- 80% of Workplace Conflicts can be Solved by Effective Communication
Well, don't go by the phrase "Effective Communication" in the title of the article, we are not going to discuss things like types of communication, communication cycle, channels of communication, barriers in effective communication or other related things.Did you ever realize that 80% of your problems be it at professional front or personal front, could be solved by "Effective Communication" or "Proper Communication?" Yes, it can. A "Proper Communication" or "Effective Communication" can give solution for most of your problems; can give answers for most of your questions; can help in clearing many misunderstanding. - Employment with Your Ex-Employer - Acceptable or Not?
On Friday night, as I am sitting in my study room, a thought just crossed my mind…is it right to accept a job opportunity with your ex-employer? I know some of you might say, “No, one should not” and many of you might say.... - Existence of Recruitment Team in your Organization
What do you think is the actual role and responsibility of "Recruitment Team" in company? I my previous write-up titled "Roles for HR Professionals in New Economy, I have mentioned about various roles and responsibilities that a "Recruitment Team" can take-up. The key and main role of the Recruitment Team of any organization is "Sourcing" but even if they are not doing that and just working as a mediator between Various Departments and Recruitment Consultancy Firms/Agency don't you think they are not justifying their very existence in the system? Lets go in detail and find the solution. - Give Yourself and to Your Life - "Just One More Chance"
“Every moment is a new moment; every day is a new day. Every show is a new show; and every match is a new game.” - Gossiping and Its Effect on Performance Management System
In every organization, there are two type of people - those who work and those who don't. Those who work can further be classified into three categories - High Performers, Average Performers and Low Performers. We have many training tools and methods to improve the performance of our people and move them from the category of "average performers" to "high performers". Those who don’t work, there is no sub-division for them and they are just known as "Gossip Mongers" (The Chamcha's). The career growth-rate of these Chamcha’s is at par (if not higher than) with High-Performers. Why? Is this, we call as "Performance Management"? Where are HR-Leaders and HR-Statesmen? In this write-up I have tried to answer these and some other related issues. - Human Relations: Friendship is 21st Century
In the present century, when we all are busy, we all are running behind growth and prosperity; during the time when people don’t have time for their family members, time when parents.... - Human Relations: Relations We Don't Want To Talk About
When I look around and seeI see that many people are involved in multiple relations with opposite gender…either they are maintaining all relations at a time and one after another. I wonder, if this is a status symbol or side effects of globalization…a genuine need and just lust. You may wonder, why a HR Professional is discussing about such relations? Well, if such relations can exist in open…so, I don’t think there is any harm in discussing about it. Human Resource Department deals with Human Behaviour, Human Emotions, Human Values, Human Joys, Happiness and Human Sentiments…and in such relations we see all these emotions. - Kindly Write Few Lines of Appreciation
Appreciation, awards, recognition, respect and love, everybody needs these things in life. They are the heart, soul and life of Human Beings. Is there anybody among the readers, who can say with confidence that these things are materialistic and they can survive and live without these things? We need appreciation, we need respect and we have seen that some, in fact, many people can go to any extent to get noticed; to get appreciated and get respected. Hosting parties and functions is one such common and mostly used tactic to show-off to people, get noticed and appreciated. - Learning is a Continuous Process - Are You Learning?
