Hi Folks,
Have recently joined an organization as Head HR and am planning to circulate the note to all functional heads & senior people to write on :
Who am I?
(at least 20 lines about themselves)
Their Role in the organization & how much of their potential is being utilized by the company?
What would they like the company to do to make their job/responsibility more interesting or fulfilling?
Is it a good idea? Welcome inputs on this..
Cheerio
Rajat
From India, Pune
101Have recently joined an organization as Head HR and am planning to circulate the note to all functional heads & senior people to write on :
Who am I?
(at least 20 lines about themselves)
Their Role in the organization & how much of their potential is being utilized by the company?
What would they like the company to do to make their job/responsibility more interesting or fulfilling?
Is it a good idea? Welcome inputs on this..
Cheerio
Rajat
From India, Pune
RAJAT,
You will get different response from different people.
You will need to do the following
-first meet all the key people ,face to face, and discuss
the substance and get a feel of them/ feelings. Tell them
what your plans are and you need their support.
-then circulate your questionnaire.
You will get much more effective response to your request.
regard
LEO LINGHAM
From India, Mumbai
You will get different response from different people.
You will need to do the following
-first meet all the key people ,face to face, and discuss
the substance and get a feel of them/ feelings. Tell them
what your plans are and you need their support.
-then circulate your questionnaire.
You will get much more effective response to your request.
regard
LEO LINGHAM
From India, Mumbai
Dear Rajat,
Thats a fantastic Idea, The response you get depends on the way you impement it, You need to make them how serious you are about this and what will be the neccessary for doing the same.
If the number of employees are lesss in your new organistation, Then you can call them personally and give them time for abt 15 mins in a seperate room, so that they will concentrate better and also will make them feel that it is important to you!
Let me know how effective was that to implement it in your organisation.
From India, Bangalore
Thats a fantastic Idea, The response you get depends on the way you impement it, You need to make them how serious you are about this and what will be the neccessary for doing the same.
If the number of employees are lesss in your new organistation, Then you can call them personally and give them time for abt 15 mins in a seperate room, so that they will concentrate better and also will make them feel that it is important to you!
Let me know how effective was that to implement it in your organisation.
From India, Bangalore
Hi Rajat:
I do not really appreciate you doing that when you are still fresh to the organisation.
As others have suggested, it would be even more advisable if you spend some time in having one-to-one session with the senior people. I am sure there may not be more than 10/12 of them.
I take this opportunity to share my experience on this. When I joined the organisation where I am presently as HR head, I made it a point to have 15-30 min one-to-one session with all important people in the organisation.
You will not believe it worked out wonders.
Of course, it may take some time for people to open up to a stranger but again it depends on you, how you make them feel confident and confide in you.
ALL THE BEST!
Sabi
From India, Bharat
I do not really appreciate you doing that when you are still fresh to the organisation.
As others have suggested, it would be even more advisable if you spend some time in having one-to-one session with the senior people. I am sure there may not be more than 10/12 of them.
I take this opportunity to share my experience on this. When I joined the organisation where I am presently as HR head, I made it a point to have 15-30 min one-to-one session with all important people in the organisation.
You will not believe it worked out wonders.
Of course, it may take some time for people to open up to a stranger but again it depends on you, how you make them feel confident and confide in you.
ALL THE BEST!
Sabi
From India, Bharat
Hi Rajat,
Good intiative. You'll surely get to hear a lot from the employees, especially if they'll take it seriously. If they perceive it as some dumb questionnaire being collected by a project trainee or something, they might not be open enough to suit the pupose.
I agree with sabi77 to an extent that if you're new to the organization, it might not be appreciated a lot. But it's possible that your initiative is well accepted and appreciated as well. Most organizations look forward to innovative ideas to reaching out to their people. Your technique surely does gives ample scope for that.
Your question is open ended, subjective and qualitative in nature. You could learn a great deal of things through this exercise - people's personal interests, their ideas, values, perceptions, satisfaction levels, prejudices, concerns, problems, drawbacks, SWOT.... the list is endless.... it only depends on how much the person is willing to open up to you....
And that is perhaps where your tenure in the organization and your rapport with people will come into play.
In conclusion, I wish you good luck for this project. Do let us know how it was and share your findings if possible.
Cheers!
Lalita
From India, Madras
Good intiative. You'll surely get to hear a lot from the employees, especially if they'll take it seriously. If they perceive it as some dumb questionnaire being collected by a project trainee or something, they might not be open enough to suit the pupose.
I agree with sabi77 to an extent that if you're new to the organization, it might not be appreciated a lot. But it's possible that your initiative is well accepted and appreciated as well. Most organizations look forward to innovative ideas to reaching out to their people. Your technique surely does gives ample scope for that.
Your question is open ended, subjective and qualitative in nature. You could learn a great deal of things through this exercise - people's personal interests, their ideas, values, perceptions, satisfaction levels, prejudices, concerns, problems, drawbacks, SWOT.... the list is endless.... it only depends on how much the person is willing to open up to you....
And that is perhaps where your tenure in the organization and your rapport with people will come into play.
In conclusion, I wish you good luck for this project. Do let us know how it was and share your findings if possible.
Cheers!
Lalita
From India, Madras
hi RAJAT ...
In continuation with what Sabi and Lalita have mentioned.....
