In this episode of the Future Proof HR podcast, Thomas Kunjappu sits down with Divya Devakran, Director of Human Resources at EVS Engineering, to trace her path from “accidental” HR to building a company GPT. Divya shares how she built EVS’s HR function from the ground up, why she started a passion project to create an AI-powered policy and coaching bot for her organization, and how she is thinking about psychological safety, guardrails, and the very real time crunch HR teams live in. She and Thomas also look ahead at what will separate tactical HR teams from future-ready HR functions in the next few years.
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:This is not something that my organization
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:that sort, but I'm just a curious person,
I'm seeing AI taking over everywhere.
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:Thomas: Hello and welcome to the
Future Proof HR Podcast, where we
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:explore how forward-thinking HR leaders
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:are preparing for disruption
and redefining what it means to
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:lead people in a changing world.
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:I'm your host, as always,
Thomas Kunjappu, CEO of Cleary.
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:Today's guest is Divya Divakran, Director
of Human Resources at EVS Engineering.
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:Over her 18-plus-year career, Divya
has built HR departments from the
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:ground up, championed talent strategy,
and now leads a team spanning HR,
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:branding, and office operations.
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:But what sets her apart?
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:She's rolling up her sleeves, as we
speak maybe, because they're off camera,
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:and building custom AI tools herself.
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:No technical background, just curiosity,
courage, and a hands-on mindset.
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:Something we can all learn from.
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:Divya, welcome to the podcast.
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:Divya: Thank you so much for
this opportunity, Thomas.
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:I'm so excited to be part of this podcast.
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:Yes, I am rolling on my sleeves.
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:Thomas: There you go.
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:So tell us a little bit about your kind of
like background and as well as the HR team
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:that you've built from scratch at EVS.
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:Divya: Yeah, so I did my
MBA in symbiosis in India,
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:and I started my career
as a talent acquisition
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:specialist and grew from there.
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:So to back up a little bit, I did my
MBA and I wanted to be a finance person.
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:I was not keen in becoming an HR person.
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:However, when I got hired, I was
told that we did the personality
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:assessment and all of that.
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:And during the personality
assessment, the company that I
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:interviewed for, they basically
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:said I would perform better as an
HR than a finance person who is not
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:that great with attention to detail.
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:So they suggested and
offered me a job in HR.
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:So that's how I got into HR.
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:And I got into talent acquisition
as a recruiter because of my
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:personality to build relationship.
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:I'm more of an outgoing
person and all of that.
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:So they felt that this would
be a better fit for me.
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:And for the first two years,
I actually tried to really get
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:out of HR and go to the finance
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:department.
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:I did everything I could to volunteer
myself in the finance area and
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:see how I could get in there.
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:But as I was doing that, I realized
within HR, there are areas which
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:are payroll related benefits.
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:And there's more that I didn't know.
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:And I was exposed to those areas.
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:And I got into payroll and
benefits administration.
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:And slowly from there, I
moved into employee relations.
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:And from employee relations, I moved
into being an HR Business Partner.
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:relations, I moved into
being an HR business partner.
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:And then from HR Business Partner,
I was able to get into coaching
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:and development and leadership
development as an opportunity.
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:So eventually, as I am here
at EVS, I am doing the role
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:of heading the HR department.
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:Where at EVS, when I joined,
we were around 72 employees.
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:Right now, we are close to 230 employees.
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:And it's been around four and
a half years since I joined.
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:When I joined, there was no HR department.
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:So it was interesting and
challenging and fun to build the
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:HR department from ground up.
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:And now I oversee a team of nine that
includes not just the HR group, but also
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:branding and also office administration.
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:We do end-to-end, starting from talent
acquisition to actually starting
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:from branding, talent acquisition,
talent development, talent management,
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:and also office administration.
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:Thomas: Was there a moment when you
stopped fighting the moniker of being
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:in HR and wanting to continue in it
and actually started embracing it?
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:Divya: Yes, it was actually when
I was given the recognition by
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:my leaders that I'm doing good.
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:And actually, to take it back, I remember
there was one time when a candidate
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:really appreciated my involvement in
getting them that offer, job offer.
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:And that actually
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:gave me a sense of satisfaction.
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:And I felt this is probably the light up
or bulb moment or whatever we could call.
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:That's when I felt like maybe
this is the calling that I had
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:and I didn't really realize.
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:Thomas: So fast forward today.
