Abhay Valsangkar
Head - Consulting, AAYAAM
Abhay has 30 years' experience working in India, Europe, South Africa & U.S. across financial services, IT, Manufacturing & Healthcare sectors. He holds degrees in Law, Economics and...
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Tricky Workplace Situation Handled
- I don't have confirmation bias
- -Be data driven in forming educated opinions -Never ignore red-flags -Don't rely on past experiences to fully understand the current realities
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- I have created a capsuled podcast which is for the educational purposes. The podcast has many examples drawn from our daily lives to demonstrate how all of us can potentially possess this bias.
- Ensure that you focus only on specific skills database and become a niche player in that segment.
- Stay very focused in the niche we are operating in. Encourage a brain-swarming approach to ensure everyone in the organization participates in the innovation process. Give autonomy to the team members to define parts of the strategy.
- Traditionally to harvest new ideas companies used brainstorming as a process. Instead, we started using yellow-chits, which the participants used to write their ideas and then these chits were discussed in the open. This ensured total freedom to everyone to write down their ideas without being interrupted.
- Once you have secured brand recognition you have to work continually to retain customer loyalty.
- Every interaction with customers is absolutely essential for famous brands
- Providing quality products is must and equally important is how you deliver great customer service
- This will surely affect customer loyalty adversely. Not keeping up with the ethical principles of running business has negative impacts on the business because in such situations customers move away from the business.
- -I will create small caselets to establish which behaviors influence customer loyalty -I have some role-plays written to demonstrate these points
- Management is not doing the right thing. Opposing view points are very necessary for coming up with richer solutions.
- Help them focus on data, ideas and viewpoints and not criticize each other as persons(individuals)
- Yes, because objectivity helps us to keep emotional barriers at bay and enable us to make rational decisions.
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- Let's say that you are interviewing a candidate and he resembles one of your ex-bosses whom you detest. In such situations, you are likely to guide your decision about the candidate based on his physical looks(attributes) and not his capability and potential.
- Treating with respect: -Employees -Environment -Society Supporting the right cause for humanity
- - Being hierarchical rather than respectful with the team members; - Being careless about the environmental impacts of running the business; - Not giving employees opportunities to participate in the decision making processes
- 8. It certainly needs improvement, because there are still some practices that are heavily leader-centric and the same need to transform into employee-centric ones e.g. decision making in crisis situations.
- -I've some caselets written to explain how a mindful leader can create an ethical environment where everyone has a fair chance to contribute and succeed.
