http://jdesignlab.com Jyoti's Musings Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:33:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the important ‘whys’ of instituting a planned exit process are covered (in the previous post), I’d like to share my views on the process itself: Short internal (online) process:  An online questionnaire on the company intranet or via email should capture feedback on the overall experience, and this segment ... http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/how-to-manage-employee-exit-interviews.html One of my assignments sees me having conversations with employees exiting a company. The discussions happen mostly over the phone, and I’ve to admit that barring a couple of cases, till now I’ve enjoyed the experience of being a confidant to unknown and unseen professionals. I’ve also been amazed to ... http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/are-you-managing-your-employee-exits.html When you have Technologist for spouse, your birthday present would likely be an iPod Touch and a wedding Anniversary could well bring a Kindle... Am I complaining? Not really, for these gadgets keep me feeling younger than my age...probably by doing to the brain what solving crosswords helps achieve. New ... http://jdesignlab.com/technology/does-your-ipod-touch-only-sing-to-you.html Recently, a friend expressed interest in 'going social' for his new HR technology product and asked if I'd help chalk out a plan by first showing him any products that had attracted an unprecedented fan-following in the last couple of years. That set me off on an intense exercise to ... http://jdesignlab.com/goa/roi-with-social-media.html Interesting to have found a group of foodies in the form of http://eoid.org/ and even though joining them every weekend isn't going to be possible for us from Gurgaon, we do plan to experience the Nizamuddin food journey with them tomorrow. More details at http://bit.ly/2IxhDy http://jdesignlab.com/eventwatch/a-night-in-nizamuddin-nov-1-7-pm.html Enough is being said about engaging audiences through social media channels to create friends and followers. My experience of Twitter even shows me that users are vigilant of feedback to their tweets in that space and making an effort to revert in real time. They don't always succeed but where ... http://jdesignlab.com/social-media/if-youre-reading-those-comments-then-say-so.html A recent read on twitter-etiquettes leads me to share my own pet peeves on behaviour I come across, in the hope that it reforms some attitudes. I find that as we're forming digital communities, it's only fair that we adopt the right etiquette in our interaction on them, as we ... http://jdesignlab.com/technology/social-networking-what-not-to-do-to-excel-at-it.html Today's post from Seth Godin is just one among many notes I've come across today on the need to maintain a positive outlook. The interesting revelation that Godin's post makes out of all those, however, is that we think negative because it feels good and is a lot more fun! ... http://jdesignlab.com/general/positive-vibrations.html Thanks to the tech atmosphere around me due to Kishore, I find that I might delay adopting some technologies but I can't stay immune to them. Even if I try. I resisted but finally gave in to self-induced pressure to blog about a year ago. And, I remember trying hard to ... http://jdesignlab.com/technology/technology-high.html It had to take the recent much-advertised total solar eclipse to get my family of 3 and 2 other friends to Bhopal last week. And, on seeing Bhopal, we all wondered how was it that a green place as that, and one that close to Delhi, had never appeared on ... http://jdesignlab.com/travel/bhopal-%e2%80%93-a-green-paradise.html