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JULY 20, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Ways To Build Trust (Lessons from a Conversation) One of my friends recently joined a new organization at a senior position. Use productivity tools, reminder systems, whatever. When new in an organization, people carefully observe you to gauge the integrity.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer ‘Their Work’ Versus ‘My Work’ When you work in an organization or within a team, you can think of it as ‘doing the work for someone’. On one side, they work for an organization, but on the other, they also aim to attain personal mastery in whatever they do.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for a lot of organizations today is to involve each and every team member in the quality game. Most people in the organization can do a better job if they know: What are the key values and beliefs on quality/excellence in the organization? How will those actions add value to organization?

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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). Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Article Series on Quality – A Round-Up As announced earlier , I am writing a very exciting series of articles on QUALITY over at ActiveGarage.com – it is a 12-part series that touches upon some of the most critical aspects of building a quality-centric organization culture.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

It also comes out that the amount of preparation, practice and thinking that goes in when developing your product/service is inversely proportional to the pain you will undergo when delivering. Our progress as professionals depends a lot on our ability to undergo the pain of delivering things out. Check it out if you haven’t already !

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JULY 22, 2010

treating people like machines (and expecting 100% productivity)? Totally employee oriented terms, and its also true if Employees are satisfied in any organization it will grow no doubts. People need to know how their work contributes to the organization. ad-hoc-ism and lack of process orientation? not training your workforce?

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JULY 27, 2010

Now think about your organization. A common mistake organizations commit is to deliver great experience first time and then take the customer for granted. I have realized that it is no longer enough to just have a good product (though that is absolutely necessary), you need to constantly strive to deliver better experiences.

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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. This month, I touched upon “ Instinctively Reactive Leadership ” and how it is a huge cost to the organizations. I wrote earlier about “ toxic leadership ”.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That is the common perception, and also a reality in many organizations even today. The cause of building a memorable organization. Have a very productive week ahead! - - - - - P.S: In an organizational context, subordination refers to a lower position in the hierarchy. In my view, people never subordinate other people.

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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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DECEMBER 24, 2009

March 2009: Personal Leadership - It shines in difficult times We are all leaders - but our education, upbringing and organization structures suppresses our leadership traits. I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form” – Rhonda Byrne (Discoverer of Secret) “The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are” – Marcus Buckingham (Motivational Expert) “How people treat you is their karma. Have a super-productive week ahead!

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JULY 25, 2010

An organization needs to connect with the customers. Have a good productive weekend! A singer has to understand the taste of audience and sing accordingly. A trainer has to connect with participants. An actor has to truly connect with the character being played. A blogger has to connect with the readers.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. Toxicity in words, deeds and thoughts of leaders builds an organization culture that is very difficult to unwind.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

These insights will help readers frame their quality strategy by effectively leveraging processes, people and leadership to build a customer-centric organization. Quality touches us all in products we use and services we avail. This series will run for almost over two weeks with one article being posted everyday.

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JULY 1, 2010

Leaders play many roles when they lead teams / organizations. 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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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. An organization can either be a “passive order taker&# or an “active partner&# to the customers.

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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.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2011

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply I have seen organizations that do the following. They define their work processes and implement them across the organization to get certified against a certain standard (like ISO). This is highly counter-productive in my view.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

However, planning for and managing these invisibles makes all the difference in an organization’s performance – more so in service and knowledge oriented world. So, apart from visible figures (top line, bottom line, productivity, defect rates etc) what are the invisibles that play a huge role in determining performance of a business?

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