Different ways to be a happy employee
When an employee is under-productive he or she will be the first target when companies look for opportunities to give pink slips.Being happy is always in your hands. A happy employee is more productive and gives more than an unhappy employee. So let's look at some ways to up the happiness factor. 1. Plan your week on Sunday night 2. Undertake activities that you are passionate about even though it might not be in your job profile 3. Do not indulge in the blame game 4. Communicate more often in person 5. Know what is happening at your workplace Attend all meetings that are addressed by the CEO to your immediate manager to know what is going to happen around you. It could be the company's growth plan or your department's next big project. Jack Welch mentions in his book Winning "every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing." You will also get an extra edge if you are in a position to answer queries raised by your peers or juniors. This is not just for the good reasons, but bad reasons as well. You do not want to be the last employee to know if your company is laying off employees (in the worst case, if you are the one who is on that list). 6. Participate in organisation-level activities 7. Have a hobby that keeps you busy and happy 8. Take up a sport 9. Keep yourself away from office politics Politics is everywhere and the office is no exception. Playing politics might be beneficial but only for the short term. So the best thing to do is play fair. 10. Wish and smile 11. Volunteer for some activity "The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving." by Albert Einstein Do at least one activity without expecting anything in return. There is no set frequency for this. This could be once in a day or once in a week or thrice in a week. It could be as simple as making tea at the office for your colleague, helping a colleague who is working in another department by using your skills, dropping your colleague at his door step in your car, going to your manager or colleague to ask if there is any help you can extend, contributing to technical or knowledge management communities in your organisation etc. This article has been picked from www.rediffmail.com (http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2008/oct/29career.htm)
Look at your work calendar and plan your week on Sunday night or Monday morning. This would include important meetings, deliverables, a brief summary of things that are pending from last week and any tasks to be achieved during the week. Though this might look like a time management tip, at the end of the week, on Friday night when you re-visit what you have achieved over the last five days, the satisfaction is immense.
Start an initiative that you would love to do irrespective of whether it is required for you to do or not.
If something goes wrong do not blame others blindly. If you commit a mistake, do not hesitate to accept it. As Gauthama Buddha said, there are three things we can't hide for long: the sun, earth and the truth. Accepting your mistake gracefully will only make you look like a true professional and also give you the satisfaction of not cheating.
Utilise all the opportunities where you can speak to an individual in person rather than e-mail or phone. But be aware of the other person's time and availability. Listening to a positive answer from a person will give you more happiness than if it is done over the phone or via e-mail.
Will this make a person happy? Truly, yes! Imagine a cricket team that doesn't know how many runs to score to win a match? More than losing the game, the player will never be interested or motivated to play well.
This could be as simple as spending one weekend for a corporate social responsibility activity or attending a recruitment drive to help your HR team or arranging a technical/sports event at the organisational level. Most of these events will be successful as people do come on their own to contribute.
Many people say their hobby is watching TV or listening to music or reading the newspaper. These aren't hobbies, they are just ways of passing the time. Some hobbies are evergreen and will keep you evergreen as well: dancing, painting, writing short stories, poems, blogs and sharing your experiences.
While choosing a sport make sure that there is physical activity. There is the danger of becoming addicted to sports where there is less physical activity (like computer games, chess, cards etc). Physical activity keeps a person healthy and happy. If you pick up one sport well, you can represent your organisation in corporate sports event too.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. -- Henry Brooks Adams
More often than not, there are fair chances that the other person will smile back. This could be your security guard at the gate, your receptionist, your office boy, your CEO or your manager -- never forget to wish them and smile.
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Indians made their billions from the Web
Shriram: Shriram's net worth is $1.8 billion. He sold online classifieds site StumbleUpon.com to eBay in 2007 and currently backs Indian and US tech outfits - 24/7 Customer, Frontline Wireless and Zazzle.com. An early investor in Google, he has sold more than three million shares since its 2004 public offering.
Dikshit:The wealth of Party Gaming's Dikshit runs to $1.6 billion.An IIT-Delhi graduate, he had joined Party Gaming a year after its founder, American Ruth Parasol, had launched Starluck Casino on the Internet in 1997. Dikshit wrote the company's betting software that enables gamblers around the world to play poker with one another.
Sameer Gehlaut: Sameer Gehlaut is the youngest self-made billionaire in India with a net worth of $1.2 billion. He had started an online brokerage firm Indiabulls with two college pals in 1999 and still heads the company and is its largest shareholder. The group has moved into real estate and wants to expand into the power sector, Forbes said.
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Young Entrepreneurs of India
www.ourownbook.com
One book and a hundred co-authors? Wouldn't this be a world record of sorts?
Two freshly-minted (March 2008) IIM-Indore graduates Dhruv Bhushan and Anubhav Jain are attempting to do just that. Their two-month old Web site ourownbook.com is a platform where anybody can add a sentence to a story line they have provided and get their name as the co-author of the book when it gets published.
www.indianartcollectors.com
The 35-year-old mother of two, along with friend Manisha Gupta started indianartcollectors.com a Web site that acts as a platform between art collectors and artists/painters.It is such an easy business model and that's why I opted for it," she says about Indianartcollectors. In just three years this team of two has notched revenue of Rs 60 lakh just by helping get art collectors (buyers) and artists (sellers) together. They estimate to end the year 2008 with a revenue of Rs one crore says an emphatic Namita.
www.aisapaisa.com
Neha Juneja, the 23-year-old Faculty of Management Studies Delhi graduate about her decision to keep away from pre placement offers and start a Web site aisapaisa.com along with three of her colleagues. Satvik Upadhyaya from IIM-A, Neha's colleague, too had no qualms while chucking a lucrative pre placement offer to start on their own.
Extracted these information from rediffmail.com
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