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Leadership

Navigating Unconscious Bias: A Guide for Effective Leadership

Oct 10 2023
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In today's diverse and interconnected world, effective leadership necessitates a deep understanding of unconscious bias and its impact on decision-making.

Leadership

Overcoming Barriers to unconscious bias in Decision-Making

Sep 15 2023
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Leadership plays a crucial role in shaping the culture and direction of an organization. However, even the most well-intentioned leaders can fall victim to unconscious biases, which can hinder their ability to make fair and inclusive decisions.

Customer Loyalty

Creating sustained customer loyalty

Jun 7 2023
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Loyalty by definition stands for a strong feeling of support or allegiance usually without any ulterior motive. Reflecting this definition back to a brand, product or organization, loyalty really circumferences your target audiences positive purchase behaviour regardless of a competitors actions or other changes in the external environment.

Execution

Strategy Is Your "What", Execution is Your "How"

Apr 24 2023
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Like a race, starting strong and ending weak is a lost race. Strategy is the start of your race, where you begin strong, all the ideas look great, the actionables look achievable and most importantly the end predicts a huge competitive advantage.

Trust

Strengthening Workplace Trust

Apr 18 2023
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Trust drives any relationship whether it is a relationship between parents and their offspring, the relationship between spouses,

Productivity

Unleashing Productivity Through Technology

Jan 3 2023
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Technology has advanced to such a degree that it is becoming nearly impossible to discriminate whether it is adding to our productivity or becoming a roadblock.

Customer Loyalty

Building Loyalty Through Trust

Dec 27 2022
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Loyalty nowadays is a tough trait to find. Unfortunately today people’s loyalty depends upon how useful the other person is for them.

Customer Loyalty

Building Employee Retention and Increased Loyalty

Dec 16 2022
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“Trust is the most overlooked, misunderstood, underutilized asset an organization can access to enable performance—and its impact, for good or bad —is dramatic and pervasive. It’s something you can’t escape.” – Stephen M. R. Covey

Leadership

De-stress in the whirlwind of stress

Jul 27 2022
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As contradictory as it sounds, the most important way to reduce stress is to de-stress when stress is at its peak.

Sales Performance

CREATING EFFECTIVE SALES CONVERSION CONVERSATIONS

Jun 22 2022
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In the world of sales, it’s a comon belief that if you sell yourself well your product will auto- matically sell. The charm and charisma of a salesman is put in the spotlight leaving the client and their concerns in the dark.

Sales Performance

Eliminating the road between client bias and your sales closure

Jun 14 2022
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There is no doubt that the hardest stage in any sales cycle is moving your target client from the conviction stage to the closure stage. There maybe multiple factors that contribute to the hesitation that may leave you hanging for days, weeks or even months on end.

Productivity

Busy is not always equivalent to productivity

May 24 2022
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Being busy does not always boil down to getting real work done.If you get up at 7:00 am and go to bed at 10:00pm that is a 15 hour window gap that you had in absolute consciousness to execute productive goals in both your personal and professional life.

The 7 Habits

The making of habits that lead to results

May 12 2022
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There was no genius in the history of time that was purely born a genius. Take any genius in any field and they all will have one thing in common. And that one factor is realizing the power of a habit.

Leadership

The extraordinary power of consistent practice

Oct 14 2021
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The key driver to any form of success in any consequential amount is just one consistency. You simply cannot drive efficiency without consistency.

Leadership

Leaders Map to Developing Individual Accountability

Oct 14 2021
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As a leader it is often believed that there is an unsaid expectation to have all the answers to all the questions and the solution to all the problems. An effective leader's execution is to enable the team to independently make significant contributions to the high impact goals of the organization.

Leadership

Step out of your comfort zone

Oct 14 2021
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Think any big and significant goal that you’ve achieved. It would involve you having to step out of your comfort zone. It will demand of you to do things that you’ve never done before to see results that you've never seen before.

Leadership

Loyalty Transpires GREAT LEADERSHIP

Feb 15 2021
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How do you know that the leader is genuinely a great leader? At the top of the mind qualities like honesty, integrity, execution excellence, excellent communication skills, etc. usually, a leader should exhibit. However, one thing that is overlooked quite a bit is the loyalty of the employees towards their leader.

