HR Era,     Info # 2,       Jan 21st, 2005
 

CONTENTS

1. Invitation To Join HR Era Executive Committee

2. Healing Power of Laughter - by Mike Moore

3. Southern Regional Conference  - NIPM (India)

4. Aims of HR Era, How to Contribute Articles.
 

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Dear Friends,

HR Era has now become the largest newsletter in yahoogroups (worldwide) for HR professionals with 5700+ members. Last 3 years' journey to this stage has been exciting & tough.

The Future is even more exciting!

For faster growth of HR Era, it is essential that leadership is shared. For this purpose, we invite members to join the Executive Committee of HR Era.

The Executive Committee (EC) will evolve, guide, and execute the future development of HR Era newsletter as well as website. In the EC we are looking forward to have members who will lead HR Era's efforts in

• different countries across the world

• different cities in India

• different specializations of HR & OB (e.g. recruitment, performance management, competency mapping, training, elearning etc. etc.)

• different categories of HR Professionals (managers, students & researchers, professors & teachers, consultants)

• different organizations

• different educational institutions

• different operational areas of HR Era (running the newsletter - e.g. editing, writing contents, taking interviews or running the website - e.g. developing the knowledge bank, running the HR Jobs page etc.)

There are only two requirements for joining the Executive Committee

1. You should be an HR Professionals (HR students real serious about HR Era included)

2. You should be willing to spend a minimum 30 minutes per day for activities connected with HR Era. In other words commitment to devote 3 hours / week to this professional activity is a must.

We can say from experience that the time you devote to HR Era will help you in your personal growth as an HR professional & as a manager.

Now if this idea excites you please send a brief about yourself to any of us.

warm regards

Rajeev, Murali, Jitha, Alka

PS:

If you do not have a brief, please email your resume. It could help us to suggest the area which you could lead. Let us know your area of interest / preference in which you would like to contribute in Executive Committee. The EC will interact over email initially. As we go along, we will define & evolve each Executive Committee member's role.

Emails:

Rajeev B Bhatnagar    : rajeev@hrera.com 
R Muralidharan           : rammuraly@gmail.com 
Ms. M C Jitha            : mcjitha@gmail.com 
Ms. Alka Bhatnagar   : alka@hrera.com 

 

2. Healing Power of Laughter - by Mike Moore

In this brief ebook, Mike tells us that humor can reduce stress, improve morale, promote wellness at work, home and play.

He points that humor synergizes with appreciation & praise. Also gives many hints on practicing humor.

I am often reminded of truth in Mike's words by the very real life presence of a colleague in my office. Would you like to know her name? Well ......

Look around yourself. You will also find a person who always spreads laughter & cheer. To download this ebook Click Here .

 

Sharing and Growing

Writing what we learn thru reading or experience sharpens our own understanding of the subject. Publishing it makes us known amongst fellow HR professionals and makes our contribution permanent.

We invite you to use HR Era as your medium of self expression, sharing, and growth.
Email your contributions to Alka@HREra.com or Rajeev@HREra.com
 

The Chennai Chapter of National Institute of Personnel Management is organizing it's Southern Regional Conference.

The conference theme is HR Strategies for Business Excellence. It will focus on

Delegate Fees:

Rs. 1000/= for students
Rs. 1500/= for retired professionals
Rs. 2000/= for other delegates

Payment:

May be made by crossed cheque or DD in favor of National Institute of Personnel Management, payable at Chennai, India. It may be send to following address

The Hon'y Secretary
National Institute of Personnel Management
3E, 3rd Floor, Kasturi Apartments,
JP Avenue; Radhakrishna Salai; Mylapore;
Chennai - 600 004

For More Details:

Email: Nipmcc@yahoo.com Fax : +91-44-2811 5599
 

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Aims of HR Era:

It aims to enhance CAREER GROWTH of its readers by bringing to them practices & ideas they can apply in their work, opportunities to network with other Professionals, training opportunities, jobs available, and techniques for self-management.

Contribute Articles & Other Contents:

Contributions from readers are wholeheartedly solicited. Contributions are the things that enable sharing of learnings. Lead Article should be about 800 words, others 400 words. Please send details about yourself also as we would like to post them along with the article. Kindly note, no honorarium is paid now! Please email contributions to Alka@HREra.com

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