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THINKSTOCK
ABHIJIT NIMGAONKAR
| Worklife
Facilitate relationships
with colleagues and
stakeholders
Emphasise employee
strengths
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CUBICLE TRENDS
Clarify performance
expectations
As a manager you
should strive to provide
specific, result-oriented
clarification on performance
expectations; by doing so,
you will improve the performance of your team members. Clarity on performance
standards what success
looks like is much more
important than precisely
defined company wide goals
or annual plans. Your team
member wants to know what
he/she needs to do to make
the company grow?
To accurately gauge
employee contribution
in an environment
where employees are coordinating with 1020 other
Encourage external
network building
Be genuinely committed to
employee development
CREATIVE CONCERNS
Nurture
innovation
Innovation factory has three pillars. The first being
holistic knowledge of the market for your product and
services, thats knowing what sells, why and when?
What more do your customers want and what features
would attract them to make the buying decision. What
are things your non-customers are missing in your product and it is deterring them from buying your product.
The second pillar is your ability to select from many
creative ideas, zeroing down on products or services
that would have the highest likelihood of success in
the marketplace. The third pillar is taking the raw
idea and nurturing it into a highly successful product
in the marketplace. These are some of the steps,
which will help you in being adept at this process.
Understand creativity
While raw ideas are the starting point for innovation,
these ideas may not come from you only. Creativity is not
akin to logical thinking and most
of the times it does not follow
logical reasoning. The golden
apostle of being creative is to
avoid using existing concepts in
the same form; you have to look
at the solution differently. Creativity requires freedom and
openness coupled with
non-judgmental environment.
Managing creative
people
Creative people
CAREER SWEETENER
are gifted and at times you would need to buffer and protect them from the routine organisational processes and
procedures. Creative people need time to muse, unfettered by the process expectations of other stakeholders.
In order to synthesize ideas, creative people have to
apportion a part of their time to study issues in depth,
bounce off their thoughts with others, and look for parallels in other ecosystems. Naturally creative people are
wired to think in contrasts when they are confronted
with a problem. Being detail-oriented or sticking to the
schedules is not something that most creative people
enjoy; they occasionally miss deadlines as they are in
the flow. Understating them will help you in managing
them better.
CAREERCATURE
SANDEEP JOSHI