Tag: Leadership

How leaders can deal with slow movers in a project chain

Everyone works at their own pace. After all, not everyone can do the same tasks at the same pace. Even the learning pace differs...

What’s a true global leader’s mindset?

In today's rapidly evolving world, global leadership is more important than ever before. It involves understanding and valuing diversity, promoting collaboration and working towards...

Kisanserv empowers women, has over 70% women in workforce

Kisanserv, a Pune-based agritech startup has decided to empower women by giving them more employment opportunities. In its workforce of over 500 people, Kisanserv...

Only 27% organisations attract, retain talent with strong, inspirational leadership

Thanks to the pandemic organisations and employers the world over have been forced to rethink how they can fulfil the changing needs and expectations...

How to deal with leadership burnout?

One of the most common expressions in workplace parlance, ‘burnout’, has acquired greater ubiquity since the COVID-19 pandemic. Affecting both regular employees and those...

Amazon India lets students shadow its senior leaders for a day

In a bid to help develop and nurture future leaders, Amazon India has announced its unique initiative, ‘ADayAtAmazon’. Under this initiative, two selected B-school...

How disengagement at each employee level impacts organisations differently

It is the HR's job to ensure a high level of employee engagement in the organisation. That is why, companies invest heavily on various...

This Company develops underrepresented talent for leadership roles

Many companies show their intent to hire people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. In fact, some companies do hire such talent to score in...

Leadership Conversations

There are familiar ways of doing things that have worked for so long that people operate almost on autopilot in many organisations. It’s not...

Why leadership training shouldn’t only be given to high performers

When evaluating their employees for leadership potential, organisations are likely to focus on the employees who have impressed them most with their performance at...

Character: The Elusive Key to Leadership

What does it take to be a tennis player? For starters, we need a certain amount of knowledge and skills. We can’t play tennis...

Coaching for emotionally intelligent leadership

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated existing gaps in connection and performance among teams for many businesses. Rebuilding stronger teams in the coming...

Coca-Cola hires Rashmi Sharma as global leadership & learning director

Unilever’s Rashmi Sharma has decided to join Coca-Cola as the global leadership and learning director for the Company’s Bottling Investment Group, confirms Sharma to...

Powering performance with qualified leadership

In the world of ‘expect the unexpected’, leaders, managers, and thought leaders need to aim for clarity, be agile with ‘emotional intelligence’, and have...

Taking a coaching approach to management

The role of managers in modern-day organisations has changed. They manage in complex environments and highly-competitive markets. These are significant pressures on ongoing peak...

How Volvo India’s ‘ExcelHer’ initiative gives women professionals a second chance

Global automobile manufacturer, Volvo, in a bid to further its diversity and inclusion agenda in India, has announced an initiative to include women restarting...

Your leadership or your life?

Are you a Leadership Coach or a Life Coach? A tantalising question, no doubt. How would you answer? The response could be a simple...

What’s in Piaggio’s robust leadership development programme?

At Piaggio, there is a culture to identify the best of talent at a very young stage and provide them the platform to grow...

WayCool kickstarts its leadership development with LEAP

In partnership with IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR GSB) at Krea University, WayCool Foods, an agri-commerce company, has launched a leadership-development programme for...

How leadership qualities change at different levels

All leaders who reach the top of their careers go through many stages of leadership before achieving the top spot. In all these stages...

How ERGs serve as a testing ground for potential leaders

The concept of ERG, short for employee resource group, is a well-known one. These are groups of like-minded people who represent the under-represented and...

Team Coaching—A driver for superior performance and collaboration

Amidst the chaos of last year, leadership and culture across businesses transformed rapidly. Staying relevant meant adapting work styles and leadership styles much faster...

Even CXOs can feel stagnated in their career

It's common for mid-level managers to feel stuck and stagnated, when they can’t foresee any further growth path. In some cases, existing jobs are...

Leadership lessons from a tiny virus

Few days back, my manager, a senior colleague and I were randomly discussing how this one tiny virus has turned the world upside down....

Are town halls & webinars effective tools of communication for senior...

Town halls have always been considered as an effective medium for the top leadership to get closer to their employees. It is an ‘open...

Why organisations need human-centred leaders

Businesses are run by human beings. They make operations smooth, create value for the company and its stakeholders and make or break a business. It...

Starbucks workers protest against union-busting efforts

Starbucks employees and labour activists held protests outside the coffee giant's Seattle headquarters on Wednesday, alleging that company executives were trying to undermine unionisation...

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30% employers don’t provide insurance cover to staff’s families

Although group health insurance can cover the employees as well as their dependents, a report reveals that only 30 per cent employers extend benefits...

Google cuts severance pay; approved medical and maternity leaves also affected

After letting go of 12,000 staff members in January, Google may cut severance pay along with declining to honour several other leaves. As reported...

Bengaluru company seeks chief meme officer; offers Rs 1 lakh monthly salary

Bengaluru-based social investment platform is seeking to recruit a chief meme officer for a monthly salary of Rs 1 lakh. In a LinkedIn post,...

Evergreen Marine staff to get bumper bonus — 5 years’ salary

With at least 10 months’ salary to be granted as bonus for good performance, combined with a 50-month bonus that was announced in December...

DIALOGUE

EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO

Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...

“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...

Q. How would you define the culture at GE? A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....

“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton

Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...