Productivity Improvement – beyond metrics and tools

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Many managers (am sure) would be spooked by the results that they get out of team in measurable time frame. Why collective person hours of team results in much lesser output? The task which is planned to be over in 1 week is still work in progress at end of ...

Managing high performing team member and allegations of Favoritism

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Handling high performing team member (in the project) becomes bit of dilemma for project leader / manager and requires special and specific efforts on part of manager to ensure that high performing team member is actively engaged and productive. In doing so – manager does a tight rope walk – ...

Dealing with Exit of a team member

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Dealing with Exit of influential team member is tough and made tougher if it is not handled with maturity it deserves. When a person decides to leave the organization the impact on the current team depends upon the influence he carries on the individuals in the team and common group ...

Performance in corporates

Monday, October 31st, 2011

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi One can study optics, chemistry, and mechanics through a syllabus to become a professional technologist. The key attribute of the scientific process is that the outcome will be ...

Favoritism – the evil within

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Favoritism is one common tread with runs through every one of us. It creates the microsystem within the work group which defines how the actual work is done. This is more specific to people involved, with role of the employee in the group defining the impact it carries varies. Every ...

Attrition – what can Human Resources do to minimize it.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Standard saying – People don’t leave company, they leave their managers. Used by HR Managers, and people in senior management to put the ounce of upcoming attrition on the immediate supervisor. Every organization put stringent parameters in place for governing attrition and in most cases it makes immediate supervisor responsible for ...

Transition from Individual contributor to Team Leader role

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

As the number of years starts adding to person’s profile, expectation for next role start taking shape. This is based on common principle that as experience of the person grows the maturity level increases and hence the capacity to take on complex task and ownership increases. However movement to Lead role ...

Fresher’s as viewed by people at various levels within organization

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Hiring Fresh candidates just out of college has been instrumental in rise of Indian IT services industries. Candidates chosen from engineering and MCA institutes are hired in large numbers with intent to make them billable† as soon as possible. Considering the return on investment from these employees, companies are ensuring ...