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7 Qualities Organisations Will Need To Develop In Their Employees To Succeed In The Post Coronavirus World

Polly S — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:05:40 +0000

In the past couple of weeks, almost the entire world is still because of the lockdown and all the employees have been working from home. Every organization has started building strategies on how to operate post coronavirus when the lockdowns will be over

Coronavirus has changed the entire scenario. All the business strategies and models are currently uncertain. No one knows what effect coronavirus will have on the world economy. Many companies have started laying off or doing pay-cuts and some are even closing down. Everyone has been thinking and discussing how the post corona workplace will be, how every organization will operate, will work from home will become the new normal.

With so many uncertainties following 7 qualities organization will need to develop in their employees to succeed in the post coronavirus world

- Emotional Intelligence – When employees will be back to their work desk nothing will be the same. With the fear of getting laid off and with not understanding where the business is going to lead emotional intelligence will be needed more than ever. Emotional intelligence is all about being aware of your emotions and controlling them so that it doesn’t affect the work. Emotional intelligence was mostly required for the leader but with the change in the current scenario, every organization irrespective of size and turnover will need to make sure that every employee’s emotional intelligence skills are developed. It will help the employees to stay optimistic and flexible so that they can contribute to the business to come out of the crisis which has been occurred because of the current situation.

- Adaptability – The business world was already changing but the pandemic has made the process faster. Every employee needs to be prepared to face all the changes right from the workplace, expectations, process, etc. They need to be open with the current and all the future challenges that will be coming. With so many uncertainties and changes decisions that will be taken might be required to change based on the situation and every person in the organization needs to be flexible to adapt themselves so that it doesn’t affect the individual productivity.

- Innovative – In the post coronavirus world, human creativity is going to play an essential role in every organization. In fact, during this pandemic, we have seen many companies changing their services to cope up with the current situation like for example domino who was known for their pizza’s started delivering groceries through their app. Another very good example can be Swiggy a known food delivery app started genie services with which people can order anything right from groceries, medicines or any item from a store and swiggy will deliver to your house. Coming times will require employees to come up with new technologies and new ways of doing things. For any business to succeed in the future will require how well its people have new ways of thinking.

- Analytical Thinking – Employees with analytical thinking can solve complex problems by using reasoning and logical skills. Post pandemic every business will require to face many challenges and every organization will need their employees to find out the best possible solutions by objectively evaluating every problem. People will need to decide based on data and logic rather than emotions.

- Openness to Learn – With a difficult business environment, every organization will need employees who are ready and open to learning new skills and technologies. Any organization to grow and succeed will need employees with a growth mindset who are developing their skills and intelligence for achieving higher results.

- Communication – Communication has always been an important skill but it will be more important now. Every employee needs to make sure that they communicate the right message in the right way to the other people for the organization to operate smoothly and achieve its plans as fastest as possible.

- Self Dependent – Before the pandemic we were seeing the need for employees being self-dependent was being preferred but in the post-pandemic time, it will become a necessity. Organizations will need their employees to take charge of their works. Employees need to make decisions alone. Taking approval in every step and task will only delay the process, and to match up with the future business world every organization need to fasten their work process.

No organization were prepared to cope up with the pandemic Covid19. Rater no one could imagine a few months back of operating the business like this. But we can prepare for the post-pandemic world.

Take care and Be Safe!

Polly S

Polly is part of the great old monks family, from where The HR Monks has grown into a big family. She has witnessed the birth and growth of this organization and supported the organization in all seasons.

She loves painting, and she is greatly influenced by ZIg Ziglar. Currently, she is busy in sketching the destiny of The HR Monks, which is striving to be into the league of Top 10 Executive search firms in the SME sector. She loves innovation and experimenting with things, and dreams of touching all the corners of the Globe one day.

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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6 Things I have Learned from this Lockdown

Polly S — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:26:42 +0000

With this COVID19 outbreak where everyone is stressed and tense. We are all worried about how this is going to affect our economies, some people are even worried about their job securities.

We all have been discussing with each other that by when all these are going to get over. We don’t know anything and honestly, nothing is in our control, we can just hope and pray that things get better as soon as possible.

Between all these uncertainties, this current lockdown situation has taught a lot of things to me and some of the positive takeaways are noted below.

6 things that I have learned from this lockdown:

6. Work from Home is not only for the IT industry:

Earlier work from home was mostly for the IT people. Working from home was always challenging for most of the industries and people, but because of the current situation mostly everyone from different industries has started working from home.

It is no more a challenge. We have learned that a person who wants to work can work from anywhere it is not necessary that only from the office we can be productive. In fact, schools have also started teaching online.

