Toxic Leaders

Many, many years ago, i was working in a manufacturing based SME status company. I reported directly to a foreigner male boss. Working life under him was not as expected. I had many sleepless nights, and not a single working day passed by without me feeling so stressful and discomfort. I am sharing with you the negative side of leadership skill that my boss possess and if you share the same condition as mine, do as i did - leave the company! Never try to console yourself that sometime , someday in near future  all will be normalized.

One day when you become a leader in an organization, learn to embrace and treat all employees equally, do not discriminate them in any ways, an finally leave racism out of the culture.

Communication Breakdown.

 

Trust me! Talking to, and extracting relevant important feedback from your employees is not by any means an easy task. But it is not impossible, either! Knowing the know-how and making the correct moves, could get you into the way of smooth retrieval of data from them.

The above are articulated based on my work experience!

Feel free to comment below, of yours.

Management Tips of the Day - Workplace Communication Skill

 

A good organizational culture depends on its people-skill of human capital. While they are not exhausted in numbers, the above 6 elements are noted to be quite crucial in maintaining a conducive space that enables business stewards to manage and control its plans. In my career experience, i found that people lack these skills and therefore gave rise to conflicts that had disrupted my company goals. 

Wrap-Up for 2022!

 

Short Survey

Hi friends,

I am running a short survey on workplace stress. I would like to invite you to participate by answering question which is curated by me. Don't worry! There is only one (1) question that you need to answer. Please click on the link below and answer as honest as you can.

Thank you for your respond.

#stress

 Take the short survey here.

Happy New Year to you all.

 

No one knows where the next 365 days will bring us to but wishes are pouring in to let you know that we all shall sail through it with a renewed spirit of oneness for the benefit of humanity.

Stress Management Technique

 Good Day and Happy New Year to all!

On December 21, 2022, i have briefly posted a message about Management Tips on "STRESS".

If you have missed it, please click HERE to read that message.

Today, i feel glad to post an article about the same subject but, in it i wrote with length the technique that can be applied to manage the stress. The technique is titled "SWITCH-OFF".

I sincerely would like to here from you on your thoughts about my article.

Please click HERE to read it.

Management Tip of The Day! HANDLING STRESS.

Management Tip - Motivation

 

All In A day's Work!

 Hi friends!

I am sure that you would have encountered with many day to day operational frictions when handling human related matters in your organization. Whether you like it or not, every one of us had to make adjustments to accommodate with this issues so that work can be done without stifling. Afterall, the business policy and strategic initiatives are always to be safeguarded and respected, aren't they?

 More often that not, many leaders of businesses, especially if they are in a labor intensive businesses, irrespective if they are either first line, middle or top line managers, managing employees grievances is not an easy task. Shocking as it may sound, but it is a reality not to be passed on. There is an interesting real life story that happened to me quite long ago in a labor intensive business entity. Please read the story HERE and do let me know of your thoughts.

Organization's Role in Supporting UN's SDG.

 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is a concept developed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to eradicate poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all people. Collectively, there are 17 sustainable goals mutually agreed to be focused on to meeting the objectives of the conception by 2030. The image below shows all those 17 goals.

 

The question is how many organizations are seriously contemplating to oblige to the UN's SDG?

Are we, the business owners, board members and executives really keen to allocate a portion of financial resources into meeting the goals? First of all, have we even thought of incorporating the goals in our existing business policies? Could the amount of finance allocated to meet this goals be transformed into 

projected return? If not, why bother to inject precious money which is pooled to bring handsome return to shareholders in reasonable span of time? We know that any satisfactory investment return of green-investment takes a longer time to recover as opposed to other equity investment.

In understanding this picture, the source of many green-investment originates from the support of either state or government of concerning countries. One good example is the following short story of such narration.

 The image above shows the initiative action which a local town council (Majlis Perbandaran Klang@MPK) is going to kick-off coming December 19, 2022. The MPK (a town council in Selangor, Malaysia) had formulated an objective in accordance to UNGA goal number 11, 12 and 17. The objective is aimed to drive new behaviour and understanding of the importance of recycling amongst local communities. It resonance well with goal number 11; 'Sustainable Cities and Communities', goal number 12; 'Responsible Consumption and Production', and goal number 17; 'Partnerships for the Goals'.

