At the start of a new year it’s good to assess how to achieve more congruence in those things that are more important to you.
Category: Productivity
How to apply design thinking in problem-solving
How to apply design thinking in solving problems that are not well-defined or when the solutions are not so obvious.
How to overcome resistance to change
Considering how people respond to change and considering their emotional needs ahead of time can help you better manage resistance to change.
Are you distracted ? Here is how to disconnect from your distractions
The ability to produce quality work and the ability to quickly master hard things is an important requisite in today’s work environments. The process of using rapidly changing technologies requires that you hone the ability to learn increasingly complex set of relevant skills. To be able to transform these skills into valuable results, your attention…
How to foster collaboration
How to foster collaboration among teams and workplaces to work towards common goals and for better outcomes
How to identify root cause of a problem
Did you ever struggle with some seemingly unresolvable problem? We always come across problem situations in all sizes and shapes where some problems keep reappearing no matter what you do. Such problems are not only difficult to handle, but also waste lot of resources be it individual or organisational. With as many problems as we…
How to resolve inner value conflicts in decision making
Everyday you make many decisions that have a deep impact on your personal or professional life. Most of the times, we tend to make decisions by not knowing what really motivates us towards a particular decision as we focus our attention on what’s important. However, knowing what really drives our decisions is important for an…
A leadership style that is effective in times of change or uncertainty
As a leader, your leadership style determines how well your organisations and businesses thrive in times of changes or uncertainty. Even though you tend to develop a particular leadership style that is unique to you as a leader, as changing circumstances and situations demand different workload, teams or resources, so should be your leadership and…
How to break bad habits or behaviours
Behaviours and habits that we employ in our everyday life are most important. In a way, they run our life as pretty much everything what we do is based on a habit or a behaviour we have developed at some point in our life and have a long term impact on our health and happiness….
How to improve your positivity ratio
Emotions play a significant role in our everyday life both personal or professional. They are natural responses and instinctive state of our mind which arise from external or internal stimuli, including from crises and periods of uncertainty such as that we are experiencing in recent times. Feeling both positive or negative is a natural part…
How to improve your lateral thinking skills
Getting trained on specific techniques may make you proficient in figuring out why a problem occurred in that particular field and then figure out ways to fix the problem. But when it comes to creative problem-solving, sometimes, you have to start from a blank page as to where the problem occurred and a solution must…
What is your problem-solving style?
Problem-solving process is a search for and implementation of the best possible solution for a specific problem. It is important to develop your own method to approach a particular problem and to use the effective ways of different styles to solve problems efficiently.
How to delay your gratification
In today’s world of instant gratification, where we want everything instantly makes us accustomed to instant gratification bias in other important areas of our work.
Constantly giving into temptations can lead to unproductive habits, poor decision-making, anger, stress, overwhelm and impulsive behaviour.
Why overthinking is bad for your productivity
While many problems are resolved by giving them careful thought and deliberation, overthinking does not lead to new insights or understanding, instead it saps your energy, time, motivation and creativity. Are you a over-thinker? Here is how to stop your overthinking
What is your leadership style?
We all have a go-to leadership style consisting of default set of markers when it comes to enhancing the morale, performance and motivation of people we are leading or managing.
Understanding your leadership style is essential to identify and describe your individual unique characteristics when it comes to effective leadership or management.
