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How to Build a Better Workplace for Millennials, Considering Design Thinking
Design Thinking

How to Build a Better Workplace for Millennials, Considering Design Thinking

A few months ago, a colleague of mine, who is also a Professor of Design Thinking, shared a very interesting aspiration: To get the HR function to use design thinking to design better employee experiences. His logic was as follows: Design thinking is all about starting with the user in mind. As a younger generation […]

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How Millennials are Changing Conventional Leadership
Leadership

How Millennials are Changing Conventional Leadership

Time is running out and we need to act fast! Reviewing the old school leadership style has become the need of the hour in the workplace. Millennials are no longer the youngest generation in the workplace. Over the past decade they have been undergoing a transformation in their behaviour, attitude, approach and preferences at work. Consequently […]

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Interaction with Dr. Max Blumberg on People Analytics
Featured

Interaction with Dr. Max Blumberg on People Analytics

In an exclusive Interaction, we are benefited to have Dr. Max Blumberg– Founder-Blumberg Partnership, Visiting Professor, Leeds University Business School, Visiting Researcher, Goldsmiths and University of London. Max Blumberg, Ph.D., bridges the worlds of business performance and analytics to improve strategy execution, design powerful people processes and increase sales force effectiveness. Dr. Max has deep […]

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How Technology Helps Us Make Better HR Decisions
Technology

How Technology Helps Us Make Better HR Decisions

In preparing for that talk in HR Technology Conference, I referenced two highly recommended books, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellberg; and Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb. While neither book is “about” HR—or even the workplace—both provided some excellent frameworks for […]

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How to Leverage Design Thinking for Candidate Experience
Culture & Behaviour

How to Leverage Design Thinking for Candidate Experience

Design Thinking is a method for the practical, creative resolution of problems using the strategies designers use during the process of designing.Design thinking has also been developed as an approach to resolve issues outside of professional design practice, such as in business and social contexts. Design thinking is best known as a creative approach to problem solving […]

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Role of HR in Succession Planning for a Structured Organization
Talent Management

Role of HR in Succession Planning for a Structured Organization

Succession Planning is a long term, continuous and structured process where organizations identify top talent and invest in their development so that they take on key leadership positions in future. For any organization to thrive in perpetuity, people are the most important assets. So the focus needs to be on developing future leaders. Carefully crafted […]

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Managing employees with Know-It-All Syndrome
Culture & Behaviour

Managing employees with Know-It-All Syndrome

“Those who always know what’s best are a universal pest” …. Piet Hein, a Danish Scientist Do you have a coworker who thinks he knows everything? Chances are, you’ve never, ever heard him utter the words “I don’t know.“ Unfortunately, most employees encounter at least one know-it-all coworker or boss at some point in their career—and they’re not […]

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Mercer acquires Mettl, an online assessment platform
Industry

Mercer acquires Mettl, an online assessment platform

Global consulting firm Mercer has acquired online assessment platform Mettl, a Gurugram-based online talent assessment firm for an undisclosed amount- Company Statement Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations meet the health, wealth and career needs of their employees. It operates in over 130 countries and employs more than 23,000 people. “Online talent assessment is […]

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Design Thinking in HR and Organizational Culture
Culture & Behaviour

Design Thinking in HR and Organizational Culture

Can Design Thinking principles be applied in Human Resource Management? This is a question that comes around quite often, albeit masked with apprehensions. A quick deep dive into the history of design thinking would help in demystifying this myth that Design Thinking is for products alone. Computer scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon […]

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Design Thinking in Learning & Development
Design Thinking

Design Thinking in Learning & Development

Design lies at the core of all that we do as learning professionals. We design solutions, interventions and experiences. More effective the design, more successful will be the outcome. Design is a key competency required for learning professionals. We have been using instructional design frameworks like ADDIE for long. Design Thinking will not just be […]

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Best practices for HR digital transformation
Transformation

Best practices for HR digital transformation

The primary objective of any HR Digital Transformation initiative is to successfully support HR to derive scalable and suitable business value. It is critical to derive a tangible value proposition of any such projects by asking a basic question – “Are you empowering your business performance and value with it”. To derive your transformation vision, […]

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