<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>jdesignlab.com</title>
	<link>http://jdesignlab.com</link>
	<description>Jyoti's Musings</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:21:21 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0" -->

	<item>
		<title>Importance of Work Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does your work culture promote a respectful dialogue in situations of strife or is it common for you to see colleagues letting their tempers have the better of them in disagreements? How do you handle your interaction with a young colleague who’s joined your small team straight from his management school so is accustomed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/importance-of-work-culture.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Living your life in Goa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I got a request from a visitor to the blog for recent experiences with Goa and for an update on my furniture survey in particular. I obliged him with answers to his specific questions by email and am now sharing some of those details for other newbies to Goa. Furniture shopping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/goa/living-your-life-in-goa.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Resume Writing or Stop it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month an assignment meant appraising profiles for an IT support engineer’s role, so much time was spent scanning resumes, talking to applicants, and, gratefully, finalizing hiring of a candidate.  The experience has made me appreciate challenges recruiters must face in preparing interview shortlists. Why only interview shortlists? Well, if this first step can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/resume-writing-or-stop-it.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Work-life balance&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…is an aspect of professional life where I thought I’d long held a consistent opinion – that it was important for individuals to experience their weekends as just that &#8212; end of a work-week.  So they could recharge their energy levels for the week ahead. I hadn’t ever thought, however, that the end of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/work-life-balance.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>How to manage employee exit interviews?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 of the exit process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/how-to-manage-employee-exit-interviews.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Are you managing your employee exits?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 see the difference in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/hrm/are-you-managing-your-employee-exits.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Does your iPod Touch only sing to you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have Technologist for spouse, your birthday present would likely be an iPod Touch and a wedding Anniversary could well bring a Kindle&#8230; Am I complaining? Not really, for these gadgets keep me feeling younger than my age&#8230;probably by doing to the brain what solving crosswords helps achieve. New gadgets and their convenience also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/technology/does-your-ipod-touch-only-sing-to-you.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>ROI with Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a friend expressed interest in &#8216;going social&#8217; for his new HR technology product and asked if I&#8217;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 scour the Net and extricate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/goa/roi-with-social-media.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Night in Nizamuddin &#8211; Nov 1 &#8211; 7 pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting to have found a group of foodies in the form of http://eoid.org/ and even though joining them every weekend isn&#8217;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]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/eventwatch/a-night-in-nizamuddin-nov-1-7-pm.html</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>If you&#8217;re reading those comments, then say so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t always succeed but where a DM (direct message) is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jdesignlab.com/social-media/if-youre-reading-those-comments-then-say-so.html</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
