QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For me, that looks like internalizing great ideas, having inspiring conversations, co-creating meaning through sketchnotes, helping people grow and enabling organizations/teams to be more effective. And since most of these activities are non-repetitive, they tend to challenge me differently each time. In Practice.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. In quest to make these teams accountable, very specific KPI’s are established and that breeds non-systemic thinking. Every team meets the KPI numbers and yet, customers remain disgruntled.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For me, that looks like internalizing great ideas, having inspiring conversations, co-creating meaning through sketchnotes, helping people grow and enabling organizations/teams to be more effective. And since most of these activities are non-repetitive, they tend to challenge me differently each time.

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QAspire

MARCH 26, 2018

Larger organizations often fall in the trap of defining customer experience KPI’s only to executive teams, sales, marketing and customer services teams. And those in backend operations? What about those who build the products? And those who recruit people? And how all of them collaborate to achieve business outcomes?

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The workshop also went to some of the renowned organizations globally helping people/teams with visual thinking strategies. The work ranged from visually facilitating strategy off sites, coaching program for new leaders and enabling strong organizations through senior leadership coaching.

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QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

Over to the posts from Jesse that I enjoyed reading: Why Good Teams Make Bad Decisions. Poor decisions occur when one or even a few team members have important information but aren’t heard because their style of communication is ineffective, because others are not listening, or because there is no means to communicate their concerns.

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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. Trust, as in leadership, is the currency of influence. Thought leadership accelerates trust and hence influence. at People Matters Blog.

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QAspire

JUNE 10, 2012

These team members are enthusiastic, engaged and willing to see the project succeed. Emotion is the basis of how they operate. The cost of an emotionally disengaged team to a project is huge. We need to understand the requirements of customer for sure, but we also need to understand the emotional needs of our team members.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree.

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Quality Blog Management Self-aware 120

QAspire

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

It is a way for business to tune and align the operations to ongoing changes in the business. “If Pace of improvement, simplification of operations and its subsequent impact on business needs a constant monitoring, follow-up and alignment. In my response, I explained that improvement is not a destination, but a journey.

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QAspire

MAY 14, 2012

I have always believed that meetings (specially with the team) are a great forum to inspire action, instill a sense of urgency and get things done. On the book page, he writes: If an operating room were as sloppily run as our meetings patients would die. A quick stand-up meeting everyday to track progress.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If you are dealing with a mediocre team or average performance from people, check what you are expecting from them. Leader also needs ability to decide when to focus on details (activities, task, operational aspects) and when to see a broad picture (values, behaviors, methods, results etc). Doodle Cards at QAspire.

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QAspire

MARCH 2, 2011

The book also features my classic post titled “ Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling ”. He continued, “See, when I do my job well and clean the operating rooms and other work areas, the doctors have a sanitary, safe place to do their jobs. In my view, great quality of work is a direct result of an engaged team.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

When it comes to managerial effectiveness and organization leadership, this is such an important issue. They operate in a default state. They want the message without the bark on. If you haven’t told them directly, you haven’t told them. Managers are naturally inclined to be either too direct or too indirect.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

They not only pull you out of your comfort zone, but can also add tremendous value to your team/organization. See people, don’t just watch them When dealing with a team, it is easy to take people at their face value. That is the core of leadership. Think about “Top 3” pain areas in your team/organization. Be a catalyst.

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QAspire

MARCH 13, 2011

Both are crucial and striking the right balance between improvement and business efficiency, between standardization and evolution is a big leadership challenge. Understand People because effective change implementation is not possible without understanding how people operate.

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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

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. Wish I had this book early on when I built my first team!” – Tanmay Vora, author, blogger and improvement consultant, QAspire.com.

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QAspire

JULY 2, 2013

Because managers look at people on their team as tools to get their tasks done. Because managers excessively rely on some “training and development” department that is far away from day to day realities of how a business operates. This is where HR/Training teams can provide interventions. What can be done?

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Development Management Human Capital Learning-by-Doing 125

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

As individuals, teams and organizations, how much we learn from our past is critical for our improvement and future success. This may sound like common-sense but how many organizations/teams really do Hansei effectively? If you embed reflection as a part of how your team operates, early learning will help them adapt quickly.

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Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up 152

QAspire

JULY 6, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid Most organizational/team improvement initiatives we undertake involve change - from current state of affairs to desired state. In manufacturing world, process ruled people because people were used to operate machines. Don’t Kill It!

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