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Updated on: Dec 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Spirituality And The Future Workplaces

Dec 4, 2019

Transforming Organizations To Be More Agile With Spiritual Attributes

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Culture & Behaviour

Dec 2, 2019

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Companies are using Incentive and Vacation Days to encourage Employees NOT TO SMOKE

Non-smokers have long lamented the fact that they get fewer work breaks than their colleagues who st...

Culture & Behaviour

Dec 2, 2019

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Golden Handcuffs Cannot Hold-Back Sharp Edged Talent

Free Markets reject Primitive Retention Programs. Golden hand-cuffs cannot hold-back sharp Edged tal...

Culture & Behaviour

Dec 2, 2019

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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

Talent Management

Five Effective Strategies for Transforming Career Development

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day duties of your job, but it’s important to step back every once in a while and look at the bigger picture of our own career. Are you happy? Am I adding any value to myself? Is your career developing according to your plan? “Irrespective of any […]

Nov 28, 2019

Talent Management

Winning People Development Strategies

The term ‘People Development’ is often used casually within organisations as a cliché. However, it signifies different things to different people. For an employee who is dedicated to his/her work, ‘People Development’ is the staircase to a brighter future and a meaningful career. While for an organisation it can be the core on which the […]

Nov 25, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Enabling Group Thinking For Performance & Impact

Everything is created twice. First in the mind, and then, in the physical world.– Anonymous wisdom Morale is an expression of a work group’s emotional health.– Harry Levinson, Organizational Psychologist, in The Levinson Letters Purpose and Vision are extremely critical for a person, team, society or nation to achieve great results. Similarly, Results &Impactare important […]

Nov 24, 2019

Employer Branding

Employee Value Proposition: The Best Practices

I was recently reading a book, “The War for Talent” by McKinsey & Company consultants Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod where they have put forth their thoughts after five years of in-depth research on how companies manage leadership talent which includes surveys of 13,000 executives at more than 120 companies and case studies […]

Nov 21, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

Factors Influencing Companies’ Growth Culture

Culture is so important these days that without a good culture, an organization may fail to innovate, develop trust and respect and be not able to clearly communicate its vision to its stakeholders. In today’s context developing a culture of growth becomes all the more necessary to stay competitive and to keep employees happy. Before […]

Nov 19, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

What are the signs of a TOXIC CULTURE and how to deal with it?

If micro-management thrives and there is no trust in your organization, you are looking down the barrel of toxic work culture. If you don’t believe me, use one of the many employee engagement products to find out for yourself. Tell the people in your company that you are going to be surveying them every three months and they […]

Nov 19, 2019

Future of Work

By 2020, Millennials will make up 50% of the workforce. Are you prepared?

In India, even as I write there are many organizations that have already been performing with a talent mix constituting 50% or more of millennials. As early as 2009, I knew of an organization where 29% of the workforce was made up of millennials and 5 % of leadership positions were also occupied by millennials. […]

Nov 18, 2019

Talent Acquisition

How HR Technology is Making Recruitment More Effective

There has been a dramatic shift in the way HR approaches Talent Acquisition. Talent shortage and the rapid consumerization of HR technology have compelled HR departments to treat their candidates like customers. High performing organizations are putting the candidate experience at the front and centre of their recruiting strategy. And technology is a key driver […]

Nov 14, 2019

Performance Management System

The Factors Affecting Employee Performance

Trying to find answers to this age-old question is like finding a needle in the haystack. There are no easy answers here and the answers most certainly differ with the audience to whom the question is raised. However, what’s easy to understand is that the success or failure of an organization in achieving its strategic […]

Nov 13, 2019

Culture & Behaviour

How’s Your Mood Today?

After logging in, going through the various multi-factor authentication processes of my laptop, I stepped out and asked one of my team members, “How’s your mood today?” She was taken aback…… How often do we take note of our own mood and that of our collective team members’? Are we in touch with what’s happening […]

Nov 12, 2019