Book Review: What the Heck Do I Do with My Life
A number of you have asked me to add book reviews in the newsletter. Here is a review of Ravi Venkatesan's new book. Check out the hashtag#sketchnote on the entrepreneur's mindset.
Ravi is the first guest on Season 4 of my weekly LinkedIn Live called Dreamers and Unicorns. Do let me know the questions you have about tech and talent.
Culture Building for hashtag#remoteteams
I was invited by LinkedIn News India to join Pallavi Pareek (She/They) and Ankit Vengurlekar (he/him) to discuss this topic. This is a special edition of my hashtag#newsletter
Three Ms That Matter (The other two are explained in the newsletter)
Mental Health: This matters HUGELY in case of a remote work culture. Build the skills of the managers to recognise emotions like grief, stress, burnout etc.
"Why can't you focus on doing JUST ONE THING, " is a constant advice you get. You like juggling a number of projects and excelling at all of them.
You teach yourself new skills continuously - even when you could just get by. Sometimes you are better at it than even the people who have studied the subject. Does that sound like you?
You have a great job, but you wish you could do more. You may be craving to follow a Career 3.0 path but stuck in a Career 1.0 job.
The pandemic will some day soon just wane
But long hours & stress makes it hard to stay sane
Some now want to go back to work, but some just don't
No childcare is the reason many of 'em just won't
Offer sabbaticals even if it goes against your grain
Globally, an estimated 264 million people suffer from depression, one of the leading causes of disability. Many of these people suffer from symptoms of anxiety. 48% of employees report experiencing high to extreme stress over the past year
#TheGreatResignation in 2021 has put millions of professionals into hashtag#newroles and new hashtag#ecosystems. Without the support of a hashtag#transitioncoach most of these new hires will struggle to perform.
3 Steps in Building a hashtag#TalentBrand
Employer brand is what job seekers and employees really think of you. Talent Brand is a subset of that. A strong Talent Brand makes your business-critical talent think of you as their preferred employer.
When an employee quits, the manager offers more money. That reinforces exactly what the employees suspected. The relationship is purely transactional. They believe that they are just another factor of production
CAREER BREAKS - HOW TO MANAGE THEM
Life happens. Career breaks happen. How to re-enter the workforce and what should employers do. Here are some inspiring stories of individuals who took a career break. Sometimes they chose to take a break. Sometimes the circumstances forced the break. The credit must also go to the employer who did not let a break in career ruin their future.