In the picture preceding this paragraph, there are 3 portions of images; the top , middle and bottom.

The top images which depicts the objectives of the program that is, to drive new behaviour and understanding of the importance of recycling. This programme is made possible with Nestle's partnership collaboration.

Together, they have come out with measures of 'Door-to-Door Collection and Recycling Programme' of household waste recycling. This is displayed in the middle paragraph of the image above. The measures are targeted to re-process or upcycle all collected recyclable items into secondary material or product. Those non-recyclables are targeted for co-process to waste-to-energy conversions into Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF); which is a type of fuel used in substitute of fossil fuel in coal and natural gas power plants. 

Nevertheless, such measures have not been tied to any figures or quantification that could be used as a milestone of achievement. An example of quantified figure may look like,  to achieve 5% or 6% target of RDF conversion rate. It is essential to tie the numbers.

The bottom paragraph of the image above shows the target's initiatives. The initiatives are further stripped down in image shown below. Detail instructions pertaining the initiatives is very comprehensive.

At least, the local town council had already began to commit to UNGA's goals, how about the local SME?

Anti Corruption

 

I am excited to attend the webinar. 

Risk Management Process

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Work Culture

 

Some of the factors that could influence work culture in any job setup is shown in the infographic above. If you have some comments about it, please share with me by clicking the 'comment' field below.

Managerial Skills

Note: In displaying of organizational skills, there is a stark distinction between skills performed by first line managers, middle managers and the top line managers. The distinction lies in the length and depth of the above highlighted 3 skills.

Change

Organizational change is a concept and it is deteriorating!

 

The working environment at present had evolved dramatically since the industrial revolution era; to a more dynamic, thus organizations throughout the globe inevitably, if they want to stay profitable and relevant, should not close eyes and ignore the very fact that our current knowledge 'bank' we all keep within ourself may one day get obsolete and extincted! Robust change has to take place NOW! We can no longer pamper our cognitive mind to accept current status quo and be complacent to what we know about organizational demand in this 21st century. With that, i want you to lean back, breath the clean air around you and click the link below to view a video clip in which someone from the past came to address CHANGE! Cheers!

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Change is inexcusable!

My Perspective on How to Distinguish a Gem in Leaders.

A manager's triumph is defined as someone who successfully meet pre-promised product-delivery outcome, no matter how and what it takes.

Only the best among them goes on to find effective cascaded initiatives that forms the backbone of the policy targets.

Good Morning! Wish all of you a pleasant and prosperous new day!

Hi!

    I have been on hiatus for quite some time now. People say that life is full of ups and downs, and they can never be more right, ever! I have been exposed to a fair, what i shall call ' life-bumps' in my days of yester- livings. I guess that i cannot complaint so much because, as if it was written on the wall, humans are inevitably succumbed to such exposure, whether we wish or not!

    I have considered to resume writing and this is my first posting, or rather a first re-introduction after been missing for a long, long time. No, i was not being sent to a far far away of no-man's land. Just that i was focusing on my day's priorities which requires urgent attendance. Okay! Let me bury that away! 

    I have started on my book project and i plan to get it printed and distributed for sale sometime in the middle of next year - 2022. I promise to share or hint something about this book project in short time. You will hear from me not long from now, i assure you that!

    So, until then, i wish all of you a good day! Do go out under the sun and breathe in some good air while not forgetting to thank the nature that nurtures us. Be mindful and take care!

Yours,

Vijaya Devan Nair

 

Work Rate Loss Analysis Activity

The Prelude.

Imagine that you are the owner of a micro business that consist of three employees

reporting to you. You exercised your obligation as a CEO of your organization through initiating

several measures to combat inherent risks in your business operation. You put forth relevant

workable initiatives to complement those strategic measures that you anticipate.....

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