Organisations have spent decades making hiring more structured, more consistent and more defensible. The promotion decision has received no comparable attention. A candidate being hired knows they are being assessed. They broadly understand what they are being evaluated on and…
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When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new capability is required. The instinctive organisational response is to identify a programme, put people through it and hope performance improves. But what if the problem…
When Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer at Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about capability building, he does not begin with training programmes. He begins with culture. “If it is not consciously anchored,” he says, invoking a Rajiv Gandhi quote on corruption to make his point,…