Get Over Those Bad Incidents

Get Over Those Bad Incidents

Bad incidents have a huge impact on your behavior, thought process and reaction. These incidents get stored as bad memories and do not allow you to move on and severely affect your daily routine & well being.  Also, people around you including your colleagues, friends, and family get impacted as your behavior towards them change for the worse and they don’t really know the reason for this change. Bad memories could be anything ranging from a fight at your workplace, negative feedback or public scolding by your manager. Death, accident or any incident that impacts you negatively. People affected by bad incidents impact their companies as well: Productivity falls as there is a loss of concentration. Also if the incident is related to the office the employee loses respect for the company Relationships with team members and managers take a fall which impacts team working Client management takes a hit…

How Can Coaching Help Your Organization

How Can Coaching Help Your Organization

Professional coaching can help an organization by helping its employees improve in multiple areas including productivity, confidence, interpersonal skills and leadership skills. Below mentioned are some areas where coaching can help achieve measurable results Achieve business goals – Coach can help employees and senior leaders set SMART goals and work with them on developing strategies and frameworks to achieve the goals. Employees no longer think achieving goals are distant dreams and work systematically to achieve the same. Work Life Balance – Coaching can help answer the most difficult question plaguing the corporate world. A coach can help an employee in attaining clarity on what he wants to achieve personally and professionally & works with him to identify and work on steps that help him achieve work-life balance. An employee with a good work life balance is happier, and a happier employee means he is more productive and loves to work…

Understand Your Team to Become a Good Leader

Understand Your Team to Become a Good Leader

Lately, I have been reading a lot of posts on leadership with senior executives either writing or commenting on what makes a leader successful. The common attributes are the following: A good leader Is a good listener Is a good motivator Has an eye for identifying performers and laggards and coach them Rewards appropriately in terms of incentives, promotions, training and learning opportunities and much more…. I agree with all the above but the big question “Do you as a leader really understand your team?” – Which is very important in building a solid relationship because if the relationship is weak all the above mentioned won’t work either. During a recent coaching session with a sales leader, he mentioned that he is struggling with two of his team members and fails to understand why they don’t work/perform as compared to the other two. The work, opportunity at hand, the reward,…

Work Life Balance – 4 Steps to Answer the Big Question

Work Life Balance – 4 Steps to Answer the Big Question

Life has become a race with everybody striving to reach at the top. However, what you lose out are moments with family, friends and most importantly yourself. To add on, so much time has been spent in this routine that you have given up, that someday you will achieve this illusive ‘Work Life Balance’. Let us also look at the situation from the other side. Are there circumstances at home or your personal life which have stopped you from progressing in your career? You want to go back to your job or want to take that promotion and execute more responsibilities but factors in your personal life don’t allow you to. Today a lot of us struggle with the dilemma of achieving equilibrium between work and life. The situation gets even more complicated as relationships start getting affected which further compounds the problem. Before we move towards the solution let…