Tag: Career
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320/365 Vlogging your Career Insights
Career Insights Videos in my opinion will be relevant for a long time and it is also a way I can document my thoughts in the 29 years I spent working and being on my own. The mistakes I made. What I would do differently. The learnings. We would wonder why someone would be interested in…
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302/365 Something extra on Passion and Profession
I have written about passion and profession before. Today I was thinking about it and I have some additional thoughts. I consider profession to be something that we are good at and passion to be something we are passionate about and love to do. These need not necessarily be the same for all people. We might have…
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279/365 Are you Safe at your workplace?
Psychological Safety is such an important thing in today’s professional world. If you want teams to perform to their best abilities. You want innovation and be a step ahead of the curve, you have to check the psychological safety in your work environment. Are people talking, raising their opinions, agreement and disagreements without fear. There…
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256/365 Work From Home, Office or Hybrid
Yesterday someone asked a question…. What do I prefer… working from home, office or hybrid…. I answered that it was too early to decide… I started working from office only two weeks ago… And I like it… One main thing is I don’t have a long commute… I have been in a hybrid mode for…
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237/365 How to consciously be in the Learning Zone
In a TEDX talk by In Eduardo Briceño he talks about the Learning Zone and Performance zone. We might be under the impression that we are learning new things regularly in our life and work, but the concept of having a Learning Zone and Performance zone kind of makes us think about it. We all…
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212/365 We all need that Thinking Time
‘Thinking’ or may be the time to ‘THINK’ is getting scarce now. Are people stressed and overworked because they don’t have enough time to ‘THINK’? Our little handheld devices take such a lot of our time. Distractions, incomplete work and jumping from one priority to other, all leave people stressed and overworked. I am just…
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207/365 Building a Reputation
“Your Reputation defines who you are and it is your responsibility to protect and manage it” Your Reputation has become more important than it has been ever before, not because you have just become a celebrity. But because now there are so many ways in which it can be damaged. Without you knowing your name…
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EP 267 (203/365) Part-1 Transparency makes you visible and not invisible
Visibility is the catch word very often used in the workplace. Often when related to career advancements, appreciations, recognition and promotions. And there are cases where the pursuit for visibility impacts performance of individual team members. These are primarily people whose effort is more on visibility than on performance. There are three aspects I want…
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EP 263 (199/365) Change in an interconnected World
There is no question that we live in an interconnected world, but when it comes to change we always think of it happening to us. But in an interconnected world there is no Us as in ‘I’ or ‘me’. There is only us as in ‘WE’. Let me explain that a bit. When we talk…
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EP 262 (198/365) Planning for a Monday in Office
Before the start of this week, On last Sunday evening I took sometime to send message to some of my old business acquaintances, colleagues turned friends and old business connections and then sat down to list a few things, that I look forward to for a Monday at work. I have mentioned before that I…
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