Leadership: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: May 2020

Coronavirus

New Leadership Capabilities to Anchor Volatile Moments

May 11, 2020

The Role of HR in Economic Downturn

See-saw sacred ownthe downturn certainly doesnt stay down! As I jogged in the park, my eyes fell o...

Economic Slowdown

Apr 3, 2020

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Leadership challenges during a downturn

Why flexible leadership overrides experience in dynamic times Leadership faces several challenges, p...

Economic Slowdown

Apr 2, 2020

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Ways to make your team successful

For any team to flourish, it requires harmony, companionship, one vision and a great leader who coul...

Culture & Behaviour

Feb 26, 2020

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Leadership

New challenges of Gig Economy in 2020

With the increasing acceptance and adoption of gig workers, there will be different challenges and trends that may be seen in 2020. The technological era has caused a major shift in the way we work. Online platforms, social networks, aggregators, has created more than ever demand to outsource, contracting, and freelancing. This means both, high […]

Jan 22, 2020

Leadership

Leaders and Reverse Shadow: What would it look like?

The last decade has transformed work and more importantly, lives at work. Macroeconomic shifts and localization trends have joined forces with technological disruption thus redrawing boundaries and notions of corporate work life. What seemed the norm yesterday has now got cast aside as dated. Given this ever-changing milieu of patterns, behaviors and fluid evolution, making […]

Dec 26, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Decoding ‘A True Leader’ In The Digital Age

Progressive organizations consistently lament the dearth of capable leaders who can take up the reins at the top and sustain a robust stride towards continued prosperity. One of the challenges facing organizations in the respective context is changing the role and skill set of leaders that are expected to thrive in a ubiquitous digital world. For […]

Dec 19, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Transforming Organizations To Be More Agile With Spiritual Attributes

Problem Statement My wife depends on her maid. Many times maid does not turn up without informing. Then wife has to do all the daily chores herself. I analysed the problem and brought home a floor cleaning robot. The robot did not replace the maid. It reduced our dependency on the maid. At the same […]

Dec 2, 2019

Leadership

Professor M.S. Rao on Relevance of ‘Soft Leadership’ in 2020

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is the Father of ‘Soft Leadership’ and Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He is an International Leadership Guru and an internationally acclaimed leadership educator, executive coach, speaker, and consultant. He is a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He has 36 years of experience and has authored 36 books including the award-winning […]

Nov 29, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Leadership competency model wouldn’t help in developing leaders

There was a time when the fascination to build competency frameworks hit India Inc like a tsunami. Every other organization wanted to build it. From my involvement in over a dozen such initiatives, I gathered that knowing what skills, capabilities organizations had and grooming leaders were the most common reasons reported. There were those who went competency way […]

Nov 29, 2019

Leadership

Leadership Challenges For India Inc

Corus acquisition by Tata Steel in 2006 was a trendsetter in many ways. This was India’s first major overseas acquisition of that nature and stature. It announced India’s global aspiration to the world in no uncertain terms. While it took 15 years coming after opening our economy, after that landmark Corus acquisition, India Inc has […]

Sep 18, 2019

Leadership

NEW LEADERS: Avoid These 6 Common Pitfalls

A friend of mine is joining a new organization in a senior role. He asked me if I have any advice for him to navigate his transition into a leadership role in a new company. Here’s my take: Leadership transitions are inherently tricky and a lot depends on the context, environment, and culture of the […]

Sep 13, 2019

Leadership

Building Peak Performance Maslow Way

Maslow’s theory of Hierarchy of Needs is not just about stacking human needs in a particular order but goes much beyond that. Maslow, like many other great thinkers, was not well understood by his and our contemporaries alike. It was fashionable in his time to critic his work and a lot got written that rubbished […]

Sep 11, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

What is Agility and How Agile is Your HR Function?

HR function traditionally has been geared to create and implement HR policies aimed at the smooth functioning of the business with a long term perspective. As a result, all its activities around HR administration, training, recruitment, and other employee life cycle are mostly designed for steady-state business. With the onset of the digital era and […]

Aug 21, 2019

Leadership

Management Lessons From Elections 2019

Narendra Modi has always been a fine strategist and this was evident in the unanimous way the nation elected him for the second term as the Prime Minister against some strong counter-narratives. Politics aside, Election 2019, in more ways than one has thrown up a classic example of how focus on proper marketing, planning and […]

May 23, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Women in Leadership and Perceptual Barriers

‘Women representation at Board level in Fortune 100 increased from ~19% in 2011 to 25% 2017’ ‘Deliberate targets by organizations, as high as 25-30 % in senior bands by 2020’ Above indicate that we are clearly making shifts in positive direction. But just the fact that we have to take deliberate targets of, not even […]

May 1, 2019