1.
Skilling
for success: Leverage innovative learning solutions to elevate your career
The rapidly changing
skill requirements, often driven by technological advancements, are making it
challenging for professionals to predict and align their learning with future
demands. Traditional education models often need help to keep pace with the
rapidly changing demands of the modern workforce. As industries transform and
technology reshapes our work, the need for continuous learning has become more
critical than ever, even as individuals and organisations face the challenge of
staying relevant in an ever-evolving work landscape. Today, as technological
advancements accelerate and industries undergo rapid transformations, the need
for up-to-date knowledge and skill sets is becoming paramount. To resolve this
paradox, it is critical to find effective, flexible, and engaging learning
solutions that can help keep professionals abreast with the changing world of
work. Modern professionals confront a myriad of challenges in their
pursuit of learning and upskilling. Striking a balance between work
commitments, personal life, and continuous learning proves to be a
time-consuming challenge, exacerbated by the difficulty in identifying reliable
and contemporary learning resources amidst the vast expanse of information
available online poses another hurdle. The rapidly changing skill
requirements, often driven by technological advancements, make it challenging
for professionals to predict and align their learning with future
demands. Recognising and addressing these obstacles necessitates
individual determination, organisational commitment to employee development,
and ongoing improvements in educational models to ensure accessible, flexible,
and relevant learning opportunities for professionals. Professionals today
need learning courses that are: Industry-relevant, with content that
is practical and applicable in real-world scenarios, Provides them with flexibility
in learning that allows them to integrate it into their busy lives, Creates
an engaging learning experience and understands that effective
learning goes beyond content delivery and Provides professional
certificates upon course completion that enhance their credentials and
demonstrate their commitment to professional development.
2.
Performance and
productivity management in the new normal
In the New Normal, the focus has been moving to the answers of questions such as “How is the team’s performance?”, “Hope you are ready for the annual appraisal cycle?”, “How are you tracking the performance and productivity? The New Normal, one of the most widely used words in the last couple of years. And, indeed, it is the new normal, where everything has been modified to a certain extent. In these times, the most prioritised need was to make people productive, get them the tools and resources to work, ensuring they settle in their new spaces which was executed to perfection by each of us! And the transition from WFO-WFH was seamless. Applications like MS Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and many other collaborative tools became our meeting rooms. Phrases like 'Hope you are comfortable?', 'Hope you and your family are safe?', 'Hope you are able to do your job?' became our greeting lines and catch-up questions. Ensuring the comfort has been established in the virtual meetings, gears were slowly shifted to 'Hope your manager is talking to you?', 'Hope you are connecting with your team?', 'Hope you are taking breaks and utilising your leaves?' And now, even though the New Normal exists, the focus is now again moving to the answers of questions such as 'How is the team’s performance?', 'Hope you are ready for the annual appraisal cycle?', 'How are you tracking the performance and productivity?' There are two types of interventions that would be required to answer the above question on performance and productivity. The first one being, Founding Blocks, that are important to lay for anyone to build and pave the way towards performance and productivity. The big three Founding Blocks are: Re-Building Connections, Employee Involvement and Learning on the Move. Coming to the second intervention, i.e., the Execution Blocks, which forms the second layer above the Founding Blocks. These are: Making it Easy to Perform and Managing Productivity with Technology. Each of these blocks is an intervention that is agile in nature, for us to keep evolving as the new normal unfolds itself every day. RELMM as I call it, the new realm in our new normal.
Look
before you leap: Experts warn against impulsive tech pursuits
Brian
Sommer and Mukesh Jain discuss and deliberate on navigating the business,
process and people implications with AI tools. As leaders outline the possibilities brought
in by AI tools, the implications of the new capability are still under purview.
To clear the hype and break those complexities are Brian Sommer,
founder and president of TechVentive and Mukesh Jain, CTO, VP and
Global Head of People Analytics, Capgemini, who will be at People
Matters TechHR Pulse Mumbai on March 14. In a
precursor LinkedIn Live with Ester Martinez, CEO
and Editor-In-Chief, People Matters, the two technologists revisit the initial
euphoria surrounding AI, skills and capabilities to drive the technology and
why it is best to cautiously begin with the experimentation While organisations
are optimistic about Gen AI system capabilities, they are cautiously refraining
from going all in. Brian highlights the reason for this hesitation, with the
obvious being information risk and privacy. But from an HR perspective, organisations
are apprehensive to train a language model using confidential personnel data.
But at the heart of this lies a gap that majority of the leaders are unable to
grasp: how do AI algorithms work? Looking towards 2024, Brian predicts that
over-the-top hysteria around AI will slow down as real-world consequences come
to light. His advice to organisations looking towards AI is: Choose how
you wish to industrialise and productise AI capabilities as you reimagine work
processes. Adding to it, Mukesh urges organisations to choose wisely how
they wish to harness the value that accompanies AI and analytical tools for the
greater good. If you are redesigning your tech, Mukesh encourages you to
have an approach where you look at the business problem first rather than tech.
And one of the essential key here is data literacy. “Only when you understand
the nuances, possibilities, challenges, opportunities and risks of data-driven
processes, will you be able to unlock and leverage AI tools effectively.”
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