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A simple process to manage ideas and help them transform your team. You can use Sharepoint portal solution to manage all these steps. Idea management Friday, June 29, 2007 12:04 PM   Generate Collect from appraisals Brain Storm Prepare Wish Lists   Capture In a team discussion on sharepoint portal email chain Team meeting with note taking   Sort/Categorize Do they sound similar to other? Can you think of one word category or buckets? Prioritize Which address immediate need? What are the current pain points in the team? What would team like to improve in future? There would be three priority level like 1 for immediate,2 for within a month and 3 for this quarter. Action Plan The list of item for next week,fortnight,month and year Tasks Assigns person Create topic/task Give date/dateline   Events helps follow up Recurring weekly ta...

Recently a supermarket opened close to residence and named EverFine. She calls it neverFine. She drops water on floor and I keep on insisting that she will fall if she steps on it. She simply comes again and one hand on sides and other resting on sofa set, with a serious expression on face she says "come to dining table" with a nodding head. It is time for dinner. She wondered where she was when I was a kid. I say she was a bird. I narrate a incident when my parents took me to beach in Bombay and then I was left behind and probably the sea would have consumed me. She said that then a uncle saved you. I wondered how come she knew and she reminded me that she was a bird and was flying above. We have never discussed on cigarette and its ill effects at home but she went ahead and told a friend of her that her father was bad because he smoked.

The occasion was the thirteenth day of mourning and prayer after grandfather passed away. The tickets were booked by my brother using irctc online portal in tatkal quota that roughly translates into current quota. Tatkal used to be 24 hrs before departure of train and I remembered the last time when I traveled in Tatkal, I had to reach reservation center early in morning at about 2:30 AM and had to haggle for space with some touts and shared newspaper to lie for a while before the window opened. It was a huge discomfort. Now the rules are changed and you can do five days in advance. The train was karnataka express leaving Bangalore at 7:20PM and we were not sure about the time of its arrival in Jhansi. We refused to exchange seats with another family who were eight and distributed. The lady pleaded that we were gents and could adjust but he asserted that we had wanted side berth and insisted with out choice. Later we realized that we both were tall and side births were too stuffy and s...

A take on two roles employed and how they look at each other with regards to current and future work Appraisals may 2007 Friday, June 15, 2007 5:05 PM   Appraisals   Feedback For I, the role of manager Small comments make a lot of difference in the team's outlook. Like the one pointed out by a teammate "I was not like this but have become so." The topic was fear of hierarchy. Temper, I guess it can be used based on the need but you should realize that you are using it as a tool. SDLC stages, how to customize it for POC or prototyping kind of project? Mostly all get work based on interests and more than what role demands like in design. More motivational meeting that help set direction and provide focus. Jolly and friendly nature Random movement between tasks Ineffective estimation   For all roles that are for team No design phase. sharing amongst team...

One of the quickest and best discussion that I had during a assertiveness workshop that was followed by some reading and extracted inputs from few past experiences. where to from where are you? Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:27 PM   "The other person does not listen and only persists with his point of view." Is he aware of this? If yes then there is problem and if not then it can be corrected. He could be because he has been in industry for so long. Did you put across your points? He had 4 points and I had put across 8 to contradict and defend my point of view, but even that does not alter his stand and he persists that this is how you should go about doing it? Are you concerned about RELATIONSHIP and or CONSEQUENCES? No I have a don’t care attitude now. Still think over and relate to these two points.   In the beginning it was yes about relationship because I was pleasing everybody as I was trying to comprehend the culture and I was wo...

How adults can create a impressions on the child and corrupt her belief system? Suppose your child has got a good friend and it her first day of nursery school. Her peer keeps chanting about the crowded van in which they travelled and how the ride was bumpy and fun. Imagine the fun in 4-8 years old jostling for space in a overcrowded van. But since it is presented as fun and the feeling is further enforced by the peer mother who says that your daughter will like to go with her child and both will have fun too in van in each other company. When you come into picture she tries to influence your decision too by quoting the cost per month and how cheap it is. The mother is also brought into the game thinking its fun and sportingly participates. You come into picture and try to assert that it is not safe for nursery going kids to travel in vans that are overcrowded and managed by single driver whose morality is not tested and who need to drag atleast 10 kids to his van and drop them at thei...

why is it difficult to speak up? why is it difficult to be assertive? Why do we consider Indians to be safe player who worry a lot about maintaining and upkeeping of relationship and mostly fearig the consequences that may have a negative impact on their relationship according to their point of view. It is a perception that is negative. It is the perception that asking questions is bad. It is the belief system that puts heiarchy as supreme and forces an assumption that people senior have to be respected and listened to despite their ideas. I am only asking you to question the ideas if that donot make sense to you. Do not question the originator of the idea, he is beyond your circle of influence. The action and the questions are in your circle of influence. Your thought process and articulation strategy is exclusive to you. No one can replicate it. You can develop it or demolish it. It's your discretion. Your conviction should give you courage. Your courage should overcome your fear...

I say "office जाना जरूरी है " she says "why" i say " तन्ख्वा चयिये ना, इस लिए " she says "यह तन्ख्वा कौन है " mom she and i are at play ground with small slides etc for kids she says "be careful and do it slowly नहीं तो झूला टूट जाएगा " i say " it will not break because you are lightweight" she says " are you dark weight" शीखा मौसी तो थाली मैं हाथ धोती हैं, मैंने कहा था उनसे कि नहीं धो she wants to go out to play but does not want to eat food. ma my stomach is paining i--> then we will not able to take you because anyway your stomach is paining she--> मैं तो मजाक कर रही थी हूँ यह हूँ क्या होता , बोलो हाँ या ना did you know that obedience is derived from obediere which means "to listen thoroughly"