March 26, 2018

360 Degree Review: Does It Help

Rate yourself and four friends on emotional stability, generosity, intelligence, creativity and assertiveness. Then ask your spouse and friends to rate you on the same traits. What you discover may surprise you.Find out which traits are you better off getting feedback from others. Are there some traits you know about yourself better than others? Read this to find out.

March 22, 2018

How to Build Rapport with Your Team When You’re a New Manager

People advise you to spend time understanding the key challenges of the role. What they forget to tell you is how important it is to first build a rapport with the team that you will lead. This becomes all the more important when you’re managing a team you haven’t worked with before. How do you break the ice and get the relationship going? Here are some ideas ...

March 17, 2018

Storytelling tips from a wedding photographer

Does the world’s number one photographer get bored? Erika must have read my mind. She opens her talk by saying that, “weddings are boring…” and then goes on to qualify it. “That happens if you have a format in mind and every wedding has to fit into that format. Rituals are the scripted part. The real wedding takes place between the scripted parts.”Read about what I learned from the world's no 1 wedding photographer ...

March 12, 2018

How to read less and be better informed

I have picked 4 ideas that I liked to read less and still be better informed. My top pick:CONSUME LESS BUT BETTER DATA - I have exited almost all the WhatsApp groups & stopped reading or responding to anyone who forwards junk. It takes away your time and mind space.

March 10, 2018

Threat Intelligence

Human beings are irrational. When it comes to choosing convenience over data security, we inevitably ask for convenience. So we save our passwords in our browsers, credit card information on our phone and do much worse. We click on irresistible offers from unknown sources and share bank details on the phone with strangers who claim to have the last four digits of your credit card. When that information gets hacked, it rapidly changes hands just like currency note. There is a high chance that your email and password is doing the rounds of the Dark Web.Threat Intelligence can tell you if your hacked email and password is floating around on the surface web, deep web or dark web. Read on ...

March 9, 2018

Can we learn empathy from machines?

"With people, things go best if you pay close attention and know how to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Real people demand responses to what they are feeling in that moment. And not just any response." Read more ...

March 7, 2018

Turn Employees into Brand Ambassadors

Saying "All tweets are personal" and "retweets do not imply endorsement" may sound impressive but it does not prevent the reader from assuming that the organization shares the same belief as the employee. So employees are representing your brand 24x7 with their social media presence. They are leaving behind digital footprints of your brand anyway. How can organizations leverage the employees to be brand ambassadors?

March 3, 2018

Thriving In The Gig Economy

Gig economy is a one-sided contract. The employers pay for the time the skills used. But staying updated costs time and money since gig-economy workers do not have access to the Learning & Development departments the way regular employees do, nor do they have the opportunity to build pension funds, medical insurance leave alone wealth creation opportunities like ESOPs. This is where the government needs to create laws that govern gig-workers.The gig economy works great if you have a financial cushion built in. Then it is a great way to explore the hidden talents you never knew you had. But being a gig worker is also full of insecurity, loneliness and income volatility. The unorganized blue collar workers have always lived without the safety net regular work provides. As 30-40 percent of the workforce of our country is joining this new world of work, it is time to rethink the labor laws. Read more ...