After the craze of tracking expenditures and calorie intake, there is a new obsession – one that of tracking time. In a small pilot run in our company, we ran one such tool. The results were astonishing. A top management guy realized that he spends 2.5hrs on personal calls in office as opposed to the … Continue reading Track it all!
Travelling, flying in and out of meeting does make for poor blogging. I apologize for being away for long but there is so much to talk about.....expect a flurry of posts appearing. Cheers
Remember the fiasco of meeting 1? This next one was really amazing. Why? Because we decided to reverse engineer the entire process. We are so used to first fixing a framework and then working within the constraints, that we miss out on some aspects and increase the process time. We looked at our earlier selection … Continue reading Critical Employee Group: Identification – Reverse Engineering it!
Does this image instantly relax you? In this short post, I'm going to let the experts to the talking! Innumerable articles talk about the close relationship between nature and higher productivity. The below articles say it better than I can. Read on: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3021742/evidence/want-to-be-more-productive-buy-some-desk-plants http://www.fastcompany.com/3007642/stuck-idea-walk-through-park So what say, we start giving out some desk plants as … Continue reading Get the green in!
The most amusing thing happened at work today! But first, I must give you a little background. The Business unit based out of the location for which I work consists of close to 80 employees most of who are new hires or have been with us for less than 2 years. This location serves majorly … Continue reading Critical Employee Group!
It’s the time of year for hot chocolate, holidays and much merriment. It’s also the time to look back and reflect on the major HR trends that dominated much of 2013.While a lot of us will be looking at the major trends for 2014 and trying to incorporate them in our organizations, it is important … Continue reading Happy Holidays!
Buffer, a San Francisco based Social media startup, recently published the salaries of its employees on public domain. While this has generated a lot of buzz and good will, there is a good deal of debate on if this was indeed a wise move. http://qz.com/160348/why-a-startup-just-published-all-of-its-employees-salaries-for-the-world-to-see/#! As a startup, it can probably afford to put out … Continue reading Putting it all out there!
There is a tendency to treat people based on how you refer to them. A lot of companies are choosing to shift away from words like employees or worse still resources. Notice how all notices, policy documents avoids the word employees and prefers words like ‘colleagues’, ‘managers’ and more?Companies are increasingly coining words to refer … Continue reading Employees!! Let’s stop calling them that.
A series of highly interesting posts have been making an appearance on the LinkedIn series on Big Idea 2014. As I was going through these, I realized that 2014 is going to be a year where we all just get much lazier. Out mental acumen may improve but our bodies will be abused much more. … Continue reading Big Idea 2014
Every organization has at one point of time toyed with the idea of mentorship. Some go ahead and try it and fewer still have had a successful mentorship program running smoothly. Mentorship is instituted in most organizations to solve a problem; to evoke a positive answer to the question:‘There is someone at work who encourages … Continue reading Mentorship – & why it fails!
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