The unrealistic expectation that women must "have it all" exacerbates work-life balance challenges, leading to burnout and stress. Ambition in women is sometimes stigmatized, leading them to be labelled as "aggressive" or "unfeminine," discouraging them from asserting themselves.
Author - Anupreeta Lall
The journey through strategic alignment, innovative recruitment practices, and the importance of creating a positive employee journey underlines the significance of a holistic approach to talent management.
The talent management landscape is rapidly evolving and to remain competitive, organisations must embrace these shifts and adopt innovative approaches to attract, recruit, and retain top talent in today's dynamic environment.
Skills - based hiring can help curtail prejudices and biases to objectively evaluate each candidate's potential, resulting in a more effective hiring process which also ends up creating a vast pipeline for future talent.
At the managers end, it will be important to unlearn the intuitive part of people decision making and gravitate more towards the new, rich, analytics based decision making patterns. As in all changes, this will also require change in mindsets which HR should be able to drive.
During this pandemic, we have to be cautious, that while work is a priority and there is no compromise on performance and productivity, our personal, mental and physical well-being also gets the due, it deserves.
Practicing empathy is important as it ensures enhanced performance, particularly in today's workforce and improves the perceived effectiveness.