QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

She specializes in helping companies recognize what’s required to energize their people and to achieve long-term success at the bottom line. At successful companies, the culture is positive and values-based. Remember, success is a team effort. One of my favorite definitions: culture is what you do when no one is looking.

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QAspire

AUGUST 19, 2012

Jay was expected to reach his goal while following the exact process and still doing twelve other things that were unstructured. In this case, to keep Jay focused on one important goal is the accountability of his boss – and if the boss failed on this one, Jay would definitely fail. Maximize their chances of success.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

We have all read 10 tips, 5 steps, and 4 actions of successful leaders, but we have to look closer to find the secret ingredient of great leadership and outstanding results. ( @bizshrink ). Joel Garfinkle on his Career Advancement Blog shares “ 7 Competencies Successful HR Executive MUST Know ” to be successful. ( @workcoach4you ).

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QAspire

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Human beings have an obsession to decode success. Recently when he was asked about the secret of his humility, his response was simple, “I don’t let success, records and adulation go into my head”. The work you are appreciated for should meet the goal. The first time they do something new, it is a creative act, the magic.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

A great culture enables success, builds team fabric and attracts talent too. Good team work is mathematics – it adds leverage, divides work and multiplies success. When you encounter an ego situation , quiz your goals. Own failures but share success. Celebrate successes and early wins. Monitor progress, not people.

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QAspire

APRIL 6, 2015

Their discretionary effort is so vital for your success. When people have narrow and conflicting goals, they will do everything to meet their goals and yet, system might fail. Setting up systemic goals are vital to encourage collaboration (everyone wins when the system wins) rather than competition.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

For any effort where you have goals, time line, constraints, dependencies, risks and need of resources to be managed - you have a project on your hand. Know your goals (Vision) : Lets say you want to pursue a certification in your field. Now, that’s a goal - a project for you. Name it as “Project Certification&#.

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QAspire

APRIL 17, 2016

In an organizational and team context, being able to coach people means helping them overcome their own resistance, get unstuck and move forward in the direction of their goals. Coaching Culture: The Art and Science of Success #iHRChat. Great coaching is at the heart of meaningful accomplishments. Bell (and the sketchnote summary).

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Books Handbook Mentor Resistance 70

QAspire

MAY 2, 2012

Ego is a strong emotion and often, success feeds it. Here is what works for me: When you encounter an ego situation, quiz your goals. As we evolve as professionals and accomplish more, we tend to accumulate beliefs about ourselves (and the world around us). They avoid confrontations and often resist change. End result?

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QAspire

APRIL 15, 2012

Nish is a successful entrepreneur, a hands-on technologist and a creative human being who also teaches. If our goal as students, professionals and seekers is to express ourselves fully in our chosen area of pursuit, all recognitions and extrinsic rewards become a by-product. He identified his strengths early on and built on it.

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Self-aware Leadership Career Engineering 173

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

In an organizational context, ability to influence is at the heart of a leader’s success in driving changes, building great teams, delivering results and implementing the strategic vision. At an individual level, your ability to influence others is at the core of building relationships, creating a network and achieving your goals.

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QAspire

APRIL 13, 2014

The key for a collaborative leader is to plan them upfront and ensure that people continuously contribute towards the common goal. In the next post, we will outline a few more traits that make a collaborative leader successful. They use technology and tools for effective collaboration. Then, they encourage others to do the same.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Leadership development efforts are not aligned with strategic goals and leadership development programs are oriented around commercial products that have limited relevance to actual needs or an organization. Use of incorrect “make-believe” metrics to gauge effectiveness of leadership development programs.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

However, these tendencies become destructive as soon as we begin to pursue long-term goals or attempt something extraordinary”. - – - – -. Especially amidst heavy, burdensome projects with hundreds of Action Steps and milestones, it is emotionally invigorating to surround yourself with progress. On Our Insecurities.

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QAspire

MARCH 9, 2011

Share Leadership Responsibilities : Success of distributed team depends largely on leadership model. Clearly articulate team goals and vision : It helps in aligning the team. When team is distributed, leadership responsibilities should also be distributed. Command and control leadership model generally fails.

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QAspire

JANUARY 26, 2015

It’s a mistake to think that happiness is the goal. In 100 Words: On Success, Happiness and Frugality. Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story. Happiness is a long walk in beautiful, unfamiliar mountains. Happiness is answering your calling.

