“A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.” – Sundar Pichai

For decades, discussion about Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity (DIE) has been ongoing, but only a few organizations have championed it. Thanks to the pandemic, many companies are now re-evaluating their leadership teams on a different set of criteria. But what is Diverse Leadership? Diversity leadership involves recognizing the cultural differences and adapting strategies and processes that work for a wider variety of people. Diversification is one thing – distribution is another matter. To build an inclusive culture, companies should have a diverse leadership team. The categories for diversity, on a broader spectrum, are gender, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, economic background, and so forth. 

How does Diverse Leadership play an important role in any organization and how to execute and build on it?

Read below to know more –

• Enhanced Company Culture

A diverse leadership opens up avenues for better employee-employer relationships. Employees feel important and witness their representation, which in turn builds trust in the organization and the leadership. Employees are more likely to stay longer in the firm as they envisage their future there.

“Seeking out diverse candidates isn’t hard. Recruiting those candidates and placing them in an environment where different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences are appreciated is more difficult. If companies have done this correctly it should be reflected in the makeup of the management team. Once a company has this kind of environment, diverse candidates will come and stay.” – Donald Hatter, founder, Donald Hatter Inc.

• Wide Range of Knowledge
  

It’s our experiences that teach us the most — the way we witness and engage with the world around us is unique for one another. So with a diverse background of employees, the world’s insights are boundless. The range of skill sets and the awareness of the team increases which in a way, help create better customer solutions, social impacts and global opportunities.

“We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products.” — Sheryl Sandberg

• Innovation at Best
  

A diverse leadership, as mentioned above, opens up platforms for open and enhanced communication. This leads to more dialogues, the incessant flow of ideas and discussions, and boosts innovations. It requires discipline, conscious listening without bias, and courage from the leadership to build a responsive and cohesive work environment to reap real benefits.

• Company Portfolio
  

A company’s leadership team reflects itself. So a diverse leadership speaks for itself that the company is an all-inclusive and nurturing work environment. It also announces that the company is well-equipped to cater to any customer, as the solutions will come from a place of genuine knowledge and experience. It also enhances the company’s global engagement and impact, with well-balanced, nuanced conversations. And the most important point, the company is genuine, far away from the everyday brouhaha.

Conclusion

It’s not just about including individuals from the broad spectrum but also, developing a company mentality that willingly accepts different people and voice their opinions equally. Diverse leadership can provide training programs for the team members to help understand diversity, formal approaches, and tools to respond to each other’s differences.

As a leading company in India that provides high-end digital platform strategy and services to customers, it is our responsibility to have a diverse, knowledgeable team with an equally diverse leadership. To learn more, head over to our homepage at: https://www.goodworklabs.com/

Modern IT business infrastructure is evolving at a lightning pace. Things need to be done ASAP, and meeting deadlines has become a norm. Matching this pace is a challenge for enterprises, and the ones who do, emerge victoriously. To fuel their modus operandi with speed and efficiency, businesses have incorporated DevOps. DevOps combines tools and a business’s underlying philosophy to provide deliverables fast and efficiently. For long departments have been working in silos, and DevOps dismantles this infrastructure and enables cross-platform databases to help them serve their customers better. Top companies such as Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart and others have opted for the DevOps route for higher productivity. 

“DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of continual improvement.”- Jez Humble, Author of The DevOps Handbook. 

Here’s how a company can adopt DevOps and channelize its benefits into its operations:

• Thorough Research:

DevOps might sound cool, but businesses should take a well-planned approach towards implementing it. Enterprises need to understand their value streams and point out the obstacles in their flow. Earmarking those problems and improving on them is the first step towards adopting DevOps. They should ensure strong communication and collaboration to eradicate differences between departments. 

• Step-by-step Adoption:

It’s always one level at a time. Dismantling an existing process and adopting this fast and efficient model can bring grave repercussions. Earmark a point and move up or down the value stream to create a series of effective changes. This process creates an ecosystem for quality monitoring, feedback and custom changes. Each enterprise is unique, and the process adoption of DevOps completely varies accordingly. 

• Not Overlooking Numbers:

DevOps can be incorporated based on the metrics which reflect the quality of operations. Some of the crucial metrics required for DevOps adoption are as follows:

• Failure Rate
• Recovery Rate
• Production Time
• Deployment Speed
• Deployment Frequency
• Automating:

The underlying philosophy of DevOps is agility and efficiency, and automation is the best card to play while adopting it. Businesses should integrate this “modern world phenomenon” by adopting a step-by-step approach. Automation should be implemented with research-backed codes that suit the company’s requirements and give the existing deliverables a facelift. Also, automation shouldn’t alienate any of the integral departments of a business and should keep everybody in a loop. 

