Session on Worklife Balance and Importance of Teamwork.

It is immense pleasure of SimplyBiz to host Mr Viiveck Kumar for a session on aspects around Work life balance, importance of teamwork, mentoring on career and insights on organisational culture. Viiveck is a strategic investor, mentor, coach, founder, Tedx organiser and a social impact leader with more than 35 years of experience in various roles in leadership and mentorship.

The session thrown light on lot of aspects on organisational behaviour and culture, below is the summary of the session

Worklife Balance

1.????? The culture of an organisation includes its people, vision and responsibilities.

2.????? In the culture knowing the vision and expectation is the main aspect. The clarity of what we are doing in an organisation provides better worklife balance.

3.????? The members of the organisation thus must work on a collective vision.

4.????? Each member of the organisation should have a vision for themselves and compare it with the vision of the organisation and make sure there is good overlap between individual and organisation vision.

Mental Wellness

1.????? Maintaining mental Wellness and Mental health plays a very important role in framing a better work culture in an organization.

2.????? The concepts of developing buddy system and open culture to share one’s problem help in maintaining positive mental health of a member.

Finding a mentor

1.????? Mentorship is a crucial element that helps an individual in career development

2.????? Finding a right mentor that understand, listen and guide you with right path will help in taking matured and informed decisions on professional and personal life.

Importance of Communication

1.????? Public speaking and open expression of views provides an opportunity for individual to communicate effectively.

2.????? Language plays an important role for better communication.

How to choose a field of work

1.????? Before choosing a right field a person has to decide what he/she don’t want to do.

2.????? Person should have a plan for different stages of the future and design steps to achieve those plans.

3.????? Self-evaluation of what we must do should be made by a person by doing SWOT analysis on themselves.

4.????? While interacting with mentor about career advice we should ask right questions to get right answers.

Manging Personal and Professional Life.

1.????? The common element between personal and work life is himself/herself.

2.????? The role one is looking in their work life should overlap in a better way with role in professional life.

3.????? In decision making process rationality should be given preference than our emotions and feelings.

4.????? In life the only person we are answerable is to the one in the mirror (i.e ourselves).

How to overcome fear?

1.????? Fear is mostly generated from- the events of past, what others thinks about us, language and knowledge.

2.????? We have question ourselves whether we should give control to fear or we should take control from fear.

3.????? Mistakes are great teachers which give an opportunity to learn, but we must make sure we don’t repeat the mistakes

4.????? The founders of modern startups are suggested to “Fail early and Fail Faster” in order to learn faster.

What is Organisational Culture

1.????? Culture of an organisation are those 5-10 core value about the organisation.

2.????? These are the element what an organisation expects internal and external stakeholders to define and describe it.

3.????? Culture is main element of an organisation as it is said “Best of strategies will fail because of lack of culture”.

How we can adopt to changing world

1.????? We must evaluate ourselves on the VUCA compatibility and outline the positions where we are and how far we can progress.

2.????? In the modern world that is changing rapidly within hours a person must have self-awareness on how relevant he/she in this progressive world.

3.????? If any lacking is observed, we must improve those skills to match the race of world. We may use platforms like coursera to find skills and improve.

What culture should be maintained to make employee feel his presence in organisation

1.????? To make an employee feel that his/her presence is important in an organisation it is important to listen to them

2.????? This will provide an opportunity to understand their problems and find suitable solutions to them.

3.????? People will always give signals that their problems are not listened, organisation has to identify those signals and make sure they listen to the concerns.

4.????? Each problem has different frequencies and the solution to those problems should match to that frequency.

5.????? The members of an organisation also must understand that management means only the people in leadership positions, management of an organisation includes all the members of the organisation.

6.????? Thus, involvement and efforts of all the members of the organisation defines the success of the organisation.