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:So you have a team of nine working on,
granted, a little bit beyond HR as well.
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:But then if that's the case, tell me, why
are you spending your own time working
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:on building some things with GPTs versus
having your team work with you on that?
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:Divya: First thing, my team
is swamped, as I am as well.
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:But this is my passion project.
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:This is something that I
like doing outside of work.
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:This is not something that my organization
have asked me to do or anything of
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:that sort, but I'm just a curious person,
I'm seeing AI taking over everywhere.
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:And I keep getting asked to test or
demo of certain products and give
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:them feedbacks and all of that.
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:Right.
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:So when I'm being part of
all of those conversations,
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:and I'm seeing what is possible in
the AI world, I was just curious.
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:I have my husband, who is a techie,
who is into all of this as well.
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:And he was building something.
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:And I was like, okay,
tell me how to do this.
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:And I worked with him, I
mirrored what he has been doing.
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:And would create all of that in my
area and see how that would work for
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:from HR perspective how can we make
HR's life easier at the same time
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:the employees life easier as well so
if I'm able to build that it's in a
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:very starting stage so it's too early
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:for me to involve my team members
to get into this project, then
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:there is a lot more other things
that we have implemented recently.
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:So we just implemented Workday.
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:So that itself is a huge project,
which my team is busy with.
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:And we are also building EVS University.
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:So that's also something
that my team is busy with.
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:So with EVS University, we are
building the course from scratch.
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:So it's not like we are buying
courses, online courses, but we
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:are building the courses for EVS.
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:So it's quite a lot of effort and
manpower where my team is focusing on.
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:So I just want to roll up my
sleeves and do this on my own.
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:And if it works out, great.
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:I would bring my team in
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:Thomas: So can you tell us more about
what use case you are experimenting with?
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:Divya: Yes so I'm
experimenting it with two.
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:Basically one is on the HR policies
general policies and procedures that
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:every new hire or even experienced
hires don't really go in and check
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:on a day-to-day basis on the on
certain policies like jury duty
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:if I have been called for a jury duty what
is the process like instead of them going
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:through a policy manual yeah they can do
a control f and find it but it is even
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:more easier for them to just ping and ask
one of us so instead of them asking one
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:of us I'm just creating this GPT model in
such a way that it is more of a chatbot
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:or ask HR module where they can just chat
with that chatbot to know the policy.
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:And the other thing that
I'm testing out is coaching.
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:Coaching and development on
nobody teaches people how to be a
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:supervisor or manager immediately.
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:That is something that people learn.
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:And no matter how many learning and
development courses that we build,
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:it is still a lot of effort for
people to really sit through
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:those courses and retake those
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:information to get that
hands-on experience, right?
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:So coaching is much more easier.
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:And if people are comfortable, and I'm
seeing more and more people using chat
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:GPT for all kinds of questions, right?
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:So it is not just related to any
random, okay, help me with this
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:code or anything, but they are also
asking questions like, okay, help me
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:plan this trip, or I'm having this
situation in my life or at my work.
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:How do I handle this?
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:How do I draft this email?
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:I want to ask for a raise to my manager.
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:How do I draft this email?
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:So instead of it being general
ChatGPT response, I would like
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:to create something which is more
tailored for my organization.
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:I know the
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:organization's culture,
I know the organization's
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:values and leadership better, so it
is better for me to feed the data
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:to my GPT, so EVS GPT, so that
it is more of tailored for our
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:employees to get that response the
way how I would respond instead of
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:it coming from a general ChatGPT.
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:Thomas: I love that.
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:So before we go more in depth, I just
wanted to make an observation and tell
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:me if you agree with this, because
earlier you mentioned that there's
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:so many opportunities with AI to both
improve the employee experience, so the
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:customers and what we're offering for
them, as well as to improve efficiencies
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:for the HR department as well.
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:And if I think about the two examples
that you had, HR policies and really
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:HR service delivery, I think having
a solution like this can improve
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:the experience for employees because
you can find information instantly,
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:faster, that answers your question and
obviously improves efficiencies because
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:you're not reaching out to you at all.
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:And similarly on this coaching side,
there's, repeat that, similarly
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:on the coaching side, there are
opportunities for the HR team to be more
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:effective because you're potentially
multiplying your time in some ways.
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:But then also for employees,
it's making it more a better
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:experience because you're able to,
I think in this case, tell me if you
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:agree or not, actually ask things
of an AI that you may not even feel
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:comfortable asking your HR rep.
