A company, WeAreGrowing Inc. decides to add several new team members to its company. They place ads, go through job sites, and recruiters to find and interview the best talent to join their growing company. Lots of time, human resources, and energy goes into finding the right candidate(s) for the roles and after several interview(s),…
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Skills Degree
What if we could have a Skills degree similar to a College degree? A Skills degree would show all the skills you have accumulated over the years. Writing skills, editing skills, sales skills, Excel skills, technical skills, marketing skills and more skills. In a knowledge economy, our skills are our biggest assets. Skills are learnable…
A College Degree is great but not required.
I saw this on a job vacancy post. A college degree is great but not required. What’s more important is having the skills to do the job. Skills are the way to go. Whether its for an Account Executive, marketing, or technical role, skills are becoming important than ever. With the speed of technological developments…
Less Meetings, More Productivity
Meetings fill up a work day. There’s a meeting here and a meeting there. Then the day is almost done and we still have a lot of important work to be done. With remote work being a part of our professional lives, video conferencing tools so easy to use (Zoom, Meet, Teams), and devices at…
Silicon Peaks
Pukar C. Hamal, Founder and CEO of SecurityPal, recently coined the term Silicon Peaks to capture the growing startup ecosystem of Nepal. On his LinkedIn page, Pukar wrote that “The Himalayas have always been a source of inspiration for me. And given that 8 out of the worlds 14 highest mountains are located here including the highest…
What’s your Trillion Dollar Venn Diagram Of Success?
Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot shares his thoughts on rare skills and the Trillion Dollar Venn Diagram Of Success (phrase credit to him). Dharmesh shares that “You probably have a few valuable skills right now. The question is, how do you turn those skills into a successful career or company? By combining skills…
Engaging Company Culture
Engaging company cultures have empowered, creative, and growth oriented team members leading company culture events. Through empowerment, employees are given the decision making authority and independence to decide what activities bring out the best in the team. Through creativity, employees can be resourceful and come up with activities that are out of the box and…
More Art than Science
With AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) and ChatGPT, the possibilities seem endless. In fact, it has made it very easy for us in various professions to go to ChatGPT, write a prompt, and get a good output in a span of seconds. With ChatGPT, we can have a solid starting point for an email to…
Scale or Small – which one?
Which one is better for your enterprise? Going for Scale or Staying small? If you run the best coffeeshop in town, do you focus on opening 100 more around the country or making the flagship coffeeshop the only one available and best in the world? If the decision to open 100 franchises of your coffeeshop,…
when you’re ready for fishing
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Heard it many times. Seems like a valid point of view right? That is if the man is ready to fish or wants to learn how to fish, then it becomes…
Want to become better at…?
Want to be a better writer? keep writing. Want to be a better storyteller? keep telling stories. Want to be a better leader? keep leading. Want to be a better creative? keep getting creative. Want to be better negotiator? keep negotiating. Want to be a better coach? keep coaching. Want to be a better teacher?…
Effective Corporate Training
In Carol S. Dweck’s ground breaking book, Mindset The New Psychology of Success How We Can Learn To Fulfill Our Potential, she shares how to make corporate training programs effective. She mentions: Look for talented managers who also embody a growth mindset. Train leaders, managers, and employees to believe in growth, in addition to training…
Talent vs Skill
What is Talent and what is Skill? Are they the same or different? Talent is a natural ability to gain a skill or set of skills. Skill is the ability to complete a set of tasks well. Skills are learned and we get better at a craft by practicing intentionally over a period of time….
Custom Work Hours
What if employee(s) chose the hours they want to work for in a week instead of a regular Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm as long as the total came to be close to 40 hours per week? Would employees’ productivity increase or decrease because of the work time flexibility, employees choosing their shift based on…
Meet to Succeed
Technology, devices, globalization and many other factors have enabled us to work from any part of the world. Being on a virtual meeting with people across multiple locations, time zones, and cultures is more common than ever before. Yet there is something very special about being able to meet your virtual colleagues or team in…
Customer experience ownership
On a recent weekend, we were shopping at a local Marshalls store and picked up few items to purchase. One of the items was on sale and another similar item was not on sale. When we were checking out the products from the store, the cashier suggested that the other similar item might be on…
Creative is a choice
In The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, Seth Godin describes that creativity is an Action, Not a feeling. Taking action on the ideas we have (writing a blog, composing a piece, contributing something new to a conversation or in a meeting etc) is very important. We should not wait for the “right moments” when we feel…
What’s your company culture like?
To get a quick gauge of your current company culture, you can do a few activities. Have a look at what is being promoted and encouraged within the company. What pictures, videos or posts are team members posting on internal company channels? Are those pictures of team events, community activities, nature, industry reports or something…
Room for Creativity
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso In one of her “The Artist’s Way” series book, Julia Cameron says that creativity is born in generosity, and flourishes where there is a sense of safety and acceptance. If we feel safe and accepted…
Institutional knowledge : A case study
Nepal is a beautiful country with its unique opportunities and challenges. Alicia and Ajay both attend a top management college in Kathmandu, center of colleges and universities in Nepal. Once they finish their undergraduate studies, they plan to pursue their graduate studies outside of Nepal (Europe, Australia, North America). After graduating top of their class,…