Bye Bye 2014 : Some key events and their lesson

Thanks 2014 for giving us 52 Weeks, 365 Days, 8760 Hours , 525600 Minutes………..You will always in our memory.

2014 is almost gone and added another page in the history books.  2014 has taught us many things and

some key events are as under :

-          Ebola virus epidemic in west Africa in Feb,2014 and it was a real threat to the world.  But we will able to survive.  Thanks to all doctors and Nurses , who really handled this deadly threat to the world.

-          In Feb,14 : Satya Nadella appointed as CEO of world largest software company – Microsoft and this shows that anybody who has the talent and caliber can reached upto the top most post of any corporate.

-          In March ,2014 – Malayasian Airlines Aircraft 370 disappeared and till date, there is no traces found of this flight.  This incident realized us that there are many things we have not done in this very high tech development.

-          On 16^th May,2014 – results of general election of India declared and BJP won a sweeping victory by taking 336 seats and Mr. Narendra Modi elected as Prime minister of India.   First Time in India, A party emerged as single largest party with clear majority after congress.   This shows the power of democracy and proved that one single leader can change the fortune of any party and nation.

-          In June-14- We have witnessed the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and this shows that still , there are some people who are not in the main stream of development and human kind.

-          July ,14 : 2014 FIFA world cup held successfully at Brazil and Germany won the world cup.  This shows that a developing country like Brazil can host a successful Football world cup and Brazil is not only the super power in world football.

-          In Sep,14 : Alibaba IPO has created the history and Jack Ma proved that if you have basics clear , you can run an e-commerce company without knowing much knowledge of IT.

-          In September, 14 – India successfully established its MANGANYAAN  to Mars orbit with a cost of Rs 450 Crore.  This proved that all Space projects are not too costly and success can be achieved in very low cost.

-          In December,14- USA and Cuba announces the resumption of their relation after many years. This incident shows that relations can be improved at any time.

-          Indo Pak duo of Kailash Satyarthi  and Malala Yusuf awarded the highest award of humanity and peace – Peace Noble prize.   This clearly established the fact that good work is always appreciated without borders.

Career Progression Ladder and Requirements Building Block ( CPRB Diagram)

Is Gandhian’s Talisman relevant today ………….

When I was in school, we were used NCERT book and every NCERT book has a special page in which , the Gandhi’s talisman was printed and we used to read it many times.  But I was not so much aware about that what actually Mr. Gandhi wants to say by this talisman.  Years has been gone and yesterday, when my daughter brought a book and when I was flipping the pages of that book, I saw this talisman once again.  I read it again after many years.  I felt very good and I was gone into deep thinking.  Now, somewhere, I felt that I am able to understand the meaning and importance of this talisman.

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test : Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?  Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."”

Try to read it many times as you can , you feel something is melting  inside you and you will start recalling some incidents of your life and feel it.  

Why I am illustrating this thought in this forum?  This is a big question.  But I feel, this talisman is strongly applicable in this corporate arena.  Think about it and you can feel the importance of this talisman.

This talisman can give you some guidelines to you whenever you are creating or implementing some policies or guidelines across the company and you have to think about the effect of policy to the lowest or bottom leveled employee of your company.  Although , I know, this is not very practical in today’s world but if you really want to make a company people centric and believe people are the best assets and every individual contribute a lot in the progress of the company then you realize the importance of this talisman.

My suggestion :  Read it once , think twice and take the best from it wherever you can. 

Thanks Mr. Reid Hoffman and other team members for creating “ LinkedIn” – A great platform for professional

I don’t know exactly the date when I created my profile on LinkedIn when one of my friend recommended me this website.  He suggested me to open an account to this website to enhance your reach to other professional people around the world. 

But , now, I feel this is really a great platform created by Mr. Reid Hoffman and his team members who brings out their thought in creating this website.  First of all , we all LinkedIn members should thanks to all of them because of their efforts we are connected with each other.

Today , I have more than 4600+ connections and all connections are great in their respective field and I feel humbled with connecting them irrespective of  geographical boundaries ,  ethnicity ,religion.  They are really professionals and like to connect with each other and wish to share their thoughts in this platform.

I have always a passion for writing and always want to do it but I did not find a platform but now , my passion for writing on various topics increases as I know there is an audience or reader available for me. 

When I posted a update  regarding my book of “ Continual Improvement”  , I got a huge response for it.  There are more than 3000+ connections viewed my update.  More than 80+ connections like the update and more than 75+ give their comments and request me to send the soft copy of the same. This is increasing day by day.

