While almost everyone acknowledges how critical are feedback conversations at work to help improve, engage and develop others yet very few actually do something about it. How can we make feedback conversations pervasive, all the year round discussions rather than a point in time event at the time of appraisals?

The Performance appraisal exercise is an opportunity to connect, gain trust and build deep relations.

The manager's guide book for doing the appraisal quickly, efficiently and effectively

Identifying high potential employees in your organization is one thing, but successfully developing and making them stay requires continuous focused efforts.

Managing people in an industry where there is a continuous customer interface is a great challenge.

I am sharing my learnings from being in the HR field for more than two decades.These might help you manage your career as an HR professional in an effective manner.

We had talked about this in one of my earlier posts. Selecting Talent is a topic of perennial importance and more so in the current business circumstances. I am currently reading "Great People Decisions" by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz and he says,“Nothing is more important than knowing how to hire and promote great people,”. I have tried to build my own model of Push & Pull techniques for Selecting Talent, here is something I would like to share with you:

Selecting Right - My Learnings Selecting the Right Candidate for a job is an extremely difficult job but is done mostly in a casual manner

Selection of good fit for a future candidate is becoming tougher by the day in India. One of the biggest issue facing managers in India is the 'Right' fit of a potential candidate with the job. Managers are looking for magic wands to find the 'Right' candidate and get them to perform in their team.

It has taken me sometime to assimilate all what I have been hearing from CEOs and Entrepreneurs for 2013 to come out with what lies in store for HR in 2013. The future is looking good and businesses want to growth this year. They are cautious and do not want to repeat mistakes of the past few years, some of them are still learning and cautious.

Everyone wants to progress, wants to be better and if one wants to be better, then logically one wants to change to become better. All rational human beings change if they see the reason and benefit in it. Simon Sinek in his path breaking discovery has shared with us the secret of world class marketing and it a single word “Why”, if we share “Why” with people, they are willing to listen and ultimately change.