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  What a new Team leader should do   The leadership in itself is a very demanding and different kind of role. As a team member you are assigned a job and you try to achieve the desired result. In the process you may have to interact with a few colleagues for completing the assigned task. But as a leader, you are responsible for the performance of the team. The team has to deliver and deliver consistently. No member of the team should feel left out or ignored as it may hamper his engagement and performance. When I talk about performance it is not the performance of the individual only, it is the performance of the team.   For somebody who is already in an organization and becomes a leader, it may be slightly easier. But what happens if somebody comes from some other organization or when some new inexperienced person joins the team.   From my experience let me make it clear – do not expect hand-holding and support from everyone around. Anything you can definite...

                                                                     Finishing the unfinished In any organization set up, there are many different agencies doing different type of activities. The joint effort of these different agencies makes the organization deliver a product or service of desired standards. But every time things are not that simple. Suddenly some unforeseen problem comes up which needs to be given utmost importance and this being a one time or once in a blue moon kind of a problem, it has to be assigned to someone as an additional responsibility. Generally, some people have the reputation of delivering in such situations and such problems fall in their lap. I have been fortunate to encounter many such situations and let me tell you, it is great learning experience. Today, I shall be sharing on...

 I would like to narrate an incident of indiscipline that happened in my work area . The incident goes back to2015 , I used be Product manager electrical machines . I was told that the previous day in the B-shift one worker , M ,  has slapped shift supervisor R. I had worked as an incharge in that block and new both of them to some extent. I could get the information from different sources and came to learn about the incident. - The worker  ,M , came late  -The supervisor , R , asked for the reason - The worker ,M , slapped the supervisor ,R. There were many witnesses . But the worker ,M, being an active member of one of the leading unions , no body was coming foreword. I knew , so did not force any body .  I talked to both worker ,M, and supervisor ,R . But as expected , the worker was in denial mode.  I talked to the union leader also and he was also not accepting. Then ,I told him very clearly that I know this incident has happened and is not acceptable....

 To  make the platform an instrument for guiding youth , I shall go in steps. Let us begin with interview for a job : - Never feel that the call letter is a confirmation letter , it is just a beginning. Normally for every seat , 5-6 candidates are shortlisted for interview. But look for positives . You are the one who has been shortlisted ,so you have won the first round. Go for the next step with this positive thought in mind.  - Prepare your basic discipline properly because that is your main stay. -Try to gain some knowledge about operations and performace of the company. - Try to see your eligibility for the jobs available - Prepare the expected questions list and write down answaers for the questions that you have listed . -Review this list everyday , new questions will crop up , record answers  - Prepare a list of documents that will be needed or you would like to showcase in case you get an opportunity - Make travel plans such that you have sufficient time , d...

  In manufacturing, we do many processes . The product is a result of these processes. Every process adds some feature to the product. Some processes like cutting ,machining ,bending etc are processes leading to some physical attributes and we can see the result by making some measurements . But there are certain processes ,which add certain features but results are not measurable. That takes us to the concept of special process .  What is considered a special process?   Special Processes are  those individual processes whose results on the product cannot be completely verified by measurements or objective checks, and where discrepancies can affect in service performance of the parts .  I have been witness to a Turbo Generator inter turn failure problem at power station . The ventilation canals got choked because of flow of resin and spreading of insulation. In this case ,baking is a special process . You may get reasonably good report even if process pa...

  Sometimes as part of our routine duty work we accomplish certain tasks which may appear very much difficult and different to some onlookers. It may come naturally to use but for others there may be some lessons to learn.   One such incident came in my working life, I did something which appeared impossible and was never done before . Once, one of our board level executive asked me, how could I achieve that? What did I do differently? I simply told him that , I took all measures to make sure    that no time , no effort goes waste. But when I read about leadership , I think it was a live demo of leadership .     Winners don’t do different things. They do things differently, is an age-old saying that exemplifies the core reason behind the one thing everybody seeks – Success.   This attribute was truly visibly demonstrated by me, ex. Director HR holding additional charge of Director (Power), BHEL in a crisis situation that became a gargantuan ...