InspireME: Fortify Your First Line Of Defence By Motivating Your Teams

Kanika Mehra is a Retail Ops leader with a focus on employee development. With over 10 years of experience in the retail industry, she has clearly learned a lot about employee engagement and managing teams. But her focus on people is core to her ethos and something integral to sustainable success in business.

Here’s Kanika:

I strongly believe that by empowering your people by creating a growth culture of consistent learning, Employers can retain their best talent as well as successfully drive their business. But to do so the program has to be tailor-made by keeping in mind that ‘one size does not fit all.

When my employer decided to relocate me to their head office from their subsidiary in Kuwait to manage its Operations in Abu Dhabi, I noticed that the attrition rate was higher than expected.

The brand that I worked with had an incredible learning program albeit catering to employees with different cultural backgrounds. I found that employees did not feel engaged or motivated.

We decided to act by listening to our employees’ needs and concerns and what was important to them and how we could improve. As a result, we found out that employees wanted work-life balance, opportunities to grow and most importantly recognition for…