I feel very satisfying that people are reading my posts regularly and this gives me motivation to write more and more.

Now, I feel this is my platform where I can share my knowledge which I have acquired in my life.   This feelings force me to write this post to thanks Mr. Reid Hoffman and his team.

This is my wish and suggestions to use this website regularly and keep updating about your professional itinerary and we don’t know where , how, when – we can help each other  in any manner.

And Most important , thanks to all my connections who are connected with me.  Thanks to be the part of my professional family.  Thanks once again and keep reading………..

Today is 29th October- A special day for computer Networking

We all are living in the era of computer networking and today, we cannot think to live without it.

This is the day in 1969, when the first ever computer to computer link was established on ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in US.

The first message which was transmitted between computers was , “Login” but only the word “ L” and “O” were successfully transmitted from host computer to another computer before crashing of the system but then after one hour, the message is successfully transmitted.

The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charles S Kline at 10:30 pm on October 29, from the campus’ Boelter Hall to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 host computer. 

Another milestone occurred on Nov 22, 1977- The first date where three network transmission took place among SRI International, Menlo Park and University of Southern California via London , England and the network involved ARPANET , the bay area packet radio network and Atlantic Packet Satellite Network.

Rest is History now and we all are connected today because of this day. 

VMAGO - Triangle - A Pictorial representation

Quality ..............Excellence of Actions

There are numbers of definitions given by people of quality  and all are correct as per circumstances and time.

Today , quality is not limited to a word , it becomes an essence of business management.  

For me , quality is  a must tool to survive in this competitive world where there are many offerings in a same row.    So , quality of service or products give an edge to the  company above from the rest.

Quality is actually exceeding the customer’s expectations and converting the expectations into reality.  So , quality can be defined as :

Quality = Customer’s expectations or requirements / Customer’s experience with the products/ service.

 Or Quality is a ratio between Customer’s requirements and actual experience with any service or product.  The ratio lower than 1 , resulting the customer delight and ratio greater than 1 , results customer’s dis-satisfaction.  

 Quality starts right from the beginning from understanding the customer’s requirements to converting them into reality to customer’s experience with the products or service.   Every single activity of an entire process can lead to customer’s dis-satisfaction.

 Quality comes from the excellence of actions – every action whether it is small or big – directly or indirectly involved in the process matters. 

 Quality is a culture and it should be developed in every nook and corner of the company to its length and breadth.  All actions are to be aligned in such a manner that output/ result should be the best and customer’s should not be a satisfied customer- it should be Delighted customer.  A delighted customer’s is the key to a company or organization which has  the “KEY”  to open the locks of market.

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What a management Lesson ? Bundle of green grass and Cows – Small story big Impact……….

Someone shared a video in facebook from youtube.  After seeing this video, I was speechless. Why?

In this video , there was a lady having four cows.  She used to earn the livelihood by selling the milk.  Till that time, it was OK and it is a simple management.

Turning point is : How she generate the second and regular income from her cows ? that is the real story.

This lady was seems very customary lady from any part of India.  In the morning, after milking from her cows she used to carry all her cows in a nearby hindu temple where devotees comes for pray.

Alongwith her cows, she used to carry bundles of green grass from her nearby places free of cost.  Now the real story starts:

She used to sit in a place nearby temple and there is belief in Hinduism that feeding a cow with green grass is a spiritual and noble work  as Hindu worship cows.  ( Business opportunity )

Now, she sells her green grass in small amount to the devotees and devotees easily offer the money for the grass.  Then the devotees offer this green grass to the cows.   Cows happily accept the green grass.  Devotees are happy for their work, cows are happy and the lady earns money for their livelihood. ( Converting the opportunity )

When her bundle of grasses comes to end, she took her cow to their home.  

What a management lesson ?  have you read this story in any book of management ?  This is called business management. 

I am really thankful and hats off to that person who share this video and update us that business management can be learn from anywhere and from anyone.   Business ideas are enormous , only need is – you have to identify them and convert them in real ground.

The conclusion and analysis of this story will be in next post.

What do  you think?  Please comment and share …………….

The essential arrows in your quiver to accelerate your professional life …..

Everybody , working in corporate world wants to step up in the ladder of success but few people make it possible. Why ?  Because these people know – how to get success in corporate world ?

There are some basic rule of success which they follow and get the success.  Following are some essential ingredients which can help you to make your career’s dish a tasty one.

Smart work :  Smart work is the key to get success.  Hard work is good but smart work is best because smart work brings you in the limelight and save your lot of time. 