Trust

EMBARKING ON BUILDING TRUST ACROSS CULTURES IN THE ORGANIZATION

Feb 8 2021
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Today the business world comprises of dealing with colleagues or clients across countries and different cultures, especially in a culturally diverse country like India. People from the Northern part of the country have a different culture from the people in the Southern part of the country.

Leadership

8 Ways to Better Manage Ambiguity and Uncertainty

Mar 27 2020
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As a manager, you’re supposed to be in charge, but of what? Shifting company strategy, markets changing with the wind, unclear priorities from your manager, even a direct report who may or may not be happy with her role in the long run. Ambiguity is everywhere at work.

Trust

Are My Remote Employees Actually Working?

Mar 26 2020
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While you’re stressing out about whether your remote is working — Why hasn’t she sent an update? Why isn’t she on chat? —your remote could be stressing out about whether you trust that she’s working. And ironically, these doubts could be taking up precious time and mental space for both of you.

Leadership

8 Ways to Manage Remote Team Members More Effectively

Mar 24 2020
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It’s only fair that you manage your remote direct reports the same way you do those who are co-located, right? Actually, that would be unfair.

Productivity

4 steps to finding order in the chaos

Dec 10 2019
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In today's highly competitive economy it's in all likelihood that you are handling more than one assignment at a time and communicating with more than one person in a day regularly. These kind of job roles and profiles send in a lot of incoming ie multiple emails, calls and meetings each demanding your attention.

Customer Loyalty

Renew and Refuel

Dec 3 2019
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Renewal and refueling is all about preserving the greatest asset that you have - you. The single most powerful investment that you can make is in you yourself. We are the instruments of our own performance, and to be effective, we need to recognize the importance of taking time regularly to unwind and relax ourselves.

Trust

Impact of Low Trust in an organization

Oct 3 2019
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A successful organization thrives on the Trust of its employees, Trust of their clients, and the Trust of their brand name in the market. An organization with high Trust is the best place to work as here the information is shared freely, the culture of the organization is innovative and creative, Transparency is practiced by the organization, the communication is real. These are the few of the attributes of a high trust organization which enable it to become a successful one.

Productivity

Why Downtime is essential for being Productive

Sep 24 2019
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In today’s world, constant stress, poor diet, lack of exercise, and sleep surrounds our mode of life. It’s common to hear complains like “I am feeling lethargic,” “I am not able to keep my eyes open,” “My brain is not working today;” This is what the scientists call exhaustion syndrome, and for a layperson, this syndrome is called burnout.

Productivity

Prioritizing your way towards Productivity

Sep 19 2019
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Most of us have finished their day with a feeling that we have worked a lot, but when we take account of the things at the end of the day, we realize that we missed out on essential things to complete things which were not that critical. In today’s fast-paced world, most of us have the hustle mentality to get maximum things done at a given point of time. However, in doing so many, we tend to skip those things which require our utmost attention. The problem that many of us face is that we fail to

Productivity

How to stay motivated when there is no urgency

Sep 17 2019
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Our work-life always revolves around deadlines. The project to be completed by the end of this month, the report has to be emailed by the end of the day, the presentation has to be completed by noon today, and many more small or big deadlines hover around us. In other words, deadlines are the driving force in our workplace.

Leadership

How effective communication shapes effective leaders

Sep 13 2019
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Communication is one of the crucial aspects of any relationship. It is the foundation of every successful relationship, professional and personal alike. Communication is an inevitable part of life, and everybody spends most of their waking hours communicating in some form or another.

Leadership

Breaking Barriers in Leadership

Sep 3 2019
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If someone asks what are the qualities required to be a leader? Immediately there will be some responses like a leader should have a vision, should be encouraging, should have excellent communication skills. Should have analytical abilities. However, one quality that set a great leader apart from the rest is the ability to break the barrier. Breaking barriers in lay man's language means to do something unconventional. It means not to follow the crowd and create their path.

Leadership

The Power of Positive energy in Leadership

Aug 22 2019
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How would you react when the ideas or the opinion in matters of work always met with negative comments by your team leader? When consistently met with negativity, one becomes reclusive and dread the moment when you have to encounter your team leader. You behave in such a manner because you are aware that any discussion with your team leader will end with a note of pessimism. One of the essential qualities of being a great leader is that a leader has to exude positive energy. In general, as well.