Your KPIs need to change: Performance metrics in a post-COVID world
Six months into the crisis, it is clear that legacy metrics are misleading and insufficient for assessing work-from-home performance. They do not encompass the realities of today’s digital world. Employees are stressed, working in isolation, and trying to achieve more with less and hence their productivity needs to be measured in a better-articulated measure. Read more
Top 4 ways OKRs can be used by HR Department
In the 2020 new normal, every successful business organisation can be visualized as a dense network of empowered teams that are distributed geographically and still operate with high standards of alignment, accountability and transparency. Now, more than ever before, the HR Department has to aggressively play an integrating role across these distributed systems to bring coherence among them. Read more
Why Startups should use OKRs?
The startup ecosystem has come a long way in recent years. In India alone, an average of 1,300 startups are registered every year, 70% of which are tech startups. According to a report by Nasscom, the investments in startups had crossed 4.4 Billion USD in May 2019. Read more
When the CHRO became the HERO
Most people choose HR as a career wanted to help people achieve their ‘Full potential’ through the HR function. Read more
With WFH becoming the new norm, the race for acquiring great talent has got harder: Senthil Rajagopalan, Profit.co
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the normal work ethic of many organisations. Now more than ever, companies need to focus on ways to keep their employees engaged and productive. In an interaction with ETHRWorld. Read more
OKRS: Enabling ‘Business-As-Usual’ In This Pandemic
We spend our most productive, waking hours at work. Work exists not just as a means to earn a living but to give us a sense of purpose and strive for self-actualization. Hence when people decide to look for a company to work, they look for more than just the salary. Opportunity to learn and grow, Great colleagues, collaborative work environment, Read more
OKRs: A secret ingredient for post COVID-19 business model
The COVID-19 pandemic may have permanently disrupted “Work” as we know it. Great leaders of course “never let a serious crisis to go waste” – CXOs have realized the valuable lessons taught by this forced experiment of “ Mass Work From Home (WFH)”.Read more
Covid-19 effect: Employees’ determination to achieve company vision & goals speed digital tools consumption
Covid-19 lockdown has taught India a few sweet (and bitter) lessons on the digital way of survival in the corporate world. Oxygen, electricity, and water – without which survival is at most difficult for a human being – has several new companions in the form of Zoom, Slack, Houseparty, Google Sheets, etc. Read more
Empathy, team spirit earn points in the new appraisal
Power cuts are routine in Mohali during summer. But on a weekday morning in May when there was a no electricity, Ishpal Singh was in a fix. The motion graphics designer at Just Herbs had to send some inputs other teams were dependent on to get their work done. Since he couldn’t do anything, a colleague stepped in and finished the task on his behalf. Read more
Productivity post-COVID: From measuring activity to measuring outcomes
For the first time ever, more employees than ever globally are working from home. From Google to Facebook to TCS to Infosys, many organizations are not planning to let their entire workforce com to office till the end of this year. This calls for a huge rethink on productivity and performance. Read more
How OKR technology is driving employee productivity: Bastin Gerald, CEO, Profit.co
While a majority of the companies continue to allow employees to work from home in the Unlock 1 phase, OKR technology can be beneficial to ensure the productivity of employees. In an interview with DataQuest, Bastin Gerald, CEO, Profit.co highlights the problems that remote working has brought to the fore, how OKR technology can help in this regard, and about what his company has to offer to ensure business continuity of organizations. Read more
Organisations need to relook at goals
OKR provides a framework for companies under which they can set goals for themselves which include focusing on current action to be taken, aligning goals with larger objectives, tracking commitments of employees and stretching the performance. Read more
India Inc says the three words that changes everything. Hint: It is not what you think
The glass façade of corporate complexes in Mumbai’s business hub, Bandra Kurla Complex bear a vacant look. Restaurants in the vicinity, perfect for those lunch-break getaways, have shut shop. Read more
National Technology Day on May 11- Monday
The current pandemic has offered a testing ground if India is poised to take the “only digital” mode. We also have the pronounced need to create awareness through reliable resources in a language that citizens can understand. Almost all the government portals are available only in the English Language and to some extent in Hindi. Read more
Industry Players & Policymakers Came Froward While National Technology Day Celebrated
