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Leadership – What It Is Not!

Who comes to your mind when we say ‘leader’? Mahatma Gandhi , Nehru, Martin Luther King , Hitler, Obama? To understand leadership we must understand what it is not! Why did they cross your mind? Is it because they made a difference? Had an impact? Mostly yes. From the above two questions we can understand…

28 July 2014 · 1 min

Happenings

Workshop on Relationship Centered Leadership

Relationships play a very important role in the organizations. In strong and healthy relationships, people show respect and kindness towards each other. Such relationships form a rewarding bond of trust and support. This support leads to successful fulfillment of project or task. When this flavor of ‘relationship centered culture’ is added in leadership, there is…

25 July 2014 · 1 min

Career, Growth & Development

Five Derailers to Watch Out

Young professionals with good education, sharp intellect and job related competencies with abundant talent sometimes get derailed in early stage of their careers. They do set their careers on the success tracks initially. However, they fail to sustain the same. The reason for their derailment is not their incompetence on the job; it is indeed…

16 July 2014 · 2 min

Career, Growth & Development

The temptation of assumptions

One fine morning, I was supposed to go for a meeting at 9:30 AM. I started from my place very early and reached exactly by 9:30, only to get terrified by knowing that I reached a wrong place! That day I was late to the meeting by nearly 30 minutes and it was the most…

7 July 2014 · 1 min

HR Views & News

HR Lessons From Recent Political Happenings

In our previous blogs, we have been discussing about the HR lessons from recent political happenings. Today let us look at some more interesting pointers. Collaborate with your adversaries: When you are faced with humongous task of nation building, it is important for a leader to shed the prejudices and take initiative to build relationships…

4 July 2014 · 2 min

HR Views & News

Qualification and Competence

We have recently seen a round of debate on the suitability of a particular person’s credentials to head a ministry. This brings out the point that many HR managers grapple with: should organizations look for qualification or competence? It is true that a qualification is awarded to those who demonstrated certain degree of proficiency in…

26 June 2014 · 1 min

Leaders Vs Bosses

Leadership is Responsibility

During the last few weeks, India has been a happening place. There has been change of governments, emergence of new leaders, impact on the stock markets and to top it all the Indian Premier League! One can read news, watch the television debates and pass time. But a closer look at some of the happenings…

21 June 2014 · 1 min

Career, Growth & Development

Together we learn!

After a long and busy week, all of us will be waiting for a refreshing weekend! isn't it? At HR Footprints, we learn together as a team, and believe in the fact that “a team that learns together stays together” . While this has been our principle from the day we started our journey, to…

19 June 2014 · 1 min

Career, Growth & Development

It is hard to own your career choices...but not difficult!

In our last blog we discussed about how different people influence our lives and our career choices and decisions. In this context, we have stated an example where a lady wants her daughter to study CA as her career, just to align with the family pattern even though her daughter is interested in engineering. Similarly,…

17 June 2014 · 2 min

Career, Growth & Development

It is hard to fully own your career choices!

It sometimes astonishes me how much say others have in our lives and careers. Others are curious about the choices we make as a child, as a teenager, as an adult as well as aged person. Others want to influence our decisions, comment about our decisions, and comment about our career choices and at times…

12 June 2014 · 1 min

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Insights that moveorganizations forward

Leadership – What It Is Not!

Workshop on Relationship Centered Leadership

Five Derailers to Watch Out

The temptation of assumptions

HR Lessons From Recent Political Happenings

Qualification and Competence

Leadership is Responsibility

Together we learn!

It is hard to own your career choices...but not difficult!

It is hard to fully own your career choices!

Insights that move
organizations forward