Hi! I'm Parag, an HR professional. From learning some youthful digital skills during the pandemic, I have, since, progressed into the exciting and empowering world of GenAI.

All that you see here is made by me, at negligible cost, without any help save that from the internet.

AiMate-y

AiMICUS (Web App) :

This is based on Leadership Development themes from top future-of-work thinkers, and provides useful information about trainers, ideas and methodologies that have been collected and organised by using GenAI. Even though AI can and does make mistakes, and the provided information will need better verification, your renewal efforts can still be significantly jump-started with this web app. Obviously, your exploration will also depend on your specific contexts, needs and budgets.

This is a simple starter kit, best used by Learning Managers who face demands to offer fresh programs, Trainers who want to know what themes and methodologies other trainers are trying out, Consultants who need better partnerships to co-create and implement new development initiatives with, Emerging Leaders who want a say in their own development plans and Students who want to upgrade their knowledge of the subject.

- Made with content and code from GenAI and hosted on Github

- Code from Claude; Information table from Copilot, Gemini & ChatGPT; Images from Meta, Gemini & Midjourney

Do co-create with GenAI; if I can, at my age and with no knowledge of code, you certainly can!

ANXIETY NONE-O-NONE (Paperbacks & Ebooks in English, Hindi & Marathi) :

Though I couldn't be sure, this might well be the first illustrated book of poems on coping with and overcoming anxiety, for teens and young adults, created, with the help of GenAI, by a regular guy in his fifties like me.

Why 50 ways?

These helped a dear one to heal, and I hope to pass the blessings forward. Also, I want to make all the good stuff, collected over a few years from credible sources and through our experiences, readily available in one place. Mental wellness requires a more multi-pronged effort than we often believe.

Why simple illustrations and poems?

These can make light of a heavy subject and get across easier owing to their charm and rhythm. Be assured, that the specialists and your own research will more than fulfill your needs of technicality and prose.

Why Tara and Baaghu?

Because Tara represents that able youngster, from the cohort of my daughters, who is indispensable in the fight against mental illness given her remarkable levels of acceptance and knowledge of the matter. Baaghu, the tiger-cub, represents that young and strong dear one whose mental and emotional difficulties could easily get overlooked or mistaken for something else.

- Made with GenAI assisted content, and available on Amazon, Notionpress & Flipkart

App-y

CREATI VITAE :

Everyone, everywhere, has been talking about the future of work, but with little realisation that the world has hit the reset button in several existing sectors and hitherto ways. New will be the norm. And that will require Creativity, not just cleverness, from people who we don’t much encounter or understand.

Hence this non-prescriptive web app, to assess the creativity in any person, and, in the process, to add to our understanding of creativity and what it entails. It could be of use in hiring & staffing for creative positions, or in choosing academics & careers in creative fields.

- Made and hosted on Google Glide

RECOVER(K)EY :

Recover(k)ey, is, as the name suggests, like a key to recovery. Put out there, in May-June 2020, it was a web app for anyone to assess if their organisation or institution or entity was suitable and ready to restart operations.

- Made and hosted on Google Glide

Book-y

LOGOMOTIVES :

“Kids do as the parents do, and not as the parents say.” But we do have things to say, more than we can credibly demonstrate! What about that? And, what also, of the things we have learned from people better than ourselves?

So, I hit upon an idea of writing brief life-lessons and embellishing those with imaginary logo-designs. Together, these could serve as ‘logomotives’ to power the lives of my daughters as well as other teens and young adults like them. Hopefully :-)

A REVIVAL SKETCHBOOK :

With all the negativity around, it was imperative to do something entertaining and productive. So what began as random musings and associated caricatures, quickly turned into a revival guide for the much ravaged travel, tourism & hospitality sectors. Which could also inform the efforts at other troubled sectors or companies.

Toon-y

PUI-AMMA Says … :

While there was tons of knowledge and information about the Covid-19 pandemic, there were some important things, that I felt, were either unsaid, or were lost in the din and clutter.

So, this caricature series, in the voice of PUI-AMMA, the protagonist, fondly fashioned after my wife Poornima :-)

BULL-DOZING :

Like a fool, I had, for all this while, stayed determinedly away from the Indian stock market. During the pandemic, one of my goals was to get savvier about and participate in this space. Even if it was with subdued fervour.

This is a collection, born out of a newbie’s learnings and realisations. The cartoons in the series are all fashioned in my image.

If you face an HR challenge, and are looking to solve it with elegance and simplicity, do please count me in!