HR Era,     Issue # 27,       Dec 1st, 2002

1. Moderator's Space

2. Performance Based Award Scheme - by Ashit K. Sarkar

3. Tomato Soup for the Soul (Geography is History) - by Ambar Nanavaty

4. New Members : Rohin Chawla

5. Readers' Forum

Appreciations & Brickbats - from V Mukund & Sulekha

6. My Favorite Quotes - by Deb Roy & Ramakrishna Rao

7. Seven Organizing Secrets of Successful People - by Barbara Myers

8. More from our Members & HR Era Website

Kumarmangalam Birla on Challenges facing the CEO - by Poonam Chandok

9. HR Training Programs (India)

10. Aims of HR Era, How to Contribute Articles, Legal Stuff.

You must be wondering what happened to HR Era for three weeks. Well Alka & I had gone to bring Santa (Not Santa Singh).

Santaclauz finally agreed to come with a gift inspite of his busy Christmas schedule!  The gift is a free Ebook for HR Era members. It is titled Manage Your Time.  Like HR Era - it has quality, utility, & beauty.

Just wait, you will love it.

regards

Rajeev B Bhatnagar

 

2. Performance Based Award Scheme - by Ashit K. Sarkar

December is the time HR Professionals should put on their thinking cap to design the next year's (Appraisal and) Reward Scheme for their company.

Mr Ashit K. Sarkar sent us an article for you on this theme. We are happy to email it as a special supplement to this issue. Mr Sarkar is a senior & highly accomplished HR Professional. Our Members already know him from his earlier article & the thought provoking debate that ensued. 

Click Here to read the above article.

Click Here to read his earlier article People Management - Old Wine?? in Issue # 12B.

Question: What is the height of globalization?
Answer: Princess Diana's death

Question: How come?
Answer:

An English princess with an
Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a
French tunnel, driving a
German car with a
Dutch engine, driven by a
Belgian who was high on
Scottish whiskey, followed closely by
Italian Paparazzi, on
Japanese motorcycles, treated by an
American doctor, using
Brazilian medicines! And this is sent to you by a
Filipino, using Bill Gates' technology which he
stole from the
Japanese. And you are probably reading this on
one of the
IBM clones that use
Taiwanese-made chips, and
Korean made monitors, assembled by
Bangladeshi workers in a
Singapore plant, transported by lorries driven by
Indians, hijacked by
Indonesians and finally sold to you by
Chinamen!

Sent by Ambar Nanavaty

Larsen & Toubro Limited, ECC Division, Ahmedabad  Email: ambar_nana@yahoo.com

Rohin Chawla, Golden Opportunities Pvt. Ltd, Chennai

Hi!

I am working with Oxford Brookes University for more than 2 years and teaching online. I take Marketing and Operations for their Online MBA Courses. We have technology and resources and can deliver the training online.

We can also help you with lot of training issues. We provide soft skill training except for accent neutralization. We can offer you two kinds of solutions: Training aids and E learning.

We are based in Chennai. In case you are willing to bear the additional travel and hotel expenses we would be pleased to work with you any where outside Chennai also.

In case you need any of these three solutions do let me know.

Thanks & Regards

Rohin Chawla

Golden Opportunities Pvt. Ltd. http://www.goldenopportunities.biz 

Recruitment, Training, & Outsourcing

A2, AH 10 (Old AH 71) 5th Street, Shanthi Colony, Anna Nagar, Chennai 600 040. Ph +91 44 6286614, 6210243, 6194318/19, Fax +91 44 6286614

Email: rohin@goldenopportunities.biz,
Email for CV's goldenopportunities@vsnl.com 

Please email your replies to the person asking, with a copy to us at Alka@HREra.com for publication. Email new questions to us.

V Mukund

Hi HrEra members,

I am zapped by the way this group is being handled. HrEra stands out as the best group of all the HR Groups that exist. Kudos to Rajeev!!!

I am very much impressed with the way the Newsletter is Presented. Nicely planned and designed. It is really good to read.

Keep it up!!

Regards,

Mukund.V

Executive - Recruitment, CEI India Pvt Ltd, 044-8255075/29,
Email:  VMukund@ceiamerica.com

Sulekha (on Issue # 22 from Alka)

hi rajeev

excellent !!  as usual !!

