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5 Efficient Ways to Master Difficult Conversations at Work
We need to talk. Four simple words are enough to make the best of us nervous. How often do we […]
Performance Reviews in the workplace Part 4 – The Aftermath
The meetings may be over but how they went will be seen by what happens next. Incidentally, in both cases, […]
Performance Reviews in the workplace Part 3 – The Meeting
The D-day – The actual day of performance review meeting. How the meeting is executed is determined by a couple […]
Performance Reviews in the workplace Part 2 – Self preparation
Preparing for a performance review is never easy. Particularly if it is not clear what to expect from it. It […]
Performance Reviews in the workplace Part 1 – The Dreaded Reminder
Each new year represents a blank slate, giving everyone an opportunity to begin anew. The most common way people go […]
5 Employee benefits that could be introduced in 2019
At the end of every year, agencies like Glassdoor publish a series of articles such as Top companies of the […]
The Advantages of Timeboxing to Increase Productivity
Timeboxing, a key component of Scrum and Agile project management methodology, is quickly gaining in popularity over traditional to-do lists. […]
Comprehensive Guide to Collaborative Decision Making
Imagine you’re a marketing manager preparing to launch a new product. Instead of making decisions alone, you bring together designers, […]
Albrecht’s Four Types of Stress & How to Manage Them
You’re halfway through a long workday and are feeling kind of stressed. Your work is piling up when a coworker […]
‘Career Anchors’⚓ Help Your Employees Flourish At Work
Edgar Schein is considered as one of the forefathers of modern organizational psychology. He was the mind behind the “Career […]
No BS Guide To Burnout At Work (Prevent, Diagnose, Cure)
Ever felt completely drained at work, struggling to focus, or unmotivated? Those are signs of burnout at work. Burnout is […]
4 Ideas to Make Your Performance Review Process Just Right
Team members often dread the very idea of performance reviews. In fact, studies show that vast majority of the workforce not […]
8 (Common sense) Ways to Manage Stress At Work
For many people, work can be a stressful environment for many reasons. From nagging bosses to frustrating rules and everything in […]
Body Language & Performance Reviews: Subtle Connection
As a manager, before reviewing performance of your direct reports you’ve prepared yourself. There is no doubt in your mind […]
4 ways smart goals can help your organization
Setting goals is an integral part of an organization. It helps the organization determine where it wants to reach and […]
15 things that you should never say in performance reviews
Millennials hate performance reviews. Yet reviews continue to be a part of many organizations where every employee has to go through […]
10 Must Read Books For Managers
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” -Harry Truman As a manager, you may feel like you […]
Delegation in the workplace is good but avoid these 4 things
One of the many qualities that make a good manager is delegation. However, what makes a great manager is that she also knows […]
8 Ways Managers Can Connect With Their Teams
True, genuine connection is the fundamental key to a successful business relationship. Both, within the office & outside of it. […]
Feature highlights: Increase transparency via company directory
Getting the team to gel together is a daunting task. But that is definitely a prerequisite to achieve great things, […]
What to Do When a Good Employee Stops Trying to Grow?
Employees at the start of their career are known to take extra efforts. They are learning the ropes of corporate […]
How to create a winning employee retention strategy?
Silicon Valley companies lead the way for coming up with innovative practices for attracting top notch talent. Soon companies the […]
How To Leverage Myers Briggs Personality Types In The Work Culture?
A company’s work culture is an intangible ecosystem that determines whether its employees will be engaged or disengaged in their […]
Importance of encouraging growth mindset at the workplace
Learning is an integral part of development and growth. Individuals who value learning and adopt it as part of their […]
Why is it Difficult to Create a Learning Organization: Role and Impact of Positive Behavior
According to the World Economic Forum, almost 39% of the current employee skill sets will be outdated by 2030. Hiring […]
Jira issues as key results or actions/initiatives
One of the common mistakes while doing OKRs is turning tasks into key results. Jira is a project management platform that […]
Importance of making organisations adaptive
Organisations are complex systems. Their degree of success or failure is probabilistic. It is the result of how different internal parts […]
Feature highlights: Controlling OKR visibility in UpRaise
Traditional goal setting has always been secretive. The goals, invariably, would be set by the manager. Besides manager, only the relevant […]
Improve the efficiency of performance review calibration
Performance reviews have been around for a long time. Yet they are only said to be effective if both parties […]
Announcing UpRaise People, app for Jira
We’ve been developing apps for Atlassian Marketplace for about 4 years now. Initially they were called plugins or add-ons. Not […]
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