Dear All,
I just silently read few last days posting. I don't know exactly how long will be the actual offline citehr meet of 19th August 2007. What I can say, whatever time we HR people are going to spend there must be very effective. Effective in the sense, all the participants, invitees and volunteers must have a feeling that, they are at the right place to learn and share..like they are doing online on citehr.
In just last fews years, many people have turned to human resources from various other fields especially namely Marketing and Finance and most of them are new to HR.
Whatever matter/presentations we are going to prepare must cite excitement and eagerness too much involves oneself in HR so that the participants are bound to stay and attend the meet attentively. Only then our objective of having such an HR meet will meet.
I remember in my last Organization MUL, a meeting of HR professionals from across the country was organized, where Mr. Siddiqui (Head HR), asked a questions to all of us, “what should be qualities of a HR Manager”..many hands went into the air,. Somebody said, “The person must be an MBA”, somebody said, “he should have a good knowledge of labor laws”, and others answers were like, “the person must be experienced”, the person must have good knowledge of HR and its various functions” and there were 100s of answers from having a good performance management system to adopting Maslow theory etc. but Mr. Siddiqui was not satisfied with any answer. He answered to become an HR Manager, the person must have common sense, some of us laughed and some of us were shocked with his answer”. Than he continued, “if the person has no common sense, how will he test the common sense of the others working in the company and how will he handle problems of all the employees in the company”. And lately, I realized he was right up to a great extent.
Lets talk about business, in this meet some senior members may share their good experiences into HR, which highlight interesting facts about HR. We may prepare matter/presentations on topics such as How to control the attrition in today's scenario, how to retain good employees, how to increase the employee life cycle within the Organization, how to overcome day to day obstacles we face in our professional lives, share some knowledge of latest labor regulations, amendments etc., any latest development in HR, how to create a good working environment/culture within the Organization. How to overcome growing politics in the Organization, how to smooth the communication between various departments etc.
Further, people may share their critical problems or mistakes and how they resolved it. We also may share good HR practices adopted by different Organizations. We may have a Questions and answers round (say 30 min.) of various HR related issues, where participants may raise questions and all attendees may answer those Questions.
Also, every participant should be given a certificate. (I know a printer who may print certificates free of cost).
That's just an idea, which struck in my mind, and I just shared it with all my new friends here.
Alas, I have attached a file having a wonderful article on HR Practices. This weekend, I spent more than three hours typing this article.
Warm regards,
Umesh Chaudhary
(umesh.chaudhary@ril.com)