If there was a Genie in a magic lamp who could tell me that you could choose one and only one thing that would always be perfect in your corporate life, I would choose this without batting an eye lid. Delivery. What you deliver to your organisation, to the team. It is basically your work …
I cannot stress enough on the importance of communication skills in the corporate world. There are volumes written on it. Since the A2Z of Professional Life series is about my learning and what I ought to have known in the early years of my career, I will focus on that. If you are doing a white …
The financial year just ended and it is the season of appraisals in India. No wonder then that B had to be Bell Curve. I was well into my third year in the corporate life when I learnt about the Bell Curve. The Dreaded Bell Curve. The bell curve is basically a gaussian distribution graph and …
All through April, I will be posting on A2Z of Professional Life, Monday through Saturday. Do join me in this journey! Adaptability or the ability to adapt is a plus in any given situation. In the professional world though, it is THE mantra to survive and thrive. How often have we heard the words “Adapt …
Who does not love a challenge? I do!!! So, when I learnt about the A2Z blogging challenge, I decided to jump the wagon. When I was thinking about what my theme should be, I realised that I have not blogged much about Corporate life. As a professional, we learn about corporate behaviour, etiquette, ways to …
I needed to get a formal professional photograph clicked a while ago. Before I became the makeup junkie that I am now, I would just brush my hair and get a pic clicked. But now, I couldn’t do that. It would be a makeup crime. Right? I had no idea how to do makeup for …
GIGO, as any soul enlightened to the inner works of the machine called computer will tell you, stands for Garbage In Garbage Out. What it means is that if you feed trash into a system, what you’ll get out of it is also trash. There was a story in today’s Hindustan Times about a paradoxical …