BasTalk Directory
Sept. 29, 2022
Moonlighting:Employers & Employees
Your honeymoon is over! How many times have bosses said that to new employees? How many times did employees get a chance to reply? And if they did, guess what the employee would like to say in return? What goes around, comes…
Sept. 8, 2022
Failure Management: how to cope with failures.
How did it feel when you won that MVP award? I'm sure it must've felt great. And how did it feel when you were left out for the promotion over your fiercest rival? Miserable, I guess. How did it feel when you got your dream …
Sept. 3, 2022
Burnol for sales burnouts
Is there a Burnol for sales burnouts? Chances are, if you are reading this or about to listen to this episode, you have Sales Fatigue! Here are three symptoms: Feeling drained on Monday morning forecast call. Unable to sleep…
Aug. 26, 2022
Quiet Quitting or Escaping Reality?
Quiet Quitting the term might be new, but the phenomenon is old. It's been happening since Adam and Eve. In the modern workplace, burnouts are real. They happen quicker than the previous generation. Is extreme performance su…
Aug. 13, 2022
Boring Jobs & Exciting Minds
You wouldn't need to travel too far to find someone complain about their boring job, isn't it? What does an exciting mind do with a boring job? Does it get bogged down or does it make the job exciting? Are jobs supposed to b…
Aug. 8, 2022
Will you hire people better than you?
It's an important question, isn't it? Will you hire people who are more talented than you? If yes, how will you cope with anxiety and a latent sense of insecurity or competition? How do you identify top talent? What happens …
Aug. 2, 2022
Trainer Spotting
Did you spot the right trainer? If not, the results could be disastrous. Besides not yielding the proper return on investment, Instead of helping the team, it could confuse them. ---
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July 28, 2022
Working for big brand vs startup
What works better - working for a big brand or a small company? The answer might surprise you. People often think of it as a no-brainer. Join a big tech company, and the rest of it takes care of itself until they get jolted …
July 22, 2022
What kind of a manager are you?
Have you become the boss you'd love to hate or hate to love? For people managers, is life more challenging than you thought it'd be? I guess so. The question is, what are you doing differently? Or are you becoming just like …
July 12, 2022
Toxic Work Culture
Given that culture has been eating strategy for breakfast for many decades, one wonders why hasn't it burped yet? We've been discussing toxic workplaces for ages, and it does not shock anymore. If you sit on the throne long …
July 8, 2022
Confirmation Bias
A typical Startup Founders dilemma #23: having conviction vs being in denia l! Some founders are blessed with the gift of the gab & over time they begin to view their own BS as the real deal. This is compunded more in nascen…
July 4, 2022
Career Gaps in Resumes
Career gaps, career breaks, resume gaps, time-off. These more or less mean the same thing: you are not employed. So when the next opportunity comes your way, you get nervous about the best ways to share the gap-story! For so…
June 30, 2022
BasTalk past, present and future
I've often been asked why do a podcast, why now, why BasTalk? My answer has always straight and simple - I share because I care. I share content to make it easy for people to understand how to navigate through this complex …
June 28, 2022
What is the BasTalk podcast all about?
Here's a list of things this podcast does not do: give you life-changing gyan, save you money or make you grow rapidly! Nor is it a typical Tech-Talk , or a Management big-talk. So what is BasTalk? BasTalk literally means Si…
June 22, 2022
The jealous colleague
So when your peer at work got the promotion - how did you feel? When your friend got a new car how did you feel? When your colleague bought a new house, what did you think? Peer pressure? I guess you know the answer. Ever …
June 13, 2022
Who inspects the interviewer's mistakes?
There is a ton of content on how to answer tough interview questions, but very little on whether these questions were correct in the first place? There is a lot of content on poor quality of job seekers, but very little on p…
June 10, 2022
The Dogfight 3 : Reality
So you heard the candidates version, the recruiters version, now listen to the reality check. ---
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June 6, 2022
The Dogfight 2 : Recruiter
So now that you understood the point of view from a job seeker perspective, its time to dive into the recruiters point of view. ---
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June 1, 2022
The Dogfight 1 : Jobseeker
There are 3 sides to every job. The candidates ordeal. The recruiters pain. The truth. In this episode I dive into the job seeker's predicament and hope to brings clarity, simplicity and induce job seekers to think before th…
May 25, 2022
Unburn: Your Mental Burnout
Pressure and burnouts are real in modern corporate workplace. What do you do when you find yourself under the pump and not enough energy to keep going? Yet peer pressure and fear of failure add to the pressure to perform eve…
May 16, 2022
The Power of Optics at Work
The Power of optics at work ---
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May 11, 2022
Are you dealing with a God Complex at work?
When was the last time you felt spoken down by a senior? Telling you that your logic stood no chance over their logic? Or when was the last time you felt frustrated unable to get your point across to your boss? Today, yester…
May 2, 2022
Customer Objections Simplified
Most sales people fear customer objections. They dread hearing "we have no money" , "you are too expensive" , "we're all set" , "call back in 6 months" etc. And then all the energy goes out of the system. Mustering up enthus…
