- Diversity Is Key To Organizational Success
Having a diverse set of pokemon types is key to being successful in the game because it enables you to be best equipped to fight different types of pokemon. Fire-type pokemon are effective against grass-type Pokemon, but grass-type pokemon are not effective against fire-type pokemon. Your organization has a high number of salespeople who come from a customer service background. In customer service, you generally only receive inbound calls. One day, the inbound leads start to dry up and your sales team is forced to start making cold calls. One problem, cold calling is not easy and you need lots of experience and training to be successful at it. There are innate skills associated with cold calling that a lot of people don't possess. If your sales team had more diversity in their backgrounds, your organization would be better equipped to have success when the inbound leads started to dry up. Having salespeople with telemarketing backgrounds or door-to-door experience would have been extremely beneficial. Language diversity could also be crucial. Do you have a global organization but your sales team only speaks English? You're not well-prepared to catch Spanish pokemon or Dutch pokemon because your English sales team does not have a high chance of catching a Spanish pokemon. It's the difference between throwing a regular pokeball and an ultra pokeball.
- Bring The Employees To You
If you use an "incense" in the game, it will lure pokemon to your location for 30 minutes. If you don't use the incense, you will not catch very many pokemon sitting at home. Think of a company you really want to work for. Think about how great it must be to work in that organization. The company you're imagining probably does a great job at keeping their employee happy and engaged. Whether it's sharing pictures of team activities on your company's Linkedin page or video employee testimonials, show the world how great it is to work at your organization. There are many reasons why Google will get 1000x more applications for an internship than most other organizations. One of those reasons is that everyone knows that Google is an amazing company to work for and they really know how to treat their employees. I'm not saying you necessarily need to have a mini-golf course, scooters, free breakfast, or beer on tap in the office, but pushing out content (incense) that can assist in luring top talent to you is a lot more effective than trying to find top talent without "incense."
- Growing Out Of Your HR Tools
You've been playing the game for a while and having wild success. Woot! You continue to grow and so does the amount of pokemon that you're carrying. Oh snap, you're at the maximum number of both pokemon and items that you're allowed to carry in the game. The structure in which you started out with was great, but you've now outgrown it. You need a "pokemon storage upgrade" to increase the maximum number of pokemon that you can carry and a "bag upgrade" to increase the maximum number of items that you can carry. If you don't act fast, you will miss out on some amazing pokemon that you wish you had in the future. While you're stuck with a maximum of 250 pokemon, your competitors have already upgraded and are growing exponentially. The HR tools you've had in place have been wonderful and have helped accelerate the growth of the organization. When you had 50 employees on the team, the tools you had in place worked perfectly. Your organization now has 1,000 employees and those same tools are dragging your organization down like an anchor to the far depths of the ocean. You need to act fast or you'll miss out. The tools you started out with made sense for an organization with 50 employees but were not designed nor optimal for an organization with 1,000 employees. You need to upgrade your HR software before it's too late. You may not know it yet, but you've outgrown your HR software. One way to find out is to go out into the market and see what else is out there. The last time you were looking at different solutions, you were looking at solutions based on your old needs. If you've outgrown your current HR tools, you need to upgrade to tools that fit your new needs. This could include upgrading to OrangeHRM for your HRM needs, IBM Kenexa for your employee engagement needs, & Work Schedule for your employee scheduling needs. If you've been using an open source software (which is great for startups and small companies) and have now outgrown it, you need to upgrade it to a more functional and robust professional or enterprise solution. Congratulations, you are now ready to be an elite pokemon trainer.