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Why is Constructive Criticism a Bitter Pill to Swallow?
Have you an employee or a team member refusing to accept constructive criticism more often than naught? You are not alone, managers across the workplaces meet series of expedient...
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Making the Best Out of Groups and Group Projects
Once upon a time in an organizational structure collaboration was considered the ultimate virtue. At every organization, people were forced into the open workspace to encourage...
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Traits and Qualities of a Good Manager
Managers can make or break the effective functionality of an organization and their action alone are responsible for employee ...
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Discovering the Invisible Influencers within an Organization
Identifying, monitoring, and mentoring internal influencers are an essential part of the development of talent and foresting of diversity...
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Managing Energy Instead of Time
While we all understand the fact that time is a finite resource while Energy is not, we as a population is obsessed with management and use...
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The Evolution of Performance Appraisals and the Art of Giving Feedbacks
If you have already developed a certain distaste towards the annual appraisals and consider it nothing more than an annual Kabuki and a waste ...
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Managing the Collaboration Culture at Workplace
Collaboration is the new keyword at workplace. More and more organizations are encouraging their employees to work together towards a common goal...
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Five Ways OPPTIMO Helps Managers at Workplace
OPPTIMO can be a project managers best friends when it comes to scheduling. It provides the flexibility to schedule tasks for a given time period...
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Getting the Best Out of Workplace Training
The advancement of technology, social media and change of social and political attitudes are bringing change to main aspects of work and life. For a human from the 1980s future travelling to the present day...
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Why Startups Need the Best Help in Task and Project Management ?
While startups are the most romanticized and hyped up success stories of our times equivalent to a modern rags to riches Cinderella stories, they have also helped to fuel a booming economy across the world...
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Big Data; Adding Power to People Analytics
Gone are the days when deep analysis of data was limited to maths, science and research. However the mass availability of big data, which shows the way we work, buy, play and generally live our lives in digits and patterns, are being used ...
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Can Telecommuting Save the Planet
To the majority of the global workforce braving their way through an ever increasing lines of traffic jams, telecommuting may seem like a dream come true, yet it is already a reality to some who are with few of ...
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Changing the era of annual appraisal
As more and more twitter, facebook and whatsapp trotting millennial, seeking instant gratification and feedback joins the workforce, HR managers are changing their approach to the age...
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Three factors for measuring employee performance
While continuous performance tracking is a good idea and can provide instant feedback to employees stimulating instant results and change of course at work, an organisation has to consider...
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Creating a humane shift in People Management with new technology
The role of people in the workplace has seen a vast shift of tasks during the last few decades with the role of worker and employee changing constantly with the advancement of...
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Project Management Software for increased efficiency
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient...
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Essential Skills in Project Management
Successful Project Management requires a series of soft skills that are basically not taught at any management school and can only be acquired at the school of life over...
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Tools for managing remote teams
Today it is a common occurrence for members of one project team to be scattered across oceans and time zones, working at a the same collaborated task from their homes, thousand of miles apart. With the rise of virtual office and remote teams, the need for better tools and software to manage the team members has become the call of the...
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Creating the perfect workplace with performance management
Praise and accolades are important to human beings of all ages and reflexive praises for doing the right things and not so right things are expected at every turn. In a culture where people expect to be rewarded at every turn the job of human resource teams and cooperate leaders at retaining employees has become more challenging than ever.
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Project Management Software for efficient communication
An effective stream of communication facilitates a seamless flow of information through a workplace, greatly reducing the amount of work repetition, duplication and errors committed due to misinformation. Although an undisturbed and a streamlined flow of information is essential for the efficient function of any workplace, it is one of the rarest and the most difficult to implement in most occasions.
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How OPPTIMO helps your organization to be more productive?
The modern workplace tends to be more complex than simple & more opaque than transparent. Even though it’s fast disappearing, the ‘visibility’ factor is more wanted today than ever. Without clear visibility among people, projects, and tasks, the workplace is clouded by confusion & chaos. This unhealthy phenomenon in the organizational eco-system stalls its progress as people can’t clearly see what one another is doing or is supposed to be doing. For example, two people do the same job unknown to each other which is an undue cost to the company. On the other hand, neither of the two does it hoping that the other will do it. The end result in contrast is zero.
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OPPTIMO: A Unique Dynamic SaaS Solution
OPPTIMO is unique as it is not yet another Operations management platform or a solution. It covers both operational activities and non-operational activities. While the few tools available out there to with similar capabilities are prohibitively expensive for Small & Medium scale businesses, OPPTIMO is a SaaS solution and costs very little per month for a company.
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OPPTIMO benefits the management and the employees in numerous ways
As the delivery deadlines get shorter, competition fiercer and business leaders and managers busier, the need for optimally managing tasks, people and operations to achieve a higher level of efficiency and overall productivity with minimal supervision becomes greater.
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Whitepaper on OPPTIMO: The world demands professional operational management tools for productivity & efficiency enhancement
Non–work related activities that result in an estimated 30% productivity loss, by average cost a business in USA with 50 employees more than USD 18,000 month and USD 216,000 per year. Global performance-management consulting company - Gallup estimates that disengaged employees cost the US $450 billion to $550 billion in lost productivity per year only in US. The problem isn’t just confined to US; it’s a universal phenomenon.