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Expert Talk Ep. 140 with Bhautik Kumar on Culture: A Catalyst to Company Growth

Vipul Mali — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:21:57 +0000

How can a strong company culture drive exponential growth?
Ready to master communication skills and boost your team’s performance?
Is your company culture holding you back or pushing you forward?
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I’m excited to invite you to an engaging Live Session on Culture: A Catalyst to Company Growth.

We’re featuring Bhautik Kumar, a Communication Coach who’s been making waves by helping IT professionals, founders, and CEOs sharpen their communication skills.

Date & Time: Friday, 25th October at 8 PM IST

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This is a golden opportunity to get insights tailored to your specific needs.

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Whether you’re an IT professional, a CEO, or just someone who’s interested in improving communication, this session is going to provide tons of value.

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Expert Talk Ep 97 with Pradnya Patil | Dive into the Remote IT Leader’s Playbook

Vipul Mali — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:30:48 +0000

Dive into the Remote IT Leader’s Playbook: Expert Talk Episode 97 – Career Advancement Unleashed!

Hey, fantastic network! Brace yourself for an insightful live session on “The Remote IT Leader’s Playbook for Career Advancement,” happening on Saturday, December 1st, 2023, at 8:30 pm IST.

Joining Link – https://www.linkedin.com/events/7129003398225408000/

Meet Our Featured Speaker: Pradnya Patil
Pradnya Pradnya, an emerging author and speaker, specializes in coaching and training IT leaders. With a mission to foster belonging, connectivity, and high performance within remote IT teams, Pradnya is committed to sharing extensive knowledge and experience.

Why This Session Matters?
In the era of remote work, navigating your career as an IT leader requires a unique set of skills. Pradnya will unveil strategies and insights crucial for career advancement in a digital landscape.

How to Join: Just a click away! Click here https://www.linkedin.com/events/7129003398225408000. Your journey to career advancement starts with a simple click.

Get ready for a deep dive into the Remote IT Leader’s Playbook. From effective strategies for remote team management to insights on fostering high performance, this session has it all.

Don’t miss the chance to engage in a live Q&A session. Bring your questions, and let’s unravel the keys to career success together.

This isn’t just another webinar; it’s a personalized guide to unlocking your potential as a remote IT leader. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting, Pradnya’s insights will reshape your career journey.

Mark your calendars for December 1st at 8:30 pm IST. Your path to career advancement awaits! Join us for a session that goes beyond the ordinary, providing you with actionable insights to thrive in the remote IT landscape. See you there!

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Top Workplace Trends & Future of Work for 2021

Vipul Mali — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 06:12:55 +0000

As we look ahead to 2021, we find strong lessons to be learnt and the wind of change is blowing strong. Here are the important future trends that we need to watch out for in 2021

Top Workplace Trends & Future of Work for 2021

2020 has shown unprecedented times and now being called as the longest year in known history. As the year winds down to a close, we find that much has changed – almost every aspect of life as we know it and many things that we have known and held to be true have also been shaken.
As we look ahead to 2021, we find strong lessons to be learnt and the wind of change is blowing strong. Here are the important future trends that we need to watch out for in 2021
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Practical Use of AI/ML in Talent Function

We will see an increased use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the talent function. More robust prediction systems will evolve to aid smarter management decision making and to navigate through situations. We are seeing a proliferation of technology products in this space and they will achieve maturity.

“We will see technology-aided “nudges” and “reminders” to moderate behaviour and help achieve goals as well as to teach new skills. Attitudes and habits.”

