Business & Personal Growth

  In the last year, “Wait and Watch” – was the mantra individuals were bounded with when it came to managing one’s career development in the corporate world. However, in this current year, with the situation moving towards normalcy, there is a glimmer of hope and recovery ensued within corporates. Having said that, we are still surrounded by a lot of unknowns and their impact on our future plans. A few industries like IT and Pharma were able to recover and are forecasting the numbers which are much higher than what it was during the peak-pandemic period. While other industries are still struggling to bounce back from their lows and potentially will take longer to recover, let alone achieve the growth levels they had before the pandemic. Moreover, there are a few tectonic shifts that the industry has experienced when it comes to the manner in which customers interact with businesses, moving from co-location to remote-working, leveraging technologies, and embracing digital transforma...

  In my previous few articles, I wrote on how vital a Project Manager can be in catalyzing change & building business growth. In this article, I would like to explore the ways with which a program manager drives business change and helps organizations achieve strategic goals. It is no brainer that businesses are moving rapidly to keep up with the pace with which the global economy grows. Growing competition has coerced organizations across various industries to change their business model rapidly. This places a greater emphasis on disruptive innovation and the adoption of new technologies. To bring about this significant business change, organizations implement several key projects which are related to each other. In other words, the benefits that an organization realizes in delivering these projects are in complete alignment with the strategic goals. This is where the key aspect of Program management comes in. Program managers have an over-arching view of the set of projects h...

  Corporates recently witnessed the crisis like never before and it only made organizations stronger than ever before. According to one of the surveys, around 75 percent of organizations agree to the fact that their organization’s strategic implementation capabilities grew stronger due to crisis. During normalcy, every organization goes through its business cycles and the strategies are formulated in resonance with them. However, the outbreak of this pandemic brought nearly all of them into their depression cycle, testing their preparedness and capabilities in navigating through such crisis. The leadership team of almost all the organizations was forced to huddle around to rethink their business and operating model. The crisis created a need for organizations to demonstrate their purpose and values which they had long stood for. The crisis brought about a paradigm shift moving away from their traditional working model. During this pandemic, working from home became the new way of w...

  Values play an instrumental role in our personal lives, let alone in our professional ones. They are our underlying beliefs and principles, based on which we make our decisions and actions, which ultimately shape our attitudes and behavior. Our values form a core in whatever we perceive and do. It acts as a guide and creates a mental map for us to be able to form our opinions and influence our decisions. It forms a strong conviction to something we believe in and thus strengthens our ability to influence. These values are as much important for an organization to thrive and succeed as it is at an individual level. Company’s values form a backdrop on which their businesses exist. Every aspect of the business is being strongly driven by their values. Having robust & clear values helps employees to work towards the company’s shared vision. Values act as a torchbearer for the company to deliver excellent customer service, build great teams, foster creative thinking and thereby s...