Expert Talk

Help your stakeholders to understand, trust and strengthen your organization

This is strange times indeed and it’s easy to get stuck worrying about the future. I want to take this opportunity to encourage you to seize the day.

I’ve spent a lot of my time with Sogeti looking at software tools and processes and ways of using those tools effectively to give the best outcome for our customers external and internal.

We always want something new. But still, capturing the recipe for innovation has evaded us. We’ve seen innovations happen. How do we repeat them?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of people get to experience remote working. If you’re not an experienced remote worker, you might feel a bit overwhelmed. To make this more pleasant, I have summed up a couple of tips to make your life easier.

In the TED talk - Dare to Disagree, Margaret Heffernan explained beautifully how constructive conflict or disagreement is beneficial. She has made some good points which I would like to point out here.

People do not take enough time to define what the problem is, what they are going to do to solve it, what the impact should be, and where that impact should be visible/ measurable.

Whether you are graduate just starting out in your career, or a seasoned professional embarking on a new path, the unknown can be daunting. If you choose to work in consulting you will be granted a unique experience that gives you access to a diverse landscape of knowledge and people in a short space of time.

It's easy to take governance of your actions while you are alone. However, while working on projects we very seldom do them alone and as such we are subjected to the pros and cons of group work.

With January comes a fresh start and so many are quick to ignore their past failures and embark on a new set of goals. Instead of bounding towards the unknown in the year ahead, we should instead stop, and take the time to learn from what did not go our way in 2019.

With 2020 fast approaching, it’s the time to come up with the new trends. It’s good and refreshing to see all the different ideas and it gives me the inspiration to share my top five of topics I’ll be looking at in the coming year.

In the current scenario, talent acquisition for any organization has become nothing short of a precision job.