thoughts

Saturday, September 17, 2016

HR Lessons



Appointment of Urjit Patel has 3 key HR lessons:

A good succession policy
Many organizations do go into frenzy when their top talent leaves. And HR should be able to develop a succession policy or the second rung leaders in order to maintain the superior deliverables. The company should invest in developing employee knowledge, skills, and abilities, and prepare them for advancement or promotion into ever more challenging roles. This ensures that employees are constantly developed to fill each needed role. 

Employee Engagement/relations with continuity
Leadership continuity is the key to a successful organization. When you have the successor following the similar methodologies take the position, it also boosts engagement. Since time is of crucial to any kind of important recruitment like this, a new joinee will take a few breaths before he creates a culture. But since continuity is the key here, employee engagement and relations remain like it were. 

Diverse & Inclusiveness
An inclusive workplace helps us to get newer perspectives of our people, and to leverage their diverse talents to arrive at winning business solutions. All new appointments bring with it new perspectives and newer challenges. 

Friday, September 2, 2016

The Chorus


Recently I watched this movie.
I was touched by the characters. The leadership skill demonstrated by the "supervisor' Clément Mathieu, is excemplary.
He does not have a big title, just a supervisor, but transforms a class of 60 difficult boys. Their potentials are channelized for creative pursuit.
He remains a simple teacher but a true leader. A must watch for all leaders to take their team towards success. 

For the Chorus Summary of the story go to:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chorus_(2004_film)


Watch the Movie here:


To be respected as a boss, inculcate these traits




Positivity: Happy people make effective leaders. They display transformational leadership, which means they're good at inspiring and motivating their team and stimulating them intellectually. Positivity was a better predictor of leadership effectiveness compared to being an extrovert. 

Acceptance of change: Zenger Folkman, a leadership development consultancy, in a study found that young managers are perceived as more effective because they welcome novelty; the reason, is that younger managers' relative lack of experience means they're more optimistic about the changes they propose.

Maturity and stability: The technical term is “emotional maturity“. Tom as Chamorro-Premuzic, a business psychologist, wrote in The Harvard Business Review, “The best managers in the world tend to be stable rather than excitable, consistent rather than erratic, as well as polite and considerate.“ 

Integrity: Chamorro-Premuzic also suggested that integrity is a key component of leadership effectiveness; unethical or counterproductive ways undermines you and your organisation. According to one of the psychologist Travi S Bradberry, the traps that leaders fall into that undermines their integrity is making everything about them and micromanagement. 

Hard work: Research suggests that conscientiousness-your tendency to be organised and hardworking -is the only trait that predicts success.

Vision: Zenger Folkman study found that the most important quality of innovative leaders was that they could vividly describe their vision of the future. 

Respect for co-workers: The most important leadership behaviour for employee engagement is respect.


Source: How to be the leader of the pack, August 28 2016 : The Times of India

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Thats the way.....to the Finals!



An extract of an interesting article I am sharing below:

Bhushan Kulkarni raises these questions and answers


What helped PV Sindhu to reach at this level and play one of the finest games?  

Can we, in our respective work areas benefit from the traits she has displayed?


Profiling Sindhu's career, a correspondent wrote:

“The fact that she reports on time at the coaching camps daily, travelling a distance of 56 km from her residence, is perhaps a reflection of her willingness to complete her desire to be a good badminton player with the required hard work and commitment.”

Her coach Pullela Gopichand says "the most striking feature in Sindhu's game is her attitude and the never-say-die spirit”.

One of the newspaper headlines says ‘PV Sindhu will finally be allowed Phone, Ice-Cream by Pullela Gopichand’.

An attitude of subordination is equally important if we want to excel in our professional and personal life.

You have to have a role model and a coach; willing to give controls to him or her so that the process helps you in enhancing your personal effectiveness and scale up to the next level of performance.

Aggression and calming down has to go hand in hand. This may appear to be paradoxical. There were moments when Sindhu needed to calm down, minimize her errors and wait for the opponent to show signs of mental and physical exhaustion. PV Sindhu followed this strategy to reach the finals.

According to the writer of this article:

The three things that can help us greatly in our personal and professional life: 


Consistency, attitude, and never-say-die spirit;


Having a role model and a coach; role model will give the benchmark and coach will help us unleash our true potential.


Developing the skill and the ability to speed up and slow down at the same time.

Watch the following Video.....:




Source: August 20, 2016   https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/281189

Quotes 27-Aug-16