Tag: employees
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Empathy inspires
Empathy Inspires… even at work! Real #stories move people. This one is about one of my first bosses at Hindustan Unilever, where I spent several decades. The late, Bipin Shah, Chairman of Lipton & Director of HUL. One of the most humane leaders I’ve come across. The incident happened in the early 1970s, a decade…
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Managing Workplace Conflicts
Managing Workplace Conflicts. Interpersonal conflicts are bound to arise when people work together. Studies show that 95% of employees admit that they’ve experienced conflicts with colleagues in last 5 years. These can lead to undesirable outcomes like toxic environment, lower productivity, poor decision making. A survey published in New York Times showed that conflicts between…
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How to disagree, agreeably at Work?
How to disagree, agreeably & handle conflicts at work? Conflicts are work are inevitable, especially in today’s VUCA world. Badly handled they can lead to negativity and vitiate the atmosphere. Here are some useful Tips.(Some are from my own experience & some are picked up from multiple HBR articles.) 1. Doubt your assumptions. All perspectives…
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Happiness versus Success
Reassess your Happiness versus your Success(LinkedIn Top News) We spend months or even years working on a goal and finally achieve it. Only to find it doesn’t bring us Happiness. We can easily fall into the trap of ‘I will be happy when’. If we focus on benchmarking our Happiness to goals we set for…
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Building Emotional Intelligence as a Company Culture
(Sharing some perspectives from Daniel Goleman’s First Person Plural recent podcast). Companies that truly seek a culture that values emotional intelligence will need to go further on this journey. He suggests three things that Organizations will need to do. 1. They’ll need to make HOW you get your results as important as those results themselves…
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