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In an economic downturn, companies often focus on cost-cutting measures such as layoffs and reducing employee training budgets. However, this short-sighted approach can lead to a weaker workforce and ultimately harm the company’s long-term success. Instead, companies should prioritise workforce upskilling during an economic downturn. Upskilling, or the process of developing and improving the skills […]
Continuous learning and skilling are key success imperatives for people across industries, geographies and age groups. Due to disruptions in the external world, the skills landscape keeps evolving at a rapid pace. It is important that one keeps pace with the changing skill demands to stay relevant. Skilling needs to follow a 360-degree approach. To elaborate, […]
Nivea India, India’s most Trusted skincare brand launched a one-of-its-kind employee growth and development program – Careers Month in August 2022. A month-long activation, it catered to employees’ career growth and development by providing them with multiple insightful avenues such as expert talks, panel discussions, one-on-one sessions with the leadership team along with in-depth training […]
Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) has trained over 100,000 professionals in areas of artificial intelligence, cloud management, cybersecurity, etc. The main aim is to reduce the skillset gap for the successful implementation of 5G. Sterlite Technologies Limited provides intensive training through the STL Academy. They pertain to deployment practices, troubleshooting, and network maintenance to STL’s partner […]
The global pandemic pushed our dependency and usage of technology to a greater extent. From shopping to cooking to learning, online platforms are now the go-to mediums and have given us a newer dimension to grow in all spheres of life. The pandemic is responsible for dynamic changes adhered by the organizations and employees. Employees have […]
As our life and work contexts are fast evolving, hybrid working, hyper-connectivity, deep digital penetration, focus on holistic well-being, and fast-changing skills, are becoming mainstream. In this context, a renewed and robust approach to talent identification and attraction, developing, growing, and retaining them, are key blocks to ensure that we stay successful in the War […]
The existential belief in progressive organizations, about the purpose of the Learning & Development (L&D) function, is to make a bridge that connects the goals of an employee with the goals of the organization. But, with the intense impact of the VUCAD factors globally (aggravated by the Covid 19 pandemic) that is spurring a change of […]
“As circumstances change, leadership must change. A certain set of skills, instincts, and personality traits may be perfect today, but useless tomorrow.”, said Ricardo Semler, Brazilian entrepreneur and author of the best-seller “The Maverick”. The pandemic leads to a sudden need for working from home and remote team management eventually leaving organizations to contemplate hybrid working […]
Leadership Development in a Hybrid Work Model Up until the last two decades, we followed the same model for learning as we had followed since the 19th century. School prepared us to fit into a work hierarchy. Employers slotted us into a position that fitted, and we worked there until we retired. But none of […]
Shortly before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, many parts of RIL shifted to a remote working model. This happened almost overnight, and we knew we had to adapt quickly to ensure continuity. With help from our internal teams, we took up this challenge to transition quickly and effectively to a new way of working. And […]
Leadership Development for a Hybrid Workplace A recent Accenture study on the Future of Work[1] that covered 9000 employees around the world threw up some interesting results. Most workers (83%) prefer a hybrid work model, but a variety of factors influence their ability to thrive, whether they’re onsite or off. However, in terms of their […]
What’s Trending in Learning to Strengthen Capabilities The Year 2020 was so unexpected that the word “expected” almost did not exist in the dictionary. The change of course has forced us to rethink and re-evaluate how we can develop and train our employees. To help create and strengthen organisational capabilities and culture when we simply cannot […]
