🗞 Saying no to unnecessary meetings, employee engagement stats and more
Hey everyone,
Q4 is officially here and we’ll be with you every step of the way 🦸🏻♀️
In today’s edition:
🚫 How to say no to unnecessary meetings
🌍 How to approach remote working policies
📝 Applicant tracking software (ATS) recommendations
🚀 Discover employee engagement stats
Don’t have a profile in our Slack community yet? We’ll try not to hold it against you.
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💬 TSOW’s poll
We asked you about the employee well-being initiatives that are active in your organization. The results are in — see them below!
🧵 Top threads of the week
🏡 Remote working policies
This week, members explored the best ways to approach a remote work policy.
📊 Applicant tracking software (ATS) recommendations
Your peers suggested some applicant tracking systems for recruiting.
📵 Saying no to unnecessary meetings
Your peers exchanged ideas for saying no to unnecessary meetings.
📣 TSOW experts: your peers have questions — can you help them out?
💼 Raksha wants to know the different types of complex employee relations issues you have come across, and how did you sort them.
📈 Sindhu is looking for tips on building out a performance appraisal process.
🎯 Shonik is seeking advice on launching an employee engagement plan.
Browse our channels, and you might find more questions you could answer, helping your peers with your expertise.
🔥 Hiring now!
We want to make this community as useful and as valuable as possible to all of our members and that’s why we have decided to start an initiative for the job seekers in the TSOW community 👀
Every week, we’ll be sharing some relevant job opportunities in the #hr-job-listings channel curated by us 💫
These are just some of the many exciting People Ops positions shared by our members! Check out the #hr-job-listings channel to explore many more people ops roles.
🤓 Useful resources
🎙Listen to our latest episode of The Shape of Work Podcast with Karandeep Singh Grover on ensuring a strong talent pipeline & improving employee wellbeing in 2022, here!
📑 Get your handy guide on indian tech sector compensation benchmarks for 2022.
📘 Discover 50 employee engagement statistics you need to know [2022 Updated]
❓What’s happened recently?
We are now rewarding referral prizes to our community members who refer our community to their peers. 🧧
The rules are simple:
✅ Recommend The Shape of Work community to other HR professionals with a given link.
✅ The concerned person fills up the form and mentions who they’re referred by.
And, DONE! 👏 Here are some finalized prizes we’ve chosen for our members:
🎁 3 referrals - A book about HR (ebook/physical based on preference)
🎁 10 referrals - Amazon/Swiggy voucher for INR 1000
🎁 30 referrals - 5000 Amazon voucher
Exciting enough?
We announced our winners for our first round of referral contests recently: Manish Kumar (winner) and Shantanu Karnik (Runners up). We are grateful to them and the rest of the people for referring and helping connect more like-minded people through our community.
🥁 What’s happening this week?
A Friday packed with learning? 📚
Are your team members struggling with expectations? We got you. Here’s a plan to change the game 🎯
TSOW community is having a learning session on the ‘performance improvement plan (PIP)’ this Friday (October 14th) at 1 PM IST 🚀
Where: Exclusively on the TSOW Slack group
Through this brainstorming session, you’ll learn:
What is a performance improvement plan?
When should you implement a performance improvement plan?
How do you write a good performance improvement plan?
What should a performance improvement plan include?
How to execute the performance improvement plan?
🗓 Upcoming events
We’re so stoked to share that October is packed with 2 AMAs. Here’s the lineup:
Omkar Pradhan, Lead - People, Culture & Talent at GoKwik - Oct 20th (Thursday)
Aashish Punjabi), Chief of Staff at Juno - Oct 27th (Thursday)
Stay tuned for the announcement on the #expert-ama channel 🚀
We’ll be announcing the meet-up on the #general channel soon, so stay tuned 🚀
🙌 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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