Yes, the blog and Me are no more in action... its time I have to spend every minute of available time to do something better... I am hoping to be back after a few weeks, feb really once we are out of the Major release. Until then I will try to blog only when i cant be in front of the computer and have enough time to blog..forgive me for the hibernation enforced h...
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Team Engagement - 10 ways to get loved by your Team - 3/10 Inspire Them
Sachin Tendulkar the legendary cricketer was inspired by Kapil Dev the Indian cricket Team captain who won the 1983 world cup for India, this was when he was just learning to walk. Behind every legendary man/women there is a short inspiring story, this story plays a crucial role in the lives of these legends and thus make them legendary.Your team always look at you with very high regards, yes they...
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Team Engagement - 10 ways to get loved by your Team - 2/10 Just Be there
Team engagement, doesnt it get trickier as you go on doing it? But doesnt it ease up so many things when you do it? I have known companies spending thousands and thousands of bucks on this one thing, involving people , places and dont know what not... Success in Team engagement is however limited unless that Attitude and Culture is evolved.... Now coming to our next element.... take this situation:Its...
Keep up the Bad work!!!!
How does it sound? Annoying? Well isnt that the real truth? You keep on saying this to your team member even when he is at worst of his performance... dont care for what reasons? Well the truth is out of fear of loosing, causing revolt , constraints around resources etc etc you tend to do this... you...
Friday, 15 January 2010
Team Engagement - 10 ways to get loved by your Team
Donate for Haiti Earth Quake Victims to the Red Cross here Do you love your Team? Does your Team love you? Alrite do they like you? Alrite do they like to work with you? Alrite do they want to see you in office? Ok.. OK.. OK... I know the answer... You are one traditional Manager who is definitely hated by his Team. Never mind... You are not the only Manager thinking this... there are bunch of them...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Confessions of a frustrated soul!!! - Handle it or Quit your choice
Well its not a rocket science... but it is definitely a science, an art and a lot of commerce... if you mix them up, you would definitely be able to handle frustration easily... Alrite coming back to the important part... we all being humans leaving those smart mon chips there who claim that frustration cannot run their way... we have to learn, definitely learn and practice the ways to handle frustration......
Monday, 11 January 2010
Confessions of a frustrated soul!!!
My weekend was rather dramatic this time.. a few movies, some time resting and a slip in nature's arm... I kind of enjoyed the whole weekend.. and while I was enjoying my weekend, I watched a funny movie "Confessions" based on a so called true story the movie rotated around a bunch of frustrated souls and their journey towards "do nothing". While I kept wondering why "Do Nothing Attitude" so prevailing...
Questions we care about during Hiring
We all take Interviews, we all look for specific roles. In the past few months we have been doing quite a few interviews.. we shortlisted a few and rejected a few.... very recently I was asked by a friend who is wanting to switch his job profile from Banking to IT on questions we ask during interviews.... I gave him a list.... during the list creation I realized quite a few questions we have been...
Friday, 8 January 2010
How much Rework you have to do?
I have been closely monitoring and also involved in the current project that we have being working on. When I say closely I really mean closely. In the last few Iterations I have being harassed by the fact called rework in the development that we begin on August 17th and 6 months from then.. I see that we have spent a considerable amount of work trying to avoid rework.. yet rework is inevitable.We...
Thursday, 7 January 2010
We all suck at Feedbacks - Part 3.1/4 - How to give Feedback that can be unpleasant
The beauty of this word starting with F (Feedback) is you cannot start it with a F word.This part of the statement is the most tricky and sensitive. All the time in Managers life he has to give negative feedback to everyone.. honestly it is not negative feedback it is the feedback that will not be pleasant to hear... A Call centre manager is walking by and hears a angry Customer Service representative...
We all suck at Feedbacks - Part 3/4 How to give Feedback
Continuing our series…We as Managers hold a primary responsibility of seeing growth for others. We see this growth for our colleagues, employees, Team and organization. In handling this responsibility we have to ensure that the set objectives are compared with the actual results and to match both of these we provide feedback to our employees or Team members… Consolidating feedback as one element would...
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
We all suck at Feedbacks - Part 2/4 . The Reaction
Continuing with our series on Feedback from the previous post we went through how to accept feedback. What is important is the reaction to the feedback. Many of us after accepting feedback don’t know what to do and how to do it... Here are a few things that may help you post receiving a feedback. 1. You asked for it, you got it so don’t crib Feedback usually comes as a periodic output of an...