There will be increased opportunities for automation of repetitive, data-intensive and routine tasks with the advent of technology as well as better knowledge of such use cases.
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Virtual Workforce

The biggest and the most obvious learning has come from the rapid move to remote working. While the technology existed for several years, business travel has dramatically reduced during Pandemic and necessitated both the use and acceleration of technology to help in more effective and efficient remote working.
Businesses have also become more open to use of a virtual workforce, more flexible work schedules and contingent workers for skills that are critical, necessary, hard to find and sometimes just one-time. The very nature of remote work has made such workers more acceptable.
Reskilling of the workforce using a huge adoption of online learning methodologies has become a widely emergent trend.
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Providing Positive and Unparalleled Employee Experience

New remote ways of collaborating, communicating, engaging and celebrating talent have emerged as a major trend in 2020.
The new tools are frequently mobile-first, almost always mobile-friendly. They integrate the various ways in which work gets done – sharing documents, screen casting, video conferencing and team meetings, instant messaging and phone calls.
There will be further growth in this space with more consolidation of tools as well as technology advancements to make remote working more efficient than having to switch from one tool to another.
The leading technologies in this space will emerge as the new platforms and “killer apps” and in the years to come, will overtake traditional workhorse apps such as word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, emailing and traditional video conferencing only software.
More evolved software will emerge for employee get-togethers and celebrations, reward platforms – and even a convergence of technologies in the consumer social media space with work-related collaboration software. The social side of work will also undergo major upgrades in technology.
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Sophisticated Data-driven Decision Making in Talent Analytics

Talent function is increasingly seeing more sophisticated modelling and dependence on data-driven technologies for performance and potential assessment, critical talent identification, risk assessment and mitigation, decision support systems, forecasting, and planning as well as leadership development and succession planning.
These trends will continue and data-driven approaches will gain more ground with greater sophistication.

Preparedness for Risk Analysis and Mitigation

One of the more important lessons in 2020 has been preparedness for risk analysis and more robust planning on risk management systems. Broader risk assessment, preventive actions, and more collaborative approaches involving key players and stakeholders within the larger ecosystem – customers, partners, employees, employees’ families, and the larger society needs to be taken into account while risk planning.
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Expanded Digital Footprint

Organizations will expand the digital footprint to include enterprise-level digital operations encompassing all the key functions from front-end to back. Data flow and communication will ensure nimbler, more responsive and more efficient organizations.

Focus on Mental Health and Wellness

Employee health is and will remain the top priority for companies. Implications of prolonged remote working, as well as the impact on health and wellness, will become more evident, and preventive steps will have to be taken. Overlapping work-life issues will need to be factored in and managed better at both organizational and individual levels.
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Increased Importance of Business Agility

Agility will be the all-important organizational competency. Faster decision making aided by data-driven approaches and technologies and willingness to take actions in favour of customers and employees will be extremely important.
Much of continued success will depend on calculated and broader risk-taking coupled with intelligent agility.

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TCS Plans to Buy Deutsche Bank Technology Unit

Vipul Mali — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:32:06 +0000

Deutsche Bank’s Sewing last year unveiled a restructuring plan centered on cutting 18,000 jobs, with about half of those expected in Germany.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Plans to Buy Deutsche Bank Technology Unit

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Asia’s biggest software exporter by market value, is in advanced talks to acquire a technology services unit of Deutsche Bank AG. The discussions about the Bonn-based Postbank Systems AG are expected to result in a deal with the Indian company by the end of the year.
The pandemic is accelerating moves by global banks and financial services firms to shed their captive technology centers. Tata Consultancy’s potential takeover of Postbank’s 1,400 employees will help Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing get closer to his job-cuts target.
Negotiations are ongoing and could still be delayed or fall apart, the people said. Tata Consultancy, which has more than 450,000 employees across the world, in 2008 paid $505 million to acquire Citigroup Inc.’s back-office unit in what was then its biggest acquisition.
Deutsche Bank’s Sewing last year unveiled a restructuring plan centered on cutting 18,000 jobs, with about half of those expected in Germany. PB Systems generated 533 million euros ($632 million) in revenue in 2015, according to its latest available annual report. The unit provides IT services to Deutsche Bank’s formerly separate retail unit Postbank.
Deutsche Bank is currently merging Postbank’s IT with its own, which is expected to render the services provided by PB Systems obsolete by the end of next year. The plan, known internally as Project Unity, is expected to contribute the lion’s share to Sewing’s goal of cutting 1 billion euros of expenses in the German retail operations.
Deutsche Bank also recently unveiled a plan to move much of its IT into the cloud as part of a deal with Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The bank said in July it expects to sign the contract with Google “within the next few months.”
TCS which has more than 450,000 employees across the world, in 2008 paid $505 million to acquire Citigroup Inc.’s back-office unit in what was then its biggest acquisition.

