Here is The Shape of Work’s very first community newsletter!
Hello there 👋🏼
As humans, we always remember our "firsts." Our first car, first friend, first job, first concert, and the first time we left home. Firsts are important to us. And so is our first community newsletter.
I’m Priya, community builder at The Shape of Work community by Springworks. We hope you’re finding our community insightful and easy to navigate through.
If you don’t have a profile in our Slack community yet, no problem!
👉 Just click here to join!
I would like to reintroduce you to The Shape of Work community- a Slack community for HR Leaders, People Managers & People Ops professionals to connect, share advice and ask questions.
Beyond our growing Slack group, we conduct virtual events, record podcasts with talented professionals, and curate relevant resources for the community at large.
To those who are already a part of our Slack group, The Shape of Work community is growing and you are one of the reasons 🤗
Even though this has been a recent venture, we’ve had our share of milestones:
✊🏼 250+ members strong
🎙 Organized six ‘Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) sessions with the leading HR leaders
🗣 Amazing HR professionals constantly sharing their learnings & asking new questions every day
Now, it’s time for the latest highlights from the TSOW community 👇
💬 Last week’s TSOW poll
We asked if your organization prioritizes social interaction and bonding among employees?. Results are in — check them out below!
🧵 Top threads of the week
Employee-friendly policies
Members shared some employee-friendly policies in their org/ any other startups/large org, that is super helpful/really cool.
Terms and conditions in the offer letters
A member sparked the conversation on how much time frame should a company give a candidate to sign the offer letter?
And more….
🎁 Exclusive AMA sessions
1. AMA session with Bhavya Arora- Talent and Culture Partner at Outplay
We curated a playbook out of the entire AMA session, download your copy from here
Here's what we discussed in the AMA session:
❓ How does Outplay build a work culture of going above and beyond?
📖 Guide for POSH compliance
🤝 Ensuring how managers act as role models in shaping the culture together?
❌ How to ensure that the organization doesn’t become too hierarchical when scaling?
🙌🏼 Creating leave policies, appraisal systems and culture at a fully-remote company
💪🏼 Impactful things that organizations can do to support first-time managers
😇 Proven ways to manage the current talent that has multiple offers
2. AMA session with Smriti Khanna- AVP- HRBP at Livspace, Ex- Nestle & Airtel
We curated a playbook out of the entire AMA session, download your copy from here
Here's what we discussed in the AMA session:
💡 Ways to overcome challenges faced by employees with 'return to office'
⏰ The right time to implement OKRs
🎯 Org structure for a fast-growing (150 people) startup
⭕️ 360 feedback and ONA (Organizational network analysis)
🤝 Retaining talent in a hybrid model
🎯 Metrics for employee productivity
✔️ Tips to evaluate ownership & high agency in the interviews
👥 Various examples of impactful DEI initiatives
🔥 Hiring now!
People Success Partner [Remote, Bangalore] at Squadstack
HR Executive -Talent Acquisition [Remote, Bangalore] at Clootrack
👀 The latest from Springworks
🎉 Check out our guide for companies on 13 best virtual retreat ideas for your organization.
🎙️ Check out the latest episode of The Shape of Work podcast with Satadru Chakraborty, HR Head at Signify Innovations Lab (formerly Philips Lighting) on designing the employee experience to improve workplace culture and drive performance.
🥁 What’s happening this week?
TSOW’s 7th exclusive AMA session is happening with our host, Dipali Pallai, Independent HR Consultant (Ex- NephroPlus & Fabindia).
🙌 Thanks for reading!
Have an amazing rest of the week, and feel free to reply to this email if you have questions or feedback. 😀
Priya Bhatt
Community at Springworks
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