Stay interviews

HR Technology is evolving and innovations in HR are beginning to gather pace.

On examining Stay Interviews,i have realized that they have appreciative inquiry embedded in them.Stay interviews are a powerful system for creating a performance orieneted culture and for organization design.

Their proactive nature put them into the category of,"Tools for Strategic HR".

The tools for Strategic HR is an interesting new classification of Strategic HR processes which can enable the HR department to drectly impact organizational performance.

It is about time that the HR department stopped only looking at people systems and started affecting organizational competitiveness and performance. 

A lament and a hope:Poem by Sanjiv Narang

A lament and a hope

Gone are the days of strength and valor,

Behold the days of tyranny and squalor,

For the time are a -changing,

Everyday truth is found hanging.

Inspite of your great feminine prowess,

the world shall remain leaderless,

for you lack idealism,

for freeing the world from this devilish prism.

Let the naysayers step aside,

and to the people's dictate abide,

for the leader to ascend,

for making our destiny mend.

one must look for the answer in one's soul,

for getting out of the debilitating hole,

before we regret the goal,

that time stole.

by:

Sanjiv Narang

Appreciative inquiry

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Explores appreciative inquiry as an OD intervention which builds a performance culture in the organization.

Overview of Strategic HR

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Provides an overview of the biggest development in the HR profession after its birth.

Organization Development Domain

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This video-clip describes the OD interventions deployed by innovation Systems Consulting for client organizations.

Communication skills

As my experience as a trainer has increased,i have realized that every competence is a cosmos in itself.

Whatever seems to be mundane,as we dig deeper into it,it reveals dimensions heretofore unexplored.

The same is true of communicaion skills.On the face of it,it seems to be a rather mundane subject.However,the more mundane the subject greater is the opportunity to innovate.

As soon as we expand the scope of communication skills beyond the communication process,the complexity increases manifold.Examining all the interactions that we do in a day ,classifying them and then enhancing them is a rather Herulean task.However,it does reveal new communication dimensions.

The new dimensions of communication are:

• Relationships oriented communication.
• Performance communication.
• Organizational communication.

These dimensions have tranformed communication skills from a rather mundane area of instruction to a critical competency which has a direct bearing on professional and personal effectiveness.

Strategic HR

Strategic HR is a phenomenal innovation in the field of Human Resources.This competency has changed the impact dimensions of a HR professional.

In most organizations operational HR is practiced.This does not have any visible impact on the competitive advantage of the firm.

However,Strategic HR is focussed on enhancing the competitive advantage of the firm through its human resources.This is the biggest leap taken by the HR profession in the last 2 decades.This may transform the HR department into the most important department in an organization.