Sunday, October 6, 2013

Learning from The World of Practice: Lessons from Stevie's

http://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/bid/86134/103-Preliminary-Judges-for-The-International-Business-Awards

Some months back I happened to get yet another opportunity to be on the jury for the Stevie's International Business Awards 2013.  The Stevie's are akin to the Oscar's of Business

It's a very nice learning experience to know what companies are doing in space of people management for e.g. how a company in eastern Europe is engaging young mothers coming back to work or how a company in Europe came up with a most incredible way of engaging its workforce or how a gentleman in the Middle East has completely changed the way his organization benchmarks the industry they operate in and extending this to several other countries.

It takes a good bit of investment of  time but is worth the effort.

Organizations should encourage their employees to network and benefit. Thats the future work model and as per Ben Casnocha organizations should encourage people to network with other individuals in their professional peer groups both within and outside the industry.

When they network they get diverse perspectives, when they get diverse perspectives they bring back some of it as tacit knowledge to the organization and the probability that they are able to apply it to their own organizations is much higher... however that requries some encouragement

Remember...the learning and insights they get would be far beyond the cost of facilitating this


.Judging for IBA, Stevies International Business Awards

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