Tydy Up Newsletter Banner - December 2023
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Hello there!

Tydy Up turns one this month!! 🌞🎉🎂

We're super thrilled to reach this milestone. And we hope you’ve enjoyed receiving our newsletter 📰 as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together for you.

We've a bunch of new things - a more fun look, insights from industry leaders and more - coming your way from our next edition on.

In the meanwhile, could you do us a favor and spread the word about our newsletter to your friends and colleagues? We'd love to have more awesome people like you in our community.

And please, keep that feedback coming! We're always eager to hear your thoughts and ideas for future content.

Alright, let's get started!

To Read 👀: Middle managers get to spend less than one-third of their time on engaging and retaining talent!

McKinsey report
Photo credit: McKinsey & Company

People managers are hired-promoted to manage talent and strategic work.

Yet, they get to spend very little time coaching, guiding and engaging their team.

In fact, only 20% of surveyed middle managers agree that their organizations help them become better people managers.

Bridging this glaring gap and empowering your middle managers could be one of the best fixes to employee attrition and low productivity. And this article from McKinsey tells you how you can do it.

To Listen 🎤: How to encourage your employees to come back to office the LEGO style

LEGO's campus is inspiring people to come back to office.

The takeaway here is not to create a sprawling 600,000 square-foot campus like they did. That's asking too much, for sure. But to take inspiration from the "why" and "how" they did it.Photo credit: lego.com

At the heart of LEGO's campus are three objectives: collaboration, learning and play.  

👫👬👭 How do you encourage employee collaboration in a casual and fun set up?

🎓📖🖋️ How do you infuse learning into day-to-day work life?

🎲🎳🎯 How do you build a nurturing environment around play?

Hear it all from Tim Ahrensbach, Head of Workplace Experience at LEGO.

To Read 🛋️: 10+ ChatGPT prompts that make life easier for HR professionals

HR can use ChatGPT too, to save precious time lost in writing emails, surveys, and company announcements. To compare HR products and services. And to role play and prep for difficult conversations.

This blog lists out prompts you can copy-paste or fine tune to your requirements.

Life did get just a little easier with ChatGPT.

What's Up at Tydy?

Employee Data Platform: Bringing consumer-grade experiences into workplaces

Do you know what's at the heart of driving great experiences for customers or employees?

📊 Data!

Not just lots of it. But data in systems that talk to each other. In formats that make them readily accessible. And in ways that the data can be accessed by the right team at the right time.

That's how Netflix personalizes its platform for more than 232 million users!

That's the depth of personalization an Employee Data Platform now makes available to busy People Teams. Watch the video to know more.

To Read 🛋️: Airbnb’s “work from anywhere” policy: A win or fail?

A big win!

It has been a year since Airbnb launched it Live and Work Anywhere policy, and the Airbnb Chief Financial Officer, Dave Stephenson, says their business has never performed better.

What’s important to note is also that the employees got to keep their salary no matter where they chose to move or work from.

And here’s where it gets better: Airbnb is talking to governments abroad about making it easier for all people to work around the world.

To Read 👀: Four 'future of work' transformations that HR can't ignore!

The future of work is nothing close to being familiar!

And that means HR has a lot of work to do. Workplace policies need to transform. Traditional HR bundles need to be let go of. And newer solutions for newer challenges need to discovered.

This World Economic Forum article is a heads up to the HR community in terms of what they can expect from the future of work.

Flexibility is, of course, one thing. But that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Tip of the month

Apparently, this 👇 is the most effective and only way to ensure meetings are relevant, to-the-point and only as long as they should be. 😅

Picture2
Photo credit: UPMC

Nope, just kidding!

❤️ what you’ve been reading on Tydy Up?

Have the most wonderful May. See you in June!  

Soumya and the Tydy Team

Hello there!

Tydy Up turns one this month!! 🌞🎉🎂

We're super thrilled to reach this milestone. And we hope you’ve enjoyed receiving our newsletter 📰 as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together for you.

We've a bunch of new things - a more fun look, insights from industry leaders and more - coming your way from our next edition on.

In the meanwhile, could you do us a favor and spread the word about our newsletter to your friends and colleagues? We'd love to have more awesome people like you in our community.

And please, keep that feedback coming! We're always eager to hear your thoughts and ideas for future content.

Alright, let's get started!

To Read 👀: Middle managers get to spend less than one-third of their time on engaging and retaining talent!

McKinsey report
Photo credit: McKinsey & Company

People managers are hired-promoted to manage talent and strategic work.

Yet, they get to spend very little time coaching, guiding and engaging their team.

In fact, only 20% of surveyed middle managers agree that their organizations help them become better people managers.

Bridging this glaring gap and empowering your middle managers could be one of the best fixes to employee attrition and low productivity. And this article from McKinsey tells you how you can do it.

To Listen 🎤: How to encourage your employees to come back to office the LEGO style

LEGO's campus is inspiring people to come back to office.

The takeaway here is not to create a sprawling 600,000 square-foot campus like they did. That's asking too much, for sure. But to take inspiration from the "why" and "how" they did it.Photo credit: lego.com

At the heart of LEGO's campus are three objectives: collaboration, learning and play.  

👫👬👭 How do you encourage employee collaboration in a casual and fun set up?

🎓📖🖋️ How do you infuse learning into day-to-day work life?

🎲🎳🎯 How do you build a nurturing environment around play?

Hear it all from Tim Ahrensbach, Head of Workplace Experience at LEGO.

To Read 🛋️: 10+ ChatGPT prompts that make life easier for HR professionals

HR can use ChatGPT too, to save precious time lost in writing emails, surveys, and company announcements. To compare HR products and services. And to role play and prep for difficult conversations.

This blog lists out prompts you can copy-paste or fine tune to your requirements.

Life did get just a little easier with ChatGPT.

What's Up at Tydy?

Employee Data Platform: Bringing consumer-grade experiences into workplaces

Do you know what's at the heart of driving great experiences for customers or employees?

📊 Data!

Not just lots of it. But data in systems that talk to each other. In formats that make them readily accessible. And in ways that the data can be accessed by the right team at the right time.

That's how Netflix personalizes its platform for more than 232 million users!

That's the depth of personalization an Employee Data Platform now makes available to busy People Teams. Watch the video to know more.

To Read 🛋️: Airbnb’s “work from anywhere” policy: A win or fail?

A big win!

It has been a year since Airbnb launched it Live and Work Anywhere policy, and the Airbnb Chief Financial Officer, Dave Stephenson, says their business has never performed better.

What’s important to note is also that the employees got to keep their salary no matter where they chose to move or work from.

And here’s where it gets better: Airbnb is talking to governments abroad about making it easier for all people to work around the world.

To Read 👀: Four 'future of work' transformations that HR can't ignore!

The future of work is nothing close to being familiar!

And that means HR has a lot of work to do. Workplace policies need to transform. Traditional HR bundles need to be let go of. And newer solutions for newer challenges need to discovered.

This World Economic Forum article is a heads up to the HR community in terms of what they can expect from the future of work.

Flexibility is, of course, one thing. But that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Tip of the month

Apparently, this 👇 is the most effective and only way to ensure meetings are relevant, to-the-point and only as long as they should be. 😅

Picture2
Photo credit: UPMC

Nope, just kidding!

❤️ what you’ve been reading on Tydy Up?

Have the most wonderful May. See you in June!  

Soumya and the Tydy Team

Soumya Samuel

Sr. Writer and Content Creator, Tydy
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