So now a student of class 6 knows how to connect and operate on Zoom & Skype. There are some technical job roles that require physical presence, otherwise, apart from them, work from home is possible.

5. We became more healthy:

People like me who use to survive on fast foods eating all unhealthy stuff and becoming unhealthy day by day, but with this lockdown where there are no fast foods available we all have been happily enjoying home-cooked foods.

We all are getting habituated with simple foods and getting more time to do exercise

4. Our Air Pollution has reduced:

Growing up in a hill station where the sky has always been beautiful, clean and clear but after shifting to this city I have always seen hazy skies but again I get to see clear blue skies every morning. With the low movement of cars, our environment has become clear.

3. We are Getting to spend time with loved ones:

Apart from any occasions we hardly use to get time to sit down and have a normal chit chat with our loved ones. Every one of us was so busy with our regular routine that we forgot what family time is.

Now since we don’t have anywhere to go so all of us are getting a chance to spend some quality time with our loved ones. We are also getting time to relive our childhood memories by playing games like Ludo, chess, cards, etc.

2. No one is in a Hurry:

I have always seen everyone including me in a hurry. Sometimes in a hurry to reach office, sometimes in a hurry to submit projects or sometimes in a hurry to reach home. We all have been running all these years, now we got some time to relax and not be in a rush.

1. Better Connect with Self:

Well with our regular schedule mostly all of us have lost the connection with self. We have forgotten what we like and what we enjoy.

The time we got now where we are not in a hurry, we are getting time to connect with ourselves, listen to our inner voice and understand how we want to go ahead from here. We all got a chance to revisit our goals and find out where we are going wrong.

Of course, this is a difficult time where people are in fear and trouble. But most of these are not in our control, So, probably seeing some positive aspects to it can let us pass this time with more ease and happiness. Stay Safe!

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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Staying Happy is not Difficult

Polly S — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:09:36 +0000

Happiness is a very powerful feeling, its presence can make our life fulfilled and satisfying and its absence can make our life unpleasant and unsatisfied.

Whatever we plan, we focus or whatever our goal is, the ultimate reason behind achieving the desired outcome is to gain happiness, the context or definition of happiness can be different like for someone the goal is to become the CEO of a company for someone else the goal is to open a chain of a bakery shop.

Happiness is a simple word but to be happy and to stay happy is a very difficult thing we all keep on struggling every moment to become happy and to stay happy.

In today’s world where everything is moving so fast, people are so focussed on their goals, – we all are in a race. Staying happy is not difficult but we have made it complicated.

Following are some of the small things we can do to stay happy:

1. Sit and talk with your loved ones:

Nowadays, we all have become so busy with our lives that we got how it feels to sit and chit chats with your loved ones over a cup of coffee/tea. We all do a lot of discussions but it is only to the point but sometimes just sitting with your loved ones and discussing something out of work will be fun. It will make you feel relaxed and happy. It feels great to share a laugh with our loved ones.

2. Do something crazy :

Remember, the childhood days where we all must have done so many crazy things and I am sure thinking about those moments still makes us laugh. We all have become so busy with our day to day work, that we forgot to have fun. So take out some time from your busy schedule and do somethings that is crazy or maybe something that gives you happiness, like playing cards or maybe cooking it can be anything but do something that makes you happy.

3. Listen to your all-time favourite songs :

Music always helps us to connect with ourselves and to be happy we must listen to our inner-self. Whenever I listen to my all-time favourite songs no matter in what mood or situation I am it always makes me happy and relaxed. It brings back so many beautiful and happy moments of my life. So create a playlist with all your old-time favourite songs and spend some time alone and listen to your favourite songs and get connected with yourself.

4. Feel your breath :

Breathing is a part of us but it can also make us happy. Sometimes go out and feel some fresh air and you will see you will become energized and happy. Feeling the fresh air within you will make you fresh and clean.

Staying happy is not difficult, we can always stay happy once we start enjoying and cherishing the small moments of our life.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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3 Ways to Influence Others at Work

Polly S — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:48:17 +0000

Influencing skills is an interpersonal skill that is mostly overlooked. Yet it is one of the most required skills, especially at the workplace.
It is a powerful skill that is required for being successful at work. It is required for sharing your opinions and convincing others with your opinions.

No matter who you are or where you work or what is your position, having a command on others through your influencing skills is a must for growing at the workplace.

Gaining influence is not a one day task neither is an inborn skill, it needs to be learned and it takes time. We all get influenced knowingly or unknowingly from someone, someplace it can be anything but influencing is a part of our life.

