AI is revolutionizing Indian HR, enhancing talent acquisition, engagement, and strategic workforce planning. Indian organizations are increasingly adopting AI-driven HR technologies to improve efficiency and personalize employee experiences. While challenges like bias and data privacy exist, integrating AI ethically alongside human intuition is crucial for creating engaging and future-ready workplaces in India.
Organizations need to realize that retention for the sake of retention is not always beneficial. Not everyone who stays adds value, and not everyone who leaves is a loss. Instead of chasing low turnover numbers, the focus should shift to purposeful retention—retaining employees who are engaged, ethical, growth-oriented, and who actively contribute to a positive work culture. Sometimes, allowing the wrong fit to leave, or even encouraging it, is healthier than forcing a relationship that no longer works.
In the Era of Contradiction, the old “clarity-will-come” assumption of uncertainty must give way to a new recognition: “contradictions-will-persist.” We no longer live in a system where unknowns will gradually become known. Today, contradictions are not transitional — they are structural. Record profit and record lay-offs happen simultaneously in the same company. Employees are promised flexibility — and simultaneously tracked by productivity software. These are not problems awaiting resolution. These are coexisting, opposing truths that define our reality.
With every new generation of impeccable talent entering the workforce, the priorities of what moves high-performing engineers need to be adapted.
Productivity peacocking, a display of busyness to impress rather than produce, fosters workplace toxicity, stress, and reduced innovation. This behavior prioritizes appearances over genuine outcomes, leading to unethical practices and talent loss. Companies must shift focus to meaningful performance metrics, fostering collaboration and employee wellbeing to counteract these negative effects.
Catastrophizing, a cognitive distortion, leads individuals to assume the worst in workplace scenarios, fueling anxiety and hindering productivity. This article explores how this manifests through email panic, presentation fears, and performance review dread. It offers strategies to break free from this pattern, emphasizing reframing thoughts and grounding oneself in reality, while highlighting industry trends addressing workplace anxiety.
The KDGT Grant Thornton Invitational—a first-of-its-kind tournament—has men and women pros playing together, on the same course, for the same prize. No separate categories. No second-class matches. Just one game. One leaderboard. One shot at glory.
It is crucial to understand that emotional intelligence is not a trait exclusive to women. Both men and women can develop and benefit from it equally. When both genders embrace EI, the benefits are not only immediate but long-lasting. The development of EI across the entire workforce can create a more inclusive and collaborative environment, where diverse perspectives enhance decision-making, engagement, and organisational resilience. In the long term, this shared focus on EI fosters stronger leadership and cultivates a sustainable, forward-thinking corporate culture.
Hostile Attribution Bias, a cognitive distortion, leads individuals to assume negative intentions in others, fostering workplace distrust and conflict. This bias manifests in misinterpreting feedback, perceiving silence as rejection, and reading negativity into emails. Past experiences, negativity bias, and lack of information contribute to this.
Leadership today is less about control and more about creating stakeholder value and capacity-building. Less about preserving power and more about enabling performance. And nowhere is this transformation more vital than in leaders who understand that their relevance lies not in how much they do, but in how much they enable.
The article explores how rigid expectations impact workplace dynamics. It highlights common scenarios where 'Shoulds' manifest, and offers strategies to break free from these cognitive distortions.
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