For the purpose of this article, we need to redefine the term "Learning". Reading Newspapers, Magazines, Listening News, Acquiring Degrees is not Learning. So, what does learning consist of:Application of theory Application of reading Maturity in thinking and decision making Learning from Mistakes (Not Repeating the Mistakes) Learning from experience (Others and Yours) - Making HRthe Most Lovable Profession
I feel that it is one love-hate equation, where some people love you and some hates you. In a crowd of more than two people you cannot expect everyone to love you…everyone to agree with you. That has never happened and will never happen. There will always be few people who will love you and few to hate you. Only thing that you can do is that by your work…by your behaviour…by your attitude…you can have more people to love you…to love your profession and hate you and your profession. To tilt this equEmployees Love HR Professionals…Employees Hate HR Professionals:ation, entirely depends on an individual, his style of working and his approach. Love-hate equation can be different in different company. No degree and no education can give you an assurance that all people will “Just” love you. You are MBA from Harvard, Oxford, London School of Business or IIM; you are certified by SHRM or CIPD; no institute can give you an assurance that your employee will always agree with you and will always love your work.As I said in one of my previous write-up…few people…just few people by their behaviour, work and attitude brings bad name for the organization, for the profession, for the community and for the country. - New Year 2007 - Hopes, Dreams, Learning and Human Relations
Every Day is a New Day.Every Experience is a New Experience.Every Game is a New Game.Friends, we are on the verge of saying "Good Bye" to the year 2006 and ready to embrace the New Year…Year 2007.I am sure that in the year passing by…you all have learned a lot and achieved a lot. Not all the days are same. You too might have a mix of feelings and emotions in your life, in the year 2006…hurt, pain, celebrations, joy, feel of pride and achievements, many smiles and pampering too.We all know that life is a best tutor, it teaches you…lot many lessons and continue to teach you, till the time you become expert. Here, I like to share few incidents, thoughts and experiences; you can choose some of these as your resolution for the year 2007. - People are SayingBut, I Believe That
Hearing v/s believing…thinking v/s trusting, this is one topic that flashed into my mind when I went for my morning walk. Do you remember last time when your boss scolded you, how he started his attack? Or when your spouse started fight with you…what were the first few words? Or when your parents scold you the last time…how they started? Let me jog your memories and say that most of the time…it starts with following or any of the following phrases:1) I heard that… 2) I think that… 3) People are saying that… 4) XYZ was saying that… etc etc etc - Plan Your Time - Manage Your Time, Invest Your Time
Number of hours in a day will not change. There will only be 86,400 seconds in a day. It is up to you, how you manage and use each of those seconds. One needs to invest each second. As, it has been rightly said, time once passed will never come again. Busy people are very satisfied, happy and do everything that they want to do in their life. Those, who show that they are busy, end up with frustration, burn-outs, stress and most of the time failure in life and profession. - Reality Bites-Breaking the News
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There are incidents in our life where we have to disclose some news or have to say something to people close to us...known to us where we are aware that it may hurt them. For Example read the following: - Roles for HR-Professionals in New Economy 21st Century
As we have moved from Old Economy to New Economy and from 20th Century to 21st Century, in the era when we are try to outsource most of the functions, in some of the organizations even the total HR-Functions are outsourced, what are the various roles that an HR-Professional can look up to. I have spoken to many recruitment consultants but somehow they failed to give the clarity of role that they are "Head Hunting" for. People with in the organization, at times are just overlapping the various functions. In this write-up, I am just trying to explain the various roles that HR Professionals can play in New Economy, along with the traits required for each function. - Romance at Workplace : Debate (Part - 1)
Recently, we had one very interesting debate on "workplace Romance." What if one of your male employees likes to spend his "Free time" with one of his female Colleague. We tried to find following things:1. Is it wrong or right? 2. If the management have any right to intervene? 3. Should there be any policy to have a check on such "interactions?" 4. It is his or her personal life and no one should interfere. 5. If this is a right of an individual and the organization let them continue?I am sure you will find this debate…an interesting one. - Romance at Workplace : Debate (Part - 2)
