The 22nd edition of the World HRD Congress kicked off to a great start today at Taj Lands End Mumbai. The theme of the conference was "Mining Human Potential for Creating Great Organizations". Below are key messages from some of the selected speakers.
In the key note Dr. Arun Arora talked about how talent shortages in India would impact organizations whether it is about exploiting talent within the organization or getting talent from outside the organization. Listening and observing and looking around the organization you have phenomenal talent that you have at your disposal.
Uma Ganesh from GTT spoke about impact of digital technologies on every aspect of business. Companies should look for how this would impact them. Key change from transformation to transfiguration. HR Leaders need to contribute by redesigning business in sustaining growth and competitiveness. Impact of disintegration of activities like in hiring processes. Rethinking the culture. Move away from hierarchical structures to look at convergence thinking. Every individual has a voice and can be listened to and has a view. How can organization be more open to receive ideas. Existing Processes may need to be removed or reworked. HR Needs to be more coaches, respect and enable innovation within the organization.
Ganesh Natrajan CEO of Zensar spoke about how the IT industry is constantly changing and how each year it seems like a whole new list of things need to be done and past was not much relevant. Early days of IT industry key focus was taking India's capabilities to the world through various speaking sessions and stories at conferences to provide a right perspective about India's potential to people across the world in major markets. Another key point was about being very focused on the solution to drive the need of the customer and not just what the "obvious" solution you had. Your responses should be context specific. Contextualize everything. He also spoke about how love makes the organization successful. Love your employees for long term success. This is way the IT industry works in India. Look for what your people really want. Many youngsters look for other interesting goals in life but are here to work to pay back. HR processes should work on understanding deep down passion of people.
S V Nathan from Deloitte spoke about spotting and nurturing talent. He spoke about varying talent supply in various geographies. China will face biggest talent crunch by 2020 and will need 23 million more college graduates than they could ever supply. India has 3.5 to 4 Million graduates coming in and we have a low employability problem. How do you tackle and get the right talent coming to you. How do you spot talent. He spoke about good leaders looking for sincerity, passion, find ways to appreciate and motivate to bring out the best in people who work for your organizations.
Dr. Indira Parikh (Founder President FLAME) spoke about a very different concept on how to spot and discover your own hidden talents. We use only about 50% of our capabilities. Her session included a very creative way of presenting through a framework of visualizing yourself using some metaphorical symbolic images (in nature, mythology or folk lore, folk tales etc) and then boxing them into a framework she provided to understand and interpret one's context.
Of course there were many other wonderful sessions by HR and business professionals from very many organizations.
In the key note Dr. Arun Arora talked about how talent shortages in India would impact organizations whether it is about exploiting talent within the organization or getting talent from outside the organization. Listening and observing and looking around the organization you have phenomenal talent that you have at your disposal.
Uma Ganesh from GTT spoke about impact of digital technologies on every aspect of business. Companies should look for how this would impact them. Key change from transformation to transfiguration. HR Leaders need to contribute by redesigning business in sustaining growth and competitiveness. Impact of disintegration of activities like in hiring processes. Rethinking the culture. Move away from hierarchical structures to look at convergence thinking. Every individual has a voice and can be listened to and has a view. How can organization be more open to receive ideas. Existing Processes may need to be removed or reworked. HR Needs to be more coaches, respect and enable innovation within the organization.
Ganesh Natrajan CEO of Zensar spoke about how the IT industry is constantly changing and how each year it seems like a whole new list of things need to be done and past was not much relevant. Early days of IT industry key focus was taking India's capabilities to the world through various speaking sessions and stories at conferences to provide a right perspective about India's potential to people across the world in major markets. Another key point was about being very focused on the solution to drive the need of the customer and not just what the "obvious" solution you had. Your responses should be context specific. Contextualize everything. He also spoke about how love makes the organization successful. Love your employees for long term success. This is way the IT industry works in India. Look for what your people really want. Many youngsters look for other interesting goals in life but are here to work to pay back. HR processes should work on understanding deep down passion of people.
S V Nathan from Deloitte spoke about spotting and nurturing talent. He spoke about varying talent supply in various geographies. China will face biggest talent crunch by 2020 and will need 23 million more college graduates than they could ever supply. India has 3.5 to 4 Million graduates coming in and we have a low employability problem. How do you tackle and get the right talent coming to you. How do you spot talent. He spoke about good leaders looking for sincerity, passion, find ways to appreciate and motivate to bring out the best in people who work for your organizations.
Dr. Indira Parikh (Founder President FLAME) spoke about a very different concept on how to spot and discover your own hidden talents. We use only about 50% of our capabilities. Her session included a very creative way of presenting through a framework of visualizing yourself using some metaphorical symbolic images (in nature, mythology or folk lore, folk tales etc) and then boxing them into a framework she provided to understand and interpret one's context.
Of course there were many other wonderful sessions by HR and business professionals from very many organizations.
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