The Building Block of Great Teams
Want to build a great team? Start by building a great group process first, educates Prof. VGT.
Resolving Interpersonal Conflict
As a team head you have many issues to deal with – from conflicts within the team, performance problems and even behaviour issues. But what if your team starts complaining about your biggest performer? How then would you deal with the situation? Prof. VGT has some wisdom.
Just What Is Empathy and Why Exactly It’s Needed at Work
We know that empathy is undervalued in the workplace context, but we need to understand its importance and value to contribute to the growth of the organization, says Prof. VGT.
The Big Five Personality Factors for Career Success
From what we know about them, successful people are usually knowledgeable about their industry, are satisfied with the steps they have taken in managing their careers and are confident about their ability to market themselves effectively. They also tend to be articulate, adaptable and respond well to change. So, does personality have an influence in determining career accomplishment? Or more specifically, are certain personality types more attuned for success than others? Prof VGT has the lowdown.
Developing Self Confidence – Secrets Revealed
If you think of and picture yourself as a failure, you will fail. Think of success. Realize you are born to succeed and win. Picture yourself successful, happy, and free; and you will be, says Prof. VGT, and unravels the big secrets to develop self-confidence and self-worth for success in any profession.
Know Thyself to Know Others: The Importance of Self Knowledge
If you want to be able to really understand others, then you must start by understanding yourself, says Prof. VGT.
Goal-setting: the Key to Unlocking Your Potential
Given how we become what we think the most about, Prof. VGT elucidates the importance of goal setting as the “master skill of success”.
Take a Break Before You Break Down: Dealing with Emotional Breakdowns Due to Work
Even if you love your job, there are bad days at work – sometimes so bad that they cause a major emotional breakdown. Prof VGT shares words of wisdom to navigate out of precisely such situations. First let’s understand what is an emotional breakdown. Its symptoms include lack of concentration at work, fatigue, a feeling […]
Stopping the Drop: How to Deal with a Performance Slump in Your Team
Even star employees may witness a decline in performance from time to time. Prof. VGT explains how to deal with such situations and restore your team to peak shape. Nikhil was the star performer in his team and his manger was very proud of him and had complete confidence in his abilities. But the situation suddenly took a […]
High Versus Low Emotional Intelligence: How to Tell
In part three of our Emotional Intelligence series, Prof. VGT illustrates how to differentiate someone with high emotional intelligence from someone with low EI. Someone with low emotional intelligence Ramesh works in marketing. While his work is commendable, people in the workplace tend to avoid him. He does most of his work alone and does not […]
Emotional Intelligence: How to Cultivate It
In part two of our Emotional Intelligence series, Prof. VGT offers five easy ways to boost EI. 1. Become aware of and tune into your emotions. One of the first, and perhaps most important steps, is to become more self aware, or to develop the ability to tune into your own emotions. Why? In order to […]
Emotional Intelligence: an Introduction
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) has been for long wrongly assumed to be the sole denominator of intelligence, but today, Emotional Quotient (EQ) is considered even more important than IQ. Prof. VGT explains just what emotional intelligence (EI) is and how it’s significant. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and regulate one’s emotions and understand the emotions […]
