Goal Setting

On a recent management course, about goal setting.  

Asked one of the employee to volunteer, Told him “Stand here and your task is to 
throw as many screwed-up pieces of paper as you can into that
waste bin close to his feet. 

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The employee stood up and, rather embarrassingly, screwed a few
pieces of paper up and threw them in the bin. 

After one minute, asked “Had enough?”, to which
the person said “Yes thanks!” and gratefully returned to
his chair. 

The person had managed to screw-up and bin 12 pieces of paper.

A second volunteer was requested. This manager, a lady, was given
her task.

“Your task is to throw as many pieces of screwed-up paper as
possible into this bin in one minute, and your target to beat is
12, The lady went about the task with enthusiasm and scored 15.

Then asked for a third volunteer. Addressing this person,
and said, “OK, you’ve seen what the others achieved. Do you
think you can beat them in one minute?”

“No problem!” said the third volunteer, and he began when the
trainer started the stopwatch.

He managed 21 pieces in the same time as the other two.

The first volunteer objected to this. “That’s not fair…you
didn’t give ME those rules!”

The second volunteer also voiced her opinion. “Yes, it isn’t
fair, because you didn’t give ME any choices, other than to
beat one target.”

Then I had asked the third volunteer for his opinion.

“It was very fair”, he said. “I knew what I had to do and
by when, and I got a say in what target I thought I could meet. I
saw what was possible, set myself a higher target and knew that I

could achieve it. And I did!” 

In goal-setting, we very often just set the target and expect
team members to achieve it. But how many of us are asked to
achieve a task without being involved in the big picture, or
fully understanding ‘the rules’? Or we see any insurance or compensation

in the whole idea. What might our team be
capable of if they were allowed to set targets they thought were
stretching and achievable? How much more ownership would they
experience if they were involved in the goal-setting up front?
Goat setting is your insurance to better compensation. 

Ponder over the message

Most of you might have read my earlier posting on Management course. Here I am narrating another story which my maternal grandmother often used to narrate. The story is about importance of listening, rekindlingabout what you have listened and come out with your own judgement. You yourself a VIRTUAL DATA ROOMS

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In old times the boarding school known as “Gurukul”. The students used to join at the very young age. The “Achrya” –teacher- was the one responsible for all round personality development all the students. 
He never answers to any questions, with simple solution; always reply with some hidden message. The idea was, he wants his students pounder over the answer, rekindle their mind and to have their own interpretations. That way, it was believed the level of education will be good and all round.

This was a routine to be done every day before sunset, a student have the responsibility to pour “Sesame oil” –Til ka thel- into diyas for the all the students to study at night. While pouring the oil, he found it may last for another a day or two. After finishing the job, he went to the “Guruji” and told, “Achrya, we are about to run out oil for Diyas in a day or two. Guruji who was on meditation, just answered without opening his eyes, there is couple of gunny bags full of “Sesame seeds”-til on the backyard.

He could not understand, so he narrated it to another student. Both were pondering over the message, after a while, the other student said, ‘I got it’- it is going to rain tonight, so the master has asked you to move the “sesame gunny bags’ inside the house. Both went ahead and moved the bags inside. Though they did it, they are not convinced, and then they decided to check it up with the third student. Both narrated what they heard and what they did. All the three were pondering over the issue again. After a while, the third student, shouted I got it, the Guruji told you extract the ‘Sesame oil’ from the ‘Sesame seeds”. All the three exited about finding a solution to the problem. Now the first asked, how will we do it? What is the method? Or there any place to do it? The second student answered, let us go out tomorrow and explore the possibilities in the town. Next day they found a oil mill in the town and went there with bags of Sesame seeds and extracted the oil and got it back to the school in a container.

Guruji, could have said straight, take the Sesame seeds and extract the oil. But not, here he wants his disciples to rekindle on the information received and come out with own interpretations. Our ancestors are PHD IN COUNSELING EDUCATION.  

Moral of the story, you have to work your intelligence to move up. No spoon feeding.

Inspirational Women

To all Men

A mother was out walking with her 4-5 year old son. He picked up something of the ground and tried to put it in his mouth. Mother took the item away from him and asked him not to do that.

Why? The boy asked.

"Because it’s been on the ground; you don’t know where it is been, it’s dirty and probably has germs. Mother replied.

As this point, the boy looked at his mother with total admiration and asked, Mom, how do you know all these stuff. You are so smart. 

Mother thought for while and replied, All women know this stuff, it is on the Examination, all mother  have to know it, otherwise god doesn't allow any women to become Mother.

