Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Under pressure to cut costs and boost productivity, employers are trying to predict specific outcomes, such as whether a prospective hire will quit too soon, file disability claims or steal. Globally, spending on so-called talent-management software rose to $3.8 billion in 2011, up 15% from 2010, according to research firm Gartner.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

Simplicity within a team is a product of leading them well. Jessica Cox Becomes First Pilot With No Arms By Hemal, January 17, 2011 @ 12:31 pm I have no other words than “Simply&# superb ! People never have to wonder what’s on a leader’s mind. Keeping them (people who add complexity) at bay is a constant challenge for leaders.

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

You can ask your team member to perform a task or you can ask them to complete a deliverable (complete with all product and process requirements). The first step to get something right first time is to define it accurately in the beginning. Defining a deliverable clarifies purpose and sets expectations on “why” rather than “what”.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Have a productive week for you as well Sir. Tags: Adversity , Golden Shower Tree Career Related , Improvement & Development , Self Growth , Uncategorized | Tanmay September 20, 2010 5 Comments By Jay Chhaya, September 20, 2010 @ 8:00 am Yes I am listening and very rightly said, adverse conditions teaches us the most in life.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Prioritize: Identify top three improvement ideas that, if implemented, can have most impact on your results (customer satisfaction, higher productivity, better profitability, reduced cost of rework etc.) Less is More : In my experience, one such key improvement in one month can still lead to 12 breakthrough improvements in a year.

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QAspire

AUGUST 20, 2010

Must read if you are struggling with your productivity. .&# The performance value of total concentration - by Tim Sanders Tim Sanders posted a small and important reminder that working on one thing with total concentration has tremendous performance value. He also reminds that we can’t excel at all things at a time.

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QAspire

AUGUST 10, 2010

Your products/services have to first meet the basic criteria of delivering the value that client is seeking. Does your product/service meet the core expectation of the customer? The customer get’s delighted only when a company goes the xtra mile or creates a WOW moment through their products and services for the customer.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters. What do you think when you experience poor design in your life?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Set up a reward and recognition system to promote right behaviors with respect to quality of products/services delivered to customers. Record video messages on quality and upload them on your corporate intranet. Encourage discussions/participation by using internal blogs/wiki/forums.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2010

A good review is just an internal quality gate that ensures that internal customers (reviewers) are happy with the final product. Review is a control mechanism, and hence the focus on getting it right the first time is still very important. If your internal customers are happy, your external customers will be happy too!

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QAspire

JANUARY 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in January 2010 January 2010 was a productive blogging month. Life Lesson on Endurance I continued the thinking on self-improvement aspect and realized that “Thinking” is a very useful (and important) habit in life and career. The post was titled: No Pain, No Gain.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

It can be a great tool to focus your thinking on a subject and collate that with your own experiences.

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QAspire

AUGUST 29, 2010

Instead what I believe and follow is that one should work for betterment of project / product. That’s when you donate for the purpose of making a product more matured. And according to me that comes when you work for the Product / Project and not with an idea of My work OR Their (boss / company) work.

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QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2010

Have a terrific Tuesday and a productive month ahead!

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy).

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

My post “ 15 ideas To Ensure That Trainings Effectively Deliver Value ” was featured in HR Carnival over at i4cp PRoductivity Blog - along with a host of other brilliant posts on talent management, general HR, managerial advice and career advice.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

treating people like machines (and expecting 100% productivity)? ad-hoc-ism and lack of process orientation? not connecting with your people on one-to-one basis? inefficiencies structured within your org chart? talking only from a “problem” perspective? re-hiring/training new hires when your experienced people leave?

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Have a very productive week ahead! - - - - - P.S: When a leader consistently enables, empowers, motivates and serves his people, he truly subordinates the cause of building a great team that delivers great results. No one is anyone’s subordinate, but everyone is a subordinate to a cause. This day is all that is good and fair.

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QAspire

AUGUST 17, 2010

Thanks a lot for sharing this Tanmay and I am glad to get back onto your posts after some time now. Enjoyed this. Regards, Jay Chhaya Other Links to this Post RSS feed for comments on this post.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In a knowledge-intensive business environment, people deliver services and products, not machines. An excerpt: The purpose of any quality management system is to build a quality oriented culture (internal goal) and deliver exceptional value for money to customers (external goal). Hence they are at the core of the quality equation.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Have a super-productive week ahead! .” – Wayne Dyer “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Drucker You might also like reading Collection of thoughts to have a GREAT start into the week! and (How to) Have a Great Monday! Stay tuned for more posts this week.

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QAspire

JULY 25, 2010

Have a good productive weekend! Communication is more of theoritical aspect whereas Connect is a practical phenomenon. Though communication in most cases ignites a relation base, connection actually forms it. Thanks for sharing the content Tanmay. Regards, Jay Chhaya By Anil Kumar, July 26, 2010 @ 8:49 am Very interesting content.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Quality touches us all in products we use and services we avail. Without a commitment to improve and long term thinking on processes, you may have successes based on individual heroism but never a sustainable model that delivers consistent quality. I am extremely excited about this series and look forward to your views and comments there.

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QAspire

JULY 20, 2010

Use productivity tools, reminder systems, whatever. Trust and respect have everything to do with employee engagement, retention, attracting top talent, employer brand, and ultimately, production. You bring out a real correlation between building trust and engagement/retention/branding and production. But keep your commitments.

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QAspire

JULY 29, 2010

Apart from the quality of product, the perception of value has a lot to do with the overall experience of client when dealing with you. In my view, even knowing completely what customer expects is difficult - and then the challenge is to do it in a way that customer finds it valuable.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Thanks for the comment!

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

Being into processes, I am myself inclined to evaluate processes based on metrics, but sometimes, a hard-nosed focus on metrics can just prove to be counter-productive if qualitative aspects are overlooked. As the HBR post finely exemplifies it, adding sales figures does not determine the kind of organization we are creating. Keep reading!

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Quality Compliance Metrics Blog 117

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Check it out!

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Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 58

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists help in controlling quality of the products in verification stage. Checklists are indispensible in a business setting, specially when dealing with production systems that demand consistent outcomes. Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. In today’s world, analytics is a product/service that must be sold.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

May 2009: 25 Lessons Learnt on Conducting Productive Meetings We know that meetings can be a huge waste if not conducted well. This post touches upon 25 most important tips for conducting productive meetings. I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

It was the turning point in my career. If you’re old enough to have been in the working world 20 years ago, you have seen many evolutions: cell phone, computer, laptop, software, internet, email, wireless connection, the rise and fall of CompuServe and AOL, car phones (remember them?) Allocate productive use for each hour of the day.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 413

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

This is an enormous missed opportunity: we found that the best companies are more than 25% more productive than the rest due to the way they deploy, team and lead scarce, difference-making talent. Here’s what our research shows: The best talent is significantly more productive than the rest.

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