviously calls for a diametrically...
Getting Back To Work Painlessly After Long Leave
Returning to work after a long leave is not always an uplifting experience. The mind and metabolism are likely to have adapted to a more leisurely pace, and one may have...
Why You May Hate Performance Reviews
Performance feedback and review is part and parcel of the life of someone in a managerial role. Poorly handled reviews lead to low morale and dissatisfaction, in turn increasing workload. There...
How To Tackle A Difficult Boss
It?s a vexing problem for many ? they like their job but just don?t seem to be able to get along with their boss.? Obviously, the first impulse of many who...
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 - many businesses continue to have a...
Gender Diversity ? Women In Leadership Roles
Why is gender diversity at the workplace important? One could cite any number of politically correct reasons. However, those have already been done to death by others. Also, they are not...
Psychology As A Life And Career Tool
For many centuries, the study of human thought and emotion was not considered a very fruitful pursuit. Not that it hasn?t fascinated many people down the ages ? it has. But...
Tips To Create Time And Harness Energy
Life for corporate employees has become so hectic these days that if they blink, they may miss something potentially important. It is almost impossible to be fully present in the moment...
Tips On Enhancing Team Effectiveness
Very simply put, a team is nothing but a system of getting people in a company to work together effectively. The idea is that a group of people working together can...
Tips On How to Handle Workplace Conflicts In Style
There is nobody who has not had problems at work, and these problems invariably involve one?s supervisor, co-workers or even boss. Workplace conflicts are common ? but the skills to handle...
How To Get Yourself Noticed At Work
Has your talent; potential and resourcefulness on the?job?gone unnoticed while those of others have been rewarded? Have others of equal experience risen on the corporate ladder much faster than you? You...
How to Get Promoted Without Asking
It is time to rise in the ranks in your company, and you are convinced that you deserve a promotion. You could always ask for one, but how would such a...
Asked to Relocate? What To Ask Your Employer
Have you been asked by your employer to relocate? If so, you are in a situation which an increasing number of employees are finding themselves in today. There can be any...
How To Tackle Difficult People at Work
Troublemakers at the office come in various shades, and they have different styles and approaches to making their presence felt. To be fair, most of them may not even know how...
