Sanjay Lakhotia is a management graduate from XLRI with more than 15 years of experience of working in human resources area. He has worked for more than 13 years in consulting where he has helped clients in various issues of HR including HR Strategy, change management, organization restructuring, leadership development and coaching, capability development, performance management, rewards etc.
Sanjay currently undertakes assignments as a free lance consultant helping companies with various aspects of Human Resource interventions including program design, competency development and soft skills training. He is also a top rated HR Blogger with his blog “Simple thoughts” being amongst the best in the country on the subject.
Tackling issues such as leave policy may put him in a spot as most HR departments try hard to justify non-granting of leaves, Sanjay on the other hand is an advocate of simple HR policies starting from leave system in an organization. Not only does he give a simple solution to a complicated problem, but also makes sense of many complicated issues.
He also provides uncanny lessons in HR through real life happenings. His post on Leadership Learning from Dhoni speaks a volume not just about the cricketer but also how clearly Sanjay can draw a parallel between HR theories and real life. It is this quality that has put Sanjay on the list of visiting faculties in many premier institutes. In fact how much he enjoys teaching is evident from his comment
“My suggestion to everyone who wants to learn or become better at his / her subject will be to try teaching a course on that subject. Because I believe from my first experience, that to TEACH is to LEARN.”
Sanjay has for always shown this hunger to learn. He believes that people can get better by making things simple. His own assessments of issues in his blog posts are very simple and that helps his reader to learn better. It is this simplicity that simply makes Sanjay Lakhotia our “Bloggerati of the Fortnight.
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