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Jul 4, 2017 1.Appreciate: everyone needs a pat on the back once in a while. Without it they may lose interest or the edge that they have. Under appreciation lowers self-esteem among employees. To boost their morale a few good words are enough. 2.Reward: adding a physical value to appreciation is also required. Rewards boost confidence and spark healthy competition along with setting an example. 3.Promotion: promotions too like rewards set example. They take rewarding to an upper notch. Promotions include rewards such as increment and other perks. Promotions motivate the subject as well as others as they have now actually seen what good performance can get them. 4.Feedback: getting to hear reviews about ones work, whether positive or negative also boosts morale. Feedback either appreciates performance or criticizes it suggesting ways to improve. It also symbolizes an important thing that the work of each employee is being acknowledged, this raises the urge to perform better. 5.Fairness: minimize organizational politics and promote transparency. Ensure that rewards are based on performance and hard work only biased behavior in the work place discourages good performance. 6.Give credit: highlighting each employee’s extraordinary contributions by giving them the credit for it not only motivated them but also sets an example. It also shows that their work in being duly acknowledged, not neglected. 7.Challenge: by offering challenging tasks the employer can stimulate them to realize their full potential. In the eyes of the employees this symbolizes that they are being trusted with more responsibility.

Mr. Srinivas, a software engineer but a farmer at heart, portrays how pursuing his real passion made him become a successful businessman. “Follow your passion; be prepared to work hard, and sacrifice, and above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” Keeping this in mind, he drove himself to the right path in the right way. Interviewer: Tell us something about yourself and the company and how did you come up with such an idea. Mr. Srinivas: My name is Srinivas Bellamkonda and by profession I am a software engineer but a farmer at heart. I have about 17 years of experience in IT field and have spent 14 years of that in different countries which includes the U.S, Singapore, Brazil and Canada. Though I have been to different countries but I am still passionate about agriculture. And I have spent one-fourth of my earnings on agriculture be it cultivating the land or feeding the cattle. And I have reached where I wanted to be in my profession; like I was working with MNCs and earning dollars and I was so happy and though I was happy professionally but I was not happy personally. Although I have spent a huge amount on agriculture but I got no returns for 5 years. One fine day, in 2014, when I came back to India for a visit I asked my brother where the fault prevails and why there are no returns then I found that the conditions were so bad. Then I found some like-minded people and farmers, through surveys, who agreed to work on it and invested a little more for its improvement. About 60% of the milk is adulterated in India which contains so many harmful chemicals. When the result of survey came out, I had to choose between my passion and my well paid job in US. After analyzing the problem, I realized that if I’ll solve my problem, I’ll be able to solve the problem for millions of people. Once I came back, we built an excellent technology application called Real Milk. Interviewer: How does your company serve farmers and consumers? Mr. Srinivas: The interested farmers install the application and create a profile and mention their details and the number of animals they own and how many liters of milk they are able to obtain. Then our technical team would approach them and train them for 5 days and educate them about the welfare of animals in order to be happy and produce healthy milk and till 15 days they’ll monitor the farmer. On the 20th day they will be certified as real milk producer, provided that theyfollow all the instructions. The benefits a real milk producer gets are: 1.75-2 times the price of milk from day 1, the cow or buffalo will deliver cattle every 13 months because of proper health support provided and the mortality rate would also reduce because of the same. So, as real milk certified producer, the farmer would get 250% benefit.A farmer needs to produce at least 20liters to get into the system. As a consumer, the consumption rate for domestic purpose is really high as compared to the production rate. Everyone wants pure, clean, fresh milk and as they register with us they are informed about the importance of milk and what efforts it takes to produce it. But the consumer is not going to pay 2 times the price; he would pay the normal price that he has been paying for normal adulterated milk. A consumer also has access to the information about what was fed to the animal and what time it was milked. The milk is delivered within 4 hours, which is the period it is fresh, so that the consumers can boil it and enjoy and they need not store it. Interviewer: How is your system different from the regular milkmen? Mr. Srinivas: There are no middlemen in our system, so the amount doubles as it reaches the farmer. The system has a scientific mapping for finding the nearest farmer to the consumer at a distance of not more than 10 kms. The beauty of this system is that there are 2 new jobs generated in India per every 500 liters of milk produced; one white-collar job and one blue-collar job. Those jobs include milk delivery, training farmers, veterinary care, vigilance, animal feed aggregation, software, research and more. We are not the brokers; it is a direct relationship between consumers and farmers. The whole system is transparent and we provide full guarantee of the quality of the milk. RealMilk is the milk that is straight from the nearby certified farmers, no middlemen and no impurities along the path. Our “KNOW YOUR FARMER” model tries to eliminate most of the rigid layers between consumer and the farmer. This implies that both consumer and the farmer get what they truly deserve. RealMilk has all the goodness of essential nutrients, in their purest form that Mother Nature can give to humans. Our milk is as good as having your own cow at home. The company strives to solve some of the most intriguing problems in dairy/agriculture industry which includes... Milk Adulteration Neglected Farmers Poor animal care High cost of feed Market Volatility Difficult Loans Interviewer: How has your experience with the company been overall? Mr. Srinivas: In January, 2017 we launched officially-the records gotinto the system and all such activities. Since January, the last 5 months have been excellent and we have been able to achieve our targets. And it’s time for more ambitious work; we are looking towardsexpanding our services across various states in India. Although I am a very happy software engineer but a farmer at heart, it always bothered me what technology could do to agriculture and the only need is for bridging the gap. Many NRIs and software engineers have called up and appreciated our system. That is what I find lovely. Also there are many entrepreneurs (interested in dairy related business) being integrated/grown through our system. Interviewer: What has motivated you along your journey? Mr. Srinivas: I love farming, I love animals. Inspite of facing so many losses, I never compromised with the treatment of animals. I met thousands of farmers who were in miserable conditions and were lying off their lives to take care of animals to keep them healthy. Then I realized that there is a way to generate money for the farmers so that they are able to take care of the animals properly. My motivation has always been the need to change. Why can’t I change something which is in my hands? Also I want to take care of the farmers, animals and demographic; these are the three motivational aspects that have kept me going. After our entry in the market, the farmers have seen huge change in their income levels and are very satisfied working with us. But that is not the end; in another 13-14 months when they’ll have another 50 calves their incomes would boom to an even higher level. The farmers are pretty satisfied with half the results, I’m sure once they are able to witness the complete result they’ll be full-heartedly contented. Interviewer: What has your experience been as an agro based technology driven company? Mr. Srinivas: I belong to an agricultural family and I have good knowledge about animals and thatgood to be in this business. And I used to spend my weekends in the farms and that’s how I’ve learned. That’s because neither me nor my employees feel stressed out because what we are doing is our passion. And we have been getting blessings from all over the country. Many would call and ask to initiate to help and farmers would ask when we are expanding in their areas. The consumers also have informed us about the good effects of our milk quality. And I’m very happy to see such good things happen around me and that I have been successful to bring about a change and fulfill my dreams as well as of those poor farmers. Interviewer: What was the toughest decision you made? Mr. Srinivas: Now people are coming forward to fund, when we are already making revenues but it was not the case in our early stage. We are generating 5rs. /liter but it costs us 6-7rs. /liter but that was the problem in the beginning. If we increase the volume then we would be able to cover up the expenses. But it is not a money making system so it’s okay to bear the cost. But actually the toughest decision was to invest my power and money. Now when many people are willing to buy my company, so I am delighted. But I want it to be self-sustainable system. And initially I didn’t know that people would want to fund in for the system and I had to put in around 75% of hard earned money of 17 years and taking a big risk but now I am very satisfied and feel that I took the right decision. When I developed this system, it was mainly for B2B types. The farmer producing 20 liters and the hotels, dairy shops consuming 25 liters. But there was a lot of pressure from the normal population and they convinced me to provide them milk and I was willing to marketmy brand and expand. The farmers also cooperated with us quite well and I was a little thrilled to see that. My only wish is to expand and make it a PAN India initiative so that the awareness about our company spreads all over the country. Interviewer: What would your advice be to budding entrepreneurs? Mr. Srinivas: If you are starting a business with intention to con the consumers or to just make easy money then that is wrong. You should be knowledgeable. It is easy to become an entrepreneur provided you have done enough market research and make sure you are addressing a problem faced by atleast 10 people within 1 km. Try to find the problems and re-evaluate or adjust the human error. Also a thorough analysis is needed about the field and the problem and do a proper market research and be knowledgeable enough and don’t hesitate to make mistakes. But make sure to accept it and then correct it. Before going to the solution, make sure that you understand the problem thoroughly and be accurate in understanding the scenarios. Interviewer: how has becoming an entrepreneur made you a different person? Mr. Srinivas: It’s very tough. As an employee, you can be a little irresponsible but as an entrepreneur you have no way out. Being an employee, if I don’t work, only one man’s power is being wasted. On the other hand , as an entrepreneur if I don’t work then 10-15 people are waiting for the input and because of lack of my sincerity the work power of 10-15 people is being wasted. I need to be very punctual and dedicated. As an employee, I had a lot of time to spend with my family and sleep on time but now as soon as I get up I have to check mails and reply and work harder every day.

