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Leaders are not born but they are made. Great leaders develop their personal skills to lead the country or group or organsiations. What makes them the great leaders? The following are the qualities of a leader, which makes them to be the leaders. Self-belief, communication, Emotional Intelligence, Desire, Focus, Passion, discipline and influencing, Self-belief Self-belief is not egoism or boastfulness but believing one’s knowledge and resources that he has within himself to overcome obstacles and to keep the momentum going until he achieves the target. One of my bosses with whom I worked always say “If I am not convinced with the HR Policies or the Systems developed by me, it is always difficult for me to convince the Unions”. Hence, one has to believe himself. Salespeople, who don’t believe in their product, do make sales but not as successful as those who believe. So much of the leader’s role – especially the leader of a business is to convince others that the course of action they a...

Accenture All Accenture employees have career counsellors, typically two levels above them in the hierarchy, who are given a budget and specific time to mould the career of their wards. It has a Cross Entity Leadership Program to allow people to switch between bus inesses, and all openings are posted on internal portals. It allows employees to work from home and also work part time. It has set up an inhouse event management arm and employees who take part in clubs and special interest groups are expected to conceive and run programmes for each of these initiatives, ranging from sports to corporate social responsibility. Empowered employees: Employees at relatively junior levels are empowered to take decisions and managers running even 100-person units are allocated budgets to run their businesses Education initiatives: There’s a massive focus on education and training with 16,000 online courses for employees across all levels. It offers courses in association with the likes of MIT t...

My Boss asked me to suggest a few HR practices, which can be implemented in my organization to increase the engagement. Whenever, we are asked to suggest any new HR practices, we normally develop it on our own or find out the practices adapted by the other organizations for better implementation. In order to identify and adapt best-in-class practices from globally admired organisatins, I had discussed with my HR friends on the various HR initiatives practiced in their organisations. I had also referred various books and magazines especially Business Today on this. In the process, I came across the best HR practices followed by various Companies like; iGate, HCL Comnet, Microsoft India, Accenture, Marriott Hotels India, HCL infosystems, Godrej Consumer, Honeywell, which I would like to share with the HR Professionals. Best HR practices of iGATE Town Hall Meetings: iGate organises regular “town hall” meetings for all its employees where employees are encouraged to use the forum to addre...

Yesterday, I have posted an interesting topic i.e. “listening skills for HR Professional”. Today let me share some thing on improving the writing skills, which the HR Professionals use in their day-to-day business The main work of a HR professional is focused on writing Policies, developing Reports, communicating with the Management and employees. Therefore, writing is an essential and most required skill of a HR professional. In the initial stage of the profession the HR professional may not require the skills but as he goes up the professional ladder, the managerial components expand. The writing skills will definitely prove to be important for his success at the senior levels. How to develop the writing skills? The first and foremost is reading the writings of the great authors in English language. No doubt, the voracious reader would become a master of the language. The important part of developing the language is applying the finer aspects of language while reading the books of t...

In my earlier posting, I had mentioned various essentials qualities of a HR Professional. Now, let us see those items one b y one. At present, the most required quality of a HR Professional is that he should be a good communicator. In the sense that the HR professionals should have good listening, writing, reading and speaking skills. The requirement is not only in his own language but also he should have the capability in carrying out the business in day-to-day business in English. Good Listener is a better Manager Listening is not the same thing as hearing; it is not an effortless activity. It demands high sense of attention and concentration. We understand thing wrong because we have not understood what someone meant when they were talking to us. Anyone, who has ever taken the minutes of a long meeting will know how hard it is to remember - despite the benefit of the notes - exactly what everyone said. Good listeners don't interrupt. But the bad habit is that we start thinking ...

In my earlier note, I had mentioned various essentials qualities of a HR Personnel. Now, let us see those items one by one. At present, the most required quality of a HR Professional is that he should be a good communicator. In the sense that the HR professionals should have good listening, writing, reading and speaking skills. The requirement is not only in his own language but also he should have the capability in carrying out the business in day-to-day business in English. Good Listener is a better Manager Listening is not the same thing as hearing; it is not an effortless activity. It demands high sense of attention and concentration. We understand thing wrong because we have not understood what someone meant when they were talking to us. Anyone, who has ever taken the minutes of a long meeting will know how hard it is to remember - despite the benefit of the notes - exactly what everyone said. Good listeners don't interrupt. But the bad habit is that we start thinking of what ...

In my earlier note, I had mentioned various essentials qualities of a HR Personnel. Now, let us see those items one by one. At present, the most required quality of a HR Professional is that he should be a good communicator. In the sense that the HR professionals should have good listening, writing, reading and speaking skills. The requirement is not only in his own language but also he should have the capability in carrying out the business in day-to-day business in English. Good Listener is a better Manager Listening is not the same thing as hearing; it is not an effortless activity. It demands high sense of attention and concentration. We understand thing wrong because we have not understood what someone meant when they were talking to us. Anyone, who has ever taken the minutes of a long meeting will know how hard it is to remember - despite the benefit of the notes - exactly what everyone said. Good listeners don't interrupt. But the bad habit is that we start thinking of what ...