What to Do When a Team Member isn’t Pulling Their Weight
No one likes to pick their colleague’s slack, especially of someone who takes long lunch breaks, scrolls Instagram all day, unashamedly misses their deadline and doesn’t give their cent percent to a project. As a matter of fact, ninety-three percent of people who work on a team do so with at least one person who doesn’t do […]
Employee Engagement in a Remote World
As organisations approach the one-year mark since the pandemic propelled them to abruptly switch to remote work, leaders around the world continue to scramble finding ways to keep employees engaged in a virtual environment. Before the coronavirus pandemic, only 17 percent of U.S. employees worked from home, but after the reinforcement of standard operating procedures, WFH is […]
How to Lead Inclusive Meetings in a Virtual World
In the current remote-work reality, almost every one of us is trying to adapt to maintain a sense of normalcy. Like it or not, this giant global experiment is challenging business leaders around the world to keep their teams connected while also staying far apart. However, amidst all this, leaders need to ensure inclusion doesn’t […]
Cultivating Gratitude: Why Employees Need to Hear Thank You More Than Ever
In these unprecedented times, the people on your team are coping with tremendous pressures, all while trying to navigate uncertainty in their own lives, homes and families. With employees working remotely and Covid-19 restrictions in force, expressing gratitude has become more important than ever. However, a recent Gallup poll found that only one in three workers strongly agreed that they received […]
3 Common Mistakes to Avoid While Using 360 Degree Feedback
In order to successfully implement 360-degree feedback in your workplace, it is necessary to be aware of the mistakes commonly made before embarking on the process, so you avoid them. When done the right way, multi-rater feedback systems can bring about massive positive change and maximise effectiveness at the individual, team, and organisational levels. I’ve […]
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Breach of Trust
I am soon celebrating my 6th anniversary of running a business in Pakistan. Before I started on this journey, one of the main professional worries I had was whether clients would actually pay for services. Till now, my worry had proven to be completely misguided. In all these years I have not once had a […]
The Balancing Act
Anyone who has ever been deeply committed to their job, knows that managing a successful career while having a healthy personal life is almost next to impossible. Professionals deal with the challenge of trying to find the perfect balance between family and work life on a daily basis. It can be very hard to juggle […]
Enjoy The Experience
Sometimes we are so focused on achieving our set goals that we forget about the experience itself. Whether it is to do with completing ones Bucket List or trying to quickly check off all your resolutions for the year, we focus so much on the end result that we miss all the excitement of the […]
The Power of Leeches
Anyone who has ever been bitten by a leech knows the strength of these blood-sucking creatures. It is almost impossible to kill one and when it attaches itself, it doesn’t let go before it has sucked enough blood, which can last from anything between 20 minutes and 2 hours! We encountered plenty of leeches last […]
