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People and Protocols: Bridging HR and Cybersecurity

Empowering the Workforce of Tomorrow: A Look at Skill Development in India and the USA

Throughout my career in skill development, I’ve often reflected on the saying: “Give a person a fish, and they’ll eat for a day; teach them to fish, and they’ll eat for a lifetime.” This principle has guided my work in empowering individuals, particularly youth, to transition from education to meaningful careers. My journey has taken me through diverse projects, including large-scale training programs, strategic collaborations, and innovative approaches to aligning skills with industry demands.
People and Protocols: Bridging HR and Cybersecurity

Building a Human Firewall: Empowering Employees as the First Line of Cybersecurity Defense

Intoday’s fast-paced digital world, cybersecurity threats aren’t just about weak systems — they’re about people. Human behavior often becomes the weakest link in defending against cyberattacks. Whether it’s an employee forgetting to log out of their laptop or a senior citizen falling prey to an online scam, the human element plays a massive role in the success of cybercriminals. Employees: The First Line — and Target — of Cyberattacks In 2023, U.S. companies faced countless cyberattack
CHIDAMBARAM

SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCE OF WELFARE MEASURES

One of the primary responsibilities of an HR Head is take stock of the existing Welfare measures and to introduce new measures as appropriate depending upon the Organizational affordability and Employee desirability . In today’s contemporary era ,where we have multigenerational workforce handling the business it becomes more imperative and challenging to introduce any welfare amenities that suits all category of Employees. Therefore the role of HR head becomes more crucial. What should an HR Hea
K.Chidambaram

K.Chidambaram in WELFARE

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First Career

Employee experience will be correlated to business outcomes. Yes or No?

Introduction: As Douc Conant rightly points out “To win in the market-place you must first win in the workplace”.An organisation’s success and sustained performance is a complex process, predominantly characterised by its product/service offerings, which is directly proportional to the tangible and intangible inputs employed by the firm for desired output. While most of the tangible elements (raw materials, equipment, activities, processes, technology,and policies) are quantifiable and the
Aditi.A

Aditi.A in First Career

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CHIDAMBARAM

EMPLOYEE WELLNESS

Mental and Emotional Health is the most ignored aspect of people's life. In fact, most people don't know that physical health is an output or effect, and emotional imbalances and mental patterns are the cause or input.  Aware of the pandemic's toll on Employee lives , Companies are helping them improve their physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. Visit www.getwellthyindia.com to start your wellness journey by finding out your wellness score. Also find out where you stand
K.Chidambaram

K.Chidambaram in WELLNESS

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First Career

First Job is always Special :-)

First Job always has a special place! The one thing that we desperately wait for during our entire high school and college life is that first job. We have hopes and dreams, aspirations and expectations, slightly nervous, the excitement level is on the highest peak you we imagine. Our first job, whether it's an internship or a full-time one is important for many reasons. It determines your career.  Getting exposed to an industry: More important than the employer is the industry in which we’r
Subhadra Shinde

Subhadra Shinde in First Career

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Different Types of Participants

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROBLEM PARTICIPANTS

This blog is written on the basis of a video lecture hosted by Ms Nandita Sanker. A Delhi University Graduate, she has an Advanced Strategic Management Qualification from IIM Indore. She started her career with Global Advertising Agencies like Saatchi and Saatchi and RK Swamy BBDO in the creative function, extremely successful she grew quickly into the role of a creative director. Her interest in Training caused a mid-career switch to Learning and Development which has been her forte for the las
Tasmeena

Tasmeena in Training

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First Career

Things I have Learn at Myr First Job

Workplace experience will complement academic studies by providing another way of learning outside the classroom. It will also provide you with crucial knowledge, skills and personal attributes. Lesson which Corporate world and my my first job as a HR Trainer taught me:  1. Sticking to deadlines: Deadlines can be flexible and taken up easily when I was in school or college. But when its work, deadlines are to be concentrated and assigned task should be submitted by the given deadline. 
Subhadra Shinde

Subhadra Shinde in First Career

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Trending

Future Focused Leadership Competencies

The year 2020, has been a roller coasting year across the world due to COVID-19 Its time to get some additional leadership capabilities to focus on fostering today’s talent for tomorrow’s challenges. There are a few leadership strategy would help stimulate to future leaders.  1. Spanning boundaries “We know that we need to move faster. But a lack of cross-functional working is holding us back.” “boundary spanning” is the ability of leaders to rapidly create alignment, commitment
Balaji Thota

Balaji Thota in Leadership

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Video Scripting

5 STEPS TO MAKING EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

This blog is written on the basis of a video lecture hosted by Ms Nandita Sanker. A Delhi University Graduate, she has an Advanced Strategic Management Qualification from IIM Indore. She started her career with Global Advertising Agencies like Saatchi and Saatchi and RK Swamy BBDO in the creative function, extremely successful she grew quickly into the role of a creative director. Her interest in Training caused a mid-career switch to Learning and Development which has been her forte for the las
Tasmeena

Tasmeena in Training

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Workforce Strategy

HR and its role in Fostering Innovation

HR and the Innovation Process Five ways in which HR can influence innovation   One of key values which enable a company or product to stay ahead in the market is innovation. Innovation is vital for not only differentiating products and services in the market, but it also a catalyst for true culture of value creation in any organization. How could HR pitch in to drive Innovation? Some ways in which HR processes could drive innovation is described below. Rewards & Recogniti
Sudhir Nair

Sudhir Nair in OD

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Training Predictions

TRAINING MEASUREMENT IS A PURPOSE OR PATH?

