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Eashita Maheshwary
Co-founder, Encubay, India
Eashita is a creative strategist and a community builder who has always worked with, for and as a start-up. With wide expertise in community building, she founded Goa's first luxury hostel for creators in 2018. Eashita has a strong inclination towards networking and has actively been a part of multiple initiatives to grow the start-up ecosystem. Driven by creativity and collaboration, she believes making a connection is only a conversation away.
Tricky workplace situation handled
By this mentor in various human skills
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- You get more time to work on tasks that can't be delegated A larger number of people working to achieve a goal More number of ambassadors Higher level of team spirit Allows a business to grow independently without the founder/ boss/ manager/ leader becoming a bottleneck
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- Play on people's strengths Diversify the amount of time you spend and delegate to ensure maximum Return On Investment for your business and team's growth Talk about yourself, your strengths and achievements and encourage your team and colleagues to do the same
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- No video was available so answering on my own. - Communicate with them often enough about their skills, goals, achievements, and interests - Engage them in certain activities to passively gauge their capabilities - Give them tasks and delegate incrementally to ensure both you and the team adapts to work slowly but steadily - Share some of your personal goals, achievements and interests to understand if they resonate with any of them and if you can share some of your learnings to help them discover their strengths - Have a tool to track the amount of time taken by an individual for a task and if they are being able to reduce the time taken on an ongoing basis. What helps is when you allow the individual to communicate the time they would take for a task than telling them how much time they should take.
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- - Understand what delegation currently means to the group - Why do they think it is or isn't important - A small activity on how we've have actually been delegating since we were children. Eg. - Requesting/ asking our siblings to do something for us. - Personal story on how I was accused of being bad at delegation and then learned how to let go - Importance and advantages of delegation - Incrementally delegating to ensure you don't lose control but let go Session style- Activities and experience sharing Small presentation to take back notes Group interaction to encourage peer learning
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- Janet Spending all your time on certain tasks doesn't increase but in turn, decreases efficiency Janet gives her body and mind time to rejuvenate and refuel - Healthy body, healthy mind Her outside of work experiences help her deal with work situations better as they enhance her skills Working with a team helps in bringing in others perspectives, some of which we would never have thought of Positivity helps in being solution-oriented and the firmness ensures that she isn't taken lightly Meditation enhances focus and induces calmness Janet has a more balanced life
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- Entrepreneurs are in the middle of everything and often because they are their own boss, they end up pushing themselves beyond a point a little too often. How does sleep, food and activity help - 1. Increases focus 2. A healthy body = healthy mind = better thinking = better growth for self and company 3. All the 3 help with resting and activating the required parts of our brain 4. They help us cope with situations, be more resilient, have stronger mental health, and help us grow our teams better 5. Exercising also helps me with channeling my stress and energy and taking only the right amount to work 6. Avoid burnout due to the hustle in one's life
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- 8 - A regular but dynamic form of workout with slow increments in difficulty level - Good healthy food, lots of water and regular meal timings - Make time for the basics that you are spending hours earn for - A variety of experiences to be able to grow adaptability and manage unexpected situations - Regular sleep - Set work timings to ensure some time to disconnect - Human interactions within and outside the team to upskill and also to learn from others experiences
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- To ensure preparedness for the unforeseen, unexpected situations and minimize business loss Shields business against Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity A structure to ensure one responds instead of reacting due to preparedness Ensuring a business is agile and adaptive
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- - What are the current resources we have in hand? How prepared are we? - How can these resources be used? - What will be the short-term and long-term impact of our actions and responses? - Do these actions align with our company and goal? - What are the limitations and risks? - What have/ are others in the industry done/doing? - While acting be mindful to reconsider the decision if needed
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- 8 - Prepare for the worst-case scenario - Be aware of news, data, trends, and industry actions - Create a response over react culture - Have written down plans with a set structure - Create a strong network of experts - Think before you act and be agile - Ensure your team is aware of the actions under the OODA model
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- OODA is the mantra to the sustenance of a business beyond what can be predicted through preparedness. It is a calculative way to manage risks and respond instead of reacting
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- - Wasting ones own and the team's time - Achieving less than what is actually possible - Slowing down the growth of oneself, the team, and the company - Losing out on certain opportunities
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- They work in a loop Self-discipline encourages us to plan and manage our time and managing time well induces a higher level of self-discipline.
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- I manage my time - Plan the day and week in advance - Keep the team and partner informed of my availability to plan work, meetings, and catch-ups accordingly - Keep my calendar updated with a placeholder for times that I am unavailable even for personal reasons - Prioritize - Delegate
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- Through a couple of tasks and activities First question - Did you have this session as a part of your schedule or did you have to push things around to be here. What does time mean to you? Showing how time saved is time earned Encouraging them to do the same task in lesser time than normal and how most often it is possible
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- Be aware of the various biases that exist and acknowledge them Paused before you make a decision and check if you are making them due to a certain bias Communicate and make others around about these biases to break the chain
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- I would talk to them about how I grew up in a more multicultural environment and have had friends of different backgrounds and religions. How I always look at the person as an individual first. An instance of how I was in a taxi late at night and because the driver was male, I was uncomfortable but he was very communicative and I told myself about how he is first a human being and a father to 2 children so I should look at him as a parent.
