In my last post I discussed how to capitalize on some career enhancing moments and shine at workplace. These moments are rare to get at workplace and you just can’t afford to let them go. So be confident, energetic and comfortable while dealing with such situations. Follow certain rules so that you not only become [...]

One of my friends sharing from his previous work experiences mentioning how badly he was treated from one of his “influential colleagues”. How he used to treat him like a pet football and keep kicking him around the corner as and when he felt like doing it. He was quite junior at that time so [...]

The last day of the year is a good time to put things in perspective. Most often we end up making promises to ourselves about: loosing weight focusing on a better health quitting smoking leading a better lifestyle doing something about our surroundings being happy and what about our job? the stress we take at our [...]

Some of my coworkers always find it entertaining to forward funny or agitating emails to the entire team. One day unknowingly one colleague included name of one very senior person on the email. And then he did not get the salary increment in his next appraisal. It is common to commit mistakes in workplace. We [...]

I did not feel comfortable for many days, when I joined the operations team for a BPO. The timings were different (mostly late evenings/ nights), they had the access card policy so couldn’t arrive late or leave early. They were strict in terms of leave policy, deadlines and even the break timings and casual when [...]

A recent KPMG study indicated that, 83% of mergers were unsuccessful in producing any business benefit as regards shareholder value. The prime reason being, employees who are at the core of an organization are apprehensive of a proposed merger because they fear layoffs, loss of identity, lack of increment, unfamiliar management work practices etc. This [...]

Abhishek is always ready to share new stories about his boss and how they don’t get along well. He claims that he is not able to focus on his work because his boss is not cooperative at all and does not add value to his work. He feels, all this is making him unproductive at [...]

I asked, ‘what’s the best way you consider for background check of a prospective employee?’, to a friend who is a recruiter in a company. I was surprised with his answer when he replied ‘google search’ as his favourite tool for background check. I realised most of us use internet extensively and based on our [...]

Last month I had a meeting with one of my old friends, who is now VP–HR in a fairly large IT setup. He informed me that he is planning to lay off a couple of hundred people in his company, in a phased manner. What surprised me was that he mentioned that out of them [...]

In these times of slow economic recovery, many of us are finding it difficult to hold on to our respective jobs. Work pressures, stretched working hours, stringent quality checks and – clubbed with all this – workplace politics. Ethically speaking, just how desperate are we to save our job? You need to be aware when [...]