Post pandemic, many organizations are working in re-strategizing and refocusing in their business goals; which encompasses planning and managing the workforce. The ’new’ normal is something that every business is getting acclimatised to and owing to this need, there is quite a demand that has surged in the market for good HR consultants to help organizations in realigning their people strategy. One such organization, which is an emporium of HR offerings is Tejovathi Consulting.
For this inside story, we are in a free-wheeling conversation with Dr. Sridhar Raamalingam and Ms. Chetana Sridhar, founding duo of Tejovathi Consulting. We take a deep dive into an insightful narrative about the current market needs, trends and how Tejovathi Consulting can support large, medium and small-scale enterprises to enhance people effectiveness.
In our tete-a- tete with the luminaries, we discovered the pain points and unaddressed issues that persist in the industry; the article provides a deep insight into how the HR fraternity contributes to the tremendous growth of any business, acting as a motivational booster to our global aficionado.
THE PREFACE
Tejovathi Consulting offers the entire gamut of services in the HR sphere, including technological driven HR services apart from Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development initiatives to Core HR services at a strategic level like setting up the Organogram, defining Policies and Procedures, structuring Compensation and Benefits, setting up Performance Management Systems with a Competency framework, and much more with the use of proprietary tools the founding duo have put to use, having been industry veterans, based on decades of research and vast global experience.
They have successfully implemented many of these psychology/psychometric tools with many of the big wigs across varied industries like travel, manufacturing and automobile, oil and gas to name a few.
Their biggest strength lies in their proprietary diagnostic model they implement to identify grey areas existing in the system, thus giving them an edge to roll out specific solutions, enhancing employee retention and people effectiveness.
Above all this, they are also adept at understanding the technological needs for any organization, in building a digitized HR system for their clients.
AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF ALL THE SERVICES
- Exsistentials : what does one do when they have a health issue? Isn’t it essential to get a proper diagnostic check? Organizations irrespective of their size, have people related issues like dip in performance, low morale at work, continued or unaccounted absenteeism, lack of ownership, poor quality in deliverables et al.
Tejovathi’s diagnostic tool, helps identify deeper issues within the organization on 20 different dimensions like compensation & benefits, working environment, support from seniors, variety at work, etc. The HR Diagnostic scores mapped to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs helps identify where the core issues are related to employee retention, engagement or productivity. Solutions and interventions are then tailored to address the issues revealed by the HR diagnostic, ensuring that these interventions address the core issues instead of trial and error, saving time and cost for their clients. - 1-Step Ahead : Irrespective of whether it is a Leadership Development or a Communication workshop, the use of appropriate psychometric and psychology-based tools that help participants identify specific skills essential to focus on, thus making the training extremely relevant to the participant, engaging and effective.
- SkillScouts : Tejovathi Consulting has developed their own proprietary analytical tools ‘Resume Relevance Index’ which helps the team of recruiting experts select the most suitable profile for a job role and ‘Candidate Relevance Index’ which helps in narrowing down in the right person for the job role.
- Optimus Platform (Assessment Solutions) : Tejovathi’s Optimus Platform offers psychology and psychometry-based assessment solutions that can be used to effectively understand the personality of an individual and leverage on their strengths.
- Humanvue (Technology Solutions) : Technology is prevalent in every aspect of the business landscape today and is evident in the HR space equally. The HR-tech solutions allow the organisation to leverage the power of automation in their favour. Tejovathi through their technology consulting solutions is known for assisting its clients integrate a robust tech infrastructure to handle their present and future HR needs.
- HR Audits : The audit team performs a thorough HR Audit to systematically verify current practices, documentation, policies and procedures and identify the strengths of the present system with recommendation on improvements that can be made
WHY CONSIDER TEJOVATHI?
The whole business operations are driven by an adept and global team of professionals from US, UK, UAE, Jordan, Italy, India, etc.. This diverse and global team allows them to cater to the needs of organizations from different geographical regions.
Moreover, the founding members of the company have a collective experience of more than 50 years that help the teams to create and cater better HR based solutions. Under their guidance and with a set of proprietary HR Models and Tools that are exclusive to Tejovathi is what sets them apart from other consulting firms.
Tejovathi Consulting’s approach is analytical based. To identify issues and solutions, they have developed a model that they use to convert the impact of the issues to numbers, that help understand the issue and measure the effectiveness of the implemented solutions thus adding substantial value and return on investment to their clients.
The inclusion of appropriate psychological and psychometric tools that augment return on investment that drives many small-medium enterprises to choose Tejovathi as their HR solutions partner.
THE THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
An insightful leadership is something that scales organizations effectively. Though, individually, the definition of leadership is different but eventually aligns towards the same objective i.e. holistic growth of the people following them.
Dr. Sridhar and Chetana are leaders with a difference, believing in leading by example to propel employees towards greater heights by providing them suitable opportunities of growth and development as per their level of competence. And needless to mention that both leaders have established inspiring cultural principles in the organisation that has grabbed eyeballs of many media houses and publications – applauding their variety of employee friendly initiatives.
Both the visionaries with their years of extensive experience in the industry have collaboratively put forth a vision behind Tejovathi to revolutionize the HR industry for small medium enterprises with better tools and techniques to bridge the gap between them and their international counterparts.
The future outlook for the organisation, they revealed was an AI/ML platform for small medium enterprises that will chalk out the entire people strategy at par with international standards once the business model, industry and a few other parameters are configured. They have prepared an extraordinary roadmap to lead them to their envisioned future.