The boy asked,  if you have not answered the question? Mother doesn’t have the answer

Both walked in silent for couple of minutes more, boy pondering the new information, and said Oh… I got it; he beamed, so if you don’t pass the test you have to be Dad.

EXACTLY! Mom replied with great pride and big smile. Please keep the same innocence and respect WOMEN.

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When you've finished laughing, send this to all women colleagues in your OFFICE or Workplace. 

How to Manage People

Do you have someone who at work consistently triggers you? Doesn't listen? Takes credit for work you've done? Wastes your time with trivial issues? Acts like a know-it-all? Can only talk about himself? Constantly criticizes?

Badri Narayan entered the office literally to a roaring welcome by the stentorian voice of his Administrative Officer Ranga Bhashyam. (Ranga)

RANGA:  “You are late again, Badri.”

Badri was painfully aware that it was no mere rhetoric.

Badri:     “Sorry, sir.”

RANGA: “What is it today, your great grandfather expired?”

Badri:     “Sir, bbb…bus broke down.”

RANGA: “Www…why don’t you buy a two-wheeler?”

Badri:    “I will, sir, when my loan is sanctioned …”

RANGA:“So, until then your highness will attend office when convenient?”

Badri:    “Nnn…no, sir.”

RANGA: “This is the third time this month. Next time you will be typing your résumé. Got it?”

Badri:“Yyy…yes, sir. It will not happen again, sir.”

RANGA:“OK. What happened to the …”

That was another routine day in the official life of Badri Narayan. Read full story:

Pompous jerk, annoying nudge, or incessant complainer, an insufferable colleague can negatively affect your attitude and performance. Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy 

Chances are, in your job, you will have come across at least one type of person that you've found it difficult to work with. Here are fourteen types of difficult people you may meet at work and advice for understanding and getting along with each one.

Let’s be clear on one thing, difficult people do exist. Even it is not in a a form of “Boss” like Ranga, but always appear as “Friend”, “Colleague” or “neighbor”. Chances are, in your job, you will have come across at least one type of person that you've found it difficult to work with. Here are seven types of difficult people you may meet at work. There is no Insurance cover to escape from this type   people or not going to get any extra compensation for handling them better. 

The Bully: Bullies can be rude, aggressive and negative about people. They blame others and never take responsibility for their own actions. Usually bullies are very insecure. Like Ranga on the above story.

The Gossip: The gossip seems to know everything about everyone and want to share it. They can be the cause of arguments because a lot of the time the information they spread is false. One minute, they talk to you about other colleagues and then the next thing you know you’re the subject of the gossip. 

The Complainer: There’s always one person who can never find anything to be happy about. They keep on whining about their heavy workload and can’t complete their projects quietly because they keep procrastinating and complaining.

The Agreeable One: Your agreeable colleague just wants to be liked and will agree to anything but then fail to deliver.

The Criticizer: Criticizers criticize others to make themselves look and feel better. Typically they are the ones who make fun of others e.g. who is the worst dressed. They seem to pick fights for no reason and disagree just for the sake of disagreeing. 

The Telltale: Telltale story tellers  are very good at discovering every little mistake you make made at work and then telling on you making them look good and you look bad. 

The Backstabber: Back stabbers tend to be nice and helpful on the surface but they do this to gather ammunition and then use it to cause trouble. If you make a mistake, they will be the first to let everyone know. They can cause damage to you and your reputation. 

In the next blog let us see how to tackle these king of people. Till then .......buy.

The Trouble Tree

All need one trouble tree

I hired a plumber to help me restore an old house, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

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When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation.. His face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

'Oh, that's my trouble tree,' he replied 'I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children.. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning I pick them up again.' 'Funny thing is,' he smiled,' when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.

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We all need a Tree!.

(read this story somewhere, thought of sharing with you)

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As the team begins to work together, they move into the “storming” stage. This sage is not avoidable. Storming often starts where there is conflict between team members’ natural working styles. It is for sure, especially a new team who has never worked together before.

Storming can also happen in other situations. Where a team member may challenge your authority or there is no definite clarity about the way team will work or couple of team members compete with each for status and acceptance.

The team leader needs to be adept at facilitating the team through this state- ensuring the team members learn to listen to each other and respect their difference and ideas. The leaders have to guide them to learn two important things. As the team start moving the leader has to guide them to work together, and function both independently and together as a team.

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Some teams sometimes do not move beyond this sage and entire project is spent in conflict and low morale and motivation, making it difficult to get the project completed. The cause of the problem is professionally immature team member of members.

You can read the first part over here. Forming