From artificial intelligence to cloud computing to advanced computing for drug research, pharma research, nuclear research, technology is contributing to our lives in several avatars. Today industry leaders and top policymakers have expressed their views on Technology Day. Read more
National Technology Day Quotes from Technology Leaders in India
The current pandemic has offered a testing ground if India is poised to take the “only digital” mode. We also have the pronounced need to create awareness through reliable resources in a language that citizens can understand. Almost all the government portals are available only in the English Language and to some extent in Hindi. Localizing all government to citizen portals in Indian languages is the need of the hour. Read more
National Technology Day: What Experts Are Saying
Technology is considered as a key factor for economic development. For the economy to grow at a sustainable rate, adopting the latest technologies that augment the business performance is essential along with upgrading the skills of existing workforce. Like every year, since 1999, India observes May 11 as the National Technology Day – that aims to commemorate the scientific and technological achievements of Indian scientists and technocrats. Read more
“OKRs help companies and teams to excel in execution”
OKR is a goal management system used by teams, large and small to collaborate and achieve stretch goals through a framework that ensures regular check-ins, feedback, continuous learning, and solving of problems to make progress. OKRs are simple yet powerful as they are useful for startups and large corporations to execute their strategy with focus and alignment. Read more
OKRS: Enabling ‘Business-As-Usual’ In This Pandemic
We spend our most productive, waking hours at work. Work exists not just as a means to earn a living but to give us a sense of purpose and strive for self-actualization. Hence when people decide to look for a company to work, they look for more than just the salary. Opportunity to learn and grow, Great colleagues, collaborative work environment, Read more
How OKR technology is driving employee productivity: Bastin Gerald, CEO, Profit.co
While a majority of the companies continue to allow employees to work from home in the Unlock 1 phase, OKR technology can be beneficial to ensure the productivity of employees. In an interview with DataQuest, Bastin Gerald, CEO, Profit.co highlights the problems that remote working has brought to the fore, how OKR technology can help in this regard, and about what his company has to offer to ensure business continuity of organizations. Read more
We Miss The High Energy Of Working With Colleagues At Office: President & COO at Profit.co
The system of OKRs requires that the organization and department have no more than five (5) objectives (3 recommended) and three-five (3-5) Key Results every quarter. It is also encouraged to have the “Tasks linked” to the chosen Objectives and Key Results. Read more
Why should you start using OKR Software for your Business?
Bastin Gerald works at Profit, a company that sells software designed to help the employees and managers at a business to work in sync.Read more
OKR Software – What is it?
Many organizations are today going for OKR software extensively. But what exactly is this? This is a goal setting methodology, which drives the growth, alignment, etc. in the high performing companies.Read more
Importance of Measuring & Managing Employee Performance
For someone trying to manage a business, it’s important to have all the facts needed to make a decision. If a manager doesn’t realize which employees are performing, Read more
OKR Denotes Objective As Well As Key End Results
OKR denotes Objective as well as Key End Results. It is actually denoted as being a light-weight system meant to emphasize the highly essential targets by means of establishing quantifiable key end results they wish to hit every month. Read more
Everything you need to know about OKRs
Jan 28, 2019 (Heraldkeeper via COMTEX) — Conventionally, at the very beginning of a year the business organizations setup high-level targets. However, over time everyone tends to forget them. Read more
Align. Engage And Be Successful: The Beginners Guide To OKR
There were already a lot of big companies who are OKR driven. Objectives and Key Results (OKR) became a popular leadership process to help those organization and companies grow and be aligned to their objectives and goals along the way. Read more
Why should you start using OKR Software for your Business?
The OKRs have today become the go to goal setting system for majority of companies today. Without them, they can’t even think of working efficiently.Read more
3 Benefits of using an OKR Software
Many international and big companies are going for OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to monitor the performances of their clients. And for that, many OKR software are now available in the market. Read more
The Basics of OKR Explained for Beginners
We know that running a company is hard and adding a measurement for its day to day operation is much harder, but that’s not a problem anymore, Read more
How does an OKR Software help you?
Don’t you want to achieve the targeted growth in your business? Everyone would answer this question as “yes.” Objective and Key Results (OKR) software is one such tool which can any organization to meet its required growth.Read more