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BeNext: From Just “Paper Currency” to “Motivational Currency”

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Today most organisations thrive on innovation and preparing for the future of work. The current situation has accelerated years of digital development to meet the pressing demands of organisations working under drastic changes. Both the nature of work, and the tools we’re using to do it, are changing dramatically. Next-generation collaboration tools are removing the barrier of distance and increasing employee engagement and hence keep them motivated. But to leverage these tools effectively, companies need to think strategically.

There is no secret that pulling together a collaborative and productive team could be a challenging mission. In fact, it’s becoming harder and harder to increase overall team performance. And as one can guess, low productivity negatively impacts companies in terms of revenue, employee engagement, work quality, and more. But the real fact is that businesses can influence and revamp their productivity in many ways.

There are numerous factors that can influence workforce and its productivity at work. Motivation is one of them and is the new capital of business. Humans need motivation to drive results and companies can scale their motivation equation by using the right tools & technologies and hence drive better performance & revenues.

Join the Economic Times Live Webinar, to understand how companies can motivate and empower their employees, sales teams, channel partners and gig workers to drive better productivity, performance and revenues powered by AWS & Xoxoday.

This discussion will feature industry experts focusing the various extrinsic and intrinsic factors that drive human behaviour at work & impact performance and will showcase the way we work today, and tomorrow.

Key Takeaways:

  • How has the pandemic has impacted motivation & productivity among employees? Going forward, what are the probable solutions to it?
  • Operational Crisis Management
  • Leadership Challenges in maintaining holistic employee engagement during lockdown.
  • What drives better business outcomes?
  • Emerging technologies and interfaces to rescue
  • Is it important to create a positive organizational culture or not significant?
  • How various extrinsic and intrinsic factors drive employee productivity?

Speakers

Ritu Kochhar
Head Human Resources
Perfetti Van Melle, India

Ritu Kochhar, Head Human Resources at Perfetti Van Melle, India

Ritu joined Perfetti Van Melle in 2016 and leads HR for the country’s leading confectionery player. As a member of India management team and the Transformation Office she is driving organization-wide people agenda & Culture change to ensure success of PVM India’s business transformation agenda.

With expertise across various People practices and industries, she is well known for building high-performing teams, enabling business performance, establishing innovative HR solutions, developing strong Employer Brands and driving transformation both in business as well as organization culture.

Prior to joining PVM , she was the Head of HR for Becton Dickinson India (BD). She partnered to effectively strengthen succession pipeline at Senior level and enabled two very successful go to market transitions yielding extraordinary business results.

She was associated for a decade with Whirlpool India as a senior HR Leader and was very successfully in driving business agenda through people strategy and was instrumental in creating some very differentiated people practices and cultural transformation for the organization.

Ritu takes huge pride in working for four different sectors and driving multiple business transformations through people.

Ritu holds a Masters’ degree in Sociology and is a Management Graduate. She loves travelling and exploring cultural nuances of various places.

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Kayzad Hiramanek
President- Operations and Customer Experience
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

Kayzad Hiramanek, President- Operations and Customer Experience, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

Kayzad Hiramanek has two Masters degrees in Commerce & International Business. He is also a Graduate of the University of Michigan’s Global Leadership Programme.

Kayzad has worked in multiple sectors: Hospitality & Travel, Telecommunications, Real Estate and Financial Services. He has worked with reputed brands such as the Taj Group of Hotels, Sify, Idea Cellular, Airtel, ICICI Prudential Life and Damac Properties.

Kayzad has been with the Life Insurance sector since 2007, starting with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, to set up the company’s shared services centre and heading the company’s central operations, service and policy persistency portfolios. He then joined Avantha ERGO Life Insurance, a green field start-up, where he was Chief Operating Officer heading the overall operations, projects and IT portfolios.

Presently he is President- Operations and Customer Experience at Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, overlooking the on-boarding, underwriting, persistency, claims, customer experience/ journey and business process re-engineering portfolios for the company.

Kayzad is a speaker and author of international repute, having lectured on and written in several fora and publications globally. His contributions have been on the topics of operations excellence, customer & stakeholder experience management, embedded analytics, outsourcing/ vendor relationship management, project management, technology adoption, organization diversity and resilience.

