TSOW community newsletter #3
Hi everyone 👋🏼
It’s a new week — which means we have a fresh newsletter for you 💃🏻
Check out the latest highlights from the TSOW community ⬇️
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P.S. We’ve recently started our new series #tiptuesday!
Every Tuesday, we want to share a small tip on relevant HR/People Ops topics. Check out the newest one on the importance of listening to your employees & more here.
🎯 Some milestones
1️⃣ Community of 335+ HR Leaders from companies like Swiggy, MPL, WazirX, CRED, Ixigo, Unacademy, INDmoney, Nextleap, Plum, Razorpay, MyCaptain and more....
2️⃣ Range of curated channels where members discuss everything from onboarding, to hiring, to retaining the employees till their exit.
3️⃣ 10,000+ messages sent across channels by members
4️⃣ An avg. of 130 weekly active members
5️⃣ Conducted 10 AMA sessions with the People Ops leaders from hyper-growth companies.
6️⃣ Facilitating 1:1s within the community members which means we curate connect, follow up and ensure members network, talk about experiences in the HR/People Ops world, share best practices, and more! If you’d like to participate, join the #virtual-coffee-1v1s channel inside our slack group.
🐾 Ended the week with some paws-itive vibes
We asked members to post a picture of their furry colleague(s)
💬 TSOW’s poll
We asked about your organization’s top HR priorities for the next quarter. Results are in — check them out below!
🧵 Top threads of the week
Leaves during the notice period
Members discussed the general practice of leaves during the notice period
eNPS tools
Members shared suggestions on platforms or tools for conducting an eNPS.
HRMS
An enriching thread about HRMS suggestions. 13+ replies within minutes! (wow)
And more….
📣 TSOW experts: your peers have questions — can you help them out?
Do you have an employee referral program in your organization? Shantanu is looking for best practices. Any resources?
A member is looking for the best practices for an Interview process? Can you help them out?
Has anyone worked on the integrated talent management model? A member is looking for advice.
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 Pavani Gajendra, People Operations Manager at Rad
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 How can companies put together a Benefits survey for their employees if they want to take a pulse check on their benefits offerings?
2️⃣ Biggest challenges People Ops leaders face while setting up processes from scratch
3️⃣ Challenges while scaling up the people processes? What pitfalls do we have to look out for?
4️⃣ Ways to get feedback from employees to recognise unhappy employees earlier in the cycle
5️⃣ How do you build a culture of recognition?
6️⃣ One thing managers/leadership tend to get wrong when it comes to driving performance in the early days of scaling a team?
7️⃣ Different ways to increase town hall participation
8️⃣ Thoughts on the options like early salary, loan against future income etc
2. AMA session with Meena Kumari, Sr. Director HR at Airmeet
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 Fun team-building event for remote teams
2️⃣ What behaviours, tools, interventions or policies can companies implement to build the feedback culture? Which has been the most successful? Which has been the most challenging to implement?
3️⃣ Employee benefits program best practices
4️⃣ Medical insurance as part of an employee's benefits package? What are some of HR leaders' most critical challenges while setting up remote teams, and how to go about addressing those challenges?
5️⃣ Inculcating discipline into high-performing remote teams
6️⃣ Best approaches and practices that work for driving effective L&D interventions in tech
7️⃣ How do you break down team silos and improve collaboration in a remote setup?
8️⃣ Some unconventional practices that can be implemented to ensure a high-performing and low burnout culture
9️⃣ Most effective ways to improve Manager NPS in an organisation?
🔟 How do you promote diversity in the workplace?
🔥 Hiring now!
Talent Manager [Gurgaon] at Hindustan wellness
Technical Recruiter [Bangalore] at Bookee
Senior Talent Partner [Bangalore] at Affinidi
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.
👀 The latest from Springworks
🎉 Check out these 7 Candidate Outreach Templates for LinkedIn For 2022
🎙️ Check out the latest episode of The Shape of Work podcast with Rajiv Ayyangar, Co-founder of Tandem on what the Hybrid-flexible workplaces of the future look like
💻 Join our webinar discussion on how to set up, launch, and scale a successful employee recognition program - The Playbook with Sricharan C - Head of Human Resources, WazirX, Bhavya Arora - Talent and Culture Partner, Outplay, and Kartik Mandaville - CEO, Springworks.
📣 What’s happening this week?
TSOW’s exclusive AMA session #11 will be hosted by Ranaq Sen, Global Head CoE - People Tech & Analytics at MPL (Ex- Darwinbox).
If you care about people analytics, Ranaq is someone you should know. Before his current role at MPL, Ranaq worked as HRMS Implementation Lead - South India at Darwinbox.
Here’s how this session will work:
- Join us live during the session from 8 a.m to 8 p.m on Thursday, July 14, and ask your questions
- Leave your questions in the #expert-ama channel already so that Ranaq can answer them on Thursday.
🥁 Announcement
1️⃣ TSOW community website finally has its own ‘resources’ section. Members can now access all AMA Playbooks, E-books and more, all in one place.
🙌 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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