How to prepare for a Meeting
Meetings that generate more hot air than meaningful decisions are a nuisance. The culprit is often poor planning. Here’s how to do your groundwork to set up an effective meeting: Clarify the purpose of the meeting. If you can’t figure out what you need to accomplish, you shouldn’t be calling a meeting. Prepare an agenda […]
6 Growth Tips for Home-based Business
When we think about Home-based Businesses – we often limit their potential. There’s so much more… A little bit of creativity and you can open up a wider gate to revenue without hiring any employees and no office space required. And all of this you can keep it to yourself. Here’s how: 1. Technology – […]
How to give Productive Feedback: 8 Steps – His Perspective
Continuing from Productive Feedback: 8 Steps – Positivity, always! Positive solution. On the other hand, negative feedback indicates that the person needs to make an adjustment and “the threat response turns on and defensiveness sets in”. What we’re saying is that you do not need to avoid negative/corrective feedback altogether – but, make sure that […]
How to give Productive Feedback: 8 Steps – Positivity, always!
A feedback to a worker on his performance is an “observer’s insight” on how they’re progressing. But (a big but here), many people, when they hear, “Can I give you some feedback?” generates a lot of fear & anxiety that is not really apparent. And why that fear – because to them it sounds, “Can […]
Virtual Office: Benefits
The momentous technological advancements in terms of communications, computing and mobility have made Virtual Offices a realistic and practical choice for many companies & startups. The concept of Virtual Offices has definitely redefined the standard corporate formation and has brought a lot of benefits that the traditional office is unable to provide. Here are some […]
Top 5 Things for Student Entrepreneurs
Get off campus – Participate in a local startup environment where this a lot happening. Start with popular social networking websites to build – Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube. Your Lucky! – Just consider yourselves lucky. You are much better equipped to launch startups — there is an exceptional amount of information available at your disposal […]
Navroze celebration at DBS Business Center
Shamsunder & Perveez Aggarwal and Vanita Bhandari hosted a gracious Navroze party at their DBS House (Fort, Mumbai), a heritage building right in the heart of the city, winner of the UNESCO award for heritage conservation. Once the property of Jamsetji Tata, DBS House has many a historic tale to tell – if only its […]
Money or Time?
Today, entrepreneurs, most of them, seem to only focus on money. But according to a new study (in the U.S.), new business owners are looking for something else – free time! The study said that 30% of owners said they would rather like to have more spare time than more money. Surprisingly, 30% seems too […]
5 Tips for running Effective Meetings
Continuing from… How to run Effective Meetings? Here are the 5 tips to make brainstorming sessions – effective: The Icebreaker – The first thing is to get in the icebreaker or the energizer – any sort of exercise that would shift the gear of the meeting’s participants into the creative mode. They need to be […]
How to run Effective Meetings?
How to run meetings that are effective? We have had a lot of the so called ‘brainstorming’ session — this term is so often used, don’t know why?! It’s a journey! The first thing to realize is that a meeting – creative thinking – is a journey and not a destination. If we are in […]