Thriving in the Global Workplace

Globalization brings in many challenges and opportunities to the 21st century workforce. Apart from the work related travel, one of the major challenges today is efficient collaboration between teams working on different time zones around the world.
The Challenges in a Global Workplace
Team Management
If a team on a single project is working in two different locations, [...]

Are you Assertive or Timid at Work?

The dictionary defines an assertive person as one who is:
1. Confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic:

2. Having a distinctive or pronounced taste or aroma.

However a better definition I found for this term was here; to quote: “Assertiveness is an attitude and a way of relating to the outside world, backed up by a [...]

Stress Management for Working Women

Why only for working women you may ask – well, I feel working women have to manage more stress – be it meeting deadlines at work when you have a sick child at home, managing kids vacation time when they have none of their own or just day to day juggle in being a better [...]

How to Handle Work-Life Balance Questions during an Interview

If you have some priorities in life regarding flexible working or part-time work, it is good to inform of your expectations during an interview, because if you are unable to convey to the recruiters/hiring managers to what you truly want, a few months or year down the new job, you might not be satisfied with [...]

Working with a Difficult Boss

At times it is not easy to wriggle out of the workplace or change divisions/team when your relations with your boss are strained. Under such circumstances you have to learn to live and thrive under a difficult boss.
Here are some tips to make life easy for you, use them as the situation requires and you [...]