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Accepting the Alternate!

5 Ways to Dismantle Stereotypes at Workplaces Article by Athira Premarajan Accepting certain things seems like a herculean task for some of us. For instance, a friend who is a vegetarian denies a chicken wing that you offered during lunch break, with all due respect. The denial of the delicacy, to you, just seemed unacceptable, […]

October 16, 2020

Advancing Inclusion through Allyship

Article by Nisha Chandran and Manasa Sai Sekhar Research studies have uncovered the extent of barriers faced by underrepresented or marginalised talent pool at the workplace across the world. Often, these barriers faced by women, people from LGBT community, people with disability and other underrepresented talent groups include reduced employment opportunities, being overlooked for career […]

October 7, 2020

Unbundling the Diversity Potential for India Inc.

The business case of diversity is an imperative, rather than a fancy appendage to a company’s people strategy. The mixed culture, people and processes certainly bring in varied perspectives that bring definite success to anything that a company visualizes. However, how easy is it to accomplish the set agendas and goals, tailoring every effort towards […]

September 25, 2020

Leveraging Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for enhanced Employee Engagement

When we look at the history of ERGs, they were initially formed in the USA as race based affinity groups to help unite black employees and assist them in on-boarding and enabling smooth transition of newly hired employees. These were voluntary teams of employees within organizations who came together to share their common experiences and […]

September 18, 2020

The Fortune of being the Right Piece in a Puzzle

Belongingness as an Employee Experience Managing D&I strategies has been a key priority for leaders across the world, especially during Covid times. Complying to this principle, we see several high growth companies investing in the pursuit of D&I. Despite all this investment, we still have only a few frontrunners who excel in this race. Why? […]

September 11, 2020

Remote Working in COVID Times and After: India Inc. Speaks

Remote working or work from home, as a way of work, has been around for more than a decade. Not as that of mainstream work, but more as a measured and conservative model of work, to engage with talent that had work flexibility as a key aspiration, specifically women. Come 2020, the tables have turned. […]

August 31, 2020

Trust and Respect – Key to Belongingness

As part of the myAvtar My Identity series on our YouTube Channel, we featured an interview by Dr Saundarya Rajesh, Founder President, Avtar of Mr. Ramesh Iyer, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Limited. Here are some excerpts from it. Dr Saundarya Rajesh: Hello Ramesh and a very warm welcome to […]

August 28, 2020

Different is beautiful. Different is an opportunity.

Of the many things that HP Inc. instils in our employees, two of the most significant ones that we want to touch upon is first that, People are always intentionally kept at the centre of everything we do and second is that the HP Way of Life reiterates the importance of trust & respect in […]

August 27, 2020

Power of Being the Self-Ally: Leaders Speak

While the world celebrated the pride month and the international women’s day ceremoniously, ‘Power of I’, the virtual conference organized by Avtar, celebrated the success of heroes who broke the stereotypes by being the best ally one could be – self-allies! In the exclusive session – ‘I was my biggest ally’, sponsored by Pegasystems, that […]

August 17, 2020

Masters Reiterate: The Journey Towards ‘I’

“The whole idea of ‘Power of One to Power of Many’ is the bedrock of D&I (Diversity and Inclusion)”, remarked Ms Shanthi Sundar, Senior People Business Leader, Pega in India, for her opening comments in the exclusive CXO panel discussion during the premier D&I virtual conference, The Power of I. Recollecting an interesting quote, Ms Shanthi […]

August 13, 2020