Recently, we had one very interesting debate on “workplace Romance”. What if one of your male employees likes to spend his “Free time” with one of his female Colleague. We tried to find following things:1. Is it wrong or right? 2. If the management have any right to intervene? 3. Should there be any policy to have a check on such "interactions?" 4. It is his or her personal life and no one should interfere. 5. If this is a right of an individual and the organization let them continue?I am sure you will find this debate…an interesting one. - Self Motivation: I Have Three Diamonds
I have three Diamonds and they are precious to me. My life will go for a toss, if any of those diamonds go missing. My life would not have been the same without these diamonds of my life. For me all three are important and precious.Without my first diamond, I will be like a person without backbone; If I don't have the second diamond, I will not make mistakes and I will not learn. In the absence of the third diamond, I will be like a person living in isolationin a closed room. I will start thinking as if I am perfect. I will start thinking that whatever I am doing is correct. There will not be anything to master. There will not be any competition and nothing to prove to any one. - Self-Motivation is the Best Motivation
What is the motive of our life? What is very purpose of our life? What makes us to wake-up early in the morning and rush for work or college or school? What is that keeps us to continue? Is living – a compulsion? Just because everybody is living…I will also live.What motivates you?1. Power2. Position3. Money4. Valuable goods and assets5. Growth6. Acceptance and Respect7. Appreciation, rewards and awards - Soft Skills for HR Professionals
To work in any profession, one should not only have "Subject Matter Expertise" but also personality, behavior, decorum, mannerism, attitude, professional approach, and thinking to work efficiently and to sustain in that given profession. Failing which, irrespective of your knowledge, education and background you will never be able to grow in that profession. This is also true for HR Profession. There are some minimum expectations from HR Professionals, in the way they carry themselves, behave and present themselves that can hamper or lift their image and professional graph. Some of those traits and attributes I have mentioned in this article. Though, to a large extent I have covered all the attributes but still I consider this list as INCLUSIVE and not EXCLUSIVE. The need is to benchmark your Personality and Behavior. Respect can only be earned and not "asked for". - Somewhere… Someone is Waiting for You
Have you ever wondered? Have you ever thought that somewhere, somebody is waiting for you? Yes, there are people who wait for you; at different time of a day; on different days; at different stages of life. Purpose can be different; needs can be different; reasons can be different but they wait for you… they are waiting for you; for different things; with lots of hopes and expectations. In fact, they always wait for you. - The Art of Taking Interviews: Benchmarking Interviews
Have you ever seen an interviewer to prepare for an interview? Many times, I have seen, many of the interviewer's don't even care to scan through the profiles/resumes of the candidates, before sitting "Across the Interview Table". Probably, they think that take interview is not a big-deal. Many interviewers just ask the questions as it comes to their mind, without even knowing the purpose of those questions. What do you think how many interviews you can take in one day? If properly conducted, even if you are recruiter and hiring people for entry level positions…you can take more than 35 interviews in a working day of 10 hours. If you are taking more than 35 interviews…then I am sorry, you are not taking interviews but just making a fool of yourself and misrepresenting your organization. - The Problem is That
When some people have problems and others have solutionsIf some people have worries and other can understand thatWhen some people are busy but others are able to spare some moments for themWhen some people fall and other are able to hold their handIf someone is walking alone and others join. - To Follow-up or Not to Follow-up
In government offices, with Insurance companies, in relations of Customer/Client and Service Provider and even in corporate world, at times we follow-up with the concerned person to know and to ensure if our work has been done or not. I personally don’t like this act of follow-ups; I don't encourage such activities and I don’t appreciate that. I feel that by following-up you are insulting the other person. If someone need to follow-up with me or if someone follow-up with me, I feel insulted. So, what is the solution? Whether we should follow-up? Who should follow-up? In this write-up, I will be sharing few examples and will try to find a solution. - Union Finance Budget for Financial Year 2007-2008, Government of India (India is Shining)
Union Finance Minister (Govt. of India) P Chidambaram presented the Union Budget for 2007-08 in Parliament on Wednesday, 28th Feb. 2007 - What is Professionalism? Are You a Professional?
Let me start this write-up with a question, what is Professionalism? - Your "Hello Tunes" and Your "Interview Calls"
I hope that people on other side will not take this write-up as an intrusion into their private life. - Your Boss…Your Buddy…Where to Mark the Boundary?
We all know that these days one need very good “networking” to get a good break…
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