Hi Everyone, This is regarding a conceptual project I am working on. I wanted to pose this question to the employer branding and community building specialists in this group (If you have some insights even if you're not from this domain please feel free to share I would really appreciate it), I wanted to understand what formats of content seem to give the best results in terms of talent engagement in your own experience and on which platforms? Also, how do you filter out the noize to reach your target audience?

<!channel> Hey everyone! 👋 We’re lining up some really exciting guests for our upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) series — including some people that are already members of this community 😉. We’ll be bringing the leaders responsible for the People strategy in their companies (VPs/Directors/Heads/Managers) to uncover “how things get done” in their organisations. Here's the format of the AMA 👇 1️⃣ It will be an async, text AMA session where you can leave your question in the #general channel already so that the guest can answer them on the day of the session 2️⃣ The guest will be right here in the #general channel to answer your questions in the thread The very first session is happening on 24th March 2022, Thursday. 🤩🔥 More details will be shared soon 🙂 Watch this space to know who will be the guest on our first AMA session 👀

Hi <!here>, Looking to hire a couple folks from the LGBTQ community., Any leads?

<!channel> For the first AMA session, we will have @Mahesh (Mahesh Gourishetty), Head HR at Five Star Business Finance Limited as our guest on 24th March 2022, Thursday. Five Star Business Finance is a non-banking finance company providing financial solutions for the business, housing and personal needs of India's unbanked population. With more than 18 years of experience working in the HR fraternity, Mahesh has plenty of expertise across functions like Talent Development, Total Rewards, Talent retention, Employee Relations, and HR Business Partnering. He has held numerous strategic leadership roles at organizations like Sterlite Power, Reliance Communications, Bharti Infratel Limited, MARG Ltd., Infosys, Larsen & Tourbo. There are two ways to get your questions answered: • Join us live during the session and ask your question in this channel on 24th March 2022, Thursday, 8 AM - 8 PM • Leave your question right here in the #general channel already so that Mahesh can answer it on Thursday Mahesh also came on The Shape of Work podcast recently (you can find the episode here) and we chatted about topics including: • The changing role of HR Business Partner • Why the HR of the future is about being an expert at leading people & technology together, not one versus the other • Using the HR Analytics capabilities to make data-driven decisions • HR roles being "robotized" and roles that'll be left redundant …and much more! Perhaps you have a question for Mahesh related to some of the above topics? But as always with an AMA session, any HR/People Ops question is a great question! Fire away with your questions 🎆

Hello @Mahesh! Thank you for doing this AMA session I wanted to ask you some questions: 1. How do you create an EVP that filters out the right candidates during the application phase/gets the right candidates to apply? 2. What kind of content do you feel works best to reach prospective employees in your preferred TG? Also which channels seem to be most effective? 3. How do you empower employees to be brand advocates for your organisation?

Hello @Mahesh Thank you so much for doing this AMA with us on The Shape of Work. Here are some of my questions: 1. What do you think about 360 employee evaluation? pros/cons? Can have issues of people not giving valid feedback and not everyone is ready to take feedback 2. One way to solve recruiting challenge is to nurture people but then you end up having too many juniors/freshers - how do you train them? seniors will get bored of training and will want to learn. How do you solve the challenge of training? 3. Weekly vs Bi weekly salary - Pros/Cons

Hey @Mahesh, Thanks for doing the AMA. Can you share your thoughts on hybrid work models like combining work from home with regular offsites or work from home with a small hub in major cities?

Hi @Mahesh Thank you so much for doing the AMA session. Here are my questions: 1. Can you share some effective Employee Retention Strategies that worked for your organization? 2. What benefits and perks can employers offer to improve employee retention?

