by admin | Mar 27, 2017 |
Success, in itself has no definite meaning, as it changes from person to person accordingly. But on a general note, the common idea of success means financial affluence, increased societal status, a happy family, and many such indicators. Since there is a clichéd understanding of success, there are also a few connotations attached to it. Not necessarily true, here we are debunking much popular notions surrounding the popular idea of success: 1. Success makes you a better person When people work in a very demanding role that makes them deeply competitive. It rubs off on their personal life also. People seem to be on a short temper all the time, flaring up at people including their family for no reason. Once this is realized, people can make an attentive effort to separate their work life from personal life and things can soon return to being normal. Staying level headed and not letting success go to your head sometimes needs a conscious intent! 2. To succeed, you need to focus on some parts of your life more, however once you are successful you can balance your life again When you focus too much on one aspect of your life at the expenditure of other aspects which are equally important, you cannot always escape the consequences. Let’s look at an example. In 2009 Ranjan Das, the SAP India CEO, died of a massive heart attack. He was 42 years old and active in sports, was a fitness fanatic and also a marathon runner with no history of any type of cardiac problem. So what led to this tragedy? Apparently, as he had...
by admin | Sep 22, 2016 |
Many early stage startups expect new employees to acquire skills on the job, while some large corporates too generally don’t invest much in long-term employee training programs. Companies don’t train workers anymore because of different apparent factors such as the changing nature of work and constant job hopping by employees. But businesses should continue to invest in all their employees. In fact, these are the people who plan, process, and propel a business and help to achieve its ultimate goal, which is profit maximization. Every person in every department works for this supreme objective, directly or indirectly. Many falsely presume that only sales and marketing people are responsible for revenue generation. In practice, be it a production engineer or an account manager, a market analyst or an HR executive, all contribute immensely to maximize the business profit. Only those organisations where all people work with solidarity achieve annual targets and get success in the long run. As per the HR Magazine, companies that invest $1,500 per employee annually on Teaching and Learning (T&L) activities earn 24 percent more profit margins than organisations with lower training budget. A similar study conducted by The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reveals that out of 2500 companies firms which had provided comprehensive training to its employees availed 218 percent more income per employee than companies with less aggressive and non-comprehensive training approach. Now, it is a firm belief of a majority of corporate giants all over the world that by leveraging technical and professional skills of the employees, businesses can make higher profits without endangering their sustainability. How to gain optimal...