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:Divya: Yeah.
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:No matter how much we talk about, I speak
a lot about psychological safety in an
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:organization and building a culture where
people feel safe to open up and ask any
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:questions or concerns and bring it up to
anybody without any fear of repercussions.
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:But the harsh reality is it requires
a lot of courage in our employees
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:to be able to just come out of that
shell and not feel like they will
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:be judged or anything like that.
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:And they feel much more comfortable
talking to, asking AI than to a
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:real person because they feel like,
okay, an AI will not judge them,
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:but a real person could judge them.
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:There could be repercussions
and all of that, right?
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:So it's helpful for me to create such
an environment for our employees to be
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:able to ask such things anonymously.
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:And I'm also trying to see if
there is a way for me to get data
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:without knowing who is asking what.
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:But through the GPT, if I could get a
data that could shed some light as to
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:what kind of questions are people wanting,
asking and wanting to know answers to,
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:and that could help me, again, tailor
answers and feed the data into the system.
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:Thomas: So you're getting very hands-on,
I think probably more so than many others.
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:First of all, you're in the
context of a technology company
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:where throughout the functions,
people are, I imagine, leveraging AI
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:for all types of workflows in
other parts of the organization.
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:Or do you think you're in HR, how
you're using it is like a little
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:bit more ahead of the curve?
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:Divya: Yeah, it is actually.
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:I work for an engineering consulting firm.
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:When I say engineering consulting
firm, it's renewable energy.
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:So we have civil, electrical.
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:So it's really hardcore engineering
consulting firm, not really
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:technology-based organization.
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:But then we do have an AI team
that we have recently created.
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:So there is a new team that is being
built and they are focusing primarily on
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:automation efficiency for the engineering
products that we are delivering.
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:So from the HR side, I'm ahead of the
curve in terms of looking at this is
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:not really a revenue generating product
or anything at this point, but this
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:is more of a support tool for the
organization that I want to build.
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:Thomas: So do you think if you are looking
across your peer set across organizations
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:like HR executives, do you think
folks should be more hands-on with AI
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:like you, or do you think it's actually
just about finding the right partners?
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:Or in general, how do you look at the
current landscape when you look at HR
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:leadership and their stance towards AI?
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:Divya: I see mixed response, I would say.
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:There are people who are really worried
about AI, and there are people who
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:are embracing AI and I don't know if
there are, I have not yet spoken to
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:very many people who are being hands-on
in developing AI tool for themselves.
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:They are partnering with other AI
organizations that could develop
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:their vision, but I've not seen very
many people who are being hands-on
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:and developing their own tool.
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:Thomas: Do you think the HR
function should be adopting
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:more, whether like building,
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:partnering, however it is, but we're like
moving a pace in terms of adopting tools?
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:Divya: Yeah, I would say it is important.
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:If not now, then in
three to five years time,
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:they will be late to the game.
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:So it is better for them to start
ahead, get a head start into the AI area
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:so that they are ahead of the curve.
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:They understand what are the
capabilities that could come through AI.
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:There's always improvement, right?
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:Continuous improvement.
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:And as we all start working on this,
then we will start seeing use case
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:scenarios and we will be able to see
that, okay, this is a possibility.
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:Oh, this could have been done.
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:So we can keep on improving.
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:More people utilizing it, better.
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:I don't know.
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:I'm just struggling to
get that right word.
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:Like more people utilizing AI,
we would be able to get the best
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:out of that product, I would say.
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:community.
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:Now back to the show.
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:Thomas: So to get there, though, I want
to get your thoughts on something I
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:call it that's like the vicious cycle.
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:So you mentioned how your team
is team is overwhelmed right now.
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:There's a lot of projects.
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:There's a lot being asked of them, both
from the employee base, the executives,
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:all your stakeholders, technology
implementations that are going on.
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:And so there's no time.
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:There's no time to go in and
experiment or learn about what is next.
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:But then how do you solve for that
when, on the other hand, we say that
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:if you're not as an HR team, having
your hands in on projects and looking
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:at whether it's to improve the employee
experience or to improve efficiencies
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:for your team, if you're not working on
those things, you're going to be left
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:behind in a certain period of time.
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:But on the other hand, there's
all these demands constantly.
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:How do we break through that?
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:Divya: Yeah, that is where
it comes through the passion.