Yes we are in the year 2020, and yet we are still discussing measurement of training, the facts about human psychology state the results driven attitude of Sr.Executives/Founders/C-Suits in general, these individuals are value driven, they want everything that reflects on the bottom line, I am not talking about progressive visionary exceptional directors, I am talking about the majority of executives we meet on daily basis. So measuring training within this context is a means to an end, it is th
Training For Confidence

Training For Confidence

How learning can make employees join back in the “New Normal” with high confidence?  One fact that we have to acknowledge that the current pandemic of COVID – 19 has shaken the confidence of people. In organizations, lack of confidence may work negatively and it may result in to resistance to change, absenteeism, attrition and thus further interruption in the business. It is true that despite all the arrangements made by the organizations to ensure employee safety, employees may not carry t
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PARAG in Training & Development

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Stay Competitive

Master These Two Skills to Stay Competitive

Jack Welch had once said, “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage” Speed of translating learning into rapid action is one of the major bastions of competitive differentiation. The shifts that are happening in business today are groundbreaking! We are all swimming in the treacherous and unpredictable Lake Michigan together! However, our abilities are different and that’s an incredibly good news! Mo
Sourin roy Chowdary

Sourin roy Chowdary in Coaching

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L & D

Micro-learning and Bite-sized learning: offering BIG gains!

With the rise of the Internet and its accessibility among the masses, the ‘modern learner’ became prone to the ‘information overload’. Eventually, the learning focus shifted from the traditional model of transferring knowledge to a defined model of achieving specific learning objectives. In response, Micro and bite-sized learning became the new buzzwords over this decade throughout the L&D realm; but what do they really mean?   To simply put, Microlearning is a holistic approach de
Gyan Prakash

Gyan Prakash in L & D

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L & D

L&D as a Game Changer

As we move forward in an ever changing globalized business environment, L&D as a function has come a long way - managing a fine balance between the traditional approach, methodology, and structures, retaining the core value proposition with equivalent focus onto the local business/workplace requirements unique to each organization whilst at the same time evolve as a strategic business partner to organizations, building and leveraging on best in trade practices and linking them to core organi
Aditi Arora

Aditi Arora in L & D

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Workforce Strategy

Why Workforce Strategy needs to be More Talent-Centric

Once a Client Director won a deal of $2 billion from one of the European client. His team was all excited to work towards a plan in setting up a project team which can match the client expectations and help the company make more profits. But soon they realized that they would be unable to do so without – right people.  This scenario is common to any business that we may operate in. What we fall back on, is setting the right WORKFORCE STRATEGY that has been every CEO s concern since past few
Vinita Nair

Vinita Nair in OD

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All about Succession Planning

What Every HR Manager Needs to Know About Succession Planning

Identifying backups for top level positions in organizations is often confused as Succession Planning. It ie not! In fact, you are resorting to only what is a Replacement planning. Succession Planning goes beyond that. It delves to develop potential talent to create a database of ready resources for several positions in future. – Succession Planning enables both career path planning of employee and aims at planning for various grades/ profiles coming up in future. The more diffic
Arpita Ganguly

Arpita Ganguly in OD

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Culture for better workplaces

Creating a community culture for better workplaces

We live in our work culture, we spend most active years of our age at different workplaces &we build memories at workplaces. Having said that, it makes workplaces the important part of our life where we grow, we learn, we network, we develop and we achieve success. Creating a community culture at workplaces is one thing organizations should accomplish. What is the right work culture? Can we define it? How can the work culture be categorized to ensure that an employee feels encouraged to perf
Preeti Sehgal

Preeti Sehgal in OD

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Talent Management - Business Strategy

Why Talent Management is an important Business Strategy?

Talent Management has become one of the most promising and pressing topic in organisation because of its “Variety & Mix“, as we have many generations working together simultaneously under one roof. The ongoing retirement of baby boomers, widening skill gap and rapidly changing lifestyles has also pricked management to look it more from a “Strategic Point” of view. We are living in a Knowledge economy where everything is just a Google away and with fierce competition all around the globe it i
Chunav Dutta

Chunav Dutta in Recruitment

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How to build Trust in Recruitment Process

How to Build Trust into the Recruitment Process

Recruitment is a prime HR process that provides a boost to drive overall organizational key processes for expected in and end process results. An effective recruitment process must yield the projected results by recruiting competent people, at the right time with induction and customization according to the internal work culture of the organization. This process must be seamless and proactive in delivery. More recruitment process understands and responds to the requirements of each associated st
Abhishek Kaushik

Abhishek Kaushik in Recruitment

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The Human Element

The Human Element: Why Workforce needs to be more Talent - Centric?

For doing business worldwide, the Human element plays a significant role to achieve organizations goals. In the current pandemic period (Covid-19) the organizations are working on the principle of "Surviving and Thriving is need of Hour".   For companies to sustain and gain success, they need to build a business strategy at first level and workforce strategy at the second level. Manpower planning or Workforce Planning is a bridge between the business strategy and workforce strategy. The int
Chunav Dutta

Chunav Dutta in HR Generalist

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