My last day at Google! Tomorrow, I head out to explore the next adventure of my career and wanted to get this post out before I return my Google badge. My love & curiosity for Google started at Dubai airport! In the winter of 2009, I was heading back from Houston, Texas to Bangalore, India. I met this proud father…
Tag: employee morale
The MOST powerful performance coaching tool, EVER!
In one of the recent networking sessions, someone brought up the topic of effective performance coaching tools. Participants were talking about different interpretations of what they thought were some of the most effective performance coaching tools. It included: Coaching softwares, coaching exercises, frameworks, coaching conversation starters, coaching models etc. On my drive back, I was reflecting on the topic and was thinking about…
Are you a “WHAT” leader or a “HOW” leader?
How many times, have you sat in a business review where someone was presenting how well a metric performed and asked, “Great job, you folks. By the way HOW did you guys do it?” Vs. moved on saying “Great work & well done!”. Maybe a few leaders want to know the HOW piece and a great majority is pleased with the…
Love hormones for employee well being!! What the heck??
I was introduced to Oxytocin in 2011 during a seminar on ‘organizational strategy & the next generation of leadership’ in New Delhi and since then it has been a topic of great interest and learning for me. But wait! Are you wondering“What the heck hormones have to do with organizational strategy & employee engagement??” I thought the same…
They don’t let you touch the bananas? Wonder why?
“I don’t know why, but this is how we have always done it!”. Does this statement sound familiar? It has to be!! A statement that makes me want to giggle every time I hear it. Below is my favorite ‘5 monkeys’ video that helps articulate the severity and the impact of the “I don’t know” statement in any organization. “Why…
Driving your employee engagement. What do you think?
A decade after the dot com bubble burst and just a little while after the announcement of Lehman Brother’s collapse, the employee behavior research groups started getting traction and recognition from corporate America on the impact the dis-engaged workforce had on the overall organization and the industry as a whole. The mood was to move away from the…
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