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Issue 22 E-NEWSLETTER Mar - Apr 2016 From the Desk of the Director General Dear Members, The new financial year begins and I sincerely hope that this these three new initiatives are NHRDN Agora, NHRDN year too will usher positive economic growth & the Connect App and the new Membership Offerings. ‘Agora’ business environment improves in various sectors in India means a common gathering place in Greek; we have & globally. With these business complexities & intense created this unique online platform where a plethora of competitive pressures, leaders will need to bank on new services are offered including building expertise through talent to be its source of competitive advantage for Professional Course Certifications, credible business achieving success. Thus the thrust on HR will be more than information, Jobs Search, platform where companies can ever before and it would require to play a partnering role post jobs to attract new talent, where you can access & talk with the leadership to plan & achieve the business goals in to Industry leaders through Expert Connect, share your future. Taking this forward, NHRDN organised the first of thoughts through Blogs & Webinars and many more its kind ‘National Summit on Transforming HR in Power features to be added in due course of time! The other Sector’, to discuss the various HR issues needed to re- initiative is the NHRDN Connect - a Digital App which will align HR with the emerging changes and challenges in the help members to stay updated and connected. The App is Indian Power Sector. It was well received and a detailed in its beta testing phase and we will keep you posted about story about the Summit is featured in the Newsletter. the launch date shortly. The 4th NHRDN Summit on Workforce Technology & Another milestone that we are touching is the HRSCAPE-a Shared Services – where the focus theme was on ‘Lean & Competency Assessment & Development Framework for Smart HR – Transforming Work‘, dealt with the challenges HR Professionals. HRSCAPE has been conceptualised to companies faced with implications of the new Digital help professionals in HR capability assessments & change and how the world of work will change and what building relevant skills, while the corporate will be able to role a Lean & Smart HR will play in this journey. assess & build required competencies for their HR Teams. The 4th Summit on ‘Gender Balanced Leadership-The Way For more details about these initiatives, please click Forward’ was also successfully conducted, where the below for an AV presentation. participants had an understanding as to how to support Gender Balanced Leadership in five power-packed sessions. We also had the 4th HR Summit on Leveraging Compensation & Rewards for Sustainable Business Growth which focused on the rewards strategy needed to be adopted by the top management which was quite interactive. The details of this Summit are featured in the Newsletter. Talking about the age of digitization which has changed the dynamics of connectivity among people, NHRDN has come out with three new initiatives. I am excited to share that Page | 01 Issue 22 E-NEWSLETTER Mar - Apr 2016 Our New Membership Offerings for both Individuals/Students and bounds. I seek your cooperation in joining us and and Institutions include options where you can avail taking forward these new endeavours of Relevance, Reach discounts and various other benefits like a wide range of and Results, which is now the new slogan of NHRDN and physical & digital products and services etc., For more be a part of this vibrant network! details about our New Membership drive please click here. With Best Wishes & Regards I am also pleased to share that the 4th NHRDN Ranking of Business Schools Report 2015-2016 - a very prestigious initiative by NHRDN, is under progress and the Report will be published as soon as the results are validated. Kamal Singh We hope that in this 30th year since its inception, these new Director General initiatives will make the NHRDN fraternity grow in leaps NHRD Network Page | 02 Issue 22 E-NEWSLETTER Mar - Apr 2016 RELEVANCE, REACH & RESULTS. From the Desk of the Executive Director Dear Members, I am delighted to inform you that as NHRDN touches its 30th NHRDN Connect - This is an app where we help support milestone in December, 2016; to commemorate this our NHRDN fraternity to stay connected wherever, significant year, we at the National Secretariat under the whenever. Currently in the beta testing phase this is leadership of Mr. K. Ramkumar, National President- another offering from NHRDN in sync with the digital NHRDN, the Leadership Team and the Board have set off connectivity phase. various new initiatives. As rightly mentioned in Mr. Kamal New Membership Offerings - As part of our Membership Singh’s message, the age of digitization has changed the reach we have evolved a new proposition for all members dynamics