Lean Advantage

  Well Wishers or Not a Well Wisher Learning is the most inevitable part of our lives, we learn from what we do & we also learn from what we choose not to do. We all come across people that in one or another ways impart necessary learnings, so either we can choose to become a listener with patience, an observer with intent & a learner full of gratitude or we follow the most popular way of learning things, the hard way. Along the way up in life, it becomes very important to understand & identify who is actually a well wisher, or more critically when is someone wishing well & when they are not wishing well for us. The realization about who actually wished well & who stood by watching us, mostly comes after either we have entered into a difficult situation or we may have just managed to come out of it anyhow. And all these can be analyzed in time if we are in a mind set to understand & accept that our own perception about any given situation is just one of the ...

  Being Human : Judging & getting Judged In every aspect of life we interact with human beings for personal & professional reasons. Knowingly or unknowingly, we have this in our DNA that we remain careful enough to only let our good side out & make sure that a positive impression is made, during every such interaction. But again these positive impressions may only last as long, no personal or professional interaction can ever remain on the surface, unless they are entirely superficial. The more we interact, the more we keep opening ourselves & also start experiencing their perceptions that were initially not being let out. Like religious & political views, their understanding about socio-economic scenarios & so on. While we learn a lot about them, it may equally make them know about us, unless either of us remain insincere towards each other. It is here, slowly & steadily the judging starts taking place, individuals after having known each...

  Deploying Emotional Intelligence in Interpersonal Relationship: The level of our job satisfaction on daily bases is directly dependent on how our various professional interactions helped us to achieve our objectives. These interactions may be with juniors, with colleagues in the same department or other departments & of course with the Boss. Most of these interactions though might be objectively initiated for whatever profiles that one is managing, the progress of any interaction & its end results may not necessarily follow the expected route,  Why? Because,  1) We are working with our set of experience, intelligence, understanding, expectations & perception. 2) While on the other hand the person we are interacting with may have their own set of these very aspects. 3) In most cases, initiation flows or flies if the concerns are mutually agreeable, while data, details & presentation of the proposals matters, what matters most is h...

  Pay Package/Salary Negotiation :  Mostly underlined as CTC, Cost to Company, but not necessarily implied to the Net pay. CTC, includes many other allowances that any Organization may pay & might not be a part of the net salary, such as telephone/mobile allowances, Mediclaim, subsidized meals & so on.  Net pay is what drops into the account after all necessary deductions. What are the criteria to be considered while getting to a level where the salary part is discussed & negotiated: A) One must understand that CV & the follow through of every interview may always remain a determinant factor in having any say or leverage on the Pay Package negotiation. B) Let us also understand some probable conditions of hiring, Organization is hiring because someone in that position is leaving, any healthy organization will first consider to promote the next person available in the department, if at all they were working on any succession plan, because eve...

  Profile Selection Criteria While Considering a Job Change : As discussed in an earlier post, there are some certain criteria that can help us do a self assessment on our job satisfaction, it is equally important that one may have to also carry out a detailed study on all different criteria for selection of the next job & profile.  Though it is absolutely necessary to have a clear understanding on the reasons for which one is considering changing their job, at the same point in time, those very reasons shouldn't be the only criteria or a base to be considered for selection of a new job. For example someone is experiencing too much work load or pressure from the seniors & hence they are looking for a change, then within an interview time of 30 minutes, it may be very difficult to find out if the new job or the senior will be more accommodating than the present one. Following are few of such criteria that can be considered: A) Do not remain confined to look for the...

  Interview from the Perspectives of an Interviewer :  There is a lot of information available on how a candidate must maintain their Do's & Don'ts during an interview, but to add a cherry on top of the cake, please let us go through how an interviewer may be thinking & proceeding with the interview process. A) Application letter, content of your CV summary & the layout of CV with key words makes the very first as well as a lasting impression. That is because it is well understood that any candidate who can be very impressive in their presentation, is believed to be very particular with whatever profile they are working on. B) So if there are some 10 to 15 applications & you happen to be one of them to be called for an interview, there is a probability that either you are already been considered & that the interview is an formality to ensure that their selection is worth and valid, and if you are not that one, than the second options is that ...

  Changing a Job, What are the criteria to be considered? Mostly we see that people leave their jobs when they arrive at any unforeseen circumstances whereby they are left with no other options than to quit their job.  In modern times, this shouldn't be the case, as it implies to the fact that individuals remain comfortable getting adapted to all those circumstances that actually should have been taken as indicators of what may come & eventually push one off the cliff, leave their jobs, either without having any other suitable job or settling for any available job. Any new professional profile, irrespective of their hierarchy in the system, may take nothing less than 3 to 6 months to settle in & start creating value from the desk. Hence one must take at least 1000 working days as a benchmark for carrying out their own job evaluation. Ask the following questions to yourself after you have completed working for at least 1000 days in that very organization, the...