Feb 5, 2010

Posted in  Self-Awareness

Be Self-Aware, Be Yourself!

Be Self-Aware, Be Yourself!
“Be yourself”, probably these were the words you had been telling yourself for all these years and nearly tried to make everything possible by being confident on the tasks you had taken up. There had been number of times in my personal experiences, that speaking these two words to yourself, does gives you a mental boost to your brains to achieve your goals and be positive about the outcomes. There is always some sort of fear craving in everyone’s mind when they take up unusual or uncommon things at work but the best you could do is being yourself and getting aware about your strengths and weaknesses. When you know your  [...]

Feb 3, 2010

Posted in  Self-Awareness

Organizational Self Awareness

Organizational Self Awareness
It nearly gets difficult sometimes to take up the right step in a particular direction but again some thought comes up in the mind warning you of any pros or cons and you just start taking step in an altogether different direction. These are just the small potions of life where you involuntarily wander which path to follow, or even if you know the path you still feel doubtful about it. So what’s that “it” factor that keeps stopping us from taking mindful steps in a particular direction? May be the answer to the question is self awareness, this is one of the most prominent things we possess but still are unaware about  [...]

Feb 1, 2010

Posted in  Organizational Behavior

Importance of Team Cohesiveness

Importance of Team Cohesiveness
Team Cohesiveness plays an important role in an organizational behavior of individuals working in it. Team Cohesiveness is an important factor that binds the members of the team together, an organization cannot think of functioning without the cohesive factor, in-built in to its members, while many organization do try to built up a good cohesive unit. It is the sense of being connected to others based on the emotional needs of an individual and also the urge to get the job done from colleagues or juniors. Generally, an organization’s teams cohesive needs, as an emotional group is bind by a small group size where the members  [...]

Jan 29, 2010

Posted in  Organizational Behavior

Social Loafing! Who is Responsible?

Social Loafing! Who is Responsible?
Managing the organizational behavior of individuals working in organizations is a challenge as far as human resources are concerned. Companies spend billions of dollars per year in human resources of their organization in the form of employee fees, incentives, cultural programs, highlights of the year, motivational programs, and lots of other similar kind of organizational methods to bring around motivational power in employees. Most of the times we see employees get easily de-motivated by the steps taken by the management of the organization, organizations are a huge outlet, a manager at the topmost hierarchy may not know  [...]

Jan 27, 2010

Posted in  Team Development

Pros & Cons of a Virtual Team, Are they better?

Pros & Cons of a Virtual Team, Are they better?
The globalized nations of the world are getting closer with the dot com era inventing new wheels to do their businesses in different ways, the virtual teams are out everywhere situated on different parts of the world making it successful to do business from all the corners of the world. The actual offices are here to stay, with their own advantages, as their processes demand them to be together and work together. There are varied types of offices and business structures, it really gets difficult to analyze whether they are one company or 2 companies. Teams play a very important role in achieving the common goals of any organization;  [...]

Jan 25, 2010

Posted in  Organizational Behavior

Dumb habits in organizational structure

Dumb habits in organizational structure
Am I speaking something that is absolutely out of mind? Without paying any regards to what our whole organizational structure is all about, when we talk about organizational structure or organizational behavior, a bigger picture eludes us paving a way for a larger organized society where in each individual’s processes, their functions, their goals are decided by the management so how can that be, by anyways called as the Dumb Habits? It might not be a willful effort in doing some dumb stuff in an organization, our managers are so trained to act dumb and take unnecessary decisions by spending thousands of dollar where its  [...]

Jan 22, 2010

Posted in  Organizational Behavior

Organizational Models

Organizational Models
Organizations across the globe stand on the strong pillars of their management’s values, philosophy, goals and vision; they are the backbones of an organization to survive all the thunderstorms faced in their lifetime. An organization consists of a formal, informal organization and social organizations; the culture of the organization determines their type of leadership, the method of communication they use and the performance of their teams. The people working in the organization perceive all these factors as the quality of the work life and thus work hard in achieving them through the power of motivation and as a result,  [...]

Jan 20, 2010

Posted in  Organizational Theory

Poking your nose into other’s Business!

Poking your nose into other’s Business!
I just love this idea of sharing business processes with my colleagues and love asking them about their businesses too but most of the time, I have seen people giving me bad remarks behind my back stating an excuse that I was getting too personal in knowing their business methods. Its not out of compulsion that I was asking them their business, nor did I wanted to know their business secrets or how much are they earning per annum its just an enthusiasm I have since as a child knowing about Businesses. Business was a passion for me always and I always get ready to learn something new of somebody else’s business. It becomes  [...]

Jan 18, 2010

Posted in  Business Planning

Business Plan or a Business Pitch, What comes first?

Business Plan or a Business Pitch, What comes first?
This is a bigger question, many of you might be asking before starting a business or rather some of them who have made a bigger mistake of pitching without planning. It’s like whether egg comes first or a chicken, both the plan and pitch are connected to each other with similarities patchable. This question first came in to my mind when I was working with my colleague developing a new business plan, we got stuck somewhere and that was when I realized that plan always comes first before you pitch a business. Businessperson should be aware of what he is going to do before he takes actions first. A lot many people confuse their  [...]

Jan 15, 2010

Posted in  Business Planning

Business Planning at its Core!

Business Planning at its Core!
Oops, the winters are getting colder, I can see everybody rushing back home these days, the business deals are getting short and at the other side, many people are losing their business contracts, not because of the cold, of course! But because of their negligence in making a proper business plan, there are millions of business meets happening across the globe in a single day but hardly 10% of them are successful to beg that business contracts or are successful in their business processes. More and more individuals are getting hooked to the idea of setting up their own business units blindly, they neglect the importance of  [...]

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