Letters of the month

How do you prepare your people for cHange?

Many great points here. Especially the thought that the best strategy of change management is to teach and train people first, before the new technologies or new tools arrive. It is certainly more difficult but it is also much better than springing surprises on people when they are unprepared. Let them know what is coming and give them the tools to meet it – that is how to reduce the fear and resistance for a win-win strategy.

- VaRNIka SaxENa

Want better performance? Decouple goals and bonuses

In a way it is a revolutionary method of thinking. The Pavlovian approach of rewarding performance is so ingrained in organisations. But then when people think less of the reward, and more of doing well for the sake of the accomplishment itself, they should also be more open to new learnings and new strategies. However if bonuses are decoupled, should the next step not be about giving better base pay to keep people financially secure as they innovate in their work?

- RuHaN DEY February 2022 issue

The winning solution for a future of work

Fully agree that hybrid success is not just about getting back into the office! If we are to be obsessed with any part of hybrid, it is the support and wellbeing aspect that we should be obsessed with. We need to design this future around people and not keep squeezing them into a 'new' vision that really has nothing new about it but is just the old vision recycled.

- TaNIa BHaTIa

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Redesign jobs to reduce workplace depression

If organisations can just be more open to change and accepting that certain work processes are not set in stone, how much better the work life would be for so many of us. Work by itself can be satisfying. It does not cause anxiety and unhappiness. But the burdensome and inefficient processes surrounding work, or the rigid approach of the people around oneself, is what leads to stress and poor productivity and should be eliminated.

- CICIlIa SINgH

Time to measure senior leaders' performance beyond just financial indicators

Indeed, there is not often enough talk about the accountability of the C-suite outside of stock market performance. The top leadership plays a non-negligible role in setting the tone for values and behaviours such as sustainability and diversity, ethics and social responsibility. For such performance, they should also be recognised and rewarded accordingly. Can more boards be this forward-looking?

Why leaders need to constantly expand their thinking

Important lessons from the success of a family business that has stayed and grown through four generations. Learn from what has been done previously, see how it matches the opportunities of the present day and use it to move the company into the future, that is the epitome of passing the torch on to the next generation.

- PRaBNOOR BaJaJ

The Dogs of (Office) War

Office politics are the most pernicious and unproductive thing in the workplace. Yet we are doomed to find this toxic pushing and shoving everywhere, harming performance and careers, dividing teams along lines of pointless personal conflicts. It seems the best we can do is accept that we will be caught in some kind of crossfire and take lessons from those who have gone before us, so that we do not get pulled down or worse, become known as the managers who let our team members be pulled down.

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