Posts on innovation and exploration of potential opportunities. Focussing on future concerns and emerging trends in learning, leadership, OD and change.
Traditionally, all learning in organizations has been driven through training programs. Several organizations also offer elearning modules to facilitate, what one might call, learner-led learning. Now for those in the learning and development function, this brings up some common concerns: Uptake of elearning is low while investment on licenses is high ...
NASA just released a statement suggesting there was once water on planet Mars and that ancient Mars was habitable for life. This got me thinking about organizations working across planets, intergalactic commute and people working on one planet while their “office” was in another. What would teams and their work arrangements then look like? Closer home, ...
In my work, I often get questions such as "How do I collaborate?" “I asked them what they thought. That’s collaboration, right?” Or, “We spent three weeks discussing this before I took a call. That’s definitely collaboration”. One such recent conversation made me think about what really is collaboration after all? Using the principle that collaboration must ...
At a recent workshop with a client, I was helping a bunch of people managers understand what people management was really about. That it was not only about feeling pride in being able to decide someone’s rating and salary hikes at the end of the year or reveling in the social status of a large ...
At a meeting with the senior leadership team discussing a new and improved performance management system, several senior executives raised questions about the efficacy of the system. They questioned it's relevance to the organization, its impact on employee morale and so on. It seemed odd for these concerns to arise without the group even having discussed ...