Growing a business is a Team effort

Growing a business is a team effort! There should be no secrets in office. All employees should encourage to speak up if they see a better way to accomplish company's goals.

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Possible Strategies for Retaining Good People

1. Provide career growth, learning, and development opportunities
2. Create exciting and challenging work
3. Be flexible, with work hours, dress, work rules, telecommuting
4. Provide job security
5. Minimize work-related stress
6. Appreciate people on a regular basis
7. Make work fun
8. Provide proper resources
9. Create balance between work and family
10. Offer an open management style
11. Trust your people
12. Encourage creativity and innovation
13. Provide rewards based on performance
14. Get people involved in decision-making
15. Assign coaches or mentors who help employees not only with specific jobs, but in developing their careers 

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Potential Uses of Performance Appraisal

1. Performance Improvement
2. Compensation Adjustment
3. Placement Decision
4. Training Need Assessment
5. Career Planning & Development
6. Staffing Process Deficiencies
7. Informational Inaccuracies
8. Job-Design Errors
9. Feedback to Human Resource

Performance Appraisal is the process by which organization evaluate individual job performance.

Purpose of HRM and its Philosophical Approaches

The purpose of human resource management is to improve the productive contribution of people to the organization in way that are strategically, ethically and socially responsible.

potential philosophical approaches:

1. Supreme importance of the individual
2. To reach the people, where they are
3. Education for action
4. Utilization of local talent
5. Development of human projects through education
6. To teach people how to think, not what to think

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How to Get Employee Satisfaction in an IT Business

Employee satisfaction can be expressed as in terms of employee’s productivity at optimum level. If the employees are satisfied from its organization then they will definitely perform beyond the expectations. Employee satisfaction has direct relationship toward organization’s success or failure.   

How to Motivate and Encourage Your Employees

• Always encourage your employees by giving positive feedback even though in negative situations (like telling negatives but in positive way)
• Reward your employees for exceeding expectations
• Conduct regular feedback sessions on performance weekly or monthly
• Make an impression like every employee own the organization
• Appreciate their work and guide them to bring innovation
• Reward them on achievements either its monetary or words of appreciation
• Involve your employees in decision making, it will add huge worth for you
• Provide an unbiased work environment
• Ask your employees to set their own departmental goals or short term goals
• Always listen your employees
• Provide them recreational activities on some achievements
• Ask your employees say no to dishonesty in work
• Always welcome suggestions and recommendations made by your employees
• Appreciate the work creativity and uniqueness
• Develop a respect level between you and yours employees
• Always celebrate success

Monitoring Employees Satisfaction

These are essential things to keep in mind. Employee satisfaction is something that you prefer to check on periodically, but you do not would like to make it seem to be self-seeking by any means. Be sure you'll be able to trust that your employees are doing and being valued and engaged like they should be to have a more successful future with your company.

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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorson - Harvard Business Review

Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorson - Harvard Business Review

How to Be Happy Any time...?

Post written by Leo Babauta.

My friend Barron recently asked, “If you could be anywhere right now, doing anything you want, where would you be? And what would you be doing?”

And my answer was, “I’m always where I want to be, doing what I want to be doing.”

I’ve notice that in the past, like many people, I was always wishing I was doing something different, thinking about what I would do in the future, making plans for my life to come, reading (with jealousy) about cool things other people were doing.

It’s a fool’s game.

Many of us do this, but if you get into the mindset of thinking about what you *could* be doing, you’ll never be happy doing what you actually *are* doing. You’ll compare what you’re doing with what other people (on Facebook and Twitter, perhaps?) are doing. You’ll wish your life were better. You’ll never be satisfied, because there’s *always* something better to do.

Instead, I’ve adopted the mindset that whatever I’m doing right now is perfect. If I’m writing a post, that’s amazing. If I’m reading blog posts on the Internet, that’s interesting. If I’m doing nothing but hanging out with my family, that’s incredible. If I’m walking outside, enjoying the fresh air, that’s beautiful.

There’s nothing I’m ever doing that isn’t the most incredible thing on Earth. If I’m doing something sucky (I can’t remember doing that recently), maybe that’s an invaluable life lesson. If I’m with someone boring or obnoxious, it’s a lesson in patience, or empathy, or in learning to understand people better.

The Now Mindset, In Practice

Let’s say you’re washing the dishes. Wouldn’t you rather be having a delicious meal instead, or talking with your best friend? Sure, those things are great, but they’re only better if you believe they’re better, and more importantly, the comparison is totally unnecessary. Why should you compare what you’re doing now (washing dishes) with anything else? Wouldn’t almost anything lose out if you compare it to something you like more? Will you ever be happy with what you’re doing if you always compare it with something you like more?

