Insights

How to Approach Arguments Effectively?

Arguments are inevitable in any team. In this video, Fahim shares a simple, yet effective approach to arguments. By using this mindset, you will drastically change the way your arguments play out!

How to Prevent Your Own Burnout?

In today's world, burnout is a very common phenomenon which nearly everyone is familiar with. In this video, Fahim shares one simple strategy you can use right away to prevent your own burnout!

How to Work With A Micromanager?

In this video, Fahim shares a game-changing tip to help you work with a micromanager.

How to Protect Your Teams From Micromanagement As A Boss?

In this video, Fahim Karim shares a story and explains how the example of perfection in it can teach us how to protect employees from burnout.

How to effectively increase employee engagement?

One of the things that actually helps in improving employee engagement and is not as commonly looked at is the increasing of the wages of your employees. In today's video Fahim Karim shares an example from the CEO of Walmart U.S., John Furner, on how he uses this strategy to improve not only the employee satisfaction but also the retention.

How to increase the confidence level of your team?

Research shows that a confident team outperforms an insecure team in every aspect. As a leader how can you improve or increase the confidence level of your team? Watch this video where Fahim shares the secret to establish confidence in teams so that they can outperform rather than feeling insecure. 

How to give feedback the right way?

One of the challenges that leaders or managers face is giving feedback. It is not an easy process. There are certain elements of feedback giving process which are very basic, but often overlooked. In this video, Fahim shares some tips on how to give feedback the right way to manage difficult situations and avoid unnecessary frustrations.

How to get major transformation done on time?

When an organization is going through major transformation with large scale initiatives, often time it comes with many obstacles. Most of the time the deadlines get pushed back, leaders get disappointed, and team gets frustrated. In this video, Fahim shares his insight on managing major transformation initiatives effectively. 

How to make your team feel safe?

One of the reasons employees become disengaged is when they don't feel safe. Lack of psychological safety stands on the way of innovation and growth. If teams cannot share ideas without fear of being judged or embarrassed, then it leads toward a culture that creates disengagement. In this video, Fahim shares his insight on how to make teams feel safe so the organization can nurture creative ideas and propel growth. 

How to earn your team's respect?

Would you like to have teams that are more appreciative or their works and more loyal to your organization? Would you like to have employees who are more satisfied with the work they are doing and resilient to the changes that are going on in the organization? Then you must earn their respect. Why? Watch this video where Fahim explains why earning your team's respect is important and how you can earn that. 

Who is an employee engagement leader?

When you are looking for employee engagement solutions, you are in need of an expert who can guide you to implement systems, processes and programs towards those solutions. But how do you know who can provide you the outcome you are looking for? In this video, Fahim shares a list of criteria that you need to have when looking for solving your employee disengagement problems for the long-term.  

Why is there a need for employee engagement?

Leaders often find it difficult to determine whether it will be the right decision to invest in an employee engagement solution. Depending on the organizational maturity level, sometimes it may not make sense. This is partly because no one showed the management the costs of employee disengagement in a meaningful way. In this video Fahim shares an important insight about the need for employee engagement solution and why it is important.   

How to deal with team members that annoy you?

Leaders often find themselves surrounded by people that annoy them. They are not meeting expectations, not understanding what the leader is trying to achieve or worse ignoring the leader's expectation all together. It is not easy to deal with these situations. In this video Fahim shares his insight on tactics to deal with those members in the team who are annoying to us. 

How to deal with cynicism and sarcasm in your teams?

As a leader, are you dealing with team members who are often being cynical and sarcastic towards others? Even worse, do you see them also being that way in emails or text? Do you find them angry and resentful? Do you find them constantly being disappointed and blaming others? Did you know that if you are leading a global team with different culture and language, cynicism and sarcasm in teams can actually make your organization toxic? In this video Fahim shares with you one simple step that you can apply right away that will make it easier to cure or reduce this type of organizational disease.

Be the reason your employees are excited to return back to work

Did you know how you welcome your team members back to work can actually help them become more engaged? Not sure how to go about doing it? In this video Fahim shares how to welcome your returning team member (who may be returning back from a sick leave or from a vacation or from working remotely) and actually help them feel more excited about their work.

How to make sure the candidate you are hiring aligns with the role you had in mind?

Are you tired of hiring people who don’t match your expectations, who either end up leaving soon or you are having to let them go? Would you like to see a lot more ideal candidates applying for your open positions? In this video Fahim shares how by making a few minor adjustments to the job descriptions you can actually see that happen.

A happier team leads to a happier you

You share a new idea, or news about a new project or a new transformation with you team. Instead of getting a lot of great questions, you notice that the team members are mostly quiet and not asking as many questions, whether at the meeting or a later time. In this video Fahim shares some strategies that you can apply with your team to overcome this type of disengagement.

How to successfully implement a machine learning solution?

One of the challenges with successfully implementing a new machine learning solution is “business adoption”. In this video Fahim shares what are some of things you can do so that it would be more readily accepted by your business teams and the machine learning solution will actually be used the way you had intended it.

Coaching vs. Management Support

Are you a leader who is starting to notice that your team members are not as enthusiastic about their work as they were used to be? Are you noticing that they don't seem to be contributing enough or not being open to feedback as you would like them to be? If this is the case, then watch this video where Fahim shares an important insight regarding the difference between Coaching and Management Support and how that relates to employee engagement. 

A simple communication principle that won't let you down

 

When we are leading teams, there is going to be instances where a team member is really going to disappoint you or give you some news that frustrates you. In this video Fahim shares one simple communication principle you can apply that will prevent your employees from becomes disengaged in this type of scenarios.