Multi-skilling : Multi-skilling is the new mantra to get success in corporate world.  Mastering in your domain is always good but multi-skilling gives you an extra edge to climb in the ladder of success.

Preparedness in Advance : If your target are falling short , then immediately think out of the solution to recover it because when your boss asked you about the reason of failure , you have the answers and you have also the solutions to recover from it.  Understand your boss’s requirements and expectations.

Avoid Isolation :  Don’t be in isolation in any company and keep always a hawk eye on the happenings around you in the office. Don’t think that anything happened in company does not bother you, but It can.

Knowledge up-dation : Time to time Knowledge up-dation is a must tool to survive in this competitive world of corporate. In whatever field you are, abreast with the changes in your field and keep updating yourself . Be master of your field.

Relationship with peers , seniors and Juniors : Make a professional relations with everybody in the company.  You don’t  know who can help you at any moment of time in the office. Treat everyone with respect and this will help you a lot.

At last but not the least , love and respect your work. 

Explore your wings, sky has the limits ….

A new day , a new Monday and a whole new month begins from today…………………….remember …

Human being is the best creation of the god because it has the thinking ability to segregate good or bad. The brain capacity is endless. Every individual on earth has the enormous potential to do the things. The only need is- She/he has to select the right path to grow in the journey of life.

Everyone is an extraordinary creation of GOD equipped with enormous potential and has the capabilities to do wonders in their life.

My tips for growing in life are as under-

1- Treat yourself as the best creation of God and always say to yourself , “ I am the divine flame.”

2- Be positive and face every flip-flop of life bravely.  Be stoic for good or bad happened in life.

3- Make some Goal for life. Goals can be set as professional goals, personal goals , social goals , Economic Goals and Spiritual Goals.

4- Start day dreaming and think big. Treat every day is a new day for the beginning.  Every day is a good day to be alive whether the sun is   shining  or not.

5- Be ready to face the challenge of life. Always accept the results as it is and again ready to do your best.

6- Keep yourself motivated.  Nobody can force you to do the things which are not liked by you until you are not giving your consent to it.

7- Think that you came alone in the world and you have to perform alone. Always believe in yourself and your abilities.

8- Create a difference in your activity and try to give your cent percent to every activity.

9- Learn new things everyday.

10- Enjoy life as it comes and see the every happening of life in a childish manner.

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Business Excellence – A key to get success in today’s competitive world ………

Business Excellence is a very broad term used in today’s corporate world.  But most of the people misunderstand it as – Business excellence is only limited to  increasing the profit or making a quality product. 

Business excellence concept is emerged on late 80’s when the quality management systems are introduced in the industry.  Till late 90’s it was limited upto product quality by applying some basic rules of quality management systems principles.

I am practicing the quality management system in different industries for last 14 years and I strongly believe that quality management system is a part of Business Excellence which guides an organization to get success in the business. ISO 9001 QMS provide a strong methodology as PDCA ( Plan Do Check Act ) which was also known as Deming cycle.   These four steps are to be regularly monitored and action to be taken timely to get your business in track.   Keep a hawk eye to sense the changes in the market and try to make your customer a delighted customer.

Business Excellence starts from the inception of the company by deriving the vision, mission and goals of the company and it covers every nook & corner of the company and its execution to its accomplishment.

To get success in business , you have to align all the activities- minor or major  to a definite direction.  Every person/ resources  involved in your business process to be taken in your business excellence program.  There are several model available for business excellence but the key is :  every single activity of a business process is equally important and these to be treated with equal weightage . Treat your people as your best asset, develop and motivate them to use of their full potential  and make them an integral part of the organization.

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Success is perfect synchronization of Mind , Soul and Body

To get the success in any work , a perfect synchronization of Mind , soul and body required.  Mind ignites the thought , soul cultivates it and body do the rest of things to align it.  In another words, mind directs our body and soul gives the required push of motivation to accomplish the task with the help of body. These three things decide the fate of any individual and success is a degree to which these three things synchronized in what level.

So , keeping fit these three things is a must.  Mind to be kept always constructive.  Good and positive thoughts in mind can do wonders for you and these are the diet for mind.  Positivity keeps you soul alive and body is just the prop for the mind and soul.

Keep your body fit by exercise & yoga and eat good foods  , so that it can help the mind and soul any time.

What do the mind and soul decides, our body works in that direction.  So, to get success in life – these three things to be keep alive every time. 

What is your Blood Group ? Every person should know about this.

