{"id":1759,"date":"2021-07-02T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2021-07-02T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:07:52","slug":"surabhi-venkatesh-director-people-culture-heads-up-for-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/surabhi-venkatesh-director-people-culture-heads-up-for-tails\/","title":{"rendered":"Surabhi Venkatesh, Director People &#038; Culture, Heads Up For Tails"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1761\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1761 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"Surabhi\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-1024x952.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-768x714.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-1536x1428.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-2048x1904.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-1200x1115.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Surabhi-Photo-594x552.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surabhi Venkatesh, Director People &amp; Culture, Heads Up For Tails<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Surabhi Venkatesh is a strategic HR professional with a demonstrated history of working in the not for profit industry. An ICF -credentialed and certified coach, she currently leads People &amp; Culture at Heads Up For Tails, India&#8217;s largest organized retail brand for pet products. She works with teams and individuals on strategic planning, high performance, coaching and mentoring and creating a rigorous employee experience. She&#8217;s a passionate dog parent to her two rescues, Luchi &amp; Mutton, and believes that they are the most impactful teachers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In this TopTalk interview, Surabhi talks about how the performance of people, who are behind bringing joy to pets&#8217; lives, is managed during this pandemic and WFH Scenario.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Things we talked about in this interview with Surabhi (<strong>video below<\/strong>) :<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Her journey from being a customer to becoming a HUFTian.<\/li>\r\n<li>During the lockdown scenario last year and even now when the Pandemic has not yet subsided completely and HUFT being a company that has been massively active to support all the needs of the animals, the impact it had on the performance and the productivity of the people force.<\/li>\r\n<li>Engagement plays a very important role when we talk about keeping up employee motivation especially during these uncertain times. The proactive measures that Surabhi took in order to keep HUFT&#8217;s people force motivated.<\/li>\r\n<li>In a view to adjust or accommodate the changing scenario of the country, are there\/will there be any plans for changing the current evaluation methods that are followed? How does Surabhi believe that will lead to an improvement in the performance of the organization.<\/li>\r\n<li>The importance HUFT puts on having a well organized and continuous Feedback process in place for better performance.<\/li>\r\n<li>HUFT is the leading provider of pet essentials in India and with physical stores opening all over the country, what does the future of the people&#8217;s performance management looks like for HUFT?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Click on the video below to watch the entire discussion with Surabhi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GroSum TopTalk: Surabhi Venkatesh, Director People &amp; Culture, HUFT on People&#039;s Performance in HUFT\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iHAvYzjuSuI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surabhi Venkatesh is a strategic HR professional with a demonstrated history of working in the not for profit industry. An ICF -credentialed and certified coach, she currently leads People &amp; Culture at Heads Up For Tails, India&#8217;s largest organized retail brand for pet products. She works with teams and individuals on strategic planning, high performance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grosum.com\/topTalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}