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By Prabir Jha
As I listen to various companies share their organisational challenges, the one common worry is about engaging their talent. And the more I reflect, the more I realise ‘engagement’ is too passive, too momentary and too transactional to truly make organisations secure their underlying strategic outcome. The time has come to reframe our perspective and efforts. And as I tell my clients, let the New Year be about ‘unleashing’ their talent, and not just about engaging them. Let me articulate my high-level approach in some clear themes:
People do things for their reasons, not yours: The parental tinge, whether paternal or even maternal, in our leadership thinking is obvious. It makes leaders believe they know what is good and effective for their workforce. This then leads to symbolic concessions and practices, even fads, that do not necessarily get people to unleash their power, creativity or effort within, as they would. Some of these gestures or interventions may be well-meaning or even have a short-term ‘high’. But they still are received as benevolence.