Check out the latest highlights from last week below (<!channel>) __________________________________________ 🎁 Top threads of the week Employee Engagement in a remote work setting Members shared tips on how to get the engagement going across different teams Content for Employer branding Check out the discussion on the formats of content to get the best talent engagement results __________________________________________ 📢 Your peers need support — can you help them out? @Sandesh is looking to hire a couple folks from the LGBTQ community. @Saurabh Bhat has posted about an '*HR Generalist'* job role at Garena in the #hr-job-listings channel. Join the channel and check it out. _________________________________________ 🔥 Time to celebrate our Community members 1. @Abhinav DataWeave @Sharad Singh @Sandesh for asking questions on TSOW community 🙂 2. @Sharad Singh @Harish Bhamidipati @Jay Tarimala @Soumabrata Chatterjee for being responsible members and answering to questions asked by their fellow community members 🎉 _________________________________________ springworks*The latest from TSOW and Springworks* 🎤 Our first Ask me Anything session (AMA) with Mahesh Gourishetty, Head HR at Five Star Business Finance Limited is happening on Thursday, 24th March 2022. It's a text AMA and the guest will answer to your questions async. Please go ahead and leave your questions in the #general channel by tagging @Mahesh. Some of the team members have already posted their questions. So, if you have some burning questions that you’ve always wanted to ask HR leaders but haven’t had the chance, now is your opportunity 😃! What are the questions that you’d like our guests to answer? Leave them in the #general channel 💻 We are also conducting a webinar with Aishwarya Goel, Co-Founder and CEO, Peakperformer on How to Build and Implement a Successful L&amp;D Strategy in 2022. Save your spot 😊 __________________________________________ Have a great rest of the week! 😊

<!channel> Hey everyone. Hope you’re all looking forward to the Ask Me Anything session tomorrow with Mahesh Gourishetty from 8 AM to 8 PM Since the floor is already opened for your questions, you can leave them now in the #general by tagging @Mahesh, so he can answer to your questions tomorrow. Some of the community members have already posted their questions 🎉 So, if you have a burning question that you’ve always wanted to ask HR leaders but haven’t had the chance, now is your opportunity 😃! What are the questions that you’d like our guests to answer? Leave them in the #general channel

Excited to be part of the session tomorrow.

Keep sending your questions

Hey @Mahesh thank you for doing this AMA What do you think of unlimited sick leaves? Pros/Cons

Hey @Mahesh - What are your views on the notice period policy? Many companies have 30, 60, 90 days; Zomato has a no notice period policy- What according to you, is the ideal number of days that would be reasonable for the company and the employee?

Check out the latest highlights from last week below (<!channel>) 🎤 Our first Ask me Anything session (AMA) with Mahesh, Head HR at Five Star Business Finance Limited happened on Thursday, 24th March 2022. Thanks members for asking great questions 🙂 🎁 Here's what we discussed in the AMA session 👇 1. Creating an EVP, content and advocates for your employer brand 2. Pros & Cons of 360 employee evaluation, weekly vs Bi weekly salary, Training juniors 3. Mahesh's thoughts on Hybrid work models 4. Employee Retention Strategies that worked at Five Star Business Finance Limited AND Benefits and perks to improve employee retention 5. How to build L&amp;D programmes 6. The ideal no. of days for the notice period policy Thanks @Mahesh for answering to our questions 🙏 _________________________________________ springworksThe latest from Springworks 💻 Webinar with Aishwarya Goel, Co-Founder and CEO, Peakperformer on How to Build and Implement a Successful L&amp;D Strategy in 2022 is happening on April 7th, 2022. Through this panel discussion, you will learn: • How to identify and develop future leaders? • Why is a well-thought-out L&D strategy important? Why now? • How to incorporate leadership coaching into your organization's culture • First steps to kick off your L&D program • Demystifying personalized leadership coaching Save your spot now 😊 __________________________________________ Have a great rest of the week! 😊

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📊 TSOW's poll (<!channel>) We’ve published a list of ways to fix the broken employee experience at startups! Which areas are you focussing on to form an ideal Employee Experience at your organization?

