Sunday, May 13, 2007

Getting to the roots

"I am a researcher" said a researcher... "am a better one at that" said a cook.

Both were correct. May be the socially recognised vectors may differ for both, but, think about it! The cook tends to find out what the family wants before proceeding to soot the kitchen...

Often, we seem to forget to to the requirements gathering in our ever ready enthusiasm to deliver results. How often do we go to the stakeholders and ask them "what do you want from HR this month/ quarter"... probably the first two times, they would jump on us and give us a list of unactioned transactions... the third time onwards, they would have to start thinking... A great opportunity for us!

Think about it, let me know..

Sid

Motivation??

Yeah.. am back

Was conducting a workshop for senior managers on managing performance, when I was explaining the Vroom's expectancy model... awesome piece of thought actually.. clearly helps put down motivation in an equation!!

What caught my attention was that it spoke about E, V and I in a positive context... Never spoke about the situation like "if u dont do ur work, u will lose ur job", or, "if you want to retain ur job, do this bit of work"...

Think about it! Let me know...

Sid