Business & Personal Growth

In these changing times, you may find yourself surrounded by a lot of suggestions & advice to make your mark indelible in this highly competitive corporate world. Either you are a working professional or a business owner, you are always anxious about your career trajectory especially in this uncertain environment. While it is imperative to chart out your goals, it is equally important to spend a lot of time mastering all those needed to achieve them by bringing out the organic growth within yourself. Focus on the process & the results would be taken care of by themselves. However, there is a wide spectrum of skills that you can sharpen & display to stay on track and achieve the goals you had initially charted out. It is natural to get overwhelmed with so many of them & we end up pondering upon which ones to prioritize based on their strong direct impact. I have outlined 3 essential key ingredients required to achieve corporate success regardless of the position or the f...

 We have always been reading & knowing about the activities/tasks, Project Managers or Program Managers are incessantly involved in. I myself have been writing on them and the skills they need to excel in. One of the things that are being put under the spotlight about this role is becoming an effective leader. While there is a lot to talk about in having superior leadership skills, there are a few key emotional aspects a leader should exhibit in his quest of becoming a distinguished & transformative leader. And these are more relevant now than ever before. They are closely linked with the behaviors that they display amidst their daily project routines. It is about the core principles they follow while dealing with their team in getting their project work executed. A few of them are outlined as below: Stewardship: This is an ethic most commonly found in great leaders across the world. Being an awesome leader doesn’t come with the title or position you hold, it comes by insp...

  Corporates across have experienced various transformations in the past year and will continue further, owing to the pandemic, in terms of the employees’ way of working. Remote-working has borne its strong prominence in recent times and leaders in organizations have adopted various practices to ensure the team’s outcome is not affected in any way. Few organizations would even consider this major shift as a permanent working model than a makeshift one. Hence it is imperative to take into account all sorts of challenges that it may potentially pose for the leaders or managers, right from team alignment and communication lapses to the team’s accountability for the work activities assigned. And once again the role of a Project Manager comes at the center in ensuring that the team is working towards the common goal.   “Co-located teams vs Distributed teams” has always been one of the crucial considerations Project Managers need to make to adopt the right governance style and str...

  With substantial internet penetration and the explosion of internet-enabled devices, social media has become a part of our daily lives more than ever. The genesis of social media has been conceived in the pre-internet era with the primary purpose of transmitting messages across the network. Social-media got its real shape post the invention of the internet when Digital communication saw its growing importance. Social media in a way has tapped in the strong human urge of interacting with people and has largely fulfilled their social needs. We have witnessed a gradual but ground-breaking evolution from the electronic information exchange age to today’s digital transformation world.   In the initial stages of the internet’s growth, we have witnessed applications facilitating email communications, online chatting, and other broadcast messaging platforms, post which, blogging and dating sites started gaining popularity which garnered a lot of traction in this digital communicatio...