The Shape of Work

#186: Rujuta Jamgaonkar shares tips and strategies to improve employee engagement, health and well-being, and organisation culture

Springworks Season 1 Episode 186

Our next guest is Rujuta Jamgaonkar, Org builder at Forage AI. Forage AI is a data automation and data science company with a core focus on the financial, healthcare, and energy domains.

Prior to working at Forage AI, Rujuta held various positions like Process Executive, Project Assistant, Senior Associate of Date Operations, Manager- Research ops, Quality & Metrics, and more. She also founded - We Can Do Anything Good. The vision was to build a strong community that enables gender equality and empowers men, women, and children to reinvent their lives beyond existing cultural and social dogma.

Rujuta is an experienced and strategic professional with out-of-the-box ideas. She also loves learning new languages. 

TOP TAKEAWAYS

  • Tips to improve your company's organizational culture
  • How to develop & sustain employee engagement
  • Strategies to improve your employees' health and well-being
  • How to build high-performing diverse teams at work
  • How can leaders influence the work culture

1. Influencing workplace culture in remote settings

Managers should create enough sense of belonging, intimacy, and connectivity to collaborate. They should hire people who are culture-fit and would help meet their vision, for which they need to be extra cautious while hiring. 

2. Promoting a sense of engagement in the team

As per Rujuta, employees tend to engage more when the organisation offers them a strong career path. A career path does not include only vertical promotions but also relatively smaller milestones like employee work recognition and advocacy of their skills by seniors. Having career-related conversations is necessary to promote engagement and build connections.

3. Things to implement for the well-being of the employees

Valuing employees' contributions and using their strengths makes them feel good about themselves. Putting employees in different job roles can also give them more opportunities in their careers. 

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast host: Ishika Jani 

Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organization that is building tools and products to simplify recruitment, on-boarding, employee engagement, and retention. The product stack from Springworks includes:

SpringVerify — B2B verification platform
EngageWith — employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company culture
Trivia — a suite of real-time, fun, and interactive games platforms for remote/hybrid team-building
SpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, and
SpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking systemSpringworks prides itself on being an organization focused on employee well-being and workplace culture leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.