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Updated on: Nov 2022
How to Handle a Personal Relationship at Workplace
Culture & Behaviour

How to Handle a Personal Relationship at Workplace

Today’s workspace, where most of our time is spent with our colleagues at the office, opens up a lot of possibilities for personal or intimate relationships developing. Personal relationships include family relationships like spouses, siblings, people dating each other, very close friendships, and close business, commercial and financial relationships. Such personal relationships continue to thrive […]

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Workplace Relationship Challenges and How to Handle Them
Culture & Behaviour

Workplace Relationship Challenges and How to Handle Them

In today’s ever-evolving global landscape, the challenges in front of business professionals are enormous. Everyone is stretched to a point where it is difficult to think beyond the immediate and near-term challenges of managing multiple stakeholders’ day-to-day and quarter-to-quarter expectations! One of the keys to managing today is to ensure that colleagues across the organization […]

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Moonlighting – Should Companies Embrace or Fight This?
Culture & Behaviour

Moonlighting – Should Companies Embrace or Fight This?

Let’s first understand what Moonlighting is, as many of you may not be familiar with this. The term Moonlighting is to refer people taking up a second job or side gig apart from their regular job. This term has come from the historical practice of people picking up additional work after their regular hours of […]

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How to build a better relationship with your boss?
Culture & Behaviour

How to build a better relationship with your boss?

Every company expects its employees to work towards achieving business goals and taking the organisation from 0 to 1. That’s ‘Business 101.’ But, ensuring that employees work in a happy and healthy environment where bosses and their aides maintain a jovial yet formal relationship, that’s ‘Business 101 – Extension.’ This will not only increase the […]

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Discovering The World Beyond Succession Planning
Leadership

Discovering The World Beyond Succession Planning

Succession Planning is increasingly being viewed as an organizational imperative to ensure the timely availability of qualified and competent candidates who can take up the reins of critical leadership positions upon the availability of relevant vacancies. It is generally seen as a proactive measure that marginalizes ‘Replacement Planning’ and hedges against the risk of a […]

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Succession Planning in the Age of Constant Change
Succession Planning

Succession Planning in the Age of Constant Change

While most organizations appreciate the need for effective succession planning, few manage to do it well. In a world that is undergoing constant change, businesses are thrust with different comparison points every second. The recent pandemic and the following attrition trends have further intensified the complex business environment. Power has shifted from organizations to people. […]

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Succession Planning: Managing Risk or Managing Sustainability?
Succession Planning

Succession Planning: Managing Risk or Managing Sustainability?

As the great resignation wave continues with a recent trend of quiet quitting haunting the workplace, employees are leaving their roles at unprecedented rates, often unexpectedly and without much warning. The war for talent empowers employees to weigh their professional options, resulting in a large-scale talent loss for organizations worldwide. Along with that, there is […]

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Succession that Works
Succession Planning

Succession that Works

Most established organizations have succession slates – nicely laid out documents with clearly marked out successors, not just “Ready now” but also showing a pipeline for the next 3-5 years. These plans can be detailed with some even hosted on the HRMS. But when positions fall vacant, are these slates really referred to? Apart from […]

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Paradigm Shift in Leadership for Tomorrow
Leadership

Paradigm Shift in Leadership for Tomorrow

The definition of leadership has evolved over the years and today, it is more situational than generic. In the post-COVID world, the importance of leading is the pivot for productivity, agility, and humanity. The leaders of today have evolved after going through multiple shifts and challenges – both technologically and otherwise. The focus has gradually […]

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Key Steps and Processes for the Succession Planning
Succession Planning

Key Steps and Processes for the Succession Planning

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we […]

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Succession Planning – What’s Right and What’s the Risk?
Succession Planning

Succession Planning – What’s Right and What’s the Risk?

The office was unusually chaotic one Monday morning as Anamika walked in. In her tenure as HR Manager for the last 7 years, she had not seen anything like this. She learnt that 3 high profile employees had announced their resignation and the impact was too sudden to handle. There were speculations about retention strategies, […]

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Katja Schipperheijn on Important Steps of Succession Planning
Succession Planning

Katja Schipperheijn on Important Steps of Succession Planning

In Conversation with Katja Schipperheijn on Important Steps of Succession Planning Katja Schipperheijn is an internationally recognised author, learning strategist, guest lecturer, and keynote speaker on innovations that support learning and knowledge sharing from the symbiosis of humans and machines to achieve sustainable growth with a focus on engagement and well-being. As an author, Katja […]

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