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There are many ways you can support your team members’ growth and development. You can give them constructive feedback, challenge them with stretch goals, delegate new tasks to them so they learn new skills, provide them relevant training programs, enroll them in a job rotation program and mentor them when they lack the know-how to […]

Many years ago, when a client expressed his displeasure at how an issue was being resolved, our support team experienced a raft of emotions. Anxiety about the amount of time it was taking to fix the problem was accompanied by a fear of losing the client soon after. There was frustration too that the software

(This post by Sridhar Krishnan was originally published in 2013 on the Transcend Talent Transformation Blog.) Google ‘Rajnikanth Bacon Number’ and here’s what you get: Rajnikanth’s Bacon number is 3 Rajnikanth and Anupam Kher appeared in Uttar Dakshin. Anupam Kher and Jennifer Lawrence appeared in Silver Linings Playbook. Jennifer Lawrence and Kevin Bacon appeared in

If you are a manager, it is inevitable that you will have tough conversations with your employees. The reasons can be manifold. You may have inherited a team from a manager who did not deal with its personnel problems. You may have an employee whose performance shows no sign of improvement despite several rounds of

The last two years have thrown up in sharp relief for managers everywhere the need to understand mental health, how it affects our employees and what we can do to help. We have learned how fragile mental health is. We have also learned that we did not perhaps have the most effective ways of talking

Dear reader, I am starting this post with a simple question to you. What are your blind spots? As leaders, we are constantly told to enhance our self-awareness, to know ourselves. Surely, nothing can be more central to our self-awareness than knowing our own blind spots. Correct? The metaphor, ‘blind spots’, comes to us from

About 18 years ago, when I joined EDS India as a Team Leader, I was asked if I would facilitate the ‘Team Leader Forum’. At that time, there were more than 25 Team Leaders across India who worked for clients in different industries. The TLF’s purpose was to connect all the TLs and provide them

When a friend moved from Chennai to Bangalore last year, his family had to figure out and adjust to a new place – a new apartment society, a new school, new neighbours and new friends. When his teenage son and a few children of his age from the same apartment society decided to go out

(This post by Sridhar Krishnan was originally published in 2013 on the Transcend Talent Transformation Blog.) Nearly 19 billion kilometres and counting. That’s how far NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled from Earth. Launched within a few weeks of each other in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have long since travelled past the planets in

Passionate entrepreneurs and business leaders are usually very good at talking about their product, its features, technical specifications and how its performance is better than of others in the market. They become much more effective when they grab and hold their audience’s attention and let them feel an emotional connection with what they are saying.