Jul 3, 2017 1.Breaks: working continuously is tiring. Giving employees a short break once or twice a day for can help them relax. Breaks can allow them to feel refreshed and can interrupt the monotony of work. Their efficiency can be restored by giving short breaks but being too liberal with breaks can disturb the working environment. 2.Laughter therapy: sharing funny videos, jokes or currently trending memes in the office can lighten the mood and help workers cheer up. Putting up jokes on notice boards, or mail ids once in a while is also a good idea. Laughter is after all, the best medicine for beating stress. 3.Refreshments: by ensuring constant supply of coffee, tea or cool drinks to your staff you can help them stay calm throughout the day. People when well fed work better giving the workers refreshments or simply giving them the time to go and have something can help them stay energetic and active and beat stress. 4.Talk it out: providing employees with the opportunity to share that they are feeling stressed or under pressure can help them cope with it better. The HR department, for example, can set up sessions with employees so that they can share their problems and can get some suggestions on how to deal with it. 5.Music therapy: Listening to music can have a tremendously relaxing effect on our minds and bodies, especially slow, quiet classical music. This type of music can have a beneficial effect on our physiological functions, slowing the pulse and heart rate, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing the levels of stress hormones. 6.Space: designating a common space or a common room for employees to relax, grab a coffee or snack or simply chat can help them shed some load. 7.Meditate and stretch: sitting at a desk all day in front of a computer or with hoards of files not only physically wears out a person but also mentally drains them. Mediation for a couple of minutes with some light music can help the mind feel rejuvenated and a few stretching exercises can physical freshen up the body. 8.Organize your work station: a cluttered desk can never let you think clearly. A well-organized work space will not only be soothing to look at but also reduce the stress cased due to daily hassles of not finding your papers or stationary or charger. 9.Aroma therapy: Soothing fragrances of essential oils or simple incense sticks can help you relax and unload some pressure. Lighting a couple of aromatic candles at your desk or diffusing some essential oil in the air conditioner vents of the office can help. 10.Understand the trigger: realizing the pattern (if any) of stress can help beat it. Keeping a journal or reviewing at the end of the week what caused the release of stress hormones can help you to deal with it in future much easily.

Jul 2, 2017 Pressure is not stress. But adding some aspects like rumination, attaching negative emotion to mind can be converted to STRESS. Business is all about LEADERSHIP QUALITY planning and managing, which can be affected by some short term process with negative fallout. Diminishing productivity and increase in coronary problems and suppressed immune functioning may be the output of having too much stress. Eliminating stress by implementing the following techniques is sure to bring about an immense change: 1.Removing “waking sleep”:-This is the phase where there is a lack of concentration. The mind wanders and it is in a state commonly stated as “Day Dreaming”. This effects both your time and energy. Break out of it by doing some interesting physical activity clap your hands, and move your body or connect with your senses by noticing what you can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel. The idea is to reconnect with the world. 2.Controlling your Attention:- Just try to be in yourself, focusing on your goals or you can do this by drawing a circle on a page, and writing down all of the things you can control or influence inside of it and all of the things you cannot outside of it. 3.Bringing Leadership Ideals:- It is the most essential key to have faith and believe in yourself that you are capable to overcome the obstacles and bring about a change. Lead your mind to take control of the situation as leaders are characterized by optimism and positive ideals. Business is all about doing courageous things. Whatever may be the outcome, failure or success, pressure must not be taken. Personal expansion is one of the greatest gifts that is essential for succeeding in your business. In place of taking pressure take and accept the challenge and bless each challenge as it makes you wiser! If human consciousness pays enough attention to something there is nothing in universe which will not open its doors.

"Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life." Mr. Mohan Kumar filled with new and intriguing ideas influenced us to know about his ideas and his walk throughout his journey. Interviewer: Mr. Mohan, what does your company actually deals with? Mr. Mohan: I represent this company and am the founder of the company called iAccept Softwares. It is an IT product company creating products which are collaborative in nature. All our platforms enable collaboration between companieswho may also be competitors, which is our unique feature. We have 3 platforms which are; 1. iAccept-which is used before an employer hires an employee, 2. Thijori- we call it as Vault on the Cloud that is used to manage queries of employers with respect to the employees who have left the organization, 3. The most important is Pehechano which is a social initiative and deals with safety of the citizens created to map out multiple identities of an individual. Interviewer: Could you brief us a little about the platform Pehechano? Mr. Mohan: It is basically a mobile application though freely available and does not intrude with 3rd party advertisements.Companies send a short message regarding the identity of the technician who would attend their clients, to ensure the safety of the person opening the door. Companies are motivated to use it to avoid fraudulent activities and embarrassment. It is a crowd sourced platform for citizen’s safety. Interviewer: What ignited the spark in you to initiate this business venture? Mr. Mohan: There was a theft at one of the NGOs and on investigation it was found that a security guard, who had left his job about 6 months ago, was the culprit. During investigation, we also realized that the complete details of the said security guard were not available. This was because the 3rd party agency which had deputed the person had not given all the details. The records were also not clear and this person who had a good knowledge about the place committed the crime. It was then that it occurred to us, that this same person might still be employed with some other institution locally, and they may not be aware of his background. He might even be employed, not as a security guard, but could be practicing some other vocation. And that made us realize that it would be helpful for the society to build such a platform to exchange critical information. And this information is stored safely and is provided to only people, who are in need of such information about a particular person who is being hired. And there have been many such cases which motivated us even more for the launch of this platform. Interviewer: What did you learn from the failures, if they were any? Mr. Mohan: As an entrepreneur, we generally boot strap &under-capitalize the company which means we are very optimistic in terms of the revenue. These are things that one should be careful before starting an enterprise. Selection of initial team is also very important. The revenue may or may not come at the time you are expecting it, so one should be prepared for the same and plan for cash flows. For the Pehechano platform, after creating and developing it, we realized it might not always be possible to force someone to download and use it. That is when we created this URL API plug in. But the positive aspect of using the application is that the user can merge all the different type of visitors they encounter. Interviewer: What are the main principles you follow to maintain a healthy customer and employee relationship? Mr. Mohan: In terms of our employees, we provide them with a lot of freedom and we do not actually look over their shoulder. The philosophy of the company is that we are employing adults and people are responsible for their own actions. Since they are answerable for their actions, they are able to perform better and start engaging in the activities themselves. We give them a lot of freedom for learning and experimenting and provide them with end to end exposure. Interviewer: How would advice entrepreneurs coming up with new ideas? Mr. Mohan: If somebody is really passionate about providing a solution or they really feel that they are able to solve a real life problem then the budding entrepreneur will be successful, if not today but tomorrow. Patience and passion drives the person in the right direction. Sometimes a productthat is very appealing but is not solving a real life problem, is bound to fail in the long run.

Jul 1,2017 As the demand of workplace keeps rising, many people respond it by putting in ever longer hours, which certainly burnout the costs of both the organization and employee. We have unequal levels of energy at a particular period of time throughout the day. One of the best ways to maximize job performance in the face of increasing demand and competition is just by focussing on energy management. Most of the people would surely say that they are or are not a morning person. As for night owls, the more time they had after a sunset to get things done in better and effective manner. There is no such thing like time management. There is only energy management we are doing in a given period of time. The key is to find different ways to manage your activity and priorities. As the energy management is the only mantra of success.​Unlike time, your energy capacity is something which you can increase and renew in order to meet the challenges and difficulties a person faces in his daily life. A single email or a single conversation can break your focus or completely rearrange the priority of the day you have decided. But by managing your energy, you can give your best performance to whatever activity or task you are doing. You can achieve the result that is far superior to the incremental gain you might get from time management technique. But now the question arises that “How one can manage his energy” the answer for this will definitely help you to increase your productivity if you will follow it... 1.Get enough rest: As a new business owner, it is seductive to see sleep as an optional. Burning the midnight oil might be just what’s needed to get your business launched in the early days, but it is not a long-term solution. Lack of sleep can have a negative impact on your mind as well as on your body. It reduces your ability to concentrate and make a good decision. As an entrepreneur you want a business that supports you, so your health needs to be your first priority which increases your energy to do the task more confidently and easily. 2.Cut down on junk foods: unless the new business is food related, most of the entrepreneurs give little thought to what they are eating. The problem is that they mostly depend on junk food which makes their energy tank run empty. If you eat healthy food it will help you to increase your energy level both mentally as well as physically by which you can work with more enthusiasm. 3.Exercise: It might sound awkward to suggest entrepreneurs to stop working for an hour a day in order to get sweaty in the gym. But that 1 hour you give for your body increases your energy, productivity, creativity to a significant level. It helps you to control your mental stress level and gives you feel good factor. 4.Always think about your goals: Sometimes a person feels tired and de-motivated from doing daily office work. At this moment your mindset can help you to feel good and increases your energy. When you feel like you have stuck in your business it’s always helpful to remember why you started out on the path of an entrepreneur and answer for might be like that you want to make your life better and want to achieve some good position which increases your value in the market and help to make yourself proud. This type of self-motivation always helps to energize you. Tony Schwartz said that “To be a consistently high performer, you have to manage your energy not your time”.

