Develop your resilience and keep winning.
Researchers
believe that there are people who not only survive but thrive in chaos. The
common behavioral trait that is clearly in abundance in these people is
resilience.
Mankind has moved at a rapid pace with time, so much so that what looked
impossible a few years ago, looks very much possible now or at least in the
next few years. From auto driven cars on the road to flying cars in the sky to
controlling your gadgets at home while you are in office…everything is now
possible. This drive from impossible to possible at a frantic speed also has
its pitfalls. While some new things are developing, the old ones are becoming
obsolete at a hitherto unknown pace. We, the people are confused in this chaos.
Sometimes we are hopeful and sometimes we feel lost. Technology has gone far ahead of what is currently being taught in schools and colleges. Scholars have accepted that the things being taught are so back dated that students learning them, will be in a profession which would be completely different. While that has become a foregone conclusion, what happens to those people who are in the middle of their professional careers?
Job requirements are changing and so is the job description. Many of our friends, colleagues and close ones are losing their old stable jobs across the globe. But it is interesting to note that in these so-called chaotic times, there are many others who are finding excellent opportunities to grow, some willingly and some accidentally. All of us have heard similar stories of how a professional lost his job and bounced back quickly to become even more successful in their line of work.
The good news is, we can develop resilience by using the following methods:
1) Build flexibility in behavior
2) Try to find opportunity in chaos
3) Be happy
4) Don’t take the stress and don’t give stress
5) Be the change
2.
Digital education: A necessity in the age of Uber-ized
workforce
Upgrading its technological
capabilities, ITC Infotech embraced a new learning model based on virtual,
self-directed and micro-learning. Sanjay Kumar, Head of Capability Development,
ITC Infotech tells us how.
Transforming
the technological ethos of a company demands a mindset change. It requires a
design thinking approach, wherein organizations are able to mold new behaviors
among their employees. With many emerging technologies, organizations may need
to pick and choose which areas to place their biggest bets on. It is this need
that is compelling organizations like ITC Infotech to get their employees to
embrace virtual learning which is both continuous learning and self-directed
learning in the following steps.
1. The need for a
learning revolution
2. Adopting new
systems
3. Enabling people
participation
4.
Business Impact
3.
HR and
opportunities in the digital era
Technology is a disruptor for organizations and for
the workforce, but if managed properly, presents tremendous opportunities, and
HR has an important role to play as a custodian of how an organization makes
this transition.
Technology has been
changing the course of human history for millennia. However, we are at that
point where the scale and speed of technology adoption is at a pace never
before seen. Entire teams and skill sets can be made redundant in a short
period of time as this adoption takes root. For e.g. the Settlement team in a
bank can be made irrelevant if Blockchain is used to make this process happen.
Similarly, learning to drive may become unnecessary, as aggregators provide
transportation services more efficiently and at lower costs, and as the era of
driverless cars becomes a reality. Also, the implications of machines that have
the ability to learn and potentially exercise judgment, a hitherto "human
only" ability, vs. those that followed instructions, is bringing science
fiction to life. What does all this mean for the HR Function? A few thoughts
come to mind. As some of the new technologies become more pervasive,
organizational and workforce structures are bound to change.