Whenever we go to our Doctor, they usually ask about our blood group or even in our some important ID cards, We mention our blood group. Thanks to Karl Landsteiner of Austria who was awarded Nobel Prize in 1930 for his excellent contribution in Physiology for their discovery of human blood groups.

Because of this great medical professional , today we are able to know our blood group as A,B,AB and O.

There are 8 Blood Groups - A+, A-, B+,B-, AB+, AB-, O+, O- and the +/- depends on Rh factor. Rh factor found on the red blood cell's surface. This is also an antigen and those who have it are called Rh+. Those who haven't are called Rh-. This Rh factor decides the +/-.

Interesting and useful things to know about Blood group
-AB can give blood to AB but receive from AB,A,B and O
-A can receive from A & O but can give to A and AB
-B can receive from B & O but can give only to B & AB.
-O can receive only from O but can give to all. O is known as universal donor but unfortunately can receive from Only O.

Suggestive diet charts as per blood group-

A Blood Group Holder- They should try eat fruits and vegetables and avoid the dairy products.
B Blood Group Holder - They should try to eat balanced diet which includes fruits and vegetables, grains, fish, dairy, meat etc.
AB Blood group holder - They should try to eat vegetarian diet and can go for dairy and non-veg diet once in a while.
O Blood group holder- They should try to eat the high protein diet

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What is Brainstorming and how it should be conducted ?

Brainstorming is an excellent technique of developing many creative solutions to a complex problem. It works by focusing on a problem, and then coming up with  many radical solutions to it. Ideas should deliberately be pragmatic or non-pragmatic , and should be developed as fast as possible. Brainstorming is a lateral thinking process - it is designed to help you break out of your thinking patterns into new ways of looking at things.

Call all the participants in a conference room and arrange a “ Brainstorming” session with a clear problem.

It can be defined as “ A brain storming activity that is well executed should result in some very unusual ideas that is the underlying purpose for resolving the given problem.”

Some points must remember during the brainstorming session –

• During brainstorming sessions there should be no criticism of ideas - you are trying to open possibilities and break down wrong assumptions about the limits of the problem. Judgment and analysis at this stage will stunt idea generation.

• Ideas should only be evaluated once the brainstorming session has finished - you can then explore solutions further using conventional approaches.

• Define the problem you want solved clearly, and lay out any criteria to be met.

• Keep the session focused on the problem and try to avoid the biasedness.

• Ensure that no-one criticizes or evaluates ideas during the session. Criticism introduces an element of risk for group members when putting forward an idea. This stifles creativity and cripples the free running nature of a good brainstorming session.

• Encourage an enthusiastic, uncritical attitude among members of the group. Try to get everyone to contribute and develop ideas, including the quietest members of the group and don’t ignore the suggestion of any member whether he is technical or non-technical.

• Let people have fun brainstorming. Encourage them to come up with as many ideas as possible, from solidly practical ones to wildly impractical ones. Welcome creativity.

• Ensure that no train of thought is followed for too long

• Encourage people to develop other people's ideas, or to use other ideas to create new ones

• Appoint one person to note down ideas that come out of the session. A good way of doing this is to use a flip chart. This should be studied and evaluated after the session. Brainstorming can give you some radical solution to any complex problem and it is very effective technique , management is using to take the best use of it to extract the best from the possible or available resources.

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Our Five Minutes can take us in another horizon of personal excellence ...

We all are always in hurry and not able to judge our self. This creates the problem and frustration within ourselves. Life is as simple as you can live it. All depends on us and nobody is responsible to make our life miserable and frustrated.

All the problem begins from our mind and our approach towards our life. Here I am going to give you some tips to improve your life to make it more better and more beautiful.

-Treat everyday as your last day. Once you adopt this kind of approach you will definitely do the best things in the day to remember you as a very good human being. Promise yourself as you are going to make this day – a great day.
-Plan your day at the morning and stick with it. Every single moments counts from your life.
-Keep a very positive frame of mind and accept everything in a positive note and believe that every happening whether it is good or bad comes under your way because of GOD wish.
-Repeat the sentence five time in the morning , “ I am more than I appear to be, the world power and strengths rest inside me.” You feel the energy within you and it will keep you self-motivated.
-Recall your whole day in night and focus on those issues where you need to improve yourself and congrats yourself where you done the best.
-Do your work at your best potential and treat every work comes in your way because your have the caliber and potential to do the work. That why it came to you.
-Respect yourself and go to the mirror and say some positive words to you. It will give you a new kind of energy.
-Learn from every criticism and failure because these are not for cracking you but these are there to improve you. These are lesson for the life.
-Set the targets for you and divide your goals into four categories – Personal goals, professional goals , spiritual goals and health goals. Note down all your goals, read them once in the morning and read once again at the night. After some time, your all activities automatically align with your goals.
At last but not the least, “ You will always remember by your deeds, behavior only.”
Apply these rules in your life. You can see the changes in you life and if this can change your life a little bit, pass this blog to all your friends.
Keep reading , I will be back with some another topic to improve our knowledge and life......

