One of my research finding during the pandemic interviewing hundreds of global employees was that they felt their relationship with their leaders were just transactional. They did not feel cared for. One of them said “My manager is cold. Our relationship is just transactional”. With a transactional relationship, people don’t go the extra mile. And… Continue reading How to start deepening the relationship with your team?
Sheila, VP – HR of a large IT company reached out to me feeling nervous and anxious. She was stressed because in one of the meetings, the CEO had told her that she was not strategic and her team needs to be innovative for the company to be more resilient. Moreover the learning management system… Continue reading Want to do your best work?
My friend had plans to travel with me to India. She reached out to me confused with the recent rise in covid cases back home. Many were advising her not to go. I could sense the fog she was in, not a best place to make decisions. In her mind’s eye, she was imagining the… Continue reading How to come out of decision paralysis?
Happy women’s day! A time to reflect on women who have made a difference in our lives. I have many women role models including my mother Prafulla, Mother Teresa, India’s finance minister Nirmala Seetharaman, my indirect mentor Dorie Clark and more recently Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister. I am an advocate of a compassionate,… Continue reading What can you learn from your role model?
Over the years I have experimented with different activities in my morning rituals and tried different routines for weekdays and weekends. What I find most useful about morning rituals is that it leaves me energized for a productive day but more importantly it gives me a sense of purpose. Filter coffee is my favorite beverage… Continue reading Morning Rituals and Self-Love
COVID 2019 pandemic has presented myriad challenges to businesses globally. It has impacted people like never before. This report states that nearly 7 in 10 workers claim the coronavirus pandemic is the most stressful time of their professional career; even more than major events like 9/11 and the 2008 Great Recession, according to mental health provider Ginger.… Continue reading A model to support your employees in the new normal
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Many leaders are in this dilemma – How to address these new challenges when they don’t have the answers? Dr Amy Edmondson, Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School talks about the importance of creating an environment of psychological safety and trust in organizations that are serious about success in the modern economy. This is… Continue reading What to do when you don’t have all the answers?
Covid panic, confusion and stress is palpable. Companies have taken steps to lay off people, cut costs, apply for bankruptcy, stimulus packages. With the current COVID-19 challenges that organizations face, senior executives are finding it difficult to conceptualize the repositioning; let alone explain it to their employees. The most common question that is arising is… Continue reading How to turn a problem into an opportunity?
What to do when an employee is in a bad mood? This was what I was asked recently. John (name changed), an IT delivery manager was finding that one of his team members Tom was not in a good mood at work. Tom was a subject matter expert, extremely competent but was not producing quality… Continue reading What to do when an employee is in a bad mood?
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