SOCIAL BUSINESS CALLING “It’s a final boarding call for HR”

“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations” - RALPH CHARELL

The World of business has seen head spinning changes off late. And all of us who are travelling in this gorgeous looking Titanic (Economy) post recession must take not only precautionary measures but come out with new innovative solutions at our scope of work and influence area before we hit the real rough water and obstacle again. You must be saying oh don’t be cynic, perhaps I am ,but imagine if some people had been cynic about safety of Titanic underneath rather being blown away by beauty and spectacular which they saw ,history could have been different for all those who were on board. Now market is full of opportunities and adversities with volatility as theme. We must look for our chunk into it. So what are the challenges which are at threshold of HR community? Well the list is endless and it was always for this function when it comes to challenges but today we have some colossal challenges and problems to deal with, which are most prevalent across the business landscape no matter which industry you are from.

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Some which I consider most gruesome challenges are Retention, winning talent, luring (deliberately not using “winning” here and apparently kept it separate) Gen Y, creating the culture of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial Leadership. Now the well established fact for Human Capital Management is that there is no plug-in solution. Most of you would be saying there is nothing new about challenges listed above, yes you are right but what new is, earlier these were not winning prepositions with the magnitude they have become now; today they are real GAME changers. And the sooner we realize the better it is for us. This is the sentiment that has cultivated the subject line of this post “FINAL BOARDING CALL FOR HR” we must get on board which we have been delaying all this while. It is also important to understand despite knowing all these are challenges for us, why didn’t we do something about it? Because these were required to change our most cherished beliefs and we failed to understand that we were not only resisting the Idea of innovation and change but resultant we had resisted GROWTH as well in big way.

We were so engrossed with our world (“the misnomer” it was never yours it was/is “the world” age now). And thought onus of providing solution is with people at top. Resultant we ignored some vital trends from market which we could have leveraged to great effect and we missed the solutions also lurking in these trends. What is one biggest trend which has changed the business, people and society recently? That is paradigm shift in ways of communication. Today anyone with access to a device with an internet connection can communicate with anyone around the globe almost for free with lighting reach, immediacy and ease of use never seen before. You saw it all know the reach of it as well then why aren’t we leveraging it? It is proven fact now that business value is not created in process it is always gets created in interaction and we are in midst of this transformational way of interacting. Most of us still consider this as phenomena in its own and not as materialization of paradigm shift in communications. This is currently affecting the every aspect of work and business one way or other. We have our own views of it and use them as an excuse for not actively trying to understand it. I myself is an infant in this new world and trying to upgrade my knowledge and know how because if you don’t someone else will and he/she eventually replace you. Friends Knowledge is right there just one or few clicks away. Someone can tell you what/how to use it but no one actually can tell you 100% how it will be of value to you and your scope of business that you got to figure out.

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At this very moment when I m typing this I know what are maverick Chief Enabling Office has said at the podium of WEF in Davos courtesy Social Media, VN said “India and china is not any more about cost equation but cutting edge innovation” .Lets do what we can and are capable of without being worrying to much of consequences “The Chickens will always come home to roost”. History says all legends were driven by the challenges, by the chance to push the envelope, by desire to do something which will bring radical change. We have Challenges; have the platform now let’s push the envelope with innovation and seriously exception work.................