Trendsetting@Work

Most companies don't account for the effect that employees have on a business initiative. Businesses like Toyota have made it a practice to humanize the workplace by involving all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers, allowing them to identify areas for improvement and suggest practical solutions, thereby propelling them to the forefront of the global automotive market. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace, 85 percent of employees lack significant involvement and participation in any business plan, resulting in under-optimized performance. Needless to say, by synchronizing a company’s goals and agendas with employee input, an organization can create better employee engagement, reduce turnover, enhance overall performance, and ultimately effectuate better business outcomes.

Trendsetting@Work, a consulting and future of work technology (FoWTech) firm, strives to spearhead this change with business modelling that keeps employees at the nucleus of business decisions. The company helps businesses grow, pivot, and scale in a “D-VUCAD” (disruptive, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and diverse) world. It provides external and internal context, orientation, and decisional insights about the business landscape and how they impact organizations for greater organizational agility, resilience, and antifragility.

“Trendsetting@Work maximizes technology to empower employees, consider the human aspect of business and solve problems that small, medium, and underserved companies face to create great workplaces for employees,” says Sanka Kangudi, CEO, and Co-founder. Sanka is a fierce evangelist for employee experience and workplace innovation, leveraging her extensive expertise in talent optimization, communications, and operations enablement to help businesses navigate today's fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Today, driven by her holistic approach to identifying challenges and co-creating innovative solutions, Trendsetting@Work relentlessly works to provide a critical path for companies to align people and operations; assisting them in proactively meeting business goals. Aspiring to be a beacon and lifeline for SMBs, the company’s platform allows the creation of insights from different sources previously unavailable to aid in strategy, decision-making, and inclusive of the employee dimension.

“At the heart of the platform is the ability to import data from companies, employees, and other sources and analyze it,” says Martin Bechard, CTO.

In contrast to the past, where one had to compile information from many sources, integrate it, comprehend it, write about it, and then deliver, Trendsetting@Work’s platform eliminates the majority of these procedures and enables quick report production. It also encourages innovation among businesses by helping them classify staff skill gaps and opportunities, categorize employee performance, and develop various scenarios to gain savings by reprioritizing processes. This can lessen layoffs and assist with retraining employees for more productive objectives, along with determining plans to deal with the economic crunch.

“The power of simplicity in handling multiple data streams lies in its ability to reveal the underlying truth with crystal clear clarity,” says Katia Tripod, Co-founder. Trendsetting@Work’s deep analytics capabilities also allow understanding the wellness state of employees, delivering insights such as the burnout index and diagnostics, operational effectiveness, and more.

Trendsetting@Work maximizes technology to empower employees in the human aspect of business and our technology helps to solve problems that small, medium and underserved companies face in order to create great workplaces with employees

A significant portion of Trendsetting@Work’s solutions is based on abandoning the status quo; minimizing manual consultation and giving clients a better plan of action via a clear insight assessment of their condition based on their challenges and aspirations. For instance, a Montreal-based firm was expanding to numerous Asian countries and had received A-series funding to help them expand. The board expected them to grow the business to $100 million in a short amount of time. To support a global expansion, any organization needs a robust workforce infrastructure, and cultural tasks must be carried out to determine if there will be a collision of cultures. However, in this case, the client's preparation was minimal, as they lacked the necessary infrastructure and needed assistance to build it so they could hire new employees while mitigating employee turnover. Trendsetting@Work put together a solution and suggested hiring an employer record, adopting a GROW40™ training program, redesign performance alignment initiatives, and an inclusive corporate culture revamp. It helped the client build the infrastructure to train, integrate, and manage cultural and generational differences, which given their resources, would have been impossible for them to do by themselves in the objective timeline.

As a result, it is easy to see how Trendsetting@Work promotes the principle of employee empowerment. It is aware of how various factors, such as lack of resources, knowledge, skills, growth turbulence, and other issues impede SMBs from thriving. It addresses these issues by implementing its context, orientation, develop, and empower (CODE) framework. With it, Trendsetting@Work can assist businesses in uncovering what is hiding in plain sight, advancing ongoing transformations, and co-creating comprehensive strategic workforce and operational initiatives.