The following are the 3 ways to influence others at work:

Having the Right Communication :

How you communicate is very important in influencing skills. To convince others with your opinions and ideas, you need to present your opinions and arguments in the right way.
Your communication needs to sound confident but not aggressive, you cannot sound arrogant neither you can be passive. Not only this, while you are communicating you need to understand with whom you are communicating.

The way you present your communication in front of your boss cannot be the same way you communicate with your team members. So to have an influencer impact on others, you need to communicate in the right way.

Be Good in Listening to Others:

To influence others you need to let the other person speak. It needs to be a two-way process. You need to give due importance to what others say, what are their opinions.
This two-way process creates mutual trust which results in higher influencing.

Be Action-Oriented:

Whatever you say needs to be backed up with action. No matter how good you say but if you cannot show it, as a result, you will never be able to make an influencing effect on others. So you have to be focused on your actions and results and you need to maintain consistency. People get influenced by the person who brings results every time.

There are other things as well that are required for influencing skills, but these 3 ways to influence others at work are simple, – yet they can have a good impact on others.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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You Need To Believe and Have Faith That You Can be Successful

Polly S — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:01:10 +0000

There are various ways and processes of goal setting and success. People talk about the do’s and what not to do for getting success. All these are very important because it helps us to lay a process to reach our goals step by step but there is something more that is required as well.

In spite of so many resources and guidance there are few you reach the top and achieve what they want and the main difference lies in belief and faith. People who don’t have the belief and faith in themselves, no process or any guidance can make them achieve.

Believing in self and having the faith that you can do it is the first thing we need to build before we follow any process or take any guidance. If we read about any successful people we will find that they always had the belief and faith in themselves that they will do it.

To be successful you need to believe and have faith that you can be successful. It helps us:

To be Confident:

When we start working on achieving and accomplishing anything, there are times when people around us demotivate us by saying this is not possible or maybe it is not for you, etc. When you have the belief and faith in yourself and your dreams no matter what others say your confidence that you can do it will not change

To be Focussed:

When we work on achieving our dreams there will be times when things will not work as planned or the situations will come up that might distract you from your goal. But it is your belief and faith that will not let you get defocussed from your goal.

To-Do whatever it takes:

Getting success or accomplishing anything cannot be easy. Nothing comes easy and ready-made it requires hard work, dedication and letting go of everything that will distract you from your work. You need to be day-in and day-out working towards your goal. Your every minute needs to be devoted to your goal. This devotion can come from your belief and faith only.

To become Mindful:

Mindfulness is very important for getting success, It works like detoxification, helps you to keep your mind relaxed and positive. Every success story has many failures, struggles and hurdles behind it. There are times when you might feel like giving up. But if you have the belief and faith it will help your mind to stay mindful and will not let you give up no matter how bad the situation or time is.

To achieve something first you need to get the clarity of what and why you want and then you need to believe and have faith that you can be successful.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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5 ways of maintaining a positive work environment

Polly S — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 06:04:34 +0000

The work environment is very important for any organization. How your employees behave is the impact of the kind of work environment you have in your organization.

In this changing business world where competitions are high, work pressures are huge, people are getting stressed out it is your work environment through which you can maintain a healthy organization, A positive work environment will help your employees to be creative, focussed, happy and productive.

To maintain a positive work culture you need to do implement some small initiatives. Following are the 5 ways of maintaining a positive work environment:

5. Encourage Clear Communication and Collaboration

Having a clear and collaborative work environment is very important for a positive environment. All the employees should be very clear about what expectations the organization has from them and on the other side, the organization should be aware of the expectations and wants of the employees. It is very important to have a collaborative work environment. Simple and Clear communication helps in creating a healthy work culture

4. Take Inputs from Others

Give value to each and every employee. You need to make sure that the inputs of your employees are given value. It becomes very important to listen to your employee’s ideas and thoughts. Everyone joins an organization with a view and thought and once you start giving values to their says they get the feeling of being a part of the organization. By taking and sharing ideas with other people creates an opportunity to learn new things as well.

3. Appreciate Hard Works

Everyone loves appreciation and the best reward for anyone can be appreciation and acknowledgment of their works. It is always good to appreciate and acknowledge the hard works people bring in to your organization. By seeing people getting appreciated others also gets motivated to contribute the same. And this helps to maintain a positive environment during a tough and stressful time.

2. Motivate others for learning & developing

For an organization o grow it becomes very important that it’s employees are also growing. Encourage your people to learn and develop themselves. Guide them on how they can develop for getting success. When your people are focussed on development and success your work culture will lawyers be positive and productive

1. Have Fun

Professionalism doesn’t mean maintaining a dull and serious environment. You need to maintain and encourage a happy work culture where your people enjoy their works, they love coming to the office every day. Plan out some small activities and get-togethers. Let people take some breaks between their works so that their minds get refreshed.

