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If you’re in a managerial position and you are not getting feedback from your direct reports, you need to change this situation. It’s quite important for managers to receive upward feedback because it contains valuable inputs can be extracted into modified behavior, policies & process. In fact, soliciting upward feedback helps boost the morale of […]

To experience all round success in both work and your personal life, you need to live and breathe the values which hold true for you. To do that, you need to figure out what your key personal values are. The secret of a balanced life that gives you happiness, success, and fulfillment, lies in your […]

Improving an organisation’s level of employee engagement can be a somewhat challenging task. It’s understandable that managers, supervisors, or even the higher up execs require as much help to ensure employees are invested in the journey. It is often helpful to have a cheat sheet by your side as a ready reference to help you […]

In today’s business culture, one of the conundrums, semantically created is the interchange of the terms reward and recognition. Both are extremely important and work together to attract and retain high performance employees.  To comprehend the meaning of both these terms, they need to be de-coupled, and their differences, as well as their benefits, need to be listed. […]

Most organisations possess leaders who have robust operational skills that are needed to maintain the status quo. However, they seem to lack the critical skill of confident and experienced strategic leadership to tackle the critical problems. These critical, or so-called, ‘wicked problems’ often require organisations to transform the way in which they run their business. The situation […]

The Egyptian artisans hired to build the necropolis for Pharaoh Ramses III in the 12th century BC were not connected in the sense of today’s connected employee. In a word, they were not SMAC, Social Mobile Analytics Cloud, empowered. Despite the lack of SMAC gear that’s the norm for connected employee in today’s leading companies, the […]

Feedback plays a significant role in enhancing the productivity of organisations. According to the traditional scenario, feedback was provided at the time of annual performance reviews. However, such feedback has proven to be ineffective in managing the performance of employees. Any drop in performance needs to be identified promptly. If it remains unnoticed till the […]

Based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, next to physical safety, ‘belonging’ is a basic human necessity. In context of the workplace, when an employee believes in the organisation’s mission, they tend to invest in that journey as well. These employees utter statements such as: “We are putting together a new program successfully” or “We have […]

Teamwork culture is promoting a work culture that values collaboration. When people work in a team environment, they are likely to make better decisions in terms of planning, thinking, and making decisions and actions by cooperating with one another. Teamwork culture took a backseat in the past, as most of our family structures, schools, etc. […]

It’s a tried and tested theory that recognising your employees is a pathway towards maximising employee engagement. This engagement can form between you and your employee or your employee with the company overall. When you recognise your employees for their efforts, contributions and time, they feel acknowledged and significant to your organisation. How this is beneficial […]

Every organisation aims to achieve its business objectives through efficient and intelligent utilisation of its workforce. This would be a relatively simple exercise if every employee was aligned and understood the strategic goals of the organisation and also, clearly understood what exactly they need to do to meet their individual goals. Goal setting is the process […]

Everyone procrastinates occasionally, but in today’s fast-moving business environment, procrastination can generate serious consequences. Regardless of whether you manage, supervise or work as a team member, procrastination can affect other people’s performances and compromise their efficiency and ability to do their jobs. What Is Procrastination? People have always put off certain tasks due to a […]

If you asked a group of CEOs ‘what’s your competitive advantage?’, some will say building a superior quality product, while others may promote their robust business model. The majority though, are likely to say that their people are their advantage.  Now, this may sound like an obvious response, the truth is, no matter how good your […]

The objective behind the performance appraisal process is to correct, guide, and motivate employees. It also facilitates the growth of the employees and helps in achieving business goals. Appraisals as a norm are held once or twice a year in most of the organisations. It is only during these times that employees and managers sit […]

Every business or corporation needs a smart team who can successfully find and deploy the best talents in the industry by building an effective recruitment system. Today’s modern technologies and up-to-date strategies have not only made the recruitment world more interesting and appealing, they’ve also introduced new and innovative challenges to navigate. One way to […]

Try to visualise a situation where you have to sell jobs for your organisation to individuals who have a lot of lucrative job opportunities in hand. In such a situation, what would you sell the job for or would you be able to attract the right talent towards a certain position? It is a fact […]

One of the most effective ways to make your team feel connected and work collaboratively in a more engaging & fun way, is through team building games. These are broken down into  communication activities, problem solving and/or decision making activities, adaptability and/or planning activities, and activities that focus on building trust. The key is to find the right […]

It has been observed that  employee performance appraisals are usually conducted without much thought for the business goals or needs. When goals are misaligned and not clear, it may limit both individual performance, as well as organisational performance, resulting in reduced engagement levels. Rarely do organisations cascade goals from the executive team down to the different departments and finally to the employees. […]