Thriving as a First-Time Manager: Key Strategies for Success
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.
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Three New Goldmines for Job Hunters in 2018
2017, was a different year in making, rapid technological advances gave birth to new sectors and opportunities. The historical citadel started losing its sheen, and the old guard is now getting worried about their future. This was a year that separated the men from the boys. Some of the new sectors that saw intense activity…
How Can You Build Your Career In Quantum Computing ?
We have seen three industrial revolutions; each industrial revolution has given birth to new sectors. Financial and Transportation industries were created by the first industrial revolution. The second industrial revolutions brought to fore, the Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Automobile sectors. Technology and Media sectors were the gifts of the third industrial revolution, giving…
Why Artificial Intelligence Is a Great Career Option
BBC has recently reported that up to 800 million would lose their jobs to robotic automation by 2030 and as per McKinsey, this will affect one-fifth of the world?s total workforce. Artificial intelligence is a great career option for job seekers as it is the driving force behind automation and robotics. So, what is Artificial…
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 the mid-1950s, Buffett today commands a net worth of more than USD 80 billion, according to data from Forbes. Here are the lessons that budding entrepreneurs can learn from the extraordinary…
Use Coworking For Networking
One of the attractive features of the concept of co-working is its work culture of which networking is an inherent part. In a co-working space, entrepreneurs
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.
Unveiling the Potential of Developmental Coaching
Success in developmental coaching means building the capacity to navigate life’s challenges with resilience and authenticity. It’s about taking ownership of your past, facing the future with courage, and maintaining genuine relationships without losing your sense of self.
Tips For Conducting Training Needs Analysis Accurately?
The first step in the process of ensuring the appropriateness and effectiveness of training is an organisational need analysis process. This process clarifies organisational objectives and the desired level of performance. Needs analysis is a common process in most organisations.
HR Interview Questions That You Must Be Prepared For
The HR interviewers tend to review your resume carefully and will notice if you have bee out of work between positions, and this is often seen as a sign that one of your job stints didn’t go, as you would have planned for.
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.
Tips To Clear The Internship Interview With Flying Colors
Getting placed in good company for internship goes a long way in building your career, it gives you a head start. Here are few questions that will help you in clearing the HR interview round for securing a dream internship role.
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.
Mindfulness: The Secret Ingredient to Skyrocketing Your Career
Mindfulness instills a profound sense of inner empowerment, bolstering self-confidence and goal-directed behavior. By mastering attention control and reducing emotional reactivity, you feel more adept at managing emotions and harnessing cognitive resources for self-regulation.
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.
Measuring the ROI of Training Programs
Kirkpatrick, a veteran of this field has published taxonomy of different kinds of data that can be used in evaluating training programs in organisations as well as other HR-interventions. Let us take a look at them.
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 each other. It stands true for organisations too; it is a well-known fact that having a diverse team leads to a better organisation. Research…
How To Design a Great Mentoring Program?
With the rapid changes in the world economy coupled with geopolitical divides, organizations are going through challenging times. The unexpected changes have left employees grasping for direction and support; Mentoring is the most common way of filling this void and help the employees navigate through turbulent times. Easier said than done, designing and implementing a…
Harnessing Strategic Leadership: Unlocking Your Corporate Potential
Strategic leadership is pivotal for anyone aiming to ascend in the corporate world. It involves mastering the language of strategy, recognizing the value of planning, looking beyond the immediate horizon, and embracing the complexity inherent in strategic thinking.
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
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.
How To Be A Change Leader
Your task as a change leader is to envision and help bring about change in the organization, a change that has positive long – term consequences for single parts of the organization and for the organization as a whole or the society it operates within.
Demystifying Corporate Culture
As a leader have a role in making the cultural change work succeed. You have to make an endeavor to establish the formal conditions for a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable effective interactions in a cross – cultural framework.
Mastering the Art of ‘AskIng What You Need’
Remember, the essence of ‘Asking What You Need’ is not about guaranteeing every request is met, but about opening channels for dialogue, understanding, and opportunity.
Measuring Potential: The Key to Ascending the Corporate Ladder
By focusing on the holistic measure of potential, we can unlock new opportunities for growth, innovation, and leadership. Whether you’re an individual aiming for your next career milestone or an organization looking to nurture future leaders, understanding and measuring potential is key to unlocking success.
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.
The Strategic Advantage of Electing a CEO
Electing a CEO isn’t just about choosing a leader; it’s about aligning the company’s strategy and cultural attitude. Through the election process, employees and leaders come together to reflect on the company’s direction and how it should evolve.
Upskilling Your Team: Enhancing Productivity and Engagement
Upskilling your team is a crucial step towards preparing them for higher responsibilities and enhancing their task delivery both efficiently and effectively.
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.