You need to be happy and enjoy your work. Unless you can never maintain a positive work environment.

Create a healthy atmosphere for your employees this will help your organization Ito grow and your employees will also be engaged and satisfied with this. These 5 ways of maintaining a positive work environment can help you create a healthy work culture for your organization.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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What are the Qualities Managers Can Easily Learn from any Mother?

Polly S — Sun, 12 May 2019 09:15:09 +0000

Most of us see our parents as a role model. And to many of us, our mother is a source of life-long inspiration!

As a manager, you must have read hundreds of lessons in management and have solved hundreds of case studies on management. But did you ever think that the best manager in the world is at your home only?

Yes, she is none other than your sweet Mom! She may not hold an MBA degree from a well-reputed university and may not have worked as a manager of a corporate, but she knows well how to manage your family! Have you ever thought, what are the qualities you as a manager can easily learn from your mother?

1. Be Patient:

Think about how you grew up as kind. What titanic patience your mother had to make you learn new things. How she smiled at your mistakes and patiently showed you the right path to success.

Just like kids, your employees need the chance to learn, absorb and develop into their careers. They are bound to make mistakes. It’s a process.

As a manager, it’s your job to be patient and provide them with the tools and resources to become successful. Cultivate your employees as if you were coaching your own children and experience how they love you back in return!

2. Coordination:

A mother must manage the expectations at all the levels of a family and if there is any conflict, she is the first one who must listen and provide a solution.

She has to ensure everything runs smoothly daily in family and she has to make the optimum use of resources to run a family. She ensures everybody does the right thing at the right time and coordinates the activities of different family members to create harmony in the family.

Whenever things go wrong and there is a possibility of corrective action from her side, she willingly accepts it and takes necessary corrective action.

So, these are the qualities managers can learn easily from their mother.

3. Well Planned:

Having kids drastically decreases the amount of time mothers’ have in the day while exponentially increasing the demands and obligations they have. They make the best strategy for managing time in order to take it all on.

A mother is naturally efficient in making the budget of the family. She forecasts well and she always keeps a surplus and makes proper planning for future requirements. She is an epitome of an efficient planner for the aspects of the family.

Managers can learn these natural and efficient planning abilities to run an organization from a mother.

4. Believe in Self:

A mother is a real heroine, because of her strength, courage, and bravery. Though many obstacles come in her life, she never gives up or loses hope.

She always proves that women are capable enough to sort out their problems on their own. A mother’s life is synonymous with hardships, but she always deals with those problems bravely. She never doubts her abilities. She is the last person to give up!

Managers can learn a lot about this quality of love and care of mothers which gives them endless belief in self. Employees are the blood of an organization. They are the foundation upon which the managers can bank upon.

5. Be Self-Dependent:

Being a leader requires stamina, tenacity, patience, and compassion for others – but most importantly he/she should be able to chalk the course of action all by the self.

As a mother, she has these skills embedded in her DNA. How many times have you seen her not fulfilling her obligations? So, a manager can easily learn how to be self-dependent by looking at his/her mother.

6. Always Motivates Others:

A mother teaches us how to handle problems without getting nervous. She encourages and motivates us. She also teaches us the lessons of loving everything that we do, to believe in the goodness of life and patiently bear with our struggles.

You as a manager can easily learn this quality of being a constant powerhouse of motivation from your mother and motivate your employees in all of their ups and downs!

What are the qualities managers can easily learn from any mother? The list is endless, here we have mentioned only a few.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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How Your Attitude Can Create A Difference in Your Life

Polly S — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:00:09 +0000

“Your attitude reflects who you are”

Your attitude is the way how you respond positively or negatively towards a situation, an object, a person, an idea or it can be anything. It is a perspective that you have about everything. It defines your viewpoint.

Different people have different perspectives on the same thing. And these differences are what differentiates their life and outcome. For example, everybody gets an opportunity but who understands and encases the opportunity there lies the difference. It is also true in case of your workplace productivity too.

How your attitude can create a difference in your life:

Your attitude can either keep you low or it can make you bounce back :

Everybody faces lows and highs and life is about that. But a person with a positive attitude will consider the lows as a stumbling block and will try to find ways to overcome the blockages. But a negative attitude person will look at the lows as apart of their life and will always keep complaining of how things don’t work out.

Your attitude can either make your surrounding happy or sad :

Finding happiness and being happy is very important to keep a healthy and successful life. A positive attitude person will always be joyful, interacting, interesting, friendly, ready to try to new things. They keep their surroundings happy and positive and you will find that they are always surrounded by the same kind of people.