What is difference between Precision and Accuracy ?

For any ordinary man , both the terms are equivalent but for those have an analytical brain, both the terms are very different.
Accuracy is actually closeness of agreement between observed value and known reference standard. In mathematical or statistical terms , it is also known as the central tendency which can be calculated as mean, mode and median.

But precision is the measure of dispersion between several individual observations of relevant quality characteristics. Precision describes consistency of the process and it is calculated by range and Standard deviation.

Little bit confuse? Let me explain......

Suppose you are an archer or a shooter and you have to hit a target or a circle. If your bullets or arrow are not hitting the exact target but all the bullets or arrows are just hitting outside the target but all are in a same portion , it means you are précised on the target but if your bullets or arrows are near by target but all are scattered into different direction of the target , it is accuracy. if you hit the target, It is accurate and précised.

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What are “ Soft Skills and their Importance” ?

"Soft-skills" refer to a cluster of personal qualities, habits, attitudes and social graces that make someone a good employee and a compatible co-worker. Companies value soft skills because research suggests and experience shows that they can be just as important an indicator of job performance as hard skills.

Strong Work Ethic: Whatever the work is given to you, you must do it , not for the sake of other , do it for the sake of GOD and feel that you are doing it for God. Once you imbibe this within you, you never get frustrated from work.

Positive Attitude: Attitude is a word whose sum of all the alphabets is 100. So, Positive attitude is a softskills who can bring you out of the box.

Good Communication Skills: Good writing and oral communication add many facets to an individual personality.

Time Management Abilities: If you utilize your every moment , this indicates the time management.

Problem-Solving Skills: To tackle with a problem with cool head is an art. If any problem arises , this is upto you to take it.

Acting as a Team Player: Some work can not be done alone. So, team spirit is a softskill which is used to work with other people.

Self-Confidence: “ Yes, I can do it” is a phrase who inspire you from the soul. Ability to Accept and Learn From Criticism: Learn from critics and don't get panicked when some one criticize you. Take it positively and think that how they did it for you.

Flexibility/Adaptability: Adopting the new changes is always a boon for an individual because some times our rigid nature stop us from many opportunities.

Working Well Under Pressure: This is last but not the least soft skills for an individual as a personal or professional front. If you can give your best shot under pressure , you can be easily emerge as a winner , winner of life and winner for everything. These are must soft skills for an individual to grow in every facets of life. Try to develop these soft skills in your life and these will definitely make you a better and better person.

Keep reading, I will be back .

Say cheers to life and good take care of yourself.

Tips to improve your corporate life …..

We all are always in hurry and not able to judge our self. This creates the problem and frustration within ourselves. Life is as simple as you can live it. All depends on us and nobody is responsible to make our life miserable and frustrated.

All the problem begins from our mind and our approach towards our life. Here I am going to give you some tips to improve your life to make it more better and more beautiful.

-Treat everyday as your last day. Once you adopt this kind of approach you will definitely do the best things in the day to remember you as a very good human being. Promise yourself as you are going to make this day – a great day.

-Plan your day at the morning and stick with it. Every single moments counts from your life.

-Keep a very positive frame of mind and accept everything in a positive note and believe that every happening whether it is good or bad comes under your way because of GOD wish.

-Repeat the sentence five time in the morning , “ I am more than I appear to be, the world power and strengths rest inside me.” You feel the energy within you and it will keep you self-motivated.

-Recall your whole day in night and focuses on those issues where you need to improve yourself and congrats yourself where you done the best.

-Do your work at your best potential and treat every work comes in your way because you have the caliber and potential to do the work. That why it came to you.

-Respect yourself and go to the mirror and say some positive words to you. It will give you a new kind of energy.

-Learn from every criticism and failure because these are not for cracking you but these are there to improve you. These are lesson for the life.

-Set the targets for you and divide your goals into four categories – Personal goals, professional goals , spiritual goals and health goals. Note down all your goals, read them once in the morning and read once again at the night. After some time, your all activities automatically align with your goals.