1️⃣ Hiring Process

2️⃣ Learning & Growth

3️⃣ Employee engagement

4️⃣ Employee recognition

For someone who is selected as a backup candidate in case the candidate who has been made an offer but can back out, how does one undertake conversations around letting them know what they are essentially the second choice? Also, how do you ensure that you keep them close so that one can initiate joining proceedings at a later date?

Hi People, I am in the middle of revamping the PMS process for our folks. It would be super helpful if anybody could suggest anything new, different and interesting that you are doing in your company currently :)

Which are the good HRMS tools currently in use ? Not looking at someone extensively monitoring attendance but which has a good balance of all the features of an employee life cycle.

<!channel> Do check out the slides of summary we created with inputs from the host of our first AMA session, @Mahesh Gourishetty (packed with a lot insights) 👇

Besides LinkedIn, Angelist, Naukri, what are the different job boards where startup jobs get good visibility and traction?

<!channel> We will be starting our Webinar on 'How to Build and Implement a Successful L&D Strategy for 2022' with Peakperformer's Co-Founder and CEO, Aishwarya Goel in the next 10 mins. If anyone wants to join, here's the link 👇 7 April, 12 pm to 1:30 pm Zoom Link https://springworks-in.zoom.us/j/87174436444?pwd=ZUc0NW9oaVFyMUxmQ2dabHlNSUdlQT09

Hi <!here> Can you please recommend some good slack-bots for employee appreciation+feedback. Right now, HiThrive is looking good to me.

Dear friends, Yesterday I got the opportunity to read a comprehensive article on "Employee Engagement". After reading this particular article, I am quite curious to know the best employee engagement practices that are being followed in different organisations. I take this opportunity to request our group members to share the best practices for employment engagement that are being followed in their respective organisations. Thanks & Regards, Ashish Gurav

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📊 TSOW’s Poll of the week!

We all know the importance of creating a great employee experience during the onboarding process for new hires. What are some of the things that you do to create a positive experience? Multiple answers welcome.

1️⃣ Assign a buddy

2️⃣ Introduce everyone

3️⃣ Intros to all the teams

4️⃣ First day/first week checklist

5️⃣ Group lunch

6️⃣ Other (comment in thread)

<!channel> Hi everyone 👋 During the initial days of our community (when TSOW was just a 25-member community), we reached out to our community members individually and we asked them one question - what are their thoughts on unlimited leaves vs limited leaves policy and also, encashment of leaves❓ Some members shared their thoughts on these topics and we turned their answers into a Playbook 💡 So if you've been wondering whether you should choose the unlimited policy for your organization or not, do not forget to give this playbook a read (attached)👇 Thanks to all the members for contributing to create this Playbook. We intend to create more such community-made Playbooks and guides in the upcoming days and months. If you'd like to contribute to them, please react with a 🔥

<!channel> Hello folks 👋 We are back with another AMA session!!!! 🎤 We will have @Gurleen Baruah, Founder of 'That Culture Thing' as our guest on 14th April 2022, Thursday. Gurleen is a business psychologist and the founder of a management consulting outfit called “*that culture thing”*, based out of Gurgaon. Having been a part of the Human Capital consulting space for the last 10 years, Gurleen has worked for brands like OPPO, EY, Mettl Mercer, Larsen and Toubro among others. Her areas of expertise range from leadership development, coaching interventions, career development, designing end to end psychometric assessments and specialist training programmes. There are two ways to get your questions answered: • Join us live during the session and ask your questions in this channel on April 14, 2022, Thursday, 8 AM - 8 PM • Leave your questions right here in the #general channel already so that Gurleen can answer them on Thursday Perhaps you have a question for Gurleen related to some of the above topics? But as always with an AMA session, any HR/People Ops question is a great question! Fire away with your questions 🎆

Hello @Gurleen! Thank you for doing this AMA session. I wanted to ask a few questions: 1. How can one ensure the employee stories that are put out are authentic? Does the importance or work culture influence a certain demographic more than others? 2. What are some of the creative ways in which you've helped brands show their culture in the past that have helped them increase the quality of applications?