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Updated on: Dec 2019
What do I want?
Culture & Behaviour

What do I want?

Perhaps the most important question we ask ourselves personally and professionally is “What do I want?” This question helps define what success means, focus attention, and allow for more conscious choices to make progress. If we don’t answer this question, others are likely to answer it for us; often not to our ultimate benefit. At […]

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Revealing Career Development Opportunities With AI
Talent Acquisition

Revealing Career Development Opportunities With AI

In today’s competitive market, employee demand for growth and development is increasing. Simultaneously, we are facing a growing organizational demand for talent. To retain top talent and ensure the fulfillment of jobs and skills, it’s time to put more emphasis on what we call internal talent mobility. Building a talent mobility strategy can drive improvements across both […]

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Spirituality And The Future Workplaces
Culture & Behaviour

Spirituality And The Future Workplaces

Are paycheques and career growth prospects the only things that get people going in the workplaces? While the physical and psychological dimensions of workplaces have been studied extensively over the years and worked upon, the spiritual quotient of our workplaces has not been attended to in a focused manner although we were aware of its […]

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Transforming Organizations To Be More Agile With Spiritual Attributes
Culture & Behaviour

Transforming Organizations To Be More Agile With Spiritual Attributes

Problem Statement My wife depends on her maid. Many times maid does not turn up without informing. Then wife has to do all the daily chores herself. I analysed the problem and brought home a floor cleaning robot. The robot did not replace the maid. It reduced our dependency on the maid. At the same […]

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Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE
Culture & Behaviour

Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE

Non-smokers have long lamented the fact that they get fewer work breaks than their colleagues who step out several times a day for a cigarette. Resentment starts to build, and that can be bad for company morale—and business. Piala Inc offers six extra paid vacation days: According to The Telegraph, the Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala […]

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Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent
Culture & Behaviour

Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent

Free Markets reject Primitive Retention Programs. Golden hand-cuffs cannot hold-back sharp Edged talent. Talent Markets are free markets. Considering its differentiated ability to contribute, Talent is always in a state of high demand in multiple organisations at the same time. Its value thus goes up multi-fold created by its own demand in the market. ‘Arbitrage’ […]

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Professor M.S. Rao on Relevance of ‘Soft Leadership’ in 2020
Leadership

Professor M.S. Rao on Relevance of ‘Soft Leadership’ in 2020

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is the Father of ‘Soft Leadership’ and Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He is an International Leadership Guru and an internationally acclaimed leadership educator, executive coach, speaker, and consultant. He is a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He has 36 years of experience and has authored 36 books including the award-winning […]

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Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders
Culture & Behaviour

Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders

There was a time when the fascination to build competency frameworks hit India Inc like a tsunami. Every other organization wanted to build it. From my involvement in over a dozen such initiatives, I gathered that knowing what skills, capabilities organizations had and grooming leaders were the most common reasons reported. There were those who went competency way […]

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Five Effective Strategies for Transforming Career Development
Talent Management

Five Effective Strategies for Transforming Career Development

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day duties of your job, but it’s important to step back every once in a while and look at the bigger picture of our own career. Are you happy? Am I adding any value to myself? Is your career developing according to your plan? “Irrespective of any […]

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Winning People Development Strategies
Talent Management

Winning People Development Strategies

The term ‘People Development’ is often used casually within organisations as a cliché. However, it signifies different things to different people. For an employee who is dedicated to his/her work, ‘People Development’ is the staircase to a brighter future and a meaningful career. While for an organisation it can be the core on which the […]

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Enabling Group Thinking For Performance & Impact
Culture & Behaviour

Enabling Group Thinking For Performance & Impact

Everything is created twice. First in the mind, and then, in the physical world.– Anonymous wisdom Morale is an expression of a work group’s emotional health.– Harry Levinson, Organizational Psychologist, in The Levinson Letters Purpose and Vision are extremely critical for a person, team, society or nation to achieve great results. Similarly, Results &Impactare important […]

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Employee Value Proposition: The Best Practices
Employer Branding

Employee Value Proposition: The Best Practices

I was recently reading a book, “The War for Talent” by McKinsey & Company consultants Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod where they have put forth their thoughts after five years of in-depth research on how companies manage leadership talent which includes surveys of 13,000 executives at more than 120 companies and case studies […]

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