The actions to be taken NOW are - Adopting to Technology, Learn New Skills, Be Willing to Stretch at work and Shrink expenses.

1. Redefining the Role of Human
Resources
NJ Lakshmi Narayan
Lakshminarayan.nj@buildhr.co.in
9176711312
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How to Increase Productivity

2. Lets make a NEW BEGNNING.
Given the situation the best we can do is improve
the levels of communication, reinforce confidence
and be transparent and honest with the
employees.
All of us are going to start working in a new
environment.
Everything has changed.
The actions to be taken NOW are
Be Willing to Stretch at work and Shrink expenses
Learn New Skills
Adopting to Technology
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3. First things first
Learning from the crisis
More with Less
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4. Productivity can be aimed at
only if we have a Sound Mind
in a healthy body.
We need to realise that the
damage is done, and it is the
compassion of the employer
and cooperation of the
employee, that will help in
winning over this crisis.
First things first
:
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5. Ensure we are enabling a
smooth restart by first
addressing the physical and
mental wellbeing of the
employee.
Anxiety levels are going to be high.
Be it the employee – Health - Wellbeing at work, Safety
– retaining the job, Security - market conditions for the
company to survive post covid.
The employer has concerns on how to
Survive then Sustain.
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6.  Many lose ends would have surfaced
– sudden lockdown would have left us
all with no access to office keys,
computers, servers, cheque books,
digital signature dongles, files,
records, etc.
 Realisation would be - where is the
back up for key resources for
execution of tasks.
 With Work From Home – WFH, breach of
data security would be staring at us.
 What was an excuse as not so secure in
investing on technology, overnight search
for laptops – on purchase or hire, high
speed data connection, cloud technology
tools to manage, has made us make
fanatic call to the IT service provider.
Learning from the crisis
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7.  We realised our Managers did not know to
allot work, monitor and review their
colleagues in remote locations.
 It seemed like a new skill requirement to
engage with virtual teams.
 The Leadership competency had to be
revisited seeing them during crisis.
 It dawned on us that tech literacy became
an urgent training need for most of our
employees.
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8. Skills that matters for the future – Digital technology,
virtual management, online transactions, App for daily
work management, investing in Cloud storage to be
prudent on technology cost.
Revisit HR work flow –
 Remove or modify processes that don’t make a business sense,
 Bring Your Own Devise - BYOD,
 Break shifts to have employees only when it is required,
 staggered shifts to have better service levels,
 more work hours per day (12 hrs)- less work days in a week (4
days) ,
 time sheet to track time spent to complete task,
 measuring work using time sheets and pay for the work done.
More with Less
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9. Online tools
 assessments to aid in selection of candidates,
 Video interviews to avoid physical movement and contact,
 Virtual Onboarding using Tech tools, Gamification of induction to give
a virtual tour of organisation.
 Daily work management aids to manage time and be productive,
review, give feedback, deploy work,
 Work flow management using tech tools to bring in efficiency,
 break out discussions for one on one meetings and employee connect,
 Respect personal time by having relevant policies.
 Learning management systems - LMS to facilitate learning at individual
pace, identify skills required and tag it to the role and employees need to
enrol for courses and gain certification to be eligible to perform the job.
 Measuring organisation performance become critical for sustenance.
Identifying enablers to attain the business goals will help in keeping on
track with performance and productivity.
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10. Lets make a NEW BEGNNING
TRANSFORMATION
. .GOING BEYOND CHANGE
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