Washing dishes can be as great as anything else, if you decide to see it that way. You’re in solitude, which is a beautiful thing. If you do it mindfully, washing dishes can be pleasant as you feel the suds and water in your hands, pay attention to the dish and its texture, notice your breathing and thoughts. It’s meditation, it’s quiet, it’s lovely.

You can say the same of anything. Driving to work? Enjoy the solitude, the chance to be alone with your thoughts, or to listen to music you love, to see the world around you. In a meeting with co-workers? Pay attention to how people talk and interact, learn about the human mind, see yourself in everyone around you, learn to love anyone no matter who they are, practice giving up expectations of who people should be or what this meeting should be like.

I’m always happy with what I’m doing, because I don’t compare it to anything else, and instead pay close attention to the activity itself. I’m always happy with whoever I’m with, because I learn to see the perfection in every person. I’m always happy with where I am, because there’s no place on Earth that’s not a miracle.

Life will suck if you are always wishing you’re doing something else. Life will rock if you realize you’re already doing the best thing ever.

Reference link: http://zenhabits.net/happy/

Prepare leaders for tomorrow…..even when the focus is on today

Time is short.....We need to focus on Tomorrow while we deal with the realities of Today

Professional Images..........Lesson ?

Professional Image

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Brand Yourself Before Others Brand You

Whether you like it or not, you have a personal brand. When you come in contact with people, they will “brand” or typecast you based on the image you project. Why? Human brains are wired to do this as a “short cut” to make sense of the world. Without short cuts, life would be too confusing, complicated, and in some cases dangerous. The brain simplifies as much as it can so that it can focus on those things that really matter. Your brain needs to decide if another person, animal, or thing is a friend or a foe that will help or harm you. It does this by categorizing everything according to symbols and patterns that are hard-wired or learned from experience.

Brand Yourself Before Others Brand You

It is useful to think of branding as having two components - the lock and the key. The lock refers to the target audience that has a need, and the key is the image of the product you create to fill that need. In the case of your personal brand, you are the product. You have more control if you create your own brand image (key). If you don’t, others will create one for you. More often than not, the image they create will not be flattering or helpful because they may have a negative agenda, lack branding expertise, or have a natural inclination to compete with you by highlighting your weaknesses.

Elements of A Successful Personal Brand

To be successful, you need to project the image that fills the needs of your target audience, which typically includes a group you want to join, a prospective employer, or an audience you want to sell. Your key has to fit their lock better than your competitors. If it does, you will reap the rewards of being selected or followed.

Steps to create your personal brand.

To create a personal brand that works for you:

1. Identify your target audience (your lock)? Determine the audience you want to target and what they want or need from you.
2. Determine the image you project now (your key). Ask the people you trust to honestly tell you what image you project. You have to be open to listening to their answers even if they tell what you may not want to hear.
3. Is it the image you want? If their answers are consistent and represent the image you want, your personal brand is working. If not, you need to make changes related to your appearance, behavior, name, personal symbols, or other branding elements in a way that you are true to yourself. Unless you are a fine actor, trying to be what you are not rarely works.
4. Make adjustments to your key. Make the adjustments necessary to project the personal brand that enables you to realize your objectives and better fill the needs of your audience.
5. Create branding elements. You need to develop branding elements that help you to create and reinforce the image you want to project. People typically employ names, logos, slogans, hairstyles, or clothing items to help their personal brand. Name.Biz Stone’s real first name is Isaac. Bernard Schwartz becameTony Curtis. Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch. Some people use initials or a middle name if their given name does not fit the image they want to project - F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Murray Abraham, I.F. Stone. Logo. Prince created a symbolthat he used as his logo. Signatures are often personal logos that enable personal brands to stand out from the crowd.Slogans. Steve Jobs loves to say, “this changes everything.”Paris Hilton trademarked “That’s hot.” Donald Trump has popularized “Your fired” along with the accompanying hand gesture. Charlie Sheen has many but the one that many are using to represent him is “Duh… Winning.” Hair. The Beatlesmops tops, Justin Bieber something similar, Albert Einsteinabsent-minded genius, and Donald Trump Yikes! Clothing. Pee Wee Herman, Steve Jobs, Hillary Clinton, Spike Lee (hat and glasses), Lady Gaga, Muammar Gaddafi.
6. Execute performance. Your product has to deliver on the promise of your personal brand. A bad performance or poor execution, unless your brand is deliberately based on this, will undermine your personal brand.
7. Measure results and take corrective action. Repeat steps 3 and 4 and the others if necessary.

Reference Link: http://www.bnet.com/blog/marketing-strategies/is-it-really-necessary-to-8220brand-8221-yourself/161?promo=713&tag=nl.e713

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