Blogit With Seema

So you have a sorted workday, an updated calendar, and a prioritized to-do list for the day. And there comes Mr. Whiner to immerse you in his troubled life stories. Thanks to him, your next one hour now will go down the drain. Sometimes your biggest office distractions aren’t your social media obsession and your frequent tea-breaks. They are the people with whom you spend your workdays - your coworkers. For example, to name a few, these could be- the blabbers, the pen clickers, the foot tappers, the knuckle crackers, the cubicle invaders. We all have dealt with such coworkers who drive you up the wall. These people are among us. Or worse, these could be us. Paychex did a survey of what the most distracting work behaviors are, here's what made the top ones. Some of them might surprise you and others might not surprise you at all. The important note here is… DON’T DO IT . So, what’s your story? There might be other work behaviors that peeve

Being a great manager is not exclusively about getting the job done, but also about keeping the team happy and motivated. And no one can become a great manager just by accident. Neither it is a yearly, a monthly, or a weekly endeavor. It is an everyday thing. How you work every day? How you handle situations? How you treat your people? How you guide them? Do you inspire them to dream more, and do more? These all greatly influence the team members. Therefore, it is an utmost need to inculcate the right behavior in you. These daily behaviors are what separates highly effective managers from the pack. Here are such seven must-haves managers are required to exhibit in their workplace. 1) Give the credit where it is due Your team's success is your success. A "well done" for them means you are also doing the right work. Value your people for their awesome work, and get them in the spotlight. 2) Don't humiliate them, discuss it out Treat your people wi

Dear Social Media Savvy, WHAT SHARING WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES CAN DO? Sometimes the outcomes can be bad, very bad. Here are 13 social media faux pas - some of them are disturbing, some are criminal, and some are just stupid. But whatever they are, they are good enough to teach us a lesson. 1. Scots Guard dismissed from Royal Wedding duty after ranting about Kate Middleton on his Facebook Page 18-year-old Cameron Reilly, a Buckingham Palace guard was dismissed from his royal wedding day duties after calling bride-to-be Catherine (Kate) Middleton a "stuck up cow" and "posh bitch" on Facebook.  He wrote: 'Her and William drove past me on Friday and all I got was a s****y wave while she looked the opposite way from me, stupid, stuck-up cow. Am I not good enough for them! Posh b****. Who really gives a f*** about her? ' Click here   for complete story. 2.Thirteen Virgin Airlines Cabin crew members were sacked for insulti

Remember the first time you sat on a train, or on a plane? Remember how your heart was infused with the adrenaline rush, when you fell in love the first time? All the firsts have some things in common:  excitement and nervousness -  the first day at college, the first meet with would be in-laws, the first kiss, the first interview, the first day at hostel… And then there is the first day at Office. Yup! I can write a memoir on my first day at the office. I wish my first day could be as smooth as the Po meeting his Panda Clan in the movie Kung Fu Panda 3. On a pragmatic thought, then why the heck I would be writing this. So, let me circle back to the main topic. My first day at office feels like below: Hi, Nice to meet you…  The initial days I feel I am meeting a lot of Monalisas'. Sometimes you will feel people are warm and smiling at you, and the other times you can see a frowning or an inquisitive face - Who is this stranger? Are we going to be friends, just c

Do we crib about our office, manager, company culture? Well, there are times when we face problems, we get worried, sometimes we bitch, sometimes we wail… Let’s take a simple example which most of the working professionals can relate to: If we take a “not previously declared” leave and our boss goes all grim and crass, how do we take it? Most of us start thinking of our boss as some demon who is wearing a thick skin of apathy and cruelty. But there comes a stark contrast when we build a work culture for our maids/servants. How do we behave to our maids/ servants when they do the same? Do we want to understand that they also have a life, family or personal priorities? Do these things trigger our mind? A lot of us reiterate the preconceived notion “these people are like this only, you can’t trust them. I will deduct money from her salary.” Salary deduction ! We keep on reminding them the fallout of taking unplanned leaves. What if our company would have d