The Delhi Management Association and Thomas Assessments together conducted the 11^th National HR Conclave with an objective to enhance awareness of unique talent management initiatives that helped organisations achieve success.

On the occasion, the 5^th DMA Thomas International awards for excellence in talent management were given away.

The theme of the conclave was “VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) to BANI (brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensive) – The Great Reset at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 14 December 2022. It covered cutting-edge practices in recruitment, on-boarding, engagement, competency based assessment development centres, performance management, coaching and mentoring, action learning, experiential learning, gamification and other human resources (HR) areas.

Giving an overview, Dr. Yogesh Misra, President, DMA and Vice-President Thomas Assessments Ltd. stated that from a world where we used to say the only thing constant is change, we have moved to a world where the only thing constant is disruption.

The last two years, he pointed out, have taught us one thing that things can suddenly get completely disrupted and change faster than shifting sands. These changes have led to BANI. In order to deal with BANI, companies changed their core businesses and brands value proposition.

This brings enormous challenges (and opportunities!) for HR to reinvent its role and create future ready organization. The role of HR is to ensure that the organisation is nimble and quick to respond to the changing paradigms by Recruiting, Retaining, Developing and managing the workforce.

The programme structure was designed to be highly interactive which involved sharing of best practices by business and HR Leaders from highly successful organisations. Panel discussions followed by questions & answers will strengthen the learning.

Thomas Assessments will provide insights from its latest research in the area of high potential and impact of competency-based HR processes on business results. The Conclave focused on Implementing innovative recruitment and other HR practices using technology. Engaging and developing employees with varying aspirations and aligning employees with customer’s expectations besides, creating and sustaining high performance work systems (HPWS) for business growth.

The conclave deliberations had four sessions where senior professionals like A Sundara Rajan, M.D, Thomas Assessments, Jatin Mahajan, MD Jmitra & Co, Mr. Porus Arora ,President, Enoki Hospitality, Ms. Neha Tiwary, CEO, Kore Security Services, Mr. Paras Mishra, CEO, Gen Z Solutions, Ms. Simin Askari ,Senior VP – Corporate HR & Business Excellence, DS Group, Mr. Dev Mani Pandey , Associate Director – HR, Hippostores Technology, Ms. Ruchi Dhawan Sharma ,CHRO, MMTC-PAMP India Pvt Ltd ,Mr. Farhat Umar , President – Global HR,Mankind Pharma Ltd, Mr. Suyash Srivastava, Partner- DSK Legal, Mr. Anubhav Madan ,Head of Learning and Development, The New Shop, Ms. Sonal Kapoor Sinha , Head HR, Esme Consumer, Ms. Nida Khanam, Head HR, Omega Seiki Mobility, Mr. Ashish Srivastava, Head HR, Relaxo Footwears Ltd, Mr. Hameed Jung, Head L&D, DCM Shriram Ltd , Mr. Manoj Kumar, Head HR, Indiannica ,Mr. Varun Wadhera , Director HR, Aristrocat, Ms. Kavita Dasan , Vice President – People Practices, ABP Network, Mr. Mukul Mathur, Head HR, CJ Darcl Logistics Ltd., Ms. Tanvi Madan, Director -L&D at NoBroker.com and Mr. Saurabh Jain, Founder- Benepik Technologies enthralled the audience with their take on the new paradigm.

The award ceremony was well attended. Out of a total of 104 shortlisted companies, the winners included HDFC Life, Global Logic, NTPC Tanda, Mankind Pharma, Celebi India Ground Handling and Cargo, Hero Realty Pvt Ltd, NoBroker Technologies, Kusum Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Jindal Steel & Power, Sandhar Technologies Ltd, Haier, Reach to Teach, The New Shop and Haldor Topsoe. Mr. Prem Singh, President HR, JK Organisation. Each winner was conferred an individual award for his/her excellence in contribution to the field of HR.