Insightful 7 steps to reframing your problem. Continued from our last article… 3. Get people’s definitions in writing. It’s not unusual for people to leave a meeting thinking they all agree on what the problem is after a loose oral description, only to discover weeks or months later that they had different views of the […]
Are You Solving the Right Problems? How good is your company at problem solving? Probably quite good, if your managers are like those at the companies I’ve studied. What they struggle with, it turns out, is not solving problems but figuring out what the problems are. In surveys of 106 C-suite executives who represented 91 […]
If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation […]
Developing Meaningful Performance Goals An essential part of a successful performance review is developing meaningful performance goals for employees to achieve in the following year. This positive approach to performance development cannot be applied universally, however. Rather, one must tailor performance review goals to take into consideration the size of an organization, the variety of […]
The never-ending race for productivity For an individual, it becomes highly important to analyse why is it that we are striving to be more productive The ultimate purpose of life is to be more productive – professionally and personally. While it might be understandable as to why organizations are constantly trying to push productivity levels […]
Personal Tracking and Employee Engagement The next step in employee engagement for individuals and organizations is to fully engage the quantified self. I define employee engagement as: good work done well with others every day. I believe employees are personally responsible for their own engagement while each of us is accountable for the influence we […]
Learning To Learn American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler is usually credited with the quote: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”But Toffler was paraphrasing psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy, who wrote, “Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the [wo]man who can’t read; […]
Career Development Career development is the series of activities or the on-going/lifelong process of developing one’s career. Career development usually refers to managing one’s career in an intra-organizational or inter-organizational scenario. It involves training on new skills, moving to higher job responsibilities, making a career change within the same organization, moving to a different organization […]
Are you a Green-Circled Employee? A Green circled employee is such a job holder who is being paid below the salary which has been set for the job in question. It is one of the most potent problem in compensation management, along with a red-circled employee which is exactly the opposite and hence is a […]
7 Ways To Become Awesome in HR — No Matter How Much (Or Little) Experience You Have! When you gain a reputation as someone who is awesome in HR, a lot of things become irrelevant. It won’t matter how much HR experience you have. It won’t matter what college you went to. It won’t matter […]