Guest Blog: Proven Ways To Deal With Mansplaining, Manologues  And Manterrupting
Imagine being in a meeting, and your male co-worker interrupts you, then condescendingly explains something he thinks he knows more about, then continues to take over the discussion. In another meeting, a male co-worker dominates the discussion and goes on and on and on. Taking input only from other male co-workers and disregards any information from female co-workers. These are frustrating situations…

Story about Productivity
Everyday we wake up to choices, a choice to scroll social media or a choice to read a book. a choice to respond to emails, WhatsApp messages or a choice to write something meaningful. a choice to get through a to do list filled with shallow work like pay bills, send message, call XYZ or a choice to create something. All the…

A WhatsApp Group is not a Team because…
Notification, you are added to a WhatsApp Group. WhatsApp groups have become a common way for teams to communicate. And being added to a WhatsApp group often gives us a sense of belonging. It fulfills one of the strongest human desires, to belong. However, a group can never be a team because quiet often it overlooks inclusion.And when inclusion is ignored, you…

Productivity Storytelling : Winners Incite winning
We are always finding ways to increase Productivity. Many solutions to increasing productivity come in the form of tools and technology. However, in one of my previous blogs Productivity Storytelling I have suggested the importance of mental productivity and how storytelling has a role to play in it. In this blog, I am focussing on Visual Storytelling that increases Mental Productivity. Here

Storytelling Passes the Productivity Test 4 of 10
When it comes to Enterprise Social Networking (ESN)  which promises to increase an enterprise’s productivity, my experience has been pretty bad. As a result, I didn’t believe they added value but Elena Luk’yanenko who is a Customer Success Manager, APAC,Microsoft,Productivity Cloud Solutions proves me wrong in this cafe chat. Before we begin.. What is Enterprise Social Network (ESN)? “ESN, is like any…

Storytelling Passes the Productivity Test 3 of 10
Could a simple story led interaction with another person dramatically increase your productivity? Let’s answer this question Maria and Sue work for a technology company. Maria works as a Business Development Manager and Sue is the software engineer. Maria meets a new client finds out what they need, writes a proposal in conjunction with other team members and if the clients likes…

Storytelling Passes the Productivity Test Part 2 of 10
This is our 2nd blog of our blog series Storytelling passes the Productivity Test. In our first blog we wrote about the importance of Knowledge sharing via stories This blog is focussed on vision statement and its relationship with productivity What are vision statements? A vision statement says what the organization wishes to be like in some years’ time. It’s usually…