Communication is the key

I came back from a week long trip to Bangalore for Foss.In last Sunday. My sister and her daughter, Ayushi, are at our place these days. I like to spend time with my little niece and talk to other family members when I get back home from office. But since there was a lot of […]

Worthy goal for the month

I was reading The Leadership Wisdom by Robin Sharma yesterday. He mentions that everybody is motivated to do something bigger than him/herself. People want to make a difference in others’ lives. They want to see the effects of their work. This goes very well with what I said in the Monday Meeting yesterday – the […]

Written Communication – tests, techniques and results

In the communication workshop series, we also covered written communications. Being an offshore software development company, written communication is very important for us. Most of the business is over email – internal and external. So we wanted to create a breakthrough in the written communication skills of our team as well. We started with a […]

Big issues and petty issues

I was going home the other night. Had office keys in my pocket. It was very quiet in the corridor and building campus. I could clearly hear the noise of cracking keys in my pocket. Then I came on the road and the hums and honks surrounded me! The noise level was so high, the […]

Happiness is a choice

Yesterday was a great day full of learnings. Both good things and bad things. The workday started out sour. One developer in the team showed unavailability to work on a project, two are simply too pressed with projects that a new project we want to get on, is getting delayed. I had an upset with […]