BasTalk - everyday at work!

Remember the time you really had fun being at the top? I am guessing not. When was the last time you were surrounded by good friends at

work? Or are mistaking good acquaintances as good friends? There is a difference between being good friends and good acquaintances, no?

So do you have a best friend at work? Think hard.  If so, how did you feel when they got promoted ahead of you , out of turn, instead of you, and

then go on to become your boss? Hmm. Not so easy. Right? Yet, if you do not have a best friend at work - how will you sustain a thirty year 

career journey? Its incredibly being lonely at the top - more so if you are surrounded by enemies - it magnifies the complexity. So is it worth it?

Or would you rather be among friends? Join me in this fascinating BasTalk where we go back in time to when you began your career and how cool 

it was to hang around with those buddies. Where are they now and where are you? Are you better off?

#colleagues #friends #office #boss #workplace #frenemies

An age old job problem - is the age itself. Do you find yourself asking what the hell am I doing here in this role at age 40? Does it baffle you

how someone 5 years younger got to become your boss?  Your peer just made partner while you're struggling being a manager, or your friend

who is half as talented, got the promotion and you are still stuck and time is flying by. You are getting old.  Age is catching up on your career.

So where did you go wrong? What did you miss? What could you have done differently?  Join me in this edition of BasTalk - where I share insights 

on what to think if you are in the proverbial mid-career crises!

#age #job #career #life #corporate #ambition

As General Patton said, Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. Now try doing that at work.

You never tell good soldiers how to fight. Right?   Can you take the same approach at work? Think of yourself  as a sales leader or a sales rep.

Have you ever analysed why there is so much of scrutiny at your work? Why don't they just let you be and work will get done well, better and 

sharper? Join me in this edition of Bastalk - where I take you through the highs and lows of micromanagement, and if you are one of them doing it, 

this one is for you.

All BasTalk episodes  and also please check out The Gyanban Experience - a sublime experience awaits.

#management #micromanagement #bosses  #workplace #worklife #corporate

You feel you gave a great interview - but the outcome is a simple, brutal truth : you were not selected. And you wonder what else could you've done 

differently? Who more could you've done? And then it dawns upon you - that maybe you did not communicate well enough.

The power of good communication is merely not your ability to speak English - it is your ability to precis 50 thoughts in to 5!

Its job is to break down big thoughts into smaller recognizable parts, easily palatable and accurately understood.

Join me in the fascinating episode - where you get to know simple and flexible tips to manage interviews better.

#interviews, #job #people #mindset.

Are you being crappy trying be scrappy? Are you being Scrappy for the heck of it?  Are you hiding beneath the garb of being Scrappy while in reality 

you are just being crappy? Are you trying to hide poor quality in lieu of moving fast? Many start-ups use the term be scrappy and get on

with it. Yet, being scrappy does not give you the permission to be sub par in your play. So how do you strike a balance and maintain quality?

Join me in this episode where I share some insights into quality management or managing quality for not just your business, application or product 

but the mind behind it all. How do you keep at Day 0 , the best day of your work at all times.?

#quality , #mindset #scrappy #startups #goals

Welcome to Season 2 of BasTalk. And if you've not heard Season 1 ( seriously?) then click here

This year, we kick off with introverts, a personal favourite if you know what I mean. :)  In this episode, I share the ways to manage Introverts in your 

team. If you are a 360 degree leader - you can't have an unidimensional team, can you? Will you? I am guessing not. And if not, then what do you do

when you are an extrovert but need to manage introvert colleagues?  Likewise, if you are an individual contributor and an introvert, how do you keep

up with the Kardashians, errm, I mean  extroverts?  Join me in this new year to better understand how introverts are as good as anyone else in the 

team. So, this one is dedicated to the wonderful introverts in the team! Happy new year!

#introverts #sales #peoplemanagement #team

When they said hope is not a strategy, 2020 laughed ! What are the top 10 lessons we learned from 2020?  

One way to look at it is, that we've all had a terrific year, surviving isn't it?  Its time to give yourself a pat on the back.

Join me in the final episode of Season 1 of BasTalk. In the next season, I will bring more handpicked curated content for you. 

If you want to tune in to all the episodes click here.

Till then, stay safe, stay well, and bring your A game to work. Happy New Year folks.

#happynewyear #2020 #2021 #Lessons

First time you do it, they say it was a fluke, the second, was luck and the third is when the world goes wow! But what happens if the opposite 

happens? This one is for all those people who have missed a forecast, lost a deal, got hammered in the reviews and then lived, to fight one more 

day! Friends, what do you do when proverbial shit hits the fan?  What do you do when you see the hammer coming at you? What do you do when 

your team team tried really hard but failed to get to their forecasted numbers? What do you do? Do you fire the shit out of them or do you give them a 

bro-talk?  What if the carrot and stick approach did not work? What if they missed the numbers yet again? What do you do then?

Join me in this fascinating topic about failure, realization and resurrection!

#sales #businessdevelopment #forecast #team #teammangement.

So you are a superstar? Are you the rock star they are searching?  Yes, the one which recruiters search endlessly , the job description mentions eternally and yet find, seldomly? Wait, but how do you become a superstar?  How did you know you're the one? Basis what?  And if you are not, then, does it mean you have no future? No career? Join me in this fascinating episode on BasTalk where we decipher the facts on who is a super star and if you are not one, can you be one? After all, somebody's chicken is someone's burger! 

#superstar #recruitment #hiring

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