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:If you are really aspiring to
grow in the organization, grow
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:in your field of expertise,
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:then get hands on.
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:I wouldn't say do it during the work
hours if that is what is, if there's eight
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:hours in a day and if you can dedicate
one hour a day to explore this, great.
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:Work with your managers to see
if there's a possibility, if
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:you have genuine interest in
technology and developing something.
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:But I don't know if that is a
possibility for all the HRs.
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:Every organization is different.
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:I can only speak for my
organization, my team.
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:And if my team members are
expressing that they are
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:interested in doing what I'm doing,
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:I have already shared with
them as to what I'm doing.
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:And there are a couple of
them who are interested.
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:I've showed them what I'm doing.
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:So it is up to them.
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:They have access to it as well.
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:So they can play around with it and show
it to me as to what they are building.
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:So that's a fun project, side
project, if they want to do it.
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:And if they have the capacity to do it and
capability to do it, but I wouldn't expect
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:them to do it at this point.
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:What I would say to other HR
leaders is your team members are
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:the doers.
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:So they have to do what they have to do to
keep the company running and all of that
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:support to the organization, all of those.
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:But as HR leaders, you lead by being
an example, you can carve out some time
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:if you're able to get started in this
and then your team will follow you.
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:I always believe in leading
by being an example.
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:So if I'm not doing anything
and I'm just pushing it to my
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:team, I don't think my team
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:would be motivated enough
to explore on their own.
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:Thomas: And let's talk about in
terms, in some ways, like build
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:versus buy or like partner versus
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:like build.
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:There's like a learning component.
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:Obviously, that's pretty helpful
if you want to go into the
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:concept of not just prompting,
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:but building your own custom GPT.
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:And there's like layers of
you can go into all the way.
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:into building an agentic
product, theoretically, I think.
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:But you can also partner with someone,
whatever the use case is, right?
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:How do you think about that?
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:Obviously, from a software standpoint,
you're not building an HRIS.
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:You're partnering with a vendor that is,
you know, and you're going to implement
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:that to make sure that you can provide
for payroll and HR systems and everything.
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:How do you think about that in
this cycle where we are with
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:AI about build, buy, partner?
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:Divya: If you're able
to buy, that's great.
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:If you have enough budget
to do that, and if you have
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:a clear vision of what that would look
like, if you're able to provide a business
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:case scenario to get that from the HR
side, that's great for your organization.
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:But since AI is so new, I don't know if
there is a strong business case scenario
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:that we could come up with to get that
budget that could actually show a strong
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:return on investment at this point.
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:So that's why I am leaning
more towards building.
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:And that would also help me to be able
to test it out, different scenarios to
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:see what is possible and what is not.
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:When I'm going with buying, it is what, I
mean, they have something that they have
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:built already and I'm just buying that.
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:I don't know if there is a possibility
of tailoring it for my needs and say,
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:for example, what I am looking for.
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:One is coach bot and the other one
is basically a chat bot, right?
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:Then in that, if I'm going with buying,
I have to buy two different products.
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:Maybe I have to go to two different
vendors to buy these two products
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:and assemble all of this together.
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:But if there are organizations
that are building everything in
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:one, then, and if we have the
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:budget, then yeah, I think that buying is
also an easier way than having to build it
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:all by yourself.
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:Thomas: So Divya, you've been
working on this concept of coaching
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:for managers and especially new
managers and almost this concept of
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:micro coaching and something that's
personalized for a specific manager.
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:Tell me about the inspiration
and the vision that you had
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:for this kind of a product and
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:interaction.
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:Divya: Yeah.
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:So as a first time manager, it is
really new for a first time manager
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:to experience a lot of scenarios and
situations that they would deal with.
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:In terms of people development, technical
development might be easy for them.
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:That's really on a day-to-day
basis, something that they're doing,
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:technical training and all of that.
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:But when it comes to people development,
when a team member comes and asks a
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:question like, okay, I'm getting another
offer or a recruiter is reaching out to me
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:with the compensation offer of this.
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:What can the company do for me?
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:Then that's
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:a question that a first-time
manager wouldn't have experienced
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:yet on how to respond.
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:And they can always come to
the HR or their manager for
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:feedback as to like, how do I
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:handle this?
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:But not always a manager and the HR
will be available for them immediately.
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:So if I'm your team member and I'm coming
and asking you, it is better for you to be
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:able to respond immediately than
saying, okay, I will get back to you.