At last but not the least, “ You will always remember by your deeds, behavior only.”
Apply these rules in your life. You can see the changes in you life and if this can change your life a little bit, pass this blog to all your friends.

Keep reading , I will be back with some another topic to improve our knowledge and life.

Golden Rules of Career Planning .......

1. Learning must be continous
Life-long learning is your keyword.
2. ALL (Ask, Listen And Learn)
A good listener can learn a lot. Listen to your co-workers, your boss, and your superiors. You can learn a lot from their experience. Most people will love to be your free tutor.
3. Do your best with your Current Job
Your current job might be best place to start your career. It is often very little that separates successful people from the average. But nothing comes free. If you do your job well and fulfill your responsibilities, this is often the best way to start a new career.
4. Start developing your Network
Your next career step might arise from your contact network. Spend some time building new contacts, and don't forget to maintain the ones you already have.
5. Identification of Current Job
Your current job should be identified, not assumed. When you start in a new job, talk to your superior about your priorities. If you're not sure about what is most important, then ask him. And ask him again. Often you will be surprised about the differences between what you assume, and what is really important.
6. Keep targetting for Next Job
Your dream job must be identified.Before you start planning your future career, be sure you have identified your dream job. Before building your future career your goal must be identified.
7. Armed Yourself
Your dream might show up tomorrow. Be prepared. Don't wait a second. Update your CV now, and continue to update it regularly.
8. Pick The Right Tools & add new skills
Pick the tools you can handle. You can build your future career using a lot of different tools. Studying at W3Schools is easy. Taking a full master degree is more complicated.
9. Realize Your Dreams
Put your dreams into action. If you have plans about taking more education, getting a better job, starting your own company or something else, you should not use your daily job as a "waiting station". Your daily job will get more and more busy, you will be caught up in the rat race, and you will burn up your energy.
If you have this energy, you should use it now, to realize your dreams.
Practice these rules and see the changes in your life.........

Do you know about your IA's - Inborn Assets ?

IA’s are the inborn assets of an individual. Everybody is blessed with some qualities by the grace of the god. Every individual have some IA’s.. IA’s is the acronym of Inborn assets. We often see in any child , there are some qualities which we praise in his childhood. But the question is- How many people utilize their IA’s in their career. I know one person who is very good in literature but his parents forced him to join engineering and today he is an engineer but not satisfied with this current assignment whenever he got the chance of playing with the words, he never missed the opportunities. He is today a very famous columnist in a leading newspaper along with his job in a company. My means to illustrate the example is – don’t suppress your IA’s , explore them. I also believe that an individual has some circumstances where he was not able to utilize their assets but atleast, he has to try to not killed them entirely. Whatever you are doing , doesn’t matter, and if it is as per your interest and accord, you are really blessed but if you are not doing as per your accord but you have to do it for many reason, don’t worry, try to put you legs into your favorite area. Whenever you have got a chance and possibility to show case your talent , do it and explore your wings. Nobody knows when your luck can take a sheer veer. These inborn assets are very helpful to anybody to cherish their life. Know your assets and make your life more easier and enjoy life in every way. Take the best from the life and be assure, life is ready to give you the best. This is an old saying that if you decide to achieve something and you are determined to do it, whole the nature make a conspiracy against you to fulfill your requirements. This is how, most of the great people succeeded in their life. The only thing they have done in their life is – they did take the risk in every step and nature and God always helped them in every small step. So, go ahead and there are many milestones are waiting for you here and there.

Thanks for reading , I will be back………………………….Till then , enjoy this beautiful itinerary of life...........

Respect your email Inbox......

Email is an efficient communication tool. But managing the email inbox be challenging at times. Followings are the lists of four email management tips to help you reduce inbox congestion and frustration:
A. Take immediate action when you receive an email. Whenever you open an email, resolve to take one of the following four actions:
1. Delete/Archive: If the email requires no action, then either delete it or archive it
2. Reply: If you can quickly respond to the email, do it so you can delete or archive the
email.
3. Forward: If there's a more appropriate person to respond to the email, forward it on to 
them.
b) If you're returning to your inbox after a few days away, try sorting your inbox by sender to identify chains of emails from the same people and to respond to the most current email in each chain.
C) . Respect other people's inboxes.
●Don't CC people unnecessarily.
●Don’t reply to all if the reply is only relevant to one or two of the people on the email. 
●Make it easy for recipients to act on your emails by using subject lines that are descriptive and specific like "FYI:," "Reminder:", "Urgent:" and "Action Needed:" to help recipients quickly understand if action is needed and if so, how quickly.
●If you know that a coworker is out of town, don't send them email. Instead, save those emails as drafts and set a reminder to send them once the person returns.
D) . Organize your inbox.
●Set up rules in Outlook so that emails that you get regularly from a particular sender (such as newsletters and alerts) are automatically routed to a particular folder .Set up multiple folders to help sort and archive the emails you want to keep.
● Set your email program to check for new messages once every half-hour (or whatever time interval works for you). Email can be interruptive, so give yourself time to focus on other tasks.
● Keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware software up to date to avoid becoming part of a botnet
E) Actively manage your email newsletter subscriptions.
●Ensure that your newsletters are delivered to you by adding the "from" address to your address book or safe sender list.
Thanks for doing your part to help make email work better for everyone.
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History of E-mail ?