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Manoj Agarwal
Co-founder
Xoxoday

Manoj Agarwal, Co-founder, Xoxoday

Manoj Agarwal is an MBA from IIM Kozhikode and a Computer Science Engineer from PEC Chandigarh. He comes with over 15 years of experience in building companies, technology, product, marketing, and business excellence. He has worked with companies like Yahoo, Manipal Education, and Flipkart in various roles.

Manoj has been active with various industry and technology forums like IAMAI, CII, IGCC, Nasscom, IIMs, and more. He is a regular speaker in various international forums.

Manoj is a yoga & sports enthusiast. He is a voracious reader and writes on various topics around entrepreneurship, products, culture, spirituality, and more. More details about him are at https://www.linkedin.com/in/manojagarwal3/

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Priyabrata Sarangi
Chief Information Officer
DCM Shriram Industries

Puja Rungta Agarwal
Associate Director – Corporate HR and Compensation and Benefits
Happiest Minds Technologies

Puja Rungta Agarwal, Associate Director - Corporate HR and Compensation and Benefits, Happiest Minds Technologies

Puja is a people oriented leader with proven record of creating, nurturing and executing industry leading people management practices. She is passionate about building talent with a focus on constantly enhancing people’s partnership, HR branding, corporate values, and governance. She is committed to creating work culture where talent is highly motivated and empowered to grow. Puja provides thought leadership in creating innovative human capital strategies and focuses on devising cutting-edge high productivity HR processes.
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Nimisha Das
Director HR
Kellogg South Asia

Nimisha Das, Director HR, Kellogg South Asia

Nimisha Das is Director HR, Kellogg South Asia.

Nimisha’s career reflects a rich & diverse experience in HR Business Partnering, Talent Management, Organization Effectiveness and Leadership Development. She joined Kellogg from Red Bull India, where she was the Director HR, India and responsible for the overall people strategy, capability and culture.

Prior to that, Nimisha was with Mondelez India where she worked in the areas of succession management, organization design and transformation and driving performance efficiencies. Before joining Red Bull, her last role at Mondelez was as HR Lead for Categories, Corporate Functions and Enterprise Business Solutions.

Nimisha started her career with Marico Ltd. and was also part of their skincare retail venture ‘Kaya’ for some time.
Nimisha has done her Masters in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur and holds a graduate degree in psychology from Indraprastha College, Delhi University.

She is married and has a son. Her personal interests include theatre, cooking and reading.

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Kumara Raghavan
Country Manager & Head Startup Business
Amazon Internet Services (AWS)

Kumara Raghavan, Country Manager & Head Startup Business – Amazon Internet Services (AWS)

Kumara Raghavan, Country Manager & Head Startup Business – Amazon Internet Services
Kumara Raghavan leads the Startups business for AWS in India. He is an executive with extensive global leadership experience in the technology industry for over two decades. Prior to AWS, he was with IBM and Lenovo. Kumara has created and led high performance teams to success across Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has been a leader across functions of institutional & channel sales, product management and technical sales.
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Jessie Paul
Founder & CEO
Paul Writer
Moderator


Agenda

16:00 – 16:10

Welcome & Introduction by The Economic Times

16:10 – 17:00

From Just “Paper Currency” to Plus “Motivational Currency”

16:00 – 16:55

Panel Discussion | Elevating the hybrid work experience – Tools that enable flexibility

The current situation has accelerated years of digital development to meet the pressing demands of organisations working under drastic changes. Both the nature of work, and the tools we’re using to do it, are changing dramatically. Next-generation collaboration tools are removing the barrier of distance and increasing employee engagement and hence keep them motivated. But to leverage these tools effectively, companies need to think strategically.


There are numerous factors that can influence workforce and its productivity at work. Motivation is one of them and is the new capital of business. Humans need motivation to drive results and companies can scale their motivation equation by using the right tools & technologies.


The webinar will throw light on how companies can motivate and empower their employees, sales teams, channel partners and gig workers to drive better productivity, performance and revenues. This panel session features industry experts focusing on the way we work today, and tomorrow.

  • How has the pandemic has impacted motivation & productivity among employees? Going forward, what are the probable solutions to it?
  • Operational Crisis Management
  • Leadership Challenges in maintaining holistic employee engagement during lockdown.
  • What drives better business outcomes?
  • Emerging technologies and interfaces to rescue
  • Is it important to create a positive organizational culture or not significant?
  • How various extrinsic and intrinsic factors drive employee productivity?

17:00 - 17:05

Closing Remarks


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