Tag: corporate life

The value of mentoring is becoming increasingly recognized in almost every industry, mostly because of the impact mentoring can have on the achievement of organizational goals. However, many of us do not really know a few key things about mentoring.

Every minute spent in an unproductive meeting is a minute that wasted from individual employees' work and, therefore, essential for creativity and efficiency of the organization. Here are some tips for meetings management.

What does your sitting style or your voice tone say? What message do you send when you cross your arms? Mastering body language can have an effect not only on job interviews, presentations and social occasions, but also on your brain!

We tend to value safety performance only when accidents happen, why not before they happen? Talking about safety performance there are two terms that need to be addressed; human behavior and leadership both onboard and ashore.

The term of culture in the organizational context encompasses values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization. But, what does an ideal organizational culture look like? And, how can we embed sustainability into shipping organizations?

The deadline for its implementation, the May 25th, has reached to an end, meaning that from now onwards, all organizations in the EU, as well as those that deal with data related to EU residents, should comply with new data privacy laws.  Albeit the increased awareness over this issue by the business world, have we really understood what about this regulation is? And most importantly, are we actually prepared for compliance?

In today’s corporate life, dependent on negotiation, compromise, and collaboration, the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) cannot be understated. We hear that many organizations now use EQ testing in order to hire new staff. But, what's more important in determining life success? Our ability to learn and apply knowledge or emotional intelligence ?

Knowledge is freely available at a touch of a button, but is learnability about acquiring abundance of knowledge just by sitting in front of a computer screen all day? The answer is no!

The continuous operations of an organization is an important procedure which comes to support the contingency planning, response and recovery from an incident which affects the proper flow of operations. In other words, business continuity reflects the alternative way that the organization will use to keep its key business activities on-going after an adverse event, such as a cyber attack. 

professionalism has to do with how you conduct yourself during your business affairs; different tasks to different people. Talking about shipping industry, seafaring with its STCW rules could meet all the requirements of a profession. However, professionalism has many attributes.