Data, the necessary enabler of employee engagement

Against the background of The Great Resignation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation) and now Quiet Quitting & The Great Retrenchment (https://dollarsandsense.sg/business/quiet-quitting-the-great-retrenchment-how-these-work-trends-will-affect-the-future-of-work/) , companies are struggling to understand who are the talents they want to keep and what roles the current structure should evolve into. In good times, the obvious choice is to hire from outside with the good reasons of new blood, taking from competition etc. with the question of cultural fit. 

Today, many business Leaders are looking inward, to uncover talents who are already in their company, possibly in different roles, to keep and to nurture, into the new roles. This eliminates the question of cultural fit and raises the bar of appreciation and opportunities to whom is chosen for this exercise. Entomo's Grow (https://entomo.co/all-products/#grow) is a clear choice for this exercise where Connected Data helps practitioners understand the profile, match skills, abilities and activities of the ‘from’ and ‘to’ roles, highlights what is lacking and proposes a course of action to bridge that gap. Just as useful Grow is for the business leader, it is for the individual employee too. Career growth is an essential attribute to attain professional success. The career map presented by Grow is connected data-driven insights on growth strategy, alternate paths and their individual challenges.  

From personal growth lens, one needs to constantly evaluate if career growth is enabling oneself to apply her creativity to the job, if its throwing new challenges at you, enabling right type of learning and more importantly is providing feedback from team members; are you a better version of yourself. What part of growth was intentional, upskilling to take on new responsibility and what was reactive, changing the job to get a new title? Career planning is not like “I want to be like Bill Gates”; sorry, there cannot be another Bill Gates, just like, there cannot be another You.  

From business leader’s lens, the need for tool to apply market insights for assessment of group and team capabilities, being able to see where misplacement has happened or where an upgrade of responsibility is due and where roles could be merged to provide for better opportunities to people housing them.  

Over next several blogs I will cover both aspects - individual's career growth and business leader's necessity of "doing more with less".