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Thriving in the Gig Economy – The Next Normal

Vipul Mali — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:16:29 +0000

Remote working whether it is working from home (WFH) or working from anywhere (WFA) has become necessary and acceptable across industries, even in sectors where it was not earlier considered a possibility.

Thriving in the Gig Economy – The Next Normal

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. Across the world, this has resulted in ushering a ‘new normal’ – in the way we work and interact.
Remote working whether it is working from home (WFH) or working from anywhere (WFA) has become necessary and acceptable across industries, even in sectors where it was not earlier considered a possibility. Industries ranging from IT, e-commerce, and automotive are reimagining how this would affect their long-term people strategies.
Another area that has come to the forefront during the current economic times is the gig economy. The gig economy is a labor market characterized by temporary, flexible, and short-term jobs for which organizations hire independent workers on an on-demand basis. The terms ‘gig economy’ and ‘future of work’ are inextricably linked. Similar to how Japanese companies famously transformed supply chains with ‘just-in-time’ manufacturing and the dot – com revolution revolutionized the modern marketplace with e-commerce, the world of work is changing with the ‘just in time’ employment offered by a spectrum of non-traditional employment models, most notable of which is the gig economy.

Gig workers include self-employed, freelancers, independent contributors, and part-time workers. This project-based gig economy allows the service adopter to cut overhead costs, and the gig worker to get paid for a specific task performed instead of receiving a fixed salary. Thus, a shift from a full time 9-to-5 job to an on-demand, freelance, and task-based economy can be termed as the gig economy.

“Gig economy appears to provide a win-win to employers and employees. From an employer perspective, the gig economy allows organizations to better optimize work and manpower requirements. By mobilizing a larger workforce, organizations can also mitigate the anticipated talent crunch.”

For employees, gig economy allows task ownership, convenience, variety, and flexibility. Based on tastes and preferences, you can determine the number and type of projects you work on, the quantum of your earnings, and thus, the work-life balance. The below table illustrates the top 5 motivators for gig workers, notably better work-life balance ranks ahead of increased compensation.
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Although a large proportion of jobs in the ambit of the gig economy earlier came from ride-hailing and task-oriented services (allowing organizations to rapidly resolve large, voluminous, and tedious tasks by breaking it and crowdsourcing it to the gig economy), as per a recent report[1] by Mckinsey, knowledge-intensive and creative occupations are the fastest-growing segments in the world of independent work.
An examination of the gig economy in India presents itself as a microcosm of the above trend. In India, around 1.3 million people joined the gig economy in the second half of 2018-19and recorded 30% growth in the first half of the year. According to an Invest Indiareport^[3], India has emerged as the 5th largest country for Flexi-staffing after US, China, Brazil and Japan. Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and Telangana have most opportunities in terms of growth for the Flexi-workers. While the gig economy is popular amongst the blue-collar workers in India (particularly for companies such as Uber, Ola, Swiggy, Dunzo, etc.) there is now huge potential for the white-collar workers as well, due to increasing demand in industries – project-specific consultants, logo/content design, web design, instructional design etc.

Thriving in the Gig Economy

While gig workers enjoy a fair amount of flexibility, they also find themselves under the constant pressure to produce or perish in a continuous evaluation environment – wherein they must present a unique value proposition through their previous work in order to secure their next gig.
As per a study published in Harvard Business Review ^[2]the most successful independent workers create the following four connections to manage the unpredictability and subsequent emotional upheavals of their nature of work while simultaneously drawing from the independence and autonomy that they get from such work:

Place: A dedicated place to work, with easy access to tools of work and free from distractions
Routines: A fixed routine to enhance performance and focus
People: A close network of peers, role models, supportive collaborators or contacts in similar fields, who may not always be able to offer specific work advice but nonetheless help the gig workers push through tough times and embolden them to undertake the risks that their work entails
Purpose: A large number of gig workers in the study attributed their success to taking up and delivering projects that linked in some way to a broader purpose

