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Articles of the author Sherif Attar
Opinion: A journey inside your head!
What do you hear at this moment? The phone that is ringing, a car that is honking, the words exchanged by your colleagues around you or the beep from the printer? Are you listening deep enough to hear the AC in your room or the shuffle of paper or (...)

23 - 07 - 2011
To meet or not to meet! (3)
What if you are drowning in meetings? Have more meetings! Most executives tell you they are drowning in meetings. You know, one meeting after another. Most of them boring. No time to do 'real work'. HELP please, written all over their face! Recently (...)

16 - 07 - 2011
Opinion: To meet or not to meet (2)
Last week, we talked about how unprofessional calling for meetings could be. This week, let's peep inside that conference room and see what happens inside. From the outside, the room looks big, professional and important. Usually it is attached to (...)

02 - 07 - 2011
Opinion: To meet or not to meet!
Like many things we do in business, meetings do have a process! Surprise, surprise for some, I believe. Maybe we need to revisit how we call for meetings, let alone how we conduct them, and while we're at it identify the crime committed in the (...)

25 - 06 - 2011
Opinion: Hard truth about soft skills
“What matters the most?” is a question that plagues the minds of many employers as well employees during the hiring process. To derive a competitive edge, firms need to attract talented people on one hand, add business opportunities on the other. To (...)

18 - 06 - 2011
Opinion: Using LinkedIn effectively
You must have heard of or used LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking website that many people use for keeping in touch with business associates, clients, and former colleagues. But is this LinkedIn's only use? Or can you use it in other (...)

11 - 06 - 2011
Opinion: Who's next? Nobody!
A lot of talk is going round these days about who to follow the leaders that have gone. In the absence of a proper planning for developing next line managers, also called ‘Succession Management', that situation would be a real hard bargain to (...)

04 - 06 - 2011
Opinion: Revolution reflects on business today
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and the representatives of a unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working conditions. Collective agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, (...)

28 - 05 - 2011
Opinion: Mentor mentor – cure me!!
Tolerance towards mistakes and especially towards repeating the same mistakes is getting less in the contemporary times. Companies can't afford to have employees who don't learn from the experiences of others. A steep learning curve calls for a good (...)

21 - 05 - 2011
Knowledge management
Making the most of intellectual assets: Most of us need knowledge in some form to do our jobs well. Perhaps you need to understand how your customer database is designed, so that you can extract a particular report. Maybe you need to know the best (...)

16 - 04 - 2011
Team bonding: hocus-pocus!
“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”- Stephen Covey Team bonding glues many individuals strung by tasks to be delivered. It is a step beyond the team building exercise, where (...)

09 - 04 - 2011
Fear of success!
Just when fear of success is quite common, and it can cause us to lose out on opportunities in life. When we are too afraid to take risks and move forward on our goals -- either consciously or subconsciously -- we get stuck in one place, neither (...)

21 - 01 - 2011
Belbin's team roles
When a team is performing at its best, that would mean that each team member has clear responsibilities. You'll also see that every role needed to achieve the team's goal is being performed fully and well. But often, despite clear roles and (...)

15 - 01 - 2011
Balancing holiday and work!
Merry Xmas and happy new year to all! The holiday season is here to stay. Holidays are generally a time filled with festivities, good cheer and even better food... So, who wants to work? Probably not too many of us, but in all seriousness, we still (...)

08 - 01 - 2011
Investing in relations... Reprise!
It seems the article on investing in relationship has left a mark or two. I've been checking my mail with your comments and stories related to the subject. I did not plan to put those up here, but certain words, thoughts or actions may change your (...)

18 - 12 - 2010
Follow me to work on Twitter!
When some people hear the word "Twitter," they automatically think of wasting time. After all, how can you have time for work when you're telling people what you had for lunch, or spreading the gossip from your 2pm staff meeting? It's true that (...)

11 - 12 - 2010
Friendship and business
Many experts say that friendship and business do not mix. However, there must be some pros and cons of being friends with your boss. Talking about how good is the idea of becoming friends with your boss, Niret Alva co-founder and executive chairman (...)

04 - 12 - 2010
Strongest, easiest but least used!
Your company's third round of downsizing is imminent, your boss is barking out demands with heightened urgency, and your staff is tired, tense and afraid they're next in line to leave. It's your job to motivate them, continue to meet ever-increasing (...)

20 - 11 - 2010
The Pygmalion effect
When a manager sets target for the team members, the expectation of the target achievement brings in certain feelings which make a team member feels that the tasks are doable and target can be easily achieved. This transaction of feelings, which (...)

13 - 11 - 2010
Be patient!
Here's the problem: You're waiting for someone to finish compiling a report that you need for a meeting. Because of an issue that came up, you're already 15 minutes late. You can feel your body getting tense, and you're getting quite cross. You (...)

04 - 09 - 2010
Wrong reward!
"Customer and process, will they ever get married?" is actually an old headline borrowed from…me! A few years back, I was asked to address a group of key managers from different organisations. I was given a free hand deciding on the topic. At the (...)

27 - 08 - 2010
Make meetings more interesting!
Meetings can be deadly, especially if they feel unproductive. Listening to your boss drone on and on about things that don't affect you just isn't a smart use of your time. So how can you make your boring meetings more productive? Research shows (...)

20 - 08 - 2010
Leaders' worst enemy simplified!
The project is moving on nicely. You've carried out an interim review; the team is happy, and all is on target. But this isn't enough for your manager. Now she wants a report on progress so far to take to the Board. Sighing, you reluctantly sit at (...)

30 - 07 - 2010
Little things, big leaders!
This is about the little things you can start or stop doing that can make a big difference on how you are perceived as a leader. I work with a lot of very successful leaders and aspiring leaders who set very ambitious improvement goals for (...)

23 - 07 - 2010
Lessons you already know!
I don't know about you, but I can still remember a lot from the back cover of my six-year-old notebooks, and before it what we always taught in kindergarten. According to author Robert Fulghum's book "All I really need to know I learned in (...)

16 - 07 - 2010
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