3 Types of Difficult Coworkers and How to Work with Them

In every workplace, some people are senior, in positions of power or earned respect who behave sometimes very irrationally or ambiguously and occasionally quite vindictively.  ✓ Subscribed It may become quite difficult to work with people like this. However, we need to move on and get our work done. At the same time, if we do not address these small conflicts and allow them to accumulate it…

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The Best Leaders Do These 3 Things to Avoid Burnout

As per Adam Grant, the Wharton psychologist, every leader should take the following simple steps to prevent burnout among employees as well as themselves. Lighten the demand Provide more control Create a supportive environment. Type your email… Subscribe Burnouts can be defined as emotional exhaustion. It is not necessarily due to long working hours, as many tend to assume. We have seen…

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These 4 Things Make Employees Feel Their Job Is the Best Job They've Ever Had.

Everyone who leads a team of people wants to be rated a great boss. However, the qualities that you feel are needed to be a great boss may be different from what your employees need. Type your email… Subscribe In his new book, A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin surveyed about 10000 people in 90 countries to describe the conditions at the best jobs they had ever held. People who felt good…

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Your Love for Work May Alienate Your Colleagues

Many companies prefer employees who are passionate about their work and are the driving force behind their performance. Companies make strategies to nurture and encourage this attitude.  It is well-known that passionate employees are more innovative, productive and committed to the organisation’s goals.  Type your email… Subscribe However, in pursuing a strategy to nurture passion among…

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How to Proactively Defuse Tension on Your Team

Interpersonal relations that are toxic, if unaddressed and unresolved, can lead to tensions and a collapse of team collaboration as well as organisational failure. A subtle slight, an argument on an individual’s performance or project deliverables or even gossip can lead to a negative impact on team performance and productivity leading to operational friction among team members. These issues…

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Every Company Should Have These Leaders

Companies need T-shaped leaders who can share knowledge across the organisation while they manage their business units.  Type your email… Subscribe T-shaped leaders are individuals who are like the letter “T.” They have a deep understanding of their specific area (the vertical bar of the T) but can also collaborate and share knowledge across different departments (the horizontal…

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What’s the Best Way to Build Trust at Work?

Remote working has led to a diluting of trust among team members, as there is very little direct contact or common working hours where they can interact. Most of the communication is through asynchronous messages with very few interactive sessions.  Type your email… Subscribe Trust is a conviction that is built slowly and steadily over many interactions over some time. This has become…

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#1350 How New CEOs Establish Legitimacy

CEOs have tremendous authority to lead as handed over by the rules of corporate governance. Yet this authority can only take you so far as your team listens to those in authority because they are required to do so. This is very much like follow-the-rules that will never motivate anyone to go beyond the call of duty. Type your email… Subscribe At the same time, when the CEO exhibits…

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How AI Will Accelerate the Circular Economy

The global economy still works in a linear model characterised by extraction, production, consumption and disposal of resources. this is a major problem as we have finite resources. The shift to the circular economy, where businesses recover and recycle resources in their value chain has remained a pipe dream. The problems include  the low economic value of residuals, inability to aggregate…

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity

It is a known dictum that growing revenues requires increased investments in sales and marketing. Teams may cut down on costs and improve efficiency to a certain point but these are stop-gap measures to get the best out of the investments for a short period. Type your email… Subscribe A survey was conducted across 1254 companies to measure the “commercial productivity” namely revenue earned…

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3 Steps to Identify the Right Strategic Goals for Your Company

When setting strategic objectives, companies often end up with a choice of worthy but ill-defined aspirations. You must base them on what you, as a leader of the company, want from your stakeholders. this would help you define your strategy clearly and have measurable objectives to guide your efforts. Type your email… Subscribe Shift your thinking about objective setting. The trick to setting…

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An Antidote to Microaggressions? - Microvalidations

Microaggressions are subtle acts of exclusion that harm the learning, problem-solving and emotional well-being of a particular under-represented group of people which could be due to race, origin, gender or sexual orientation etc., For managers, identifying micro-aggressions and preventing it is not enough. They should carry out micro-validations, actions or gestures that encourage or…

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Governance in the Age of Technological Innovation

In today’s turbulent times, the top leadership team can no longer afford to solely prioritise shareholder interest and needs to consider all stakeholders and the wider ecosystem. They need to rethink their stewardship, their performance in the face of macroeconomic uncertainties, technological innovations and the need to align with ESG expectations. Type your email… Subscribe Evolution of…

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Your Data Strategy Needs to Include Everyone

The past few years have brought out the importance of data to help companies improve their performance. Generative AI (GenAI) uses huge amounts of data to help transform businesses and has received the most attention in recent years.  Type your email… Subscribe At the same time, basic analysis of data is helping companies make better decisions, improve business processes and help understand…

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7 Ways to Make Employees Feel Respected, According to Research

Photo by Roberto Hund on Pexels.com Treating everyone with respect is fundamental to any relationship and managers often struggle with this. It is hard to expect an employee to give their best work when they do not feel respected. managers must make this a part of their essentials to earn the trust of their employees and get them to perform to their best. here are a few tips. Type your…

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3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now

Companies can create a competitive advantage and capture more value either by increasing the customers’ willingness to pay or decreasing the cost paid to suppliers and employees. Competitive advantage occurs when you differentiate your products from your competitors and gain better value for your products by getting the customers to pay more or by reducing your input costs. Type your…

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Managing the Risks of Generative AI

Generative AI(GenAI) has become immensely popular but its adoption by businesses has a built-in risk. Organisations must have an ethics policy in place to guide the users on using GenAI responsibly.  Type your email… Subscribe GenAI technology has the potential to transform the way we learn and work. In business, GenAi has the potential to transform the way businesses interact with their…

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