For organizations, leveraging gig workers is an exercise within the broader scope of workforce planning and utilizing the available manpower models effectively. The main benefits of using gig workers are:

Cost savings: Utilizing gig workers organizations can almost dynamically manage the demand-supply of manpower resulting in cost savings
Speed and agility: The gig economy enables organizations to quickly fill talent gaps, to meet specific skill requirements as they arise
A boost to innovation: Incorporating gig workers allow for an outside-in perspective and the flow of best practices and new knowledge

From Talent Management perspective, HR leaders can enhance the ‘gig worker experience’ to bolster the organization’s reputation and keep supply pipelines warm. To design and deliver an enhanced ‘Assignment Value Proposition’ (AVP) to gig employees, HR Leaders must consider ways to enhance the ‘assignment experience’. Below are some low-cost strategies, to enhance the gig worker experience throughout the gig work journey.

Hiring and Onboarding	During the Assignment	Offboarding
Streamline hiring processes and onboardingManage Quality of SupplyShare how the company culture applies to gig workersEnsure basic benefits	Enable flexible hoursFacilitate remote connections with technologyClarify expectations and boundaries of work	Gather Gig worker experience data – “exit interview”Maintain a talent database

Key Challenges

While the benefits appear attractive, it is also prudent to be cautious about this model. As Sarah Kessler notes in her book about the gig economy (Gigged)^[4], presenting this model as a cynosure puts forward an incomplete picture. As she describes – “the gig economy can create opportunities for some people, but it can also amplify problems around insecurity, increased risk, lack of stability, and diminished worker rights.”Additionally, for managing the contingent workforce, many organizations have fragmented governance models, manual systems and processes, and insufficient talent analytics to fully utilize the potential of ‘on-demand’ talent. There are also challenges with respect to the information and data security, cybersecurity, and intellectual property.

Way Forward

In the Indian context, the gig economy offers tremendous scope for providing employment to a large population, the parameters of stability and security continue to be of paramount importance to the large proportion of our workforce. The labour ministry in India is currently working on a program that will offer minimum social security to gig economy workers and digital consumer platform partners. Benefits could include pension, provident fund contributions, health insurance and unemployment wages and more as part of the various government schemes.
The ongoing pandemic has accelerated the adaptation of work from anywhere and there is more openness towards the gig economy and contingent workers. It is important that organizations and governments prioritize the safety, security and basic rights of gig workers and put in place better talent analytics and management processes for contingent workers.

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Expert Talk Ep. 140 with Bhautik Kumar on Culture: A Catalyst to Company Growth

#VipulTheWonderful #ExpertTalks #CompanyCulture #CommunicationSkills #GrowthHacks #LeadershipDevelopment

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Expert Talk Ep 97 with Pradnya Patil | Dive into the Remote IT Leader’s Playbook

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Top Workplace Trends & Future of Work for 2021

Top Workplace Trends & Future of Work for 2021

Practical Use of AI/ML in Talent Function

“We will see technology-aided “nudges” and “reminders” to moderate behaviour and help achieve goals as well as to teach new skills. Attitudes and habits.”

Virtual Workforce

Providing Positive and Unparalleled Employee Experience

Sophisticated Data-driven Decision Making in Talent Analytics

Preparedness for Risk Analysis and Mitigation

Expanded Digital Footprint

Focus on Mental Health and Wellness

Increased Importance of Business Agility

Check More Updates:

TCS Plans to Buy Deutsche Bank Technology Unit

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Plans to Buy Deutsche Bank Technology Unit

Thriving in the Gig Economy – The Next Normal

Thriving in the Gig Economy – The Next Normal

“Gig economy appears to provide a win-win to employers and employees. From an employer perspective, the gig economy allows organizations to better optimize work and manpower requirements. By mobilizing a larger workforce, organizations can also mitigate the anticipated talent crunch.”

Thriving in the Gig Economy

Key Challenges

Way Forward

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