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Monday, March 21, 2011

Business Conflict – A Myth or Reality?

Often business organizations are run by mere humans actually working robotically and not withstanding the requirement of real humans made up of flesh, blood, and thinking ability. That lack of contribution to the optimism and prosperity can be attributable to many things. One of the major factors responsible for this unattractive interaction is the conflict prevailing in business organizations. There are many who think of conflict as a source of negativity, and they don’t question the ways to do work? They keep on doing what they are suppose to do, without thinking that is it the way they want to do it? Well that might be taken easily by some, but mind you, serious entrepreneurs and senior management who think of their organizations as manifestations of creativity, do take it seriously. If you want to know why then read on, because it is important to know what fuels the passion and desire to work for an organization and the hardest challenge for the employers.

First and foremost thing is the fear of rejection and putting one’s job on line for being so open about how a work is performed. Open communication is a cultural thing, and starts from the top. If open communication is not encouraged in an organization, then people would never have their say through because of the fears being settled in. Now someone might ask, what difference will it make to communicate or not what one feels while working in an organization. That makes all the difference in the world, for a second, just think of working in a jail. Where you know that you are there for a time being, you don’t have any say, and your participation is highly discouraged. You will eventually start shutting your mind at work on regular basis and will eventually feel that you have to do with the things the way they are. That would result in negativity towards the organization, its culture and its working environment. Conflict then doesn’t only mean the major things, but it starts from minor issues.

Open communication discourages conflicts, though one has to have the heart to encourage as well as reward the ones who are right. This culture will eventually make people share their ideas, make organizations a better place to work in and also a better organization to share views with. Just think about an organization where the employee comes in the morning with a lot of ideas to share with and get praise on, with another organization where an employee comes with low self esteem, cluttered mind and unsatisfied job with no creativity at hand. Though this might look to some as encouraging conflicts unnecessarily, ideas should be discussed in open and voted for to get the real thought on top. As businesses are made by people, so they should be flexible enough to include what the people think of their work and how can they be facilitated to further improve the business working environment.

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Improving productivity by removing bad working habits

Have you ever wondered how big an impact our habits can have on our destiny? Do you have any idea as to how much of what we do or what we think is actually habitual? You don’t need any stats or figures to understand the gist, as a little bit of pondering will reveal that most of the time what you do is nothing more than you following a pattern, set by No one else but yourself. You are not to be blamed though, because most of the times you were not even aware of the negative bearing some particular habit might have on your career. One wicked thing about bad habits is that they are hard to break, however the good thing about these habits is that we can replace them with new, more productive ones

Punctuality:
Often, we found ourselves reaching late at offices, day after day, despite the fact that we would like to get there in time. It almost works like a curse. Every time you find yourself behind schedule, you make up your mind to be on time from now onwards, only to find yourself behindhand once again, that too for no obvious reasons. There’s no need to describe how unpunctuality can hurt your professional life as everybody is well aware of the importance of punctuality. If your lateness is limited to reaching late at your workplace then maybe all you need to do is to sleep early and use alarm clocks, however if you are behind schedule in most of your business projects or meetings, then you may need some serious planning.

Unprofessional Conduct:
Maintaining a professional behavior is very important. There are many kinds of inappropriate behaviors, for example arrogance, humor, bullying your coworkers or dressing unprofessionally. There should be a friendly environment at the workplace, but some people go overboard and start cracking jokes and calling names in a manner that spoils the working environment. These funny fellows then proceed to ridicule some relatively shy ones, resulting in hostile feelings among the coworkers. Therefore, you must keep your anger, attitude or sense of humor in check while at office. The focus must be on official assignments, all other things (socializing, having fun, gossip) should be secondary.

Wasting time on irrelevant stuff:
One of the very few evils of internet is that it allows us to burn hour after hour of our precious working time, without us even noticing it. There are protocols in place at most offices now; however the time-wasting habit keeps hampering those who work from home.

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