How this Travel Agent became Global HR Director 

In an exclusive interview with ETHRWorld, Pavel Bahu talks about his journey from an independent travel agent to Global HR Director of over 4,000-employee strength Trevolution. 

Highlights 

• The most common notion of HR is they hire people and deal with the people who are being let go or who are quitting. 
• In reality, the HR is responsible for growing the organisational capacity and creating meaningful work-lives. 
• HR’s primary task is to make sure that people have all the resources to expand their talent and to help the organisation with their talent. 
• Employees have to be engaged and motivated. They have to be seeking Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. 

• Goal- setting and performance review are two of the most powerful tools that HR can introduce to an organisation. 
• Unless you have a good, precise and objective performance management system, you cannot have a succession plan, you cannot have even learning and development. 
• One of the good HR practices is to have the induction day and being transparent about all the processes of the organisation. 
• One-on-one meetings between the manager and the employee is one single most powerful managerial tool that can be easily introduced at workplaces. 
• One underestimated thing for HR is the power of statistics. 

• Employees who like the mission and the values of an organisation are 2.59 times more likely to be promoters of the organisation. 
• People who said that they never come to any of the corporate events are 2.9 times more probable to be detractors. 
• Culture is not something that you come and create; culture is basically what we do when there are no explicit rules. 
• Nobody is the smartest. Many people have to connect the network in order to make big projects fly. 
• Continuous innovation is a value which really is connected to the success of an organisation. 

• Responsibility is not only assuming the responsibility for what you are doing, but it’s also understanding how your actions reflect on people down the line. 

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