FACILITATING EXCELLENCE

Recently somebody asked me what i understand of diplomacy... Given the fact that my work requires me to be diplomatic i always thought myself  capable of possessing that quality But I was surprised at myself when the two answers i gave to the person both turned out to be incorrect. Having looked it up it gave me an idea that it was something to do with negotiating skills. Hmm I sure knew that.. But why wasnt i able to answer it. Presumably because almost all the time i use it thinking that I am aware of the answer and using diplomacy in the everyday language, I was .only using my interpretation of the word. I have seen organizations using verbiages that everybody uses, but everyone interprets it differently. My definition of honesty will always be different from other.. I normally suggest organization to come to a common understanding of the values and words they want to imbibe as a culture. However unfortunately i find it difficult for organizations to imbibe that concept. Just ...

This is very interesting.. I have posted this title with no subject matter say about a month back. I have had few visitors to this page but no body really asked me as to why there is no content after the title. I got appreciations, comments and feedbacks about the blogs previously written but never a question as to why this particular heading was only what was it was - a heading. Quite Honestly it wasnt meant to be like that, it was only by mistake that I posted it and then let it stay. Call it my lethargy. But that is what brings me back to the title. Why did no body question me on why this blog was not complete. There could be hundreds of explanation varying from somebody would have thought it to be a mistake too simple to point out to the fact that may be somebody else would have made an assumption that I can afford to be that careless as its a personal communication or may be somebody would have felt, it i how I had planned it to be or may be someone was afraid pointing a mistake...

Recently I went for my school reunion after almost 15 years. Wont lie was felling a bit anxious. We never really know what to expect from these reunions, mostly its all about meeting old friends, knowing how they are doing, who is more "SUCCESSFUL". Well when I decided to go, it wasnt about any of those things. I knew where my friends were and rest of them really dint matter. It was a formality. There was an invitation and I just went. However coming back, I felt funny. Not happy funny but funny funny. I met quite a few batch mates. Dint really bother about who was doing what as long as I was with my family, but then later on visiting their face book status, I saw some pics uploaded. and there it all started, where were these guys, why dint I meet them, are they all better placed than I am.. Questions kept troubling me. Phew, blame it all on my bad habit to think a lot, But dont we all at some point of time do that. I fail to see that I was the one who did not take any in...

Wishing you all a very Happy new year but then whats sooo happy about this new year... oops am i being cynicall.. hope not...well.. for me it was just another day... no late night parties, no morning hangover, no special outing, nothing in particular to make it SOOOOO Happy. But despite that, something did make my new year happy.. the stream of happy new years messages, mails, phone calls, my sister's 'gajar ka halwa' that she had made for my kids and i pretty much ate the entire thing... the excitement of beginning something new, even the prediction on TV Channels from Some babaji's analysing how this new year was going to be for all rashi and the prediction.. all of it together did it make it an exciting and happy new year for me.. I did not make any resolutions this year. But I am sure I will make something up like may be loose my weight, when people ask me whats my resolution for the new year has been - its gonna be more for them and less for me i guess. Ha...

When I got a mail for inviting write ups for the guest column in HR Daily Advisor, I was sure I want to send something. It had to be on HR was not a big deal cause I though that I have written before and some of my articles have also been published so what’s the big deal. But well life is not always the way we plan. Neither was mine as HR manager. So what’s its like being the HR person of an organization? That’s exactly what my article is about. A typical day in the life of HR person. What does an HR person think when she gets up in the morning? I wish I was given as much credit for my work as any other professional. On the way to office- Two interviews, one training, and oh that employee survey. And what do I do with the two departments which are going crazy over whose responsibility was it to get the paper signed. Why cant they just follow the rules and stop bringing their egos to work. Once in office – Oh god I have got mail, and then a call from boss trying to tell me that one o...

If life were so easy then we would all be exhausted by now. I have often observed that what is easy is never either appreciated or achieved. As human beings we also look for some adventure, some different, some......thing. We often tell ourselves, this is tooooo good to be true. This is too easy. And in the attempt we forget what actually matters. Just to do it. Easy or tough it is what it is.. Why bother with complicated solutions when the answer sometimes is bang in front of our faces... but then we dont want that answer. We are looking for a solution. A solution that perfect...Why do we even try to be simple. Easy, simple these are for those who dont know what it takes to be successful. To be succesful one has to know all complicated stuff.. the solutions have got to be difficult otherwise its not worth the effort.