The TSOW community Newsletter #2
295+ folks of the TSOW community- Hello to each one of you 👋🏼
Let’s check out the latest highlights from the TSOW community ⬇️
So we asked you all, what one piece of advice have you learned throughout your career. Here are some of the answers 👇
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🎙 8 ‘Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) sessions with the leading HR leaders
🗣 Amazing HR professionals constantly sharing their learnings & asking new questions every day
💬 Sent 5.5k messages within the community
💬 TSOW’s poll
We asked about the area(s) you are responsible for or actively involved in? Results are in — check them out below!
🧵 Top threads of the week
Learning budgets
Find out what individual learning budgets your fellow members’ companies are allocating to their employees.
New age HR best practices
Members shared the new-age HR trends, technology and best practices.
Top-notch POSH training companies
An enriching thread about POSH training companies. 11 replies within minutes! (wow)
And more….
📣 TSOW experts: your peers have questions — can you help them out?
Have you put together a Benefits survey for employees? A member wants to get a pulse check on their benefits offerings. Any resources?
Pooja is looking for good training programs for first-time managers. Any suggestions?
Have you ever been interviewed for an HRBP role? What are some of the situational questions that are often asked? Anupama wants to hear about your experiences!
Browse our channels, and you might find more questions that you could answer, helping your peers with your expertise. 😉
🎁 Exclusive AMA sessions
1. AMA session with Dipali Pallai, Independent HR Consultant (Ex- NephroPlus & Fabindia)
We curated a playbook out of the entire AMA session, download your copy from ‘here’
Here's what we discussed in the AMA session:
1️⃣ Balancing Compensation and Benefits to improve the employee experience
2️⃣ A must-do list of tasks when either a merger or an acquisition happens
3️⃣ How to approach cultural assimilation and integration?
4️⃣ Sourcing tools apart from LinkedIn, Angelist or Indeed
5️⃣ What do most startups get wrong while setting up their people management processes for the first time?
6️⃣ HR tools suggestions for small companies (less than 20 people)
2. AMA session with Harish Kumar Bhamidipati, Co-Founder of Choose to Thinq
We curated a playbook out of the entire AMA session, download your copy from ‘here’
Here's what we discussed in the AMA session:
1️⃣ Tip on driving a culture of accountability and driving for results
2️⃣ Key points to be considered while creating an employee journey layout
3️⃣ What can companies do that can be a big hit in the early stages of their culture-building?
4️⃣ Culture playbook for a mature organisation
5️⃣ The Future of Work when it comes to employee well-being?
6️⃣ Interview for high agency/ownership, Org design, OKRs/Goals and the right way to let someone go for their performance
7️⃣ How to maintain the company culture remotely as you grow?
8️⃣ Camaraderie building ideas other than offsites
🔥 Hiring now!
Culture Expert/HRBP [Remote, Gurgaon/Bangalore] at INDmoney
HR Manager [Remote, Bangalore] at India Hemp Organics
HR Operations/Recruiters [Bangalore] at SpringFive
👀 The latest from Springworks
🎉 Check out our guide for companies on how to create an end-to-end HR policy set-up for a startup [Resource Page]
🎙️ Check out the latest episode of The Shape of Work podcast with Praveen Raval, Managing Director (SAARC, Design Application- APAC) at Steelcase on building a feedback-rich culture, well-defined policy framework as a differentiator and redefining your employee appreciation culture.
📣 What’s happening this week?
TSOW’s exclusive AMA session #9 is happening with our host, Pavani Gajendra, People Operation Manager at Rad (Ex- Vahan Inc., Accenture & HP).
🥁 Announcements
1️⃣ TSOW community website finally has its own ‘resources’ section. Members can now access all AMA Playbooks, E-books and more in one place.
2️⃣ TSOW's Top Contributors
Finally, it's time to give a shout-out to our fellow community members who have been actively contributing to our Slack channels 💯
🥁🥁 Congratulations and a massive shoutout to Bhavya Arora and Dipali Pallai for being the Top Contributors by participating consistently across initiatives like AMA sessions, discussions, polls, suggestions and feedback ⭐️ 🎉
📣⚡️ Ta-da Surprise Surprise!! ⚡️📣
They will also be receiving a cool Swag box 🎁 from The Shape of Work team 🤗🥂
🙌 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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