“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice — constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” – Elon Musk, CEO SpaceX, Tesla (2015) A positive feedback loop …
Building Emotional Resilience: Tools for Managing Stress and Overwhelming Emotions
In our everyday life, we come across various life hassles that are a cause of stress for us. Some would cause minute inconveniences while some can have a profound effect on us. Emotional resilience helps us not only deal with these uncertain situations but also to come out of it as stronger individuals. Most of us must have heard of …
From Mistakes to Mastery – Embracing A Growth Mindset In Learning
“Excited for a get-together the host enthusiastically prepared a welcome drink for the guests on her own and even after being meticulous she added extra sugar which resulted in undesirable effects. Although a connoisseur still made a mistake” I guess we all have been there when subconsciously we do make mistakes and sometimes the situations are not in our control. …
Embracing Challenges and Fostering A Positive Learning Environment
Learning has many definitions. Some define it as a permanent change in behaviour, others offer the explanation that it occurs due to a person’s experiences. The crux of all these definitions is ultimately that learning is a life-long process wherein an individual grasps or at least tries to grasp and inculcate the abundant knowledge they acquire in the world. However, …
Beyond Disagreements: The Psychology of Conflict Resolution in Clinical Teams for Optimal Patient Care
Conflicts in clinical teams can be an enormous barrier to providing patients with optimum care. Not being able to resolve conflicts leads to anxiety and poor trust among healthcare practitioners, leading to more errors at work than professionals who do not have conflicts. This can lead to adverse outcomes and compromise their work and the quality of patient care (Sexton …
The Human Factor: Unleashing the Power of Psychological Factors for Effective Communication and Collaboration in Teams
Being a part of any work team, a certain amount of knowledge and skill set is required. But, it is not only limited to that. In this era of betterment mentally, the psychological aspects known as Human Factors are equally significant. These factors make working in collaboration with people more accessible and better, resulting in growing productivity, individually and as …
The Art & Artist of Peacekeeping: Strategies can be followed for Conflict Management
“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.” – John C. Maxwell Management and leadership are two terms that become very common as we grow up. We first encounter these concepts in the classroom, both in school and college, and later in organisational settings, where we see very few …
Cracking the Code of High-Performing teams: Psychological Strategies for building effective team dynamics in the Workplace
The APA (American Psychological Association) defines performance as “any activity or collection of responses that leads to a result or has an effect on the environment”. However, in the current fast-paced and result-oriented business world, performance can’t be equated with simply a result or an effect. It has to be a good, rather exceptional result for you to be qualified …
The Dangers of Groupthink: When collective intelligence leads to poor decision making
To be human is to be part of a group in one way or another. And in most cases, belonging to a group also means having to take some collective decisions. Have you ever observed people keeping their thoughts or opinions to themselves because they differ from that of the group? Have you ever refrained from challenging a certain decision …
The Curse of Knowledge
It happened four years ago. But I still remember it as if it is happening right now Maybe I was so embarrassed that my brain captured a live video and saved it safely. I was working with a start-up company as an HR and I was sent to Delhi along with my IT team of seven people to pitch our …