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Comparison Workshop Travel Books 70

QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

Tell tales of triumphs and trials, of success and failures, of past and future. Numbers and explicit details are fine, but stories of your inception, growth, challenges, success stories (in similar context) can help you a great deal in establishing comfort and confidence with your prospective customers. Show them the future.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

Inclusion, diversity and collaborating through an inter-generational workforce would be the hallmark of success ~ @nohrgyan. - – - – -. "Portable The gift of VUCA – learners for life.Appreciation for the here and now.Interdependence of goals. ~ @tanvi_gautam. - – - – -.

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

Consistent success can sometimes become boring. Read my piece on self-actualization ) Don’t stop trying : When you see your goal clearly, the hurdles become invisible. While all these things were known and read somewhere, a lecture like this with successful people helps a great deal in reinforcing them to your belief system.

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2011

When we continuously meet these demands, adhere to processes and improve upon them, we build repeatability in our success. Bottom line : Pursuing excellence is a worthy goal. We develop our products and services in line with the demands of our customers. Excellence is always intrinsic. Defining them clearly is important.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

Hence to make success a habit and sustain belief/trust/advocacy it is absolutely necessary to be hungry for Quality Improvements. While reading I recalled one of your tweet “Quality is never a short-term goal. Yes, quality is a long term goal that requires discipline over a period of time.

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QAspire

JULY 29, 2010

Bonus : If you are a project manager, reading “ 5 Goals Every Project Manager Should Aspire to Achieve ” at CIO.com by Jason Westland would help. And boy was he right - that project was a model project of teamwork and comeraderie, as well as very successful, because we focused on value. Have a wonderful Friday! Check out #4 there!

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Gantt Chart Project Budgeting Teamwork 130

QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

As you very rightly said, driving people (and their performances) through short-term goals leads to risky growth where people are only seen as ‘means to an end’ (resources). The latter is a much better strategy for long term success as a leader and long term success of the organization.

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Long-term Short-term Quality Blog 154

QAspire

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Alignment of each team member to goal/results leads to a flat structure where role of a leader is that of an enabler. In that sense, even a leader is a subordinate to a cause. How sad it is to see that leaders treat other people as ‘their’ subordinates. They are not. Their subordination is towards a cause. The cause of building a great team.

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Connecting, Building Relationships and Team Success Quality of relationships between the team members is one of the determinants of success as a team - be it project, process improvement initiative or an organization building one. Processes are crucial but not sufficient.

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QAspire

JANUARY 3, 2013

The teacher then extended the learning, “We spend majority of time and energy in being successful, rich or famous and sometimes, at the cost of being good. If the final goal of our life is to be a good human being, why not remind ourselves of that every single day? ”. - – – – -.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Lisa Haneberg is an expert (and lifelong student) in the areas of organization development, management, leadership, talent management, and personal and organizational success. Design in this context means that we have been deliberate in choosing and using leadership practices that will support our goals.

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QAspire

JANUARY 31, 2013

In a competitive world obsessed with goals, people recommend that we should periodically review our performance. He says, When you’re performing, your success is disturbingly short-lived. Performance appraisals in organizations are almost a necessary evil. Your unending question is: what’s next?

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Review Process Motivation Goal 130

QAspire

JANUARY 1, 2012

Critically important means challenges that are central to success or survival, winning or losing. Last year, I wrote about “excellence” as a worthy goal to chase. Now means making real progress every single day. As Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” It still is.

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Kotter Books Execution Commitment 139

QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there, Zig Ziglar – Ester Martinez. Sustained biz success due to a.Well thought through strategy. Biggest roadblock would be if CT becomes a HR agenda instead of biz demand – MAHALAKSHMI R. PearsonTalentLensInd.

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TRIZ Diversity Learning-by-Doing Skills 70

QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Whether manufacturing or knowledge industry, primary goal of business is to generate value. Success is guaranteed. When people buy these important things in, leadership is said to be successful in aligning people. Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. Ivana Sendecka´s last blog.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Questions about appraisal – An excellent post that suggests a continuous feedback system through effective coaching as a great alternative to meet performance goals. Your last sentence does a great job of capturing the spirit we can foster with a successful for on people and creating system that allow people to prosper.

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