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:I will listen to everything
and then I'll get back to you.
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:That is not really a
solid credibility for you.
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:So it is better for you to quickly
chat or use the coach bot and ask,
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:okay, this is what my
team member is asking.
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:How do I respond?
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:Then the coach bot that I have developed
that is basically my cloning or my feed
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:of how I would respond to the
manager is how that would respond.
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:And that would
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:help them have that conversation.
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:And a later point, they can always
come and talk to me as HR as
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:to, okay, this is what happened.
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:This is how I responded.
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:What is it that we can
actually do for this employee?
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:And what is our pay range like?
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:Is there room room and all of
that discussion could happen
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:in person with the manager.
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:However, the first time response or
like immediate response on how to
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:handle these situations and build
the credibility and trust within the,
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:with the team members is important.
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:And that's where I felt like it would be
good to develop this coach bot, which is
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:a go-to for our managers to ask anything
related to, okay, a team member is asking,
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:I want to go work remote for a month.
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:We have a temporary distance work policy.
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:I want to work remote.
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:But the manager would not know all
the details of the policy immediately.
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:So instead of saying, go talk to HR,
they can just do a quick search as
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:to, okay, this is what this person is.
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:This is the location that
this person is going to go.
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:This is okay.
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:As per EVS policy, then they
have the answer immediately
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:and they can just deliver it.
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:So they will be the first point of
contact instead of them going to the
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:HR and they are building the trust.
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:They are building the credibility,
the employees feel comfortable going
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:to the manager and the manager is
setting the stage where the employees
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:feel comfortable going to them
at the same time, also help coach
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:Thomas: So as you're building to enable
this kind of product for your managers,
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:what have been some practical challenges
that you've faced along the way?
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:Divya: For me, I'm doing this.
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:I'm using my husband as my testing rep.
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:So he will be the one who is
actually testing all of these
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:scenarios and based on what he is
going through at his organization.
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:So we are doing this in
our personal computer.
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:So it is all an outside project.
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:So I have not gotten to this yet.
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:So the challenge I would say is
the hiccup what we are seeing
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:right now is more of
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this, if he's asking a question that
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GPT, then that is where I am
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single scenarios that would
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challenge is, basically.
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that I'm thinking through.
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augmented generation as a technique
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but you're getting into.
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some ethical questions as well.
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an experienced credentialed person
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potentially sensitive questions, which
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you're trying to enable managers.
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could be quite high depending on
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the kind of areas that in my
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just stop short and just say,
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before a mind come to the fore
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guess, mindset or, I guess, response
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more mindful about the kind of feed
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putting into the system.
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that are being asked at that point, my
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would basically be stop, talk to HR.
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random answers, it should be more
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it is stop, go and talk to HR,
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am trying to feed and enable it with
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or if in case GPT just decides to give
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it's again, how we build it, right?
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for us to build it.
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developing and testing.
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maybe we can look forward a bit about
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two to three years from now, one
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well, succeeding, successful.
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with the executive team, not making much
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a seat at the table when it comes down
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or driving business decisions.
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distinction as you look forward?
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another team that would separate
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:Divya: I would say would be the difference
between the two teams basically is
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and doing what is being asked of them
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ahead, not staying abreast of the
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being more involved in the business
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I will do what is being asked of
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is more, which is also good because
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they are expected to be.
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table because they are contributing
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that HR team is not just a cost
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a way, because they are contributing
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organization, which is human resources.
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value to the organization by supporting
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developing their talents, making sure
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helpful for the organization's growth
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the scale up of the organization.
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tools and technologies provided,
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are doing their work so they are being
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for projecting ahead, right?
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expressed more to be successful as
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that's really what we try to get
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experimenter mindset here with you, Divya.
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that you're going in to really
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even build a custom GPT and then the kinds
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come across as you try to push
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actually be useful for employees.
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for the rest of your team, I think really
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experimenting and trying something like
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able to get that mindset in to a
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many HR teams are completely bogged
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out of that because as we just projected
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things, that we are bogged down in
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administrative work that is done more
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function is in a place where we are, we
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are successful and ready for that future.
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seeing how this project goes.
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to something that you are comfortable
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and who's looking to future-proof your own
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I hope you found some value in this
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because there is a call to action there.
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using, go take it to the next level,
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customized on top of it.
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right here on this show.
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once again, for this conversation.
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I'll see you on the next one.
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:Divya: Thank you so much, Thomas.
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