E-mail or Electronic mail is the necessity of today’s world.  Can you imagine a corporate life without email ?  E-mail makes life our life easy and fast.

But how many of us know the history of Email.

Email or Electronic mail change the entire system of written communication throughout the world and Today, there are billion of Billions email sent and received in the world.
Today, you can send the email in fraction of second from one part of world to another part.

Thanks to Mr. Ray Tomlinson , An Engineer of USA 1971 able to sent the first email to his local network and he was the first person who introduced the sign @ with the email denoting the computer name after the @ sign. 

Now hold your breath - The first email was sent between two terminals which was kept aside and ARPANET network was used to communicate between these two computers and the first email message was sent to another was " QWERTYUIOP" and This email facilities was limited till 1988.

The big change occurred in the field of Email when Steve Dorner written the first email client as Eudora and now , the rest is history.

So , waiting for another email in your inbox. 

Motivation is not enough to drive the quality culture of work ……..

People are the best assets of any organization and when these living assets attach themselves with the company’s goals , there is a definite chance that company will grow in many folds.

People are getting motivated by many means but motivation has its limitations. Any organization who are really keen to retain the best talent in their organization, they have to develop a culture of Inspiration.

When you tell to any employee that you are paying for your job , it force him/her to do only a job but when you say to your employee that you are paying for a job which is actually a contribution of yourself towards society then he /she gets inspired.

I don’t say that we are making a good product rather I say to my team members that We are making a world class product and when we see this product anywhere we have to be proud that we made this product.

This drives the quality culture in company and everybody from top to bottom starts their work in a different approach.
My mantra is :
1) Employees are the best assets of any company , retain them.
2) Inspired them to get  their job.
3) Set your own example being a leader and guide them.

Where is the scope of Continual Improvement ?

Whatever you are doing, there is always a scope of improvement.

Like if you are an office goers and handling some projects or duties in your office then you can think about Business process standardisation.

Business process standardization and simplification reduce the cost of operation as well as the efficiency of the employee. It is necessary in today’s competitive world to make the business process at par with the industry standard and to make it so simple and friendly to process it faster and faster. There are ten golden rules which need to be checked in any business process to make it smooth.

1-Bureaucracy elimination-Reducing the unnecessary paper works, Authorization etc.

This is the area where you can look for the improvements in unnecessary paper work or authorisation needed to perform any work or activities which actually not having any sense but it delays the work.  There are several incidents in any company or organisation where paper work is a necessity due to the system from a long time.   These can be eliminated and it will save time and speed up the work

2-Duplication elimination - Reducing the repeating exercise which does not add any value. 

Many times in an organisation , there is a practise of cross checking of things for a similar jobs which increase the lead time of a work.  These activities can be easily identified and can be eliminated from the system.

3-Simplification -Simplifying the process and avoid the complexity of the process. 

There are some processes which are very complex and work goes one table to another table or one stage to another stage which decrease the productive time.  These processes can be taken as a project to simplify them.

4-Process cycle time reduction-Reducing the cycle time of an activity. 

If any activity take more time then it can be taken as an improvement point to reduce its turn around time ( TAT).   First, in this type of improvement the cycle time of completion of any activity to be noted down and then improvements can done after applying some changes.  The reduced time is the fruit of these type of improvement. 

The best example of Simplification and process cycle time reduction is Installation of ATM machine by Banks.  Now, you can imagine – How this improvement made a significant impact in the working of Banks as well as to the customers.

5-Error proofing -To make it pokayoke and fool proof. 

There are some processed which requires fool proofing.  The example of this type of improvement is biometric attendance system which eliminates the wrong / superficies card punching.

6-Upgrading - Simple language Understandable by all.