In fact, most of the people hate to spend time or to be surrounded by a negative person. Supposedly, you are going on a trip and you have been given with option of sharing the journey either with a person who is joyful, friendly and open or with another person who never talks, never smiles and always looks worried and upset? Who will you choose?. Your surrounding plays an important role in your attitude as well.

Your attitude can either make your life successful or it can make it unsuccessful :

Success cannot be achieved in one day neither it is can it be achieved easily. Every success story has many failed attempts and failure stories behind it. A positive attitude person will learn from all the failures and will keep working, keeping his eye towards the success it has to achieve. But a negative attitude person will give up with any failure it faces. And will make the failure its reason for being unsuccessful.

Your attitude is a guide to how you can create a difference in your life. Changing attitude is difficult as what your attitude is currently is a result of all your past experiences, thoughts and beliefs. But by being aware of how your attitude is towards anything, through this you can really create a change in your life.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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Time is Same For All – What Can Make Us More Productive at Work?

Polly S — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:20:32 +0000

Time is same for all – What Can Make Us More Productive at Work?

Most of the things around us we get or have is not same. But one of the things that every one of us gets same i.e. Time. We all get fixed 24 hours, neither less nor more. So time is the same for all.

But still by getting the same time, some delivers on time and some fails, some gets success but some fail. The only difference lies in how you are utilizing your time.

Time is constantly moving and it never waits or stops for anyone. So its very important for you to keep your pace with the time to be productive and achieve success. Something that you achieve but not on time then the achievement is of no use.

Time, Productivity & Success all these three things are interconnected. If you don’t manage time properly you will not be productive and if you are not productive you will not be able to achieve success. So, it is very important for you to remember that:

Time leads to Productivity and Productivity leads to Success

You can consider this as one of the mantra’s of success

Time, if used properly, can become a very important tool for you which can lead you towards success. Any successful person you pick up you will find that one of the things that are common amongst all of them is that they manage their time in the right way. No person will be able to achieve without managing their time. In fact, managing your time effectively is one of the most important factors for you to become successful.

Not only these if time not used properly it gives stress to your mind as well. When your mind realizes that you are reaching your deadlines and you have very limited time to complete your project or deliverables your mind gets stressed out with this feeling, and because of this most of the people tend to give up. So, you have to remember that time is the same for all but how you utilize it will lead you towards the outcome you get.

So be a strategic time manager and make it your tool towards success.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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4 Ways How Saying No Can Help You Become More Productive

Polly S — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:39:28 +0000

Focusing isn’t about saying yes, focusing is about saying no. – Steve Jobs

4 ways how saying no can help you become productive

Saying No is not about dissatisfying someone or making someone upset. It is about making your works priority.

Most of us, sometimes out of fear or maybe sometimes with the feeling of what others will think we end up taking up some tasks which are not a part of our deliverables. The only reason behind this is we can’t say no.

We all don’t feel comfortable to say no to others. It is very good to help others but not at the cost of your own work. This is one of the main reason why we get cluttered with our works and because of which our productivity gets affected.

You can very well take up some extra works to help others but once you are done with your deliverables and you have the extra time to complete it. Saying No is very much required for you to be more professional and productive. Following are the 4 ways how saying no can help you be productive:

Better Quality Results:

Taking some extra works or projects in between your deliverables affects your quality at work. Once you take up some extra work in between your works your focus gets divided and by this way you end up affecting the quality of your work.

Not Getting Stressed Out with Over Commitment :

When you start with some projects or tasks, your mind is clear with how and by when you have to complete it. But taking extra works means over commitment and this way your mind gets stressed out with the different commitments you have to deliver and this is one of the main reason why some of the people fail their delivery on time.

Meeting Deadlines:

Every project or task which is given to us is given with some time commitments. But taking extra works for helping someone means you are affecting your time commitment. Time will not be flexible with you, it keeps on moving but some extra works can make you fail meeting your deadlines.

Clear with your tasks and priorities:

Saying no to the other works helps you be clear with your tasks and priorities. It helps you to focus on your tasks and deliveries. Saying no means saying yes to your priorities. It is all about being productive

So, it is very important for you to start saying no to the works that will affect your productivity. But everything has a process and saying no just randomly can be rude and inappropriate. You have to say no in a strategic way and you need to know how to say no to whom, as the way of saying no to your colleague and your boss cannot be the same. Say no but the right way and become productive.

Polly S

She has another mission, which is helping the specially privileged children getting the proper education. This is one of her dream projects.

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