Tag: Learning and Development
Abhijit Bhaduri to be part of talent, learning & insights team,...
Abhijit Bhaduri, who was once chief learning officer at Wipro from 2009 to 2016, has joined Microsoft’s talent, learning and insights team, at the...
Rohit Thakur, Paytm’s CHRO, quits
Paytm is seeking approval for its approaching IPO at a meeting, ahead of which it has witnessed major changes in its Board. Rohit Thakur,...
iD Fresh Food to hire 500+, ensure diversity
iD Fresh Food, the fresh food company, is working to expand its workforce in India and abroad. It hopes to ensure more gender diversity...
How Yokohama Off-Highway Tyres facilitates L&D for first-time managers
Learning never ends and in the human resources industry it only begins after one becomes a manager. A year amidst the pandemic, however, slowed...
How Max Life drives a ‘growth mindset’
While most companies have undergone changes and restructuring in the last year, more of learning and skilling has helped keep the employees technically sound...
NHRDN organises ‘Re-imagining L&D’ Summit
The sixth National Learning & Development Summit platformed sessions in which industry and human resource experts from different sectors, such as IT, F&B, banking, and...
Competency-based learning helps bridge the skill gap
The industry is evolving very fast, and our education system is dated. This has created a serious skill gap in the existing workforce across...
Make L&D invisible to create a better learning culture
One of the primary demands of a changing world is to continuous learning. If you have to stay relevant, you just have to keep...
Why lean learning is important for agile organisations
Toyota Production System (TPS) is a classic success story in manufacturing process, which enabled the Japanese automobile Company to eliminate seven kinds of wastes...
Five ways to ensure that employees learn continuously
With technology evolving faster than ever and job roles becoming more niche, career paths are just not linear anymore. Employees look forward to learning...
How can you promote a culture of digital readiness in your...
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, proclaimed Peter Drucker, the late management guru, many years ago. The aphorism holds true even today, as companies across...
IndiGo’s training academy awarded for best L&D practices
Ifly, IndiGo’s learning academy, has won awards yet again for its learning and development practices. The academy has been lauded for its significant contribution...
Amazon will invest $700 million on training
Amazon, the e-commerce company, plans to spend $700 million on retraining a third of its workforce in the US in new skills required to...
Why employees are wary of learning and development programmes
If you search for ‘learning and development’ on Google, you will see hundreds of articles emphasising the importance of training and development in the...
How to turn your managers into great leaders
While travelling for work, a delayed flight had forced me to wait at the airport. Rather than wasting time playing Candy Crush on my...
Domino’s initiates new learning programme for its US supervisors
When people think of Domino’s Pizza, they think about getting pizza in less than 30 minutes. Known for using technology and introducing concepts, such...
How does Capgemini do it better than others?
Last few years have witnessed a sea change in the way employees are cared for in their organisations. Amongst the companies that have taken...
Key markers in skills training for policy makers – Part II
The Indian workforce is highly stratified and segmented. A strong vetting system of key indicators of skills training is tremendously valuable for policymakers when...
Yes Bank partners Coursera for a future-ready workforce
Upon completion of the programme, employees will receive sharable e-course certificates from leading global institutes.
Skillsoft and Shine partner to enhance learning
Skillsoft’s high-quality learning content will help Shine Learning users close the skills gap in the rapidly evolving job market.
What’s in a mobile first learning platform powered by AI
Now that innovative learning solutions, with SAAS- and AI-backed systems, are on offer, organisations need to strategically plan learning interventions.
Skillsoft to provide equal access to learning content for all employees
The Accessibility Programme Office will ensure that everyone within the workforce has equal access to its learning content and technology.
Business in learning: How Kohler turned its dealer meet into a...
Kohler organised a 5-day campus residential programme at IIM Bangalore for its key dealers and channel partners.
SumTotal offers talent, learning, recruitment, and workforce management in single suite
The expanded platform advances usability and functionality to enable employees to develop, lead, and achieve.
Kohler India redefines learning through Kohler Radio and Learning Wallet
These new internal initiatives for interaction and effective learning have made news globally.
L&D ready for big disruption: Guillermo Miranda, global CLO, IBM
Guillermo Miranda, chief learning officer, IBM is a seasoned executive with 19 years of extensive experience working in multinational environments across Europe, South America, Africa, West Asia and North America. A lawyer and business management graduate, Miranda is on his second stint with IBM with a mandate to reinvent learning and employee enablement for the digital and cognitive economy.
He speaks to HRKatha on how the landscape of learning is changing with the rapid digital disruptions.
Does Amazon time its employees’ toilet breaks?
Amazon is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons yet again. During a protest by its warehouse employees in Britain, some employees have made certain...
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OPS implementation will benefit 1,36,000 employees: Himachal Pradesh government
The implementation of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) has been discussed widely in recent days, and many states have already put it into action....
1000s of employees protest for raising wage & regularisation demand: Punjab
On Sunday, a large group of state government employees, including contract, outsourced, and regular employees, gathered outside the Sangrur deputy commissioner's office to protest...
Subhashis Sinha is now CHRO, TBZ-The Original
After spending over a decade with Asian Paints, Subhashis Sinha has joined TBZ- The Original, as CHRO.
An alumnus of IIM Indore and SVKM's Narsee...
Raj Raghavan joins CoreStack as CHRO
A seasoned HR professional, who has led HR for companies such as Indigo, Amazon and GE, Raj Raghavan has now joined CoreStack, the next-gen...
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EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO
Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...
“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