There are some processes laid down in the companies which are either old fashioned or not upto the mark needs up gradation which can be developed in such a manner that every user can understand them.

7-Standardization -Standardization of a process.

This is the area where many companies are struggling. Standardisation of the process is the requirement of today’s world.  Customised solutions can work for a little time, but , in longer run, every company requires standardisation of the processes.  The main advantage of the standardisation of the processes or activities is – it reduces the individualistic dependency.

8-Supplier partnership - Best input gives the best output.

 In any organisation’s success, the supplier beneficial supplier relationship plays a vital role.  Supplier includes internal customers as well as external.  There are some projects can be taken which make the supplier partnership more strong in the benefit of the organisation.

9-Big picture improvement -Drastically changing the process. To

    select a   different route.

This type of projects are comes from out of box thinking.  These improvements projects are needed in company for changing an old practise into new one.  But the execution of these types of improvements is critical.

10-Automation / Mechanism -Automation of manual work

      through computerization
Automation is the demand of this modern era.  There are many activities can be automated through machines / computers to eliminate the human interface. 

You can choose any project of continual improvement from above category and excel in your professional life. 

SMART Objectives- A Brief

SMART Goals :  Goal setting plays an important role in anybody’s life because this gives you the direction to move forward. 

OK ! Goals should be set but how Goals can be set.

Answer is : Goal whether it is professional , personal , spiritual , it should be SMART...... 

S- Specific

M-Measurable

A-Achievable / Assignable

R- Realstic

T-Time bound

Generally there are four types of goals : Professional Goals, Personal Goals , Economic Goals and Spiritual Goals.  All these goals should be follow the SMART Rules of Goals.

Can you elaborate the SMART Goals ?  Yes.  Now we will understand the SMART Parameters one by one.

S-Specific :

The criterion stresses the need for a specific goal rather than a more general one. This means the goal is clear and unambiguous; without vagaries and platitudes. To make goals specific, they must tell a team exactly what is expected, why is it important, who’s involved, where is it going to happen and which attributes are important.

A specific goal will usually answer the five "W" questions:

-What: What do I want to accomplish?

-Why: Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.

-Who: Who is involved?

-Where: Identify a location.

-Which: Identify requirements and constraints.

  

M-Measurable :

The second criterion stresses the need for concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of the goal. The thought behind this is that if a goal is not measurable, it is not possible to know whether a team is making progress toward successful completion. Measuring progress is supposed to help a team stay on track, reach its target dates, and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs it on to continued effort required to reach the ultimate goal.

A measurable goal will usually answer questions such as:

·         How much?

·         How many?

·         How will I know when it is accomplished?

·         Indicators should be quantifiable

     A-   Achievable/ Assignable :

·         The third criterion stresses the importance of goals that are realistic and attainable. While an attainable goal may stretch a team in order to achieve it, the goal is not extreme. That is, the goals are neither out of reach nor below standard performance, as these may be considered meaningless. When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. The theory states that an attainable goal may cause goal-setters to identify previously overlooked opportunities to bring themselves closer to the achievement of their goals.

An Achievable goal will usually answer the question:

·         How: How can the goal be accomplished?

 R-Realstic :

The fourth criterion stresses the importance of choosing goals that matter. Many times you will need support to accomplish a goal: resources, a champion voice, someone to knock down obstacles. Goals that are relevant to your boss, your team, your organization will receive that needed support.

Relevant goals (when met) drive the team, department, and organization forward. A goal that supports or is in alignment with other goals would be considered a relevant goal.

A relevant goal can answer yes to these questions:

·         Does this seem worthwhile?

·         Is this the right time?

·         Does this match our other efforts/needs?

·         Are you the right person?

·         Is it applicable in current socio- economic- technical environment?

     T-Time Bound :

The fifth criterion stresses the importance of grounding goals within a time frame, giving them a target date. A commitment to a deadline helps a team focus their efforts on completion of the goal on or before the due date. This part of the SMART goal criteria is intended to prevent goals from being overtaken by the day-to-day crises that invariably arise in an organization. A time-bound goal is intended to establish a sense of urgency.

A time-bound goal will usually answer the question:

·         When?

·         What can I do six months from now?

·         What can I do six weeks from now?

·         What can I do today?

Some Examples of SMART Objectives :

Personal SMART Objectives

-          I will buy my house in July ,2015.

-          I will complete my MBA- Marketing by Sept,2015.

These two objectives are SMART. 

Professional SMART Objectives

-          Increase the production of Metal Slitters by 20 % from previous Financial Year to Current Year.