42: Full Conversation - Ajith Nair - Director, Kincentric on employee experience, engagement, leadership
Welcome to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife. In continuation with the series of conversations we are having with HR leaders, people-centric managers and coaches we bring to you our conversation with Ajith Nair, Director of Kincentric, a talent and HR advisory firm specialising in employee engagement, leadership assessment and development & HR advisory. Ajith spoke to Sunayana Nair, Editor, CXO Life at length on the – · Essence of employee engagement in every organisation & its role in managing and aiding disruption · Emergence of EX – Employee Experience & the benefits (& need) of linking it with customer experience · Challenges organisations face implementing sustainable engagement solutions & how the basics are at reach for every organisation regardless of its size, · Importance of work-life balance and how encouraging employees to expand their faculties can, in fact, help a corporate to de-risk · role of corporates and leaders in inducing and more importantly, sustaining a dynamically engaged corporate culture, · Attributes and skillsets of a new-age leader & · Leadership is more of a calling to go beyond oneself – be it a corporate, local or global level. And of course, since this is the KIA series we also conversed about Ajith’s passions, primarily, his love for music, playing the mridangam and other percussion instruments as well as yoga and writing. As a way of giving back, Ajith regularly coaches students and NGOs and is also part of a Citizen's Action Group working towards shutting the Deonar Garbage dump in Mumbai. We hope you enjoy listening to this conversation! Stay tuned!