tête-à-tête
Could you share something about your corporate
journey?
In my corporate journey from a Management Trainee to
my current role as Head of Consulting, my progression can
be understood by Ram Charan’s Leadership pipeline model;
I have developed from being an Individual Contributor to People Manager to Manager Manager to Business Manager. Due
to my consulting background, I have worked across geographies, industries with large companies, small companies,
family run businesses, MNC’s and with governments.
I have been involved with startups right since the first dotcom boom, promoted and sold HR almost like an evangelist
when people linked competency assessment, psychometrics
to Linda Goodman and astrology.
Throughout my life, I have followed what I call as
“SPONGE THEORY”. Never say no to any new experience
and keep on soaking in as much knowledge and filing it
away for future use in your brain.
What makes a great workforce planner?
While this might sound theoretical in nature, but it is imperative that a workforce planner have five arrows in his
quiver:
A sound understanding of business and its strategy
Ability to align all other goals with organizational goal.
An all-inclusive knowledge of the labour market.
A sustainable ability to plan and forecast
An inherent Quick to respond to market changes
How do you plan your workforce strategically?
What factors do you consider in the entire process?
In our organization, we instituted Strategic Workforce
Planning at the time of creation of the strategy document
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Personal Information
Mr. Yogesh Misra is the Head of
Consulting Practice at Thomas
Assessments Private Ltd. He is
responsible for the consulting
business in People Metrics and
has worked with Clients in India, Pakistan, Africa , Middle
East, South East Asia. He is
working with Thomas Assessments for the last four years.
He has also worked with Delhi
Management
Association
(DMA) and Thomas International in the past.
He is a Certified Management
Consultant (C.M.C), has completed executive management
from IIM Ahmedabad and MBA
from University of Pune.