I would like to add that people who will be responding to this Question of yours should 'clearly' know YOUR thought process behind the exercise.
First you will have to pen down WHY are you doing this exercise.
What do you want to achieve from this. Are you looking for Inputs from people or do you want them to have a feeling that they are being heard ....
If inputs are what you are looking for, Identify them adn jot them down .... Asking an Open Ended Question is good but the results can be radically different. They might respond to this question wrt Job, Company, Life, Philosophy ......
Do think about giving them certain guidelines and pointers along with the Question.
Also, through one-to-one interaction and more importantly through INFORMAL talk, you should first propogate the basic idea and purpose of such an exercise. Get the informal feedback from your people. Make sure that they feel that the thought of such an exercise came up in those informal discussions adn developed with their inputs. They should see how their answer will benefit them.
Honesty of their answer is of paramount importance if you want to achieve the bjective of your exercise.
well .. i guess i have written a lot and started a different LoT ....
All the Best ! ! !
. . . shoOOonya . . .
From Switzerland, Geneva
In continuation with what Sabi and Lalita have mentioned.....
I would like to add that people who will be responding to this Question of yours should 'clearly' know YOUR thought process behind the exercise.
First you will have to pen down WHY are you doing this exercise.
What do you want to achieve from this. Are you looking for Inputs from people or do you want them to have a feeling that they are being heard ....
If inputs are what you are looking for, Identify them adn jot them down .... Asking an Open Ended Question is good but the results can be radically different. They might respond to this question wrt Job, Company, Life, Philosophy ......
Do think about giving them certain guidelines and pointers along with the Question.
Also, through one-to-one interaction and more importantly through INFORMAL talk, you should first propogate the basic idea and purpose of such an exercise. Get the informal feedback from your people. Make sure that they feel that the thought of such an exercise came up in those informal discussions adn developed with their inputs. They should see how their answer will benefit them.
Honesty of their answer is of paramount importance if you want to achieve the bjective of your exercise.
well .. i guess i have written a lot and started a different LoT ....
All the Best ! ! !
. . . shoOOonya . . .
From Switzerland, Geneva
Hi Rajat:
I am impressed by the way you shoonya has expressed it. If the staff do not take it seriously and shy away from giving their honest and authentic answers, the whole excercise and efforts put therein may go down the drain. May be you could consider Sabi's experience while going ahead with it. Well, you are a better judge as you are physically involved in the situation and none of us out here.
You need to be very very careful while doing this excercise.
I wish you all the best and do keep us posted about the developments thereon.
Shradha
I am impressed by the way you shoonya has expressed it. If the staff do not take it seriously and shy away from giving their honest and authentic answers, the whole excercise and efforts put therein may go down the drain. May be you could consider Sabi's experience while going ahead with it. Well, you are a better judge as you are physically involved in the situation and none of us out here.
You need to be very very careful while doing this excercise.
I wish you all the best and do keep us posted about the developments thereon.
Shradha
hi rajat,
congratulations!!!
Iam sure u must hv. done the best job regrading extracting information from TMT.
i had very bad experience as a middle management person in my x-organization. When management got changed and new management did similar kind of excercise, most of the senior people asked down the line people to complete this excercise, got prepared a hightech presentation and coolly presented it.
i want to know to your experience if you can share with us.
From United Arab Emirates, Al Ain
congratulations!!!
Iam sure u must hv. done the best job regrading extracting information from TMT.
i had very bad experience as a middle management person in my x-organization. When management got changed and new management did similar kind of excercise, most of the senior people asked down the line people to complete this excercise, got prepared a hightech presentation and coolly presented it.
i want to know to your experience if you can share with us.
From United Arab Emirates, Al Ain
Hey Rajat.... I totally agree with Shoonya. Could’nt have been able to express better.... All the best... Mamta Kapoor
From India, Panipat
From India, Panipat
Dear Rajat,
quite too often, we join organizations with very high spirits and eager to implement the things we think is best, coming from whatever experience we have had. I see nothing wrong about thisper se, but much like a car to the new driver relationship, there has to be some good "feeling time" before a good cruise.
The HR Person you took over your position from,whether the was liked or not, I believe, has had some defined direction and vision toward which he has led the company for a while. My 2-cents worth of thought would be to see how I could see and feel the present state, get to know the people i would be working with in terms of functions, see what they have and how they want to be best supported (not really HOW I THINK I COULD BEST SUPPORT THEM) and then go from there. A few moments of real personal talk might work better than a piece of a survey material which I believe ma create an impression of "I am different", and a difficult start in creating a team.
All the best in your HR Career, and have fun along the way! Good day everyone!
quite too often, we join organizations with very high spirits and eager to implement the things we think is best, coming from whatever experience we have had. I see nothing wrong about thisper se, but much like a car to the new driver relationship, there has to be some good "feeling time" before a good cruise.
The HR Person you took over your position from,whether the was liked or not, I believe, has had some defined direction and vision toward which he has led the company for a while. My 2-cents worth of thought would be to see how I could see and feel the present state, get to know the people i would be working with in terms of functions, see what they have and how they want to be best supported (not really HOW I THINK I COULD BEST SUPPORT THEM) and then go from there. A few moments of real personal talk might work better than a piece of a survey material which I believe ma create an impression of "I am different", and a difficult start in creating a team.
All the best in your HR Career, and have fun along the way! Good day everyone!
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