We are bang in the middle of prediction season. That can only mean one thing! Today, I’m sharing not only my top five predictions for the year ahead but also my three ‘not a trend’s. 2024 promises to be yet another turbulent year. Will the ‘2024 word of the workplace’ be stability? I doubt it. … Continue reading 2024: The trends & non-trends
It has been seven years since, inspired by a YouTube video, I began setting a ‘word of the year’. I want to say I’ve been true to the words but much like with the monthly challenges, there lies great scope for improvement. However, that is no reason to break tradition. As 2023 drew to a … Continue reading 2024 Word of the year – Positivity
I started with the intention of drafting a long post with my favorite reads, tunes and wins from the year and had just finished typing the first draft when I scrapped the idea because all I really want to say is - no matter where in the world you are, I hope you have the … Continue reading Happy Holidays!!!
If you’ve interacted with me over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a departure from my usual calm, sensible and balanced demeanor. Instead, you came face to face with an angry young woman who’d snap at you at the slightest provocation. It isn’t that I haven’t identified the change in my approach but … Continue reading Respond; not react
What does December represent to you: a month of celebration, a month of reflection, a month to catch up with everything while the world rotates a little slower or are you an overachiever who wants to do all of the above? If you are anything like me, you’ll try to bundle it all into December … Continue reading Rejoice: We survived (almost thrived) yet another year
Mid way through this year, my manager sat us (the team) down to share a bunch of documents and lessons he’d picked up from a recent leadership offsite. As I was cleaning out my office desk last week, I found the documents and scribbled in corners were my top takeaways from the day. I sat … Continue reading Five things; from one professional to another
I have two half-written blog posts at the moment but having witnessed the OpenAI drama unfold over the last five days, albeit from a distance, those two can wait a little longer. Never in an organization’s history, has there been so much going on in less than a week. The last time a fired CEO … Continue reading The OpenAI drama
I recently spent some time perusing the LinkedIN The Future of Recruiting 2023 global and India report. Like most LinkedIn reports, it is a treasure trove of data and while the report explores 17 trends under the themes of role of recruiting, economic uncertainty, employer branding, skills-first hiring and internal mobility & upskilling, the trends … Continue reading It’s (not) all about the money!
November is a strange time of the year. It is when people around (including me) begin realizing that the end of the year is near. Surrounded by a barrage of social posts and conversations reminiscing on how quickly the year rushed by, I find myself caught between obsessing over 2023 goals, wanting to achieve them … Continue reading Musings on November
The debate on whether machines will take over our jobs has been raging long before I entered the workforce, and guess what? No matter how advanced the technology, how large the cloud, or how artificial the intelligence, jobs will always be around. The question is: Which Jobs? The top skills required over the next decade … Continue reading Top Jobs for 2025 and Beyond
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