TMC, CIMA, CMI and Daily FT to present ‘Culture for success in the new world’ workshop

Arising from a very successful webinar on 26 October which was a joint program between TMC, CIMA, CMI and DFT, talks are proceeding to hold a physical event (ensuring all health guidelines are adhered to), in late January on ‘Culture for success in the new world’.

Following the webinar held last October by the above organisations on how culture has changed post-pandemic, the next session in the series is a workshop-based discussion for members of the organising bodies as well as HR heads and CEOs in January 2022, focusing on best practices in the new work world with regard to changed organisation cultures. 

The session will have a keynote address and several areas of interactive discussions and intends to help leaders and managers to tide over these exceptional times making the most of the valuable resources they have within the organisations with priority being their employees. Today’s leaders must deal with multi generations of employees who themselves are facing a changed world. 

Some of the areas that will be covered will include: 

Great resignation

Although this is yet to impact Sri Lankan workspace significantly, this has been visible even amongst organisations here. It is certainly becoming the great revolt and leaders of organisations need to take quick action to retain their valued and skilled employees whilst providing them new benefits suiting the times. 

Hybrid work – go or no go

Whilst Omicron is making waves across the world, those who went back to work – completely are questioning the way forward. We yet have organisations who prefer Work From Home set up and hybrid as well due to various reasons. Leaders need to make the call without upsetting the apple cart to ensure their great talent is retained and efficacy/productivity targets are also met. 

Reskilling – need of the moment 

Today’s workers need new skills – not just to deal with the technology that changes but even human skills. As stated in various reputed research – workers of today need to have new skills to provide their best to the organisations and organisations too need to invest significantly to retrain their staff. A pertinent question is how many actually do this!

Focus on D&I

Initiatives focusing on diversity and inclusion are key to any organisation’s success; specially retention of female workers has been seen as a challenge in recent times given the load of work that they now have to face in Work From Home scenarios at times when schools have closed. 

Mental wellbeing 

Of key essence for everyone in today’s work world is emotional and mental wellbeing with many organisations investing on this. What are the global best practices in this arena and what can our organisations do to help not just our employees but also their families? 

This session is to be held in the third week of January; look out for more details in their next issue.