Usha Chirayil is a HR leader and Coach with over 24 years of diverse experience in organizations including GE, Bosch, IBM, KPMG, and Samsung. In her current assignment, she leads the People function at Reflections Info-Systems. She believes that strong people practices can drive business results and believes that coaching, diversity, and talent engagement can make a marked difference.
A frustrated people manager who faced the umpteenth instance of absenteeism at a crucial phase in th...
Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perfor...
Just when we believed the world was settling down to a semblance of normalcy after the Covid crisis ...
We were catching up after a long. My ex-colleague KP was on a brief visit to the city. The conversation turned to deciphering whether the Great Resignation was overhyped – 4 million people in the US quit jobs in April 2021 – including ones who were ‘stuck’ in toxic jobs prior to the Covid crisis? […]
How HR Leaders Can Adapt to Uncertain Times In hindsight, surviving 2020 seems like ‘base camp training’ when compared to the ‘Mount Everest-like- challenges’ hurtling at us in 2021. While dealing with uncertainty is tough for any functional leader, this extended phase of the pandemic seems to be a true test of HR mettle. There […]
Much has been written about conducting effective Performance appraisals, so why is the year-end reviews till approached with a sense of dread by most employees and managers? Given below are some reflections gathered from stints as a HR business partner dealing with ‘escalations’ from disgruntled employees and an experience when I was in charge of […]
