Fascinating meeting with Gill Rider (CIPD President, and Head of the Civil Service Capability Group) and Vineet Nayar (CEO of HCL Technologies, and author of ‘Employees First, Customers Second'). This was meant to be in the Cabinet Office room that has a throne (yes, a real throne) in the corner – last used by George III, the last monarch to attend cabinet meetings. Unfortunately, we were bounced out by a more important committee, into a somewhat less salubrious anonymous box.
Vineet is passionate about his ideas and how they’ve impacted on the performance of his organisation - and in effect has run free workshops with senior teams of other organisations to explore what ‘Employee First’ could unleash for them too!
He challenged us to do more
He challenged us to do more to support the developing professionalism of HR in India. He sees opportunities for building membership, brand, qualifications, and Indian contextualised research. And also volunteered his own organisation as a case study should we need that.
It was great to engage with a CEO who was so firmly pushing a real HR agenda – and one who gave his support and belief to what we’re trying to do for the profession. But it’s a big question for us as to how we could rise to his challenge for India, in addition to other global challenges we’re tackling, and not trip and fall.
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