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Practice Makes Compliance Perfect

As learnings reinforced by recent scams and frauds across the country have shown us, a culture of being compliant must be driven from the highest management and operation heads of organisations. This is the most successful way to remain compliant in letter and in spirit.

Disruptions In Learning

The digital learning world of the modern days has also taken into account the way of learning of the traditional learner. A traditional learner might find it difficult to understand through curated content alone, and hence, virtual coaching is another option that the companies can adopt.

Smart Guys No Longer!

All high performers are adept at achieving superlative results, but managing people is in itself a different ball game. For managers who are not used to managing people, it can be a humongous challenge to establish a cohesive team.

The Team That Would Not Listen

That all is not well at the White House would be an understatement since more than 37 top aides in the Donald Trump camp have already quit office. When Ezra Klein, the Founder of Vox, interacted with those who work with President Trump, he was told that this in fact is a management crisis since "working in this White House is a frustrating, dispiriting, and often surreal experience, and it exposes staffers to both legal and reputational risks." In the corporate arena, things are not very dissimilar from the above, and as the case reflects, the management as well as the team members are equally responsible to ensure greater rapport, coordination and synergy among each other

The Art Of Leadership

“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible”

Time To Augment Robotic Skills

While the other industries prepare themselves to reap the rich benefits that robotics brings, the robotics industry in itself is facing the challenge to find and hire the right talent. At present, the skill gap in the robotics industry is not merely hampering its own growth, but also of all the other industries which can be transformed by robotic deployment.

Aligning Human Assets As Per Needs

Human capital is in fact the biggest risk impacting business performance in today's growing and competitive environment, and although, there has been a management evolution in India, the maturity is not at that extent that it can identify human capital as a critical risk.

Employee Value Proposition: A Morale Booster

Engaging employees through awards and recognition and by tailoring an effective Employee Value Proposition (EVP) can therefore help develop workplace happiness and motivate employees in a dynamic work environment.

Breaking The Shackles Of Tradition

From corporate culture to management style to competing priorities outside of work, there are several factors that contribute to employee engagement, and, they vary with every employee. It is such complexity that creates a challenge out of understanding and measuring engagement in an actionable way.

Emulating Change Through Self awareness

Diversity has become an essential element among today's global workforce and organizations that effectively manage diversity will be the ones that will hold a competitive advantage.

The Journey And The Road Ahead

The trends and challenges for the Industry in the various aspects of HR as they were perceived in 2016 and how they stand for 2017 as explored by O.C.Tanner, a global employee recognition and engagement company.

Good Health, Greater Productivity

The Willis Towers Watson 2015/16 Global Staying@Work survey indicates that employers in the Asia-Pacific region are committed to employee wellbeing, but, lack of strategy is undermining their wellness programmes, thus making them fragmented, and, creating a disconnect with the employees.

Innovate Your Way To Non-Stagnation

Todd Rovak states that people, irrespective of age, associate themselves more with Batman since he uses tools, technology, and training to improve himself rather than a Superman, who is born perfect. Rovak, who was appointed the CEO of both Capgemini Consulting and Fahrenheit 212 before he was 40, further states that the Batman vs. Superman lens was often spoken about at Fahrenheit 212 while discussing innovation. He explains that companies following the Superman concept for innovation have an industry standard success rate of 15 percent, while those adopting the Batman theory of 'practice and perfect' can anticipate an 87 percent success rate.

Data Repositories To The Rescue

Authentic verification of employees, apart from playing an instrumental role in establishing trust in a new hire, also reduces the plausible risk to the reputation and the safety of a company.

Moving Beyond The Challenges

The war for talent has existed since time immemorial. Only, it has become all the more competitive and fierce today. And, with the very definition of competition changing altogether viz. Ford competing with Google and Apple, Marriot competing with Airbnb, etc., and the talent pool remaining the same, it shall continue to be all the more fierce.

Bringing Relish To The Impoverished

"The business of life, is life not business", was the belief with which the Ponty Chadha Foundation envisioned institutions so as to make a difference to the community as a whole. Business cannot grow in isolation; instead empowering communities that are directly or indirectly connected with it, can create a huge difference and have an everlasting impact

Personalisation It's All About You

The Millennial generation is used to being empowered to select their destiny and hence aspire for a workplace that gives them autonomy. Advances in business intelligence allow companies to provide their talent with a compelling employee experience, and personalisation renders it unique.

The Inspired Manager

Drawing inspiration from her role in the domain of leadership consulting, Geethaa Ghaneckar, CHRO - Raheja Universal, made a career switch to Human Resources and has not looked back since. In her own words, a deeply defining period of her life was when she was involved in a process of downsizing and personally ensured that each of the exiting colleagues was suitably placed.

The Presence Of Women

Diversity matters because diverse groups of people bring together different perspectives to problem-solving and decision-making. Industry participants today acknowledge the importance of work structure and flexibility in attracting a diverse workforce.

Flocking To The Life Sciences

The pharmaceutical industry is hungry for talent from other sectors as it attempts to fast-track growth in an increasingly competitive market.

Managing The Millennials

The new generation of workers are different than the previous generations, and each generation has its own broad patterns of engagement. A clear understanding of the patterns is the key to a great talent management model.

AI: Pervasive Or Effective?

In the new digital era, AI-led employee experience is totally changing, and so are the roles and responsibilities of HR departments and staff.

Diversity Matters - Fitting In Or Standing Out

Diversity is, in fact, the new normal. And, this normal works to promote a more creative environment as well. Studies show that racially diverse teams outperform non-diverse ones by 35%, and teams, where men and women are considered equal, create 41% more revenue.

Leader As Futurist

The organisational boundaries in the 21st century are going to be shaped by companies that are the intermediaries between producers and consumers.

The Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation at certain core points in the value chain has a bigger impact on the value created as compared to other peripheral points. These core points in the value chain are called innovation Hotspots.

Emotional Intelligence @ Workplace

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to spot and understand information related to the emotions of self as well as others, think (process the information), and act appropriately for the best possible outcome.

An Optimistic Idealist

As a professional who initially moved into HR with no qualifications and equipped with sheer zeal, Zarin Bhathena, SVP & Head HR, Worldline-South Asia and Middle East, has managed a challenge wrought career accepting the brickbats as her lessons to learning and the bouquets as the rewards. She has been the brain child in devising HR policies in her organisation at par with the global standards and is striving with earnest to make her company one among the best places to work.

A Case Of Need

There are several illustrations of how bootstrapped companies cannot afford to be patient over the outcome of training programmes, and in fact, find it worthier to invest in processes. For the CEO or the Promoter of the company, such decisions are a business imperative, while for the HR, an investment towards training and development is one that assures long term rewards. While both are not entirely wrong in their own way, they cannot truly anticipate as to the right roadmap for the employees as well as the organisation.

The Eight Steps Of Demystification

Talent management is the ability and commitment of an organisation to recruit, retain, and develop the most superior and highly talented employees available in the job market, while taking into account widening skill gaps, demographic shifts and effects of several generations present in the market today.

The (Re) Evolution Of Learning and Development

Organizations that are successfully shifting from a trainer-led to a learner-led model are reaping benefits in learner engagement and motivation, as well as business performance. The L&D professional has to be an excellent knowledge curator, an agent of change, leveraging social learning and collaboration tools, and, using analytics to understand performance improvement.