• Emphasizing Quality:

Speed and quality are an integral part of DevOps, and both should go hand-in-hand. During the integration process, it’s important to run regression and smoke testing to ensure quality deliverables. Companies can also implement automation in selected areas of testing to ensure a smooth run. 

Conclusion:

DevOps empowers operations to the maximum level of efficiency. With leading companies using it, its reach will grow in the years to come when businesses adapt to a stronger, smarter and inclusive environment for working and churning out deliverables to the best of their ability. 

GoodWorkLabs is a leading company in India that provides high-end digital platform strategies and services. Our latest technological services and tools including digital transformation, AI, and more, have been proven helpful to not only supply for the current demands but also prepare for the smart future. 

Check out all our services: https://www.goodworklabs.com/ 

2022 is a month away and the big businesses are gearing up for the New Year. Given the past two years, it has been difficult to predict the future. But what’s important is to hold the scope for change and prepare ahead, with the given knowledge and resources. We’ve transitioned from work-from-office to work-from-home and completely changed the way we function professionally. Now is the time for leadership to evolve with the changes and the needs of not only their businesses but also, their employees.

“Organisations will have to be prepared to undergo new learning cycles and adapt themselves to these new challenges, not only to survive, but to succeed.” Head of HR, Healthcare, PWC India

• Emphasis on the Work Culture 

Work-from-Home saw a huge change in the work cultures across the globe. On one hand, it revealed several loopholes in the way companies function and exploit their employees and on the other hand, it saw companies going the extra mile for the comfort of their employees, making sure they had access to amenities to smoothen the work process. That’s why it’s important to build a healthy work culture that accommodates the employees’ needs.

• Communication is the Key

It’s important to make the employees well-aware and well-versed in the company’s policies so that the expectations are on the same page. With the onset of remote work culture, newly-joined employees feel more distant and alien to their companies due to lack of interaction and awareness of the space. That’s why the onus lies with the leaders to dive deeper into the motivational and inspirational needs of their employees and keep checking on everyone from time to time.

“Employers need to find new ways to counteract the absence of face-to-face interactions or the loss of staples in the diary that are communication-driven, such as monthly town hall meetings,” says Yvonne Teo, Vice President of HR at ADP.

• Revisiting HR Demands

The role of HR is getting exponentially bigger for the companies. They need to be backed with financial, analytical and technological resources to help retain the best talents in the company and also, relook at meeting the needs and inspiring the existing set of employees. Building the company’s image, portfolio and goodwill is also important to attract outside talent and become a leading benchmark in the respective industry.

• Hybrid Model or Full Work-From-Office?

The hybrid model has been hugely considered by many big tech firms and businesses of multiple industries. According to a Microsoft report, 81% of workers want flexible remote work options to be maintained, while 75% want more in-person time with their team. This shows us that people have become comfortable with the future of the Hybrid Work Model. What’s important to know is your employees’ preferences as it is a great challenge to manage and integrate teams in the hybrid model. The sooner you decide, the better solutions and routes the company can come up with.

Conclusion

Overall, it is important to have a constant dialogue with your team in this world of ever-changing dynamics. With a plethora of employment options available in multiple industries, the true test of leadership would be to listen earnestly to your employees and maintain the best talents.

GoodWorkLabs is a leading company in India that provides high-end digital platform strategies and services. Our latest technological services and tools including digital transformation, AI, and more, have been proven helpful to not only supply for the current demands but also prepare for the smart future. 

Check out all our services: https://www.goodworklabs.com/ 

It was another great opportunity for our MD, Vishwas Mudagal to share his turn-around story at Nasdaq’s Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020. Donning many hats, he has always been fascinated about turning every failure into an opportunity and a success mantra. During the webinar, he spoke about his life instances which inspired him to write ‘Losing My Religion’. There was a time in his life when he was knocked down by challenges, but his ‘introspective’ nature helped him sail through the storms become the CEO of a Canadian MNC overnight. He believes that miracles happen if you introspect.

“Failures come in your life to make you better, they bring forth new opportunities to disrupt yourself. It pushes you out of your comfort zone, it makes you think practically. It is important for every individual to know how to turn failure into an opportunity and a success mantra. So, next time you fail, don’t worry. Just congratulate yourself for the failure, learn from your mistakes and reboot!”

– Vishwas Mudagal, MD, GoodWorkLabs