Handling Criticism…

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 5/19/2013 7:23:00 AM

'Once upon a time there was a newly qualified painter who painted beautiful scenery. He wanted people's opinion about his caliber and painting skills. He put his creation at a busy street-crossing. And just down below a board which read -"I have painted this painting. Since I'm new to this profession I might have committed some mistakes in my strokes etc. Please put a cross wherever you see a mistake."While he came back in the evening to collect his painting he was completely shatter(...)'

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Who are they?

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 5/11/2013 2:56:00 PM

'We always have descriptions for people. We tag them based on their personality and their success. We call somebody lucky chap, achiever or super achiever. Sometimes we classify them in true sense which actually tells something about the person. Simple description sometimes brings about greater understanding.  Most of times, people are complicated and understanding them is a real challenge. It is always wise to label people in a correct way. You can use following tags to classif(...)'

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Achieve Balance

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 5/5/2013 3:35:00 PM

'How can you be successful in your work without sacrificing your personal life? Is it possible to maintain that desirable personal and professional balance? How can you achieve a balance between your family and your work? Attaining a personal and professional balance is another key factor for success. During times of crisis and in our hurried lives, when our jobs demand greater commitment, when competition for a new contract, a promotion or a raise in pay is increasingly fierce, when(...)'

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Transformation

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 4/27/2013 12:42:00 PM

'There was an animated cartoon on TV.  One of the scenes showed a huge cactus suddenly transformed into a flowering phenomenon. I never forgot how, within seconds, all the buds emerged and turned into colorful, open flowers.This scene must have photographed in slow motion and was shown in fast motion. At our home, we have beautiful plants of followers. One of the plants is “Bramha Kamal”. There are different opinions about this species. Though this is widely known as “Bramaha Ka(...)'

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Mind Map

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 4/14/2013 10:00:00 AM

'When I took a charge of establishing professional HR function in Sakaal Media Group ( http://www.sakaal.in, also see:- http://esakal.com, http://www.sakaaltimes.com, http://www.agrowon.com, http://www.saptahiksakal.com) in 2005, it was a real challenge. Sakaal has the history of almost 80 years, known brand in media in Maharashtra and Goa with almost 2,500 FTES and almost 5,000 stringers and part time employees. My team had comprised with employees who were working for last 10-15 year(...)'

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Story of Ramesh and Suresh…

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 4/7/2013 2:48:00 PM

'What a presentation?Ramesh was a senior sales manager and Suresh was his associate with product assignment. Once Suresh wanted to visit some customers in the area, but he had no any good presentation. He had no time to make the separate presentation. Hence Suresh approached Ramesh and requested him if he had any presentation available. Ramesh was good in preparing presentations. He had prepared a beautiful presentation for customers last month. He mailed the same copy to Suresh. Sur(...)'

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Tinku’s tennis racket…

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 3/30/2013 3:54:00 PM

'One of the employees from our vendor visited us for the discussion. I asked her about her tenure in the company. She was working almost for 8 years. Off course, topic diverted to retention of quality employees. I asked her, "What are reasons for staying so long here?" She took the question and slowly, with her voice almost breaking, said, "It was the 750 rupees tennis racket." She told us that she originally took a junior officer position as an interim while she looked for something(...)'

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Are you a right follower?

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 3/17/2013 4:20:00 PM

'Managerial roles are always misinterpreted. Functional expertise is considered while hiring the person, his experience is also considered. But other dimensions required are not considered. Every manager has four areas to perform. These are as under:Functional expert: We hire people for their knowledge and skills. Their functional expertise is important. But at managerial position, employee has to play different roles. If the person is in finance, he is expected to be the expert in f(...)'

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How you go at home from office? Cool, it’s simple….

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 3/9/2013 12:44:00 PM

'Travelling back to the home form office is always another struggle. Sometimes I feel that most of the problems are created by human. To make the life easy, they manufactured vehicles so that we can commute easily from one place to another place. However as usual, he never planned to face consequences. The fuel prices and congested roads are the consequences. To take care of these consequences, human made industries so that people earn more money spending on such things. This is a cy(...)'

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CSR Intent

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 3/3/2013 10:34:00 AM

'Companies should have the strategy for CSR. But before that, they should have the intent of CSR. There are few companies, who just ask their employees to stand on the signal with play cards and preaching to the other people for following traffic rules. And they make the big story and ensure that it is published in media. I really don’t see much intent in such initiatives. Recently I requested one of the fellow HR professional to bring into the notice of their MD one of the initiativ(...)'

