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Make a Right Beginning for Training Programs
You are about to start your training program. Like all well meaning trainers, you want your batch to gain maximum output from the training program. Training programs can be completely rehearsed and orchestrated to create the right effects at the right time. But training programs can fall flat if they don’t have a great beginning.

Managing Employees with Flexible Rules
To be a good manager, you need to understand the diversity of your workforce. If you acknowledge that all employees are not the same, and adopt flexibility in policies, you will find that rules motivate people for higher performance.

Effective Communication
Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham invented one of the most popular tools for effective communication. Named after the two inventors, Johari Window is a conceptual framework of effective communication in society.

Goal Setting for Organizations
Goal setting for organizations needs a complete review of the organization's corporate vision. How does goal setting help organizations realize their mission?

Personal Goal Setting: How to Set Goals for Individuals
The need for personal goal setting arises out of the desire to achieve great ambitions. Great celebrities have vouched for the efficacy of goal setting. Without goals, one tends to take pot-shots in the dark, hoping to achieve success either by chance or by blind effort.

It is Not Easy Giving Employees Negative Feedback
Giving employees negative feedback is a tough task for any manager. It has to be accomplished with tact. Very often, managers often find that despite being tactful in giving negative feedback, they find employees harboring a grudge against their bosses. The question is: how do we bell the cat?

Change Management
We have all heard the famous maxim, "The only thing that remains constant is change." But how many of us use this guideline in our daily life? We are all aware that life is an ongoing process of change. The human body undergoes a million changes every second. The universe too is continually changing. Why then, do we stall our own progress by not accepting change?

Assessment Center: How Much Is Too Much?
Most organizations who follow the practice of assessment center know its benefits. An organization that has ambitious goals is always in need of talent. Assessment programs that focus on employee development can ensure a steady supply of talent for the growing organization. But the question that assessors need to ask themselves is: how much is too much?
 

Need for Goal Setting
Think of all the famous personalities you know who achieved greatness during their lifetime -- the first person to walk on the moon, or to scale Mount Everest. These people could not have achieved success, without proper goal setting.

Employee Opinion Survey: For the Cat Needs to Get Out of the Bag
The growth of employee opinion surveys in recent times has not gone unnoticed and at the same time it has been affected by other dynamics of the business world too. The implication of globalization on employee opinion survey may have resulted in integration of workforce of a company across the globe, but it has also necessitated that the employee opinion survey must take into account the geographical and cultural environment.