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Workplace Management Tips-v3 With the beginning of the Knowledge Revolution, unlike its predecessor, the Industrial revolution, the role of people forming an Organisation has changed. The Factory Supervisor was an individual who may have been a worker and then promoted to a supervisory role. And therefore, knew exactly what the worker had to do, during his clocked-in hours. With the...

Earlier this year, like most of us in 2020, I found myself in the midst of doubts about a job loss. Like most, I tumbled upon the Linkedin Learning on Resilience. Though I can’t seem to recall much of what was covered in the learning capsule, I started researching on the word origin. So, the word resilience comes from 2 words in Latin – ‘Re salire’ ‘Re’ – in latin means...

Meena Menon was a go-getter, brilliant, confident and successful. Meena lived in a beautiful up- market house with her husband, children and in-laws. She loved them all and loved her job. Yet Meena wasn’t happy. She was well placed in a prestigious organization. She had a great social circle. Her husband and kids were doing well too. It seemed like she had the perfect life; but Meena wasn’t...

In one of my sessions one of the leaders asked me, “I have a woman employee who always comes up with reasons to not stay late. She just finds reasons to escape on time. How do I trust her?” My response was – “Trust them, maybe they genuinely have a reason to go home on time. May be they are primary care givers and have no support. Be empathetic” I was pondering over what I said, and...

Risks Associated with EAP Risk-awareness and mitigation strategies for successful implementation of EAPs EAPs are undoubtedly good for our employees and the organisation. However they do carry inherent risks. Knowing what these are and having a plan to mitigate them is part of ensuring that the EAP is a success. Here are the points to consider: Lack of Use In spite of all the efforts from the...

Risk-awareness and mitigation strategies for successful implementation of EAPs It is 9 PM. Charan has had a long day and is still working. Although he is tired, he is committed to his job of being a corporate counsellor since he has seen the positive impact of extending emotional support to stressed employees. The firm Charan works for provides such Employee Assistance Services to businesses....

Here is a guide for effectively rolling out an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Part A deals with one-time activities at the time of launch or annual review of the EAP. Part B: Ongoing Activities These are activities that need to be continued throughout the year. Step 4: Spreading Awareness Even if employees know that an EAP service exists for their issues, they might not avail them due to...

Ritu heads the HR team of a business that adopted an Employee Assistance Program exactly a year ago. Today she had a meeting with her CEO, who said that the company has invested one year and a fair amount of money into the EAP but things seem the same. During the past year, a webinar on EAP was conducted and three employees used the counselling service. This was not on par with the amount...

Ritu heads the Human Resource Department of a company. Recently she received many complaints of poor performance, which impacted the revenue. After having a few one-on-one sessions with some of the employees, she realised that their productivity was affected due to stress from issues in their personal lives and not due to lack of interest or ability. She was wondering what to do when she came...

Anish was clearly disturbed. The covid times and the work from work scenario were taking a toll on both his work and personal life. Staying cooped up at home with his wife, handling his office workload, pitching in with the household chores and with the limited outdoor activity, he found it difficult to focus on his work. To make matter worse constant arguments with his wife, Tina, lead her...