Jun 30, 2017 The phenomena of employee satisfaction is integral to an organization and its objectives. The managers of their respective firms are well aware of this and its one of the decisive and crucial aspect of their profession. To assist and recognize the paramount procedures of management and the reason they function effectively, Gallup, Inc. steered and introspected statistical surveys with managers and employees and eventually figured out what motivates an employee to function. Obviously the supreme and ostensible evaluations are that happy employees are most productive, being productive denotes their dedication towards their job and their optimistic behavior that makes them less likely to quit the job, the employees resilience itself saves judicious time and money for the manager Furthermore employees with higher work satisfaction are 27% more consistent than dissatisfied employees, a manager or an organization would prefer such employees as to unproductive subordinates as its just waste of the organizations resources and assets The statistics also reveals that dissatisfied and dejected employees are 31% more vulnerable of quitting their jobs, replacing them could be a tedious and a time consuming task for a firm, specifically if the position entails a recruitment with specific set of skills, for instance if a sports journalist quits his or her job it’s a humongous task for a firm to hire a recruiter with that precise talent and skills. Apparently its and amazing fact that satisfied employees are less vulnerable to calamities while on work, there are many jobs that demand extreme amount of physicality from the employees, for instance working for a shipping company or a truck loading firm, workers who enjoy their work are less vulnerable to loss of concentration and focus, as they are more vigilant to their responsibilities. Apparently Gallup reveled that dissatisfied and disengaged employees suffer 62% frequent injuries than the satisfied employees. To conclude one can claim that it’s equally imperative and beneficial for both the company and its employees to create a productive work atmosphere that promotes dedication and excellence

The prerequisite of being an entrepreneur is to be creative. By definition an entrepreneur is a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit. Being creative is subjective. A few ways of channelizing one’s creativity can be: Playing it ‘unsafe’, Entrepreneurs take risk at the very beginning when they decide to start something new. They must carry forward their risk taking attitude in taking future decisions for their firm. Bravery differs from over confidence. In the path of risk taking entrepreneurs must make sure they do not make any hasty decisions jeopardizing the future of their firm. There are times when the firm faces option that may be too risky, playing safe in such situations is not a weakness but a pragmatic solution. Fix problems instead of pointing them. Unlike a business establishment where problems are pointed out to other departments and complaints are made frequently, a startup does not have several departments and executives to report and correct problems. In a start-up, entrepreneurs have to find report and correct the problems on their own. They cannot rely on anyone else to make assessments or judgments. Therefore their task becomes even more difficult since they do not have the privilege of second opinion.

Customers are the ones who promote and brand our product as one of their own brands. We should take care of needs and demand of such consumers so that we maintain trust among such people. We must improve the quality of the help desks at our help centers and try to improve user experience to stand and compete well in market.

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Jun 28, 2017 A virtual employee is someone employed to work for you but can be located thousands of miles away from you. They are not explicitly a part of the office, but definitely a part of the workforce. The services provided by the employee are realized through the use of communication technology. Harnessed with the improved communicative technology you can now make use of global talent, overcoming the geographical and other accessibility barriers. A virtual employee is not a freelancer; a freelancer can never be an employee because they don’t work for you full-time or exclusively. A virtual employee on the other hand can work for you remotely and exclusively as a dedicated part of your team without juggling other assignments. A freelancer and virtual employee however, are same in terms of how cheaply they are available to the firms. Assigning work to virtual employees does not amount to outsourcing of the work. Although it is technically outside the office, but outsourcing technically is to ‘obtain (goods or a service) by contract from an outside supplier’ and virtual employees are not ‘outside the firm’ as a separate entity, they are very much a part of the firm like regular employees, they are just not ‘present’ in the office However, there lies a drawback in this concept. With the availability of global talent at your fingertip and the option to hire people from all around the world, the local talent may get neglected.