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 2/23/2013 3:44:00 PM

'“By putting the industry in this area we are generating employment, this is the best CSR we are doing.” One of the Industrialists whose company has the turnover of around 3 million was referring CSR to employment generation. His industry has taken the land on lease with concessional rates, he has the tax holidays, he is using natural resources like water, his industry is polluting land, air and water and his definition of CSR was very limited to employment generation. Now a day, get(...)'

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My thoughts on Education, Industry, Professionals and HR

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 2/16/2013 12:16:00 PM

'Recently siliconinida published my thoughts on different aspects of the HR profession. Here is the details script for my blog readers. This interview is also available on http://www.siliconindia.com/profiles/Vinod-Bidwaik-EmM5yIfH.html What are your thoughts on education system in India? What measures to be taken into consideration to improve its quality? Speaking on "HR as a Game Changer" at MIT.I came from the middle class family. I educated from vernacular medium school till(...)'

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Employee Engagement- VIII

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 2/9/2013 9:44:00 AM

'India is growing economy and there are lot of oppurtunities to the talent. Employees have different expectataions. Most of the times they expect higher salaries and benefits just based on their perception about the market. If one collegue leaves the organizaion and communicates to his peers that he is geeting 30-40% higher slary and good title, existing employee start thinking to leave the job as his friend. This is a trigger for searching the job outside. This is also possible that(...)'

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Employee Engagement- VII

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 2/3/2013 1:02:00 PM

'Change and employee engagementThe only constant thing in this world is change. ( http://vinodtbidwaik.blogspot.in/search/label/Change%20Management)  We can’t expect growth by working the same way, we worked yesterday. Organizations need to change as per the situation. World changes and hence you are forced to change. Change can be related to culture, your product line, new technology, organizational restructuring or any new programme. Let’s call this as a Change Programme. The C(...)'

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Employee Engagement -VI

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 1/26/2013 3:36:00 PM

'Do you have employee development strategy?Own development is one of the vitaldrive for employees in Engagement .One of the friends shared his experience when he was working with HUL. He almost worked 8 years in HUL. When I asked him the reason for staying in the company for long period in the era where people spend hardly two years in the organization, he told me that company invested on his training & development. “Vinod, I was attending average two trainings in a year. This wa(...)'

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Employee Engagement -V

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 1/19/2013 8:04:00 AM

'Are commitment and employee satisfaction same?When we speak about Employee Engagement, we always discuss about Commitment.Commitment can be viewed in two ways.  a)     Commitment of the person to his job b)    Commitment of the person to his organization.There are many professionals who say that they are committed to their job and profession. Whenever they are in the organization, they would give the justice to their job. They would definitely(...)'

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Employee Engagement- IV

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 1/12/2013 12:25:00 PM

'Every company should ask questions why people will stay with your company. If you make the job more meaningful, the probability of their staying is more, but it should be complemented with other factors as well.The website name ‘what keeps you?” http://whatkeepsyou.csiprogram.com/ is conducting ongoing research on the factors due to which employee stay in the organization. According the research top six factors are:1.      Exciting, challenging or meaningful(...)'

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Employee Engagement- III

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 1/5/2013 3:10:00 PM

'Make the job more meaningful…Is there any injection of motivation and engaging employee in the organization? How would you create the passion? How would influence their passion towards right steps? Employees generally like the job if it is meaningful. The question is how you would make their job more meaningful. Employee perceives the organization’s larger purpose through their contribution in the organization. They see the value in products produced or services offered. There is a (...)'

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Employee Engagement- II

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 12/29/2012 8:39:00 AM

'Indicators of Employee Engagement… Employee Engagement is directly related to company's financial performance..Employee Engagement is crucial. But first we should understand what employee engagement means: Engagement is more on how he enjoys his job and organization and how he contributes to the organization. Employee Engagement is nothing but employee’s psychological connection with his job, superior and organization. Most of the people misunderstood employee satisfaction with (...)'

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Employee Engagement- I

Author : Vinod Bidwaik      Blog : Vinod Bidwaik      Date : 12/22/2012 3:21:00 PM

'Employee Engagement and Elephant… Employee Engagement is viewed always an isolated activity. Different people have different perception about Employee Engagement. To elaborate this I would like to refer the six blind men and elephant story.. There were six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today." They had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel i(...)'

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