Decode Work with Nadeem Khan

This episode gathers insight on managing mental health at work, an important issue that’s being prioritized across the globe. Carin-Isabel Knoop (Executive Director of the Global Research Group / Case Research & Writing Group at Harvard Business School) sheds light on all the pressing matters of this topic. In this episode you'll hear: Carin sharing her personal stories and providing insightful depth in understanding not only on what mental illness is but how it affects the workplace. How the workplace can actually create mental health issues due to ‘burning out’. Insight on the physical and mental health issues reaching crisis levels due to COVID-19. Light shed on the importance of resilience and the importance of starting with yourself when tackling mental health issues. Changes in management as a result of employee engagement instead of control.

In this episode called 'Transformation of Recruitment: Getting Ready for the Digital Process', you'll have a clearer perspective on the digital transformation of recruitment. The new world of work, post-COVID has accelerated technical changes that will impact HR from recruitment procedure to the use of analytics to drive its people function forward. With expert knowledge on bridging HR academia and corporate, Vikas Dua, an accomplished India-based HR and recruitment professional,  sheds light on the extent of this digital transformation on HR. In this episode you'll hear: How Vikar entered the HR space by sharing his experiences and learning. His efforts in bridging corporate and academia by bringing students and experts together. Vikar shedding light on the Academia curriculum not moving forward at the same pace as change and his solutions to such. Issues in the recruitment process and the impact of change, including the shift in technology. How the main transformation and future for HR is analytics and the need to become comfortable with numbers. Vikar elaborating on the importance of introspection and understanding what you want by understanding who you are. The importance of recalibration, reconnecting, reskilling at this point in time. Advice for students and job seekers on how to approach recruitment, now that everything is gone digital.

In this episode called 'The Post-COVID World of Work', you will get insight into the transformation process HR has taken from Pre-COVID to post- COVID. The new world of work for HR after the pandemic includes a shift in the workplace and the culture of the business. The extent of that shift is discussed by today's featured guest Abhijit Bhaduri, a global influencer. Forbes describes him as India's most interesting globalist and LinkedIn refers to him as the HR expert due to his decades worth of knowledge on how HR and the world has transformed. In this episode you'll hear: How Abhijit Bhaduri's journey has begun and how his experiences across the globe shaped his vision on HR How the world of work has changed after the pandemic. The role of HR after the impact of shifting workplace and culture changes. What values people bring to the business and how it impacts the way HR operates. What the normal was before the pandemic and to what extent the role of HR needs to shift to cater to this NEW normal.

Do you want to become a 'People Analytics Leader' and lead 'digital transformation' in your organisation? If your goal is to turn your organisational 'data' into 'information' and that information into 'insight' then this session is a must listen!  Today the insights garnered through data play a key role in informing organisational strategy, leading change and transformation. In this episode, Nadeem Khan author of 'Introduction to People Analytics' and Managing Director of Optimizhr has talked about the skills required to become a People Analytics Leader. In this session, we understand the Future of Work, impact of digital technologies and how we as HR Leaders can lead transformation in our organisations. In light of this pandemic, it is an essential need to understand the role data, analytics and technology play and the direction our organisations needs to head towards.