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Praveen Chandola

Manager HR & Admin @ Sennheiser

Sennheiser Electronics India Pvt Ltd

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Advice For Fellow HR Leaders:

HR Leaders in organizations should put more focus on better learning & development practices and should also develop and incorporate organization values as core of business.

Relationship with HR and Top Management

At a broad level, this relationship must be characterised by honesty, close and open communication and manned by strong individuals on both sides. Each must understand the realities of the other’s domain – just as HR must learn and believe the business and financial realities that govern the CEO’s world, the CEO must understand and believe the HR relationships and perspectives that underpin HR’s existence.
HR has always been expected to be a “support” function, which supports the vision of the firm as decided by the CEO and board. Along with the change in the relationship between the workforce and companies – equal partners instead of the earlier dependent relationship – the dynamics of managing these internally has changed.

HR Strategies In Place

Online Performance Management System (easy to access on go, capturing KRA, KPI, measures, deadline, organization values and training & development needs)

Competency Mapping ( Have competency mapped for each role, function. Now training employees on those competencies)

Learning & development system ( developing team of internal coach & trainer, learning linked with individual development and organization goals)

Leadership Programs in Place:

We have a Learning & development system, which is linked to :
Organization Goals
Person centric (personal development)
Position centric
Annual KRA
Organizational Values & Competencies
We have seen employees achieving the satisfaction and excellence by this practice.

Attract good people, Retain Better Performers and Advance the Best:

Being a small size but premium product company, we always focus on getting a high potential manpower. We partner with best of hiring agencies, who can put a dedicated experienced manpower for hiring for us and can pitch the company properly to the potential candidate. Also we show case premium product & services, companies open culture, better future prospect, best of benefits, learning opportunity and organization values.

Identifying and Promoting New Leaders:

We identify leader through our L & D practice and promote them by using our Career Development & Growth Policy. Being a sales organization, some time it is easy to identify high performer and high potentials. It becomes very necessary for us to find the difference in high performer and high potentials. employees with high performance and high potential need to be promoted without any delay. But high performers with low potential for higher responsibilities need to be dealt by providing them right training and roles in organization.

Qualities that we Look For While Hiring:

Job Knowledge
Understanding of business
Attitude
Go getter nature
Focus

Recruiting new generation:

Generation Y seeks for open organization culture, various benefits, fast recognization & look at 5 or lesser year growth concept. Generation Y comes with clear focus and by interest of job profile. If a organization have all above, it will be easy for them to attract Gen Y

Current HR Trends:

Some of Upcoming trends in HR are :
1. Interactive & experiential L&D practices.
2. Uses of Technology based easy employee support system
3. Uses of Social Media Platforms for engaging talent, attracting talent and seeking kick response.

Improving Education system

If I look the past 15 year, education system in India have taken a new shape. But the new education system & technology is still limited to premium school/colleges in A & B class cities in India. Penetration of new education system is still not done at Govt. and local small school/colleges across India. In govt schools/colleges education is still in same 50 years old shape.
We should have equal level of education system in all categories across India. New education system should have more options to chose subjects of Interest from starting, more interactive/ practical style of teaching using the smart education technologies.
At the same time we also need to control on making education a big money earning business. Govt is not opening self high standard school/colleges and allowing private bodies to open the school/colleges, which is very expensive and beyond reach for middle and lower class of India.

Helping to develop the country

With the trend of Foreign MNC's coming to India and Indian companies becoming more Global, I think professionals are already putting their efforts to make the companies successful in any way and that is a step towards being a developed country.
But professionals also need to start the process of giving back to society i.e. helping society with better education system, narrowing the difference in poor and rich, raising their voice against corruption and other issues.

Parting Thoughts

As a member of society, we all need to work for better world around us by following right, ethical work practices, nature of sharing & caring and develop a system which support equality in all sense.

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