of connectivity and reach among people and we who can benefit from various Institutional and Individual at NHRDN are in the process of leveraging this wave to membership schemes . Not only do you get high discounts serve you better. but also give a wide range of digital and physical products NHRDN soul searched our existence in three words- and services. We also cater to the Students who can benefit Relevance, Reach & Results. This is to get our new from subsidised membership rates apart from the initiatives and our multifaceted activities closer to our exposure to the ‘how’ part of the real life HR. These and growing HR fraternity, which at the end will be of great many more benefits are in the fray for Life members. Also benefit to our members. At this juncture, I feel humbled to for those who join newly, we offer a 30-day trial share that NHRDN has given me this tremendous membership. A brief video about NHRDN Agora, NHRDN responsibility of leading the New Initiatives. Digital App and Membership is available by clicking here The new initiatives in pipeline are NHRDN AGORA, NHRDN Our sincere thanks to a wonderful set of Volunteers – Connect App, New Membership Offerings & HRSCAPE – World Class Professionals, for developing New Initiatives, NHRDN Competency Assessment & Development drawn from organisations such as American Express, Framework for HR Professionals. Cognizant, HCL Technologies, ICICI Bank, ICICI Prudential, NHRDN AGORA - This is one of our prestigious initiatives & Infosys, M&M, L&T, TCS among other prominent this one-stop Online Platform offers many services at one organisations. We look forward to their continued common place for all HR professionals. For instance you patronage. can access and talk to Industry Leaders through our Expert HRSCAPE - A Competency Assessment & Development Connect, acquire Professional Certifications through our Framework for HR Professionals – As Dr. Wayne online accredited certificate courses, locate trainers, Brockbank, Professor of Business, Ross School of consultants, and other HR Service Providers etc. through Business, University of Michigan sums it up, it is a robust our Agora Partners, and the Knowledge Hub is a place tool which“ will communicate to fledging and advanced HR where you can share your thoughts and read views through professionals what is required to be a complete HR blogs, articles & webinars. The Agora website will soon be professional”. This framework is structured to assess launched and we will keep you updated when its fully professionals for 8 Functional and 4 Behavioral functional and online. Competencies. Each Competency has 4 stages- Page | 03 Issue 22 E-NEWSLETTER Mar - Apr 2016 Foundational, Competent, Advanced and Expert and in turn will help professionals build relevant skills. With Best Wishes & Regards Please click here for more details about HRSCAPE. These are few prominent initiatives which will be launched by NHRDN to serve you. We seek your support and Dhananjay Singh cooperation in being a part & taking these initiatives Executive Director forward and spread the word amongst the HR fraternity and make this a huge success. Thanking You. Page | 04 Issue 21 CODE OF CONDUCT Jan - Feb 2016 I will always strive to meet the highest evolving standards of COMPETENCE in the profession and ADD VALUE to organizational success. I will deal with all stakeholders with utmost INTEGRITY and create an environment of TRUST leading to ETHICAL success of my organization. I will ensure that I am always RELIABLE and consistent in all my actions by accepting responsibility for my decisions and actions thereby creating CREDIBILITY for my profession and myself. I will be OBJECTIVE in all my actions and decisions and foster FAIRNESS with firmness. I will conduct myself in a way that FACILITATES GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT of all those I am responsible for. I will strive to be a ROLE MODEL for all others and CHAMPION exemplary practice of the HR profession. I will respect the rights of privacy, will not use my position for personal gains and ensure that there is no CONFLICT OF INTEREST in what I do with any of my stakeholders. Page | 05 Issue 22 E-NEWSLETTER Mar-Apr 2016 HOW TO HANDLE AN EXIT INTERVIEW How to Handle an Exit Interview When an employee joins a company, s/he is highly • Complete confidentiality and anonymity guaranteed motivated and full of energy especially when they • Conduct of interviews in accordance with company spend an estimated 75% of every waking hour in work- core values and beliefs related activity. It’s not hard to see that ending the It is a fact that a wide range of organizational, inter- relationship between employer and employee is a big personal and personal factors do play a decisive role step in moving on from the company and how an which leads to an employee’s decision to quit. Exit is a employer handles the exit interview can have a lasting natural phenomenon.