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The Role of Education in Creating an Agile Workforce

India Employer Forum September 5, 2023

Teachers trained during the 20th Century will probably find the need to be updated as they navigate the challenges posed by generative AI, online learning, and increasing need for data literacy in their 21st Century classrooms. Schools across the country must focus on creating an agile workforce that can keep abreast with the present generation. […]

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How to Make Strategic Planning Yield Expected Outcomes

India Employer Forum February 18, 2022

Many businesses ply their trade without having any functional strategic plans in place. However, it is proven that strategic planning offers several benefits for businesses in every industry, irrespective of their size. Strategic planning builds a forward-moving attitude in the leaders of every function within an organization. It helps leaders sharpen operational policies and objectives, […]

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Apprenticeship Programs a Must for Productivity

India Employer Forum January 4, 2022

Companies across India are increasingly incorporating apprenticeship programs into their productivity building toolboxes. This comes after observing a distinct skill and talent gap in the existing ecosystem. With the help of training, Indian employers can bridge different skill sets and generational mindsets required for a business to flourish and move forward with the times. The […]

Successful Strategic Planning and Execution

India Employer Forum December 30, 2021

Most organizations make strategic planning for a particular period and then cannot execute them in their entirety due to some reasons. This leads to the non-achievement of goals put against different strategic plans at the beginning. And those that try and execute those plans often take too much time, which makes the cost of execution […]

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Talent Intelligence – A Key Component Of Workforce Planning

India Employer Forum August 27, 2021

Workforce planning isn’t finished once a staffing solution is deployed or an employee is onboarded. Workforce planning is an ongoing HR effort that not only requires a one-time understanding of competency planning and shift management but a concerted management effort and execution from the ground-up for talent to thrive. This is why the underpinnings of […]

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Change Management Strategy: What to Include?

India Employer Forum August 26, 2021

In a world of undeniable change, change management is an organized approach to handling inevitable changes so that fewer outcomes of the unstoppable tidal wave are left to chance. Unpredictable as the onset of change is, change management is the difference between reacting loosely to change and taking a deliberate approach to it. The need […]

How Can Organizations Build Human Capital For The Future?

India Employer Forum August 24, 2021

The pandemic isn’t over yet. There are still several states that are under partial lockdowns. But the impact that the complete lockdown had on industries can’t be seen this time around. Most industries are open and running and the country is moving towards a better phase in terms of growth. It has to be said […]

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Workforce Planning – Rerouting Your Business Toward Success

India Employer Forum May 5, 2021

Successes don’t happen overnight or out of sheer luck. Behind every successful organization is a team incessantly planning, analyzing, and implementing ideas to achieve the targets and objectives. Although having effective leadership and lucrative strategies in place is imperative, strategic workforce planning has been instrumental in helping management identify employees as the most valuable resources of the […]

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Enduring Change Among Adaptable Organizations Is Fostered By Trust

India Employer Forum April 21, 2021

Adaptable organizations revere themselves and the environment that supports them. They don’t try to dissociate themselves from this atmosphere, but to thrive in it. Survivors are adaptable organizations. They are the ones that took to change before it destroyed them and rode the wave while others struggled under the currents. In the current economic conditions […]

Workforce Planning – Post-COVID Recovery Depends On Normalizing The Agile Work Environment

India Employer Forum August 26, 2020

Workforce planning is a clear metric that adds directly to operational ease. In the long-term goal of strategizing too, workforce planning assumes great importance. Strategic workforce planning is a function of the set of complex decisions that businesses arrive at. They do this after considering the polarizing markers indicated by numerical pointers, critical thinking, and […]

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Transforming To ‘Smart Staffing Structure’ From Traditional Structure

India Employer Forum August 13, 2020

The importance of companies adopting a smart staffing structure is recognized by perceptive business organizations – COVID or no COVID. However, the relevance of deploying an agile workforce was never more apparent than in the post-COVID-19 era. For India, the perception of gig-workers is disadvantageously linked against the cultural ethos of ‘steady employment’. While several […]

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Using People Analytics To Improve Workforce Planning During COVID-19

India Employer Forum August 7, 2020

After months of lockdown and social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, things are finally starting to go back to normal. Nations are gradually relaxing the lockdown measures, allowing for a cautious opening up of businesses, amongst other things. However, the pandemic has created a lot of disorder in the world of work leaving business […]

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