Dr Raman K Attri

A long-term remote work strategy is a must-have to drive accountability in the company
All employees and leaders understood the need for remote working during the pandemic and adapted to changing scenarios. However, most of them deemed it a stop-gap arrangement for a limited period. The way businesses have ripped the benefits of remote working in terms of improved productivity, it is not an understatement to say that it is here to stay.
It comes with tons of confusion among employees and poli...

We are living in unprecedented times. While on the one hand, customers are demanding next-generation technologies, solutions, and services almost tomorrow, on the other hand, we are seeing ‘great resignation’ threatening organizational capabilities to address that demand fast enough. On top of that, most industries have experienced an all-time high labor shortage. Therefore, most organizations have no choice but to look for ways to speed up the process of hiring and onboarding. There are two ...

I was affected by the deadly poliovirus when I was six months old. Most people infected with it die. Even today, there is no cure for it. I miraculously survived, but lost my ability to walk.
During the first twenty years of my life, I evolved through crawling on the floor, lifting my leg with my hands, wearing prosthetics, using canes, and finally learning to walk, painfully, with crutches. As I grew up, I experienced post-polio syndrome, which weakened the other parts of my body.
Some forty...

If you happen to have a role where you need to interact, support, advice, or work with a person with disabilities (PWDs) who could be a child, student, friend, or colleague, these five tips will help you understand them better and support them better.

MY INTROVERSION STORY
When I was a kid, I contracted polio. That took away my ability to walk and a large part of my mobility. I was devoid of any social network and lived in a highly impoverished and oppressed environment. I had no choice but to live with myself. Those environmental triggered me to grow up most of my childhood as an introvert.
I had an extreme inferiority complex that developed me into an introvert. I talked less and stayed within myself. I was not outgoing enough even to sa...

Writing a research-based book requires a unique set of strategies. Authors have unsaid responsibility to be accurate and fair while writing research-based nonfiction. While research provides enough grounds for developing an idea into a book, writing the actual manuscript may be an overwhelming task because of the complexity of the research, referencing, connecting the ideas, and keeping the treatment of the text in check.

In this article, I discuss some foundational approaches to crafting a nonfiction manuscript grounded in the research.

If you are a small business owner, you may not be fully shielded from the ongoing talent shortage in the market. Unlike large corporations, you may not have the infrastructure, resources, and cash to sustain yourself. You need to be creative about handling their existing workforce and address talent acquisition challenges.

3 Ways To Get Faster Through Ongoing Labor Crunch

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I contracted the poliovirus when I was six months old. It left me paralyzed on one leg, and I lost the ability to walk even before I could start walking. As I was growing up with this disability, doing my best to get through school, college, and then the professional world, I realized that it was not much known to people about how you can support a disabled child, student, friend, peer, or an employee. As I reflect back on my journey from both sides – the receiving side as a student, friend, ...

Have you been hit by any disabilities – emotional, mental, physical or otherwise? In those moments of adversity, you may feel as if you are undesirable. How do you transform this disability into something that others are envious of? How do you bring that state of desirability into your life?

The source of confidence is a ‘sense of achievement or accomplishment.’ Our mind simply needs such a sense to feel confident. It does not care where that sense of achievement comes from. It does not care much about the level of achievement or its nature either.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the Digital Revolution and adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies to improve operational efficiency. However, not all kinds of technologies will speed up the employee development process. Leaders need to understand how much any technology can contribute toward accelerating employees’ time to proficiency.
Based on my extensive research with best-in-class organizations, here ...

The goal of any employee development initiative is to help employees become proficient. This is the stage where their performance is consistent, reliable, repeatable, independently productive and meets established standards. Such proficiency is measured at a job-role level and is concerned with producing noteworthy outcomes.

However, when it takes a long time to achieve that state, organizations could lose money while handling errors made by non-proficient employees. They have to continue to ...