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Six Ways to Grow Your Job by Herminia Ibarra

To get ahead, don’t hesitate to take on more work; but make sure it’s the right work.

Courage is doing the right thing in the face of opposition.

Know When to Coach and When to Teach

To develop your employees’ skills, evaluate the situation before choosing an approach. Are you working with someone who’s inexperienced or a colleague who requires immediate improvement? If so, you’ll want to take a directive approach and teach, showing or telling her what to do—give clear instructions, answer questions, or have her shadow you on a project so she can learn by observing.

Otherwise, you’re probably better off with a more supportive approach; coach by asking questions that prompt her to think and solve problems, rather than just doling out advice. Use the moment as an interactive opportunity to discover and create new solutions. When coaching, ask more than you tell—aim for a ratio of about 4:1. If you flip that ratio, you’re teaching.

Adapted by HBR from the HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees.

Teaching-By-Example is serving as a desireable model to others.

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

And strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory.

He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887);
clergyman, social reformer

“Don’t stress about the closed doors behind you. New doors are opening if you keep moving forward.”

— Thema Davis

Ignite Employee Engagement

Recent research from Gallup shows that engagement among US workers is holding steady at a scant 30%. Employee engagement is linked to profitability, customer satisfaction, and turnover – but it’s not simple to address. Here are some pointers:
Find out what engages your employees. Instead of focusing on why engagement is low, figure out what’s already working and find ways to replicate it. Help others model what the most engaged individuals and teams do.
Encourage grassroots engagement. You can’t mandate passion for the work. Instead, ignite it by empowering your people to share stories, exchange ideas, and disseminate best practices.
Recognize a moving target. Enthusiasm can’t be assessed just once; it fluctuates with changing circumstances. To keep your organization engaged, you must remain engaged yourself and check in often on its progress.

Adapted by HBR from “Disengaged Employees? Do Something About It,” by Susan David.

DUNYA TV was the first channel to report that PIA plane which was in flames landed safely at the Karachi air port.

“It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Manmohan Singh you went complaining to US President Barack Obama against Pakistan. Now read the statement of US Secretary of Defence Senator Chuck Hagel and decide for yourself isn’t India the epicentre of terrorism in the whole region? And by the way Mr. MMS who used Mukti Bahini for dismembering Pakistan and whose army was exposed recently by the UK media for committing genocide during Hyderabad invasion?

Statement of US SOD.

Hagel in a talk on Afghanistan at the Cameron University in Oklahoma in 2011 said that India has been using Afghanistan as a second front against Pakistan. “India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border, and you can carry that into many dimensions.”