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Updated on: Dec 2019
Developing Spiritual Quotient At Workplace
Culture & Behaviour

Developing Spiritual Quotient At Workplace

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”, said Aristotle. The meaning of ‘knowing yourself’ has changed over the past few decades. It began with Intelligence Quotient (IQ) which is associated with learning, acquiring knowledge and rational thinking. It progressed to possessing Emotional Intelligence, which is the ability to be empathetic, manage emotions or be […]

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How To Deal With Social Anxiety At The Workplace
Culture & Behaviour

How To Deal With Social Anxiety At The Workplace

Social anxiety is the fear and anxiety of being negatively judged and evaluated by other people. It’s low self-confidence and in-fact a disorder affecting the professional and personal lives, impacting one’s capacity to socialize and interact with others. Test A simple test to know whether some is suffering from Social Anxiety Disorder is by asking three simple questions: […]

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Effective Talent Shopping And Management
Talent Acquisition

Effective Talent Shopping And Management

The phrase “Employer of Choice” represents a whole new design of corporate culture. In a competitive world to retain, attract the right talent is a challenge for HR in all industries. Being an employer of choice means that people will choose to work for you, choose to dedicate themselves to your success and will choose […]

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Getting A Manager Who Can Understand Me -A Case Study
Culture & Behaviour

Getting A Manager Who Can Understand Me -A Case Study

Arindam was very happy to receive an offer letter for a Business Analyst position in an IT Product company at Noida at a 40% hike in his gross salary. It was a dream come true situation; as he would be moving back to his home in NCR from Bangalore where he was working for a […]

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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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