Just the other day, a friend of mine who runs a staffing firm was talking about how their clients kept cribbing about bad hires turning out to be major money guzzlers. In fact the statistics here are quite alarming. Bad hires can prove to be costly since replacing them may require double the amount of…
Retaining and engaging employees is usually an uphill task. Human resource is the key asset of any organization and any investment made in improving their productivity and loyalty pays off in the end. It is imperative that organisations do everything within their means to recruit, retain, develop, motivate, engage and make the best use of…
Great leaders are never laid back. In fact the best leaders are known to be addicted to success, wanting to taste more of it every time they reach there. For a leader to be successful at everything he or she does, it is crucial that they have the support of their people. It is important…
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders uses a three step approach to explain the leadership process – crafting a vision, aligning people towards the vision and championing execution for making the vision a reality. Though the onus may be different for each leader, depending on their functional area or level in the organisation, the model…
Businesses today find it immensely challenging to develop leaders who are capable of steering their ship even through troubled waters. A leadership development program that is centred around a statistically validated and well researched behavioural tool like Everything DiSC Work of Leaders could well be the solution to this challenge. The Everything DiSC Work of…
Diversity management emerged from the fundamental premise that it was ethically, legally and morally incorrect to discriminate individuals on the basis of their gender, culture, ethnicity, color of the skin or sexual preference. However as years have passed by perceptions on diversity have changed. Today organisations embrace diversity not just for increasing employee morale. Lot…
If you look back in time, the responsibility of converting a new hire into a knowledgeable contributor was the onus of the personnel department. The newbie would be assigned to a junior executive who would take them through an orientation program about the role, the company and its policies. They would then make them fill…
Businesses are on the lookout for people who “fit” well into teams. Today’s employee needs to know how to align their individual contribution with the objectives of the team. Being a part of a collaborative team helps individuals attach deeper meaning to work, enjoy their time at work, build positive working relationships and gain from…
A lot of issues at the workplace will be non-existent if only people could communicate effectively. Each person will have their own definition of what effective communication means and this is what makes communication difficult to master. I would say that communication is effective when the listener understands a message just the way the sender…
The best way to predict the future is to analyse the past. The same holds good with human behaviour. Past behaviour is the most accurate predictor of how the same person would behave in the current scenario or the future. Of course, the environment may have a role to play here. Having said that when…