Most people believe that there is no such thing in the universe as, ‘Good boss’. A good boss acts as a coach/mentor and is the kind of person who help you to learn valuable new things, help you in getting more increments, promotions, guide you through your career and helps you to improve yourself personally [...]

People do many things to get noticed at workplace. Some of them think that if they say yes to everything, apart from scheduled work profile, they will not only get noticed but will also be appreciated and get promoted. However this is not true in today’s workplace environment. Your boss/colleague may presume you as ‘always-ready-to-work’ [...]

Threats are part of everyday work life.  They come to us every year, quarter or day in many forms.  They posses the potential to disturb our worklife, approach, perspective etc. They could be anything from the following list: pink slips                                                                           downsizing (or rightsizing in management terms!) take overs revengeful colleagues hotheaded bosses new technology new process at [...]

This is the beginning of a new year and is a right time to take stock of your work life. We take many resolutions to make our personal and professional life better and more disciplined. Well, I am not going to discuss on resolutions and their follow ups. However one thing which is very important [...]

 I am sure most of us are not so efficient in time management at work. We might think that we have a to-do-list, time sheet, drafts etc. ready for the day to accomplish all the scheduled tasks. But at the end of the day time sneaks away from us at work leaving unmet deadlines and [...]

The Workforce Profile defined about 60 “soft skills”, which employers seek. They are applicable to any field of work, according to the study, and are the “personal traits and skills that employers state are the most important when selecting employees for jobs of any type.”  1. Math. 2. Safety. 3. Courtesy. 4. Honesty. 5. Grammar. [...]

Most of us have a ‘to do list’ for work but seldom we focus on activities that we should “not” be doing at workplace. I have put down some of them which will help you identify a few time wasters at your workplace. Abusing office resources: Using the office printer, phone for personal use, taking [...]

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 [...]

The number of reviews from companies pan India has swelled in the past few weeks. Thanks to the efforts put in my by my colleague Manish. As I was going through the content posted on the site, irrespective of designations, size of company, industries and other factors, one opinion which has stood out and kind [...]

Recently an ex colleague of mine called to discuss his problems at work and the next steps he should take. He did mention about the usual suspects like office politics, pink slips, bad management etc. and now shaken with the system and totally unsure about what he should do next. As I interviewed him on [...]