Warm Regards

Sulekha

Human Resources, Josts Engineering Company Limited, Pune.
Email: hrd@pune.jost.com , Phone - 543 43 50/90. Visit us at www.josts.com

My favourite quote is:-

"Attitude ,not Aptitude ,determines Altitude"

regards

Deb

Hindalco,Contact: deb_roy@adityabirla.com

Ramkrishnarao

What is Your Attitude?

A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods! 

A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!

Sent by Ramakrishnarao

People Excellence, Tata Telecom Limited, Gandhinagar.
E-mail : rthallam@tatatelecom.com, Tele : 079 - 3221773

What is your definition of success?  At the very least, you probably  desire a certain amount of free time and money.  Getting organized will help you be successful, however you define it.

1.  Control your time instead of letting it control you. Have a plan every day.  Make a to-do list.  You'll accomplish more.

2.  Delegate repetitive tasks to employees and family members.  Outsource.  Pay or barter to have others do what you don't do well (or don't want to do).

3.  Set goals and priorities.  Write them down.  Post them.  Focus on them daily.  continually ask yourself, "Is this the best use of my time right now?"

4.  Batch activities.  Spending a specific amount of time on like activities is more of a time saver than flitting back and forth between unrelated tasks.

5.  Overcome paper overload.  Set up a simple filing system.  Process your paper daily.

6.  Have a place for everything.  Keep like things together.  De-clutter.  Move excess stuff out of your life.

7.  Live with a budget.  Spend both time and money wisely so you'll have plenty of each.

Contributed by Barbara Myers

Barbara Myers is a professional organizer, author and speaker. For free tips and e-zine to help you take control of your time by organizing your life, visit http://www.ineedmoretime.com

 

Kumarmangalam Birla on Challenges facing the CEO - by Poonam Chandok

I had attended the National HRD Conference held at Mumbai during 3 -5, October, 2002. It was an interesting one. To share the learning I had there, I have put together some points. There were almost 1000 participants in the Conference and 22 Speakers.

Kumarmangalam Birla in his inaugural speech touched on what are the challenges facing CEOs today. Some salient points mentioned were:

CEOs role in today’s context is constantly expanding and increasingly unstructured.

A CEO‘s skill sets must include

1. Ability to interface with the government

2. Look for talented people

3. Understand the local nuances of laws in different countries in order to operate there

4. Need for greater delegation. Leadership has to move down the hierachial chain. The role of hierarchy itself has to become less pronounced

5. Dilemma in defining performance - do I reward the person who gives me short term profits or a person who has a long term view and may sacrifice short term gains in view of that.

( Poonam insists that correct spelling of her surname is "Chandok" and not "Chandoke" as I remembered & spelled in last issue. We will continue her interesting notes from NHRD Conference in future issues. - Rajeev)

Contributed by Poonam Chandok,

Larsen & Toubro Limited - ECC Division, Mumbai. Contact: poonam@lntecc.com

 

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For detailed calendar of major Institutes visit http://hrera.com/trainings.htm

Hi,

Greetings from the Human Resources Team, SunTec Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Trivandrum.

We are interested in knowing about your training programmes in details, the Training Budget , topics and things like that .

Our requirement for training include : Leadership, Team Building/Motivation, Corporate Etiquettes, Communication Skills, Project Management, Requirement Analysis, Design Methodologies & Design review.

SunTec Business Solutions is a leading customer care and convergent billing software solution   provider. With expertise in transaction management, the company delivers state of the art software products to the communication, financial service and utility industry.

SunTec Business Solutions is one of a few successful Indian software product companies. Rapid development of new products and delighted customers have helped SunTec to become a major force in European, APAC and Middle East markets with blue chip clients like KPN Telecom, Motorola, Essent. The company has developed an impressive product portfolio catering to multiple industry verticals. These products have more than 250 installations.  SunTec products handle 33-million subscriber base globally and processes 150 million transactions every day!

Kindly get back to us at the earliest

Regards

Lakshmi

Exe - HR, Strategic Competencies Team, SunTec Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, Technopark, Trivandrum. Ph: 0471 700984/700985, Fax: 0471 527138

E-mail: lakshmiv@suntecgroup.com

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