Category: Employee engagement

• June 8, 2022

  How Work shapes your Personality

  Being in a particular environment every day, for eight or more hours each day, for several years, has a big impact on the habits of our mind and behaviour. It influences our view of life and how we understand it, the way we think of ourselves and how we relate to others. Very often, though,…
• June 8, 2022

  Motivation that works at the Workplace – Positive or Negative?

  What are the Negative and Positive factors that affect motivation at workplace? One of the Negative factors is Fear. Our protective, survival instinct, based on avoidance of harm and the inevitable consequences of consistently poor performance. All of us wake up each morning,  with some hope, some motivation to show up. There are two types…
• May 26, 2022

  Life Long Learning – No.1 Skill Employers are looking for today. We can’t rely on our skills. Today’s sought after skills become redundant tomorrow. Life Long Learning is the only insurance for longevity at the workplace and to stay relevant at the workplace
• May 24, 2022

  It’s Hard to get Fired Today

  Learnings that could apply to Indian and other job  markets as well. It’s Hard to get Fired Today!(some perspectives from Wall Street Journal – May 19, 2022) The Pandemic has somewhat changed the paradigm for employees. Getting Fired takes Harder Work, today. Employers more likely to keep people on their teams, who wouldn’t make it…
• May 21, 2022

  HR of the Future

  International HR Day was celebrated yesterday, May 20, 2022.Here are some gleanings from social media, HRonline  and my own perspectives. Building the identity of HR into something bigger than the words suggest. The theme for HR 2022 is: HR changing the new future, leading change to inspire working lives. In recent times, the role and…
• May 18, 2022

  Employees Mental Health – a concern for Employers.

  ❓Mental Health – still an Elephant in the Room? Mental Health issues at the workplace were well-known, even before the pandemic. Covid and its attendant challenges, has only exacerbated the problem. Every challenge offers an opportunity. Companies are taking many positive steps in this direction. Results will take time to be visible. Research shows that…
• May 10, 2022

  Classic Life Lessons also Work at Work

  + In today’s world, of information overload, one has to be selective about what one consumes. However, when it comes to the classic time lessons, taught by the Masters, they apply equally to success at Work. What works in Life, also works at Work. These universal truths, never ‘go out of fashion’. Some universal and…