Dear Friends ,

Points discussed in this habit have been discussed in past also . During our 2^nd and 3^rd habit we all have discussed about the importance of Listening . But during the discussion of 5^th habit this point was explained in a much simpler and better way. Listen Empathetically clearly makes us realise the importance of pure listening .

Listen Empathetically —— Each one us would have faced such situation in life where we felt that we should be a good listener for a proper, clear and successful communication .

We all should share our personal example about the time we realised at any point of time that due to our poor listening habit the communication was not clear and the situation became more worse .

is habit have been discussed in past also .

Wish You All A Very Very Happy Holi .

We are celebrating Holi Tomorrow – Saturday ( 27^th February 2010 ) at MIDC Office . Celebration will start at 4:00 pm . All of you are invited to join this and have a blast of enjoyment for 2 hours .

Some arrangements of snacks and thandai is made during the program . Colors are arranged by the company so no one has to worry of carrying their own colors . The colors which is going to be used by us will be eco friendly and Non Toxic colors.

We all should come together to give some social message to our surrounded society and make the festival of colors more beautiful and enjoyable.

I would like to share an article written on eco friendly HOLI .

Celebrate an Eco Friendly Holi

Ideally, the joyous festival of Holi is meant to celebrate the arrival of Spring while the colors used in Holi are to reflect of the various hues of spring season. But unfortunately, in modern times Holi does not stand for all things beautiful. Like various other festivals, Holi too has become ruthlessly commercialized, boisterous and yet another source of environmental degradation. To de-pollute Holi and make it in sync with nature, as it is supposed to be, several social and environmental groups are proposing a return to more natural ways of celebrating Holi.

The aim of this articles is to generate awareness amongst people about the various harmful effects around Holi celebrations and encourage people to celebrate an eco friendly Holi!

Holi is the time to develop understanding and love for each other. Here, is a platform for you all to renew your friendship and to express heartiest love by scribbling a beautiful Holi message for loved ones.

Boys will play with boys and girls with girls , no enforcement to play colors to anyone, the purpose of this gathering is to enjoy a get together at office during festival .

Suggestion are welcomed , we can implement it after the discussion with our directors .

Stretched sessions for most of us .

Comments on the last sessions shows the interest we all have towards the learning and understanding of this seven habits to make our life effective .

Now we have come to a different kind of discussion where the victories are different .

So far we have studied and discussed the 3 habits which were of private victory now we are talking about public victory , we are not the alone in the circumstance to become effective . We have to consider the environment too.

Let us share with all about what we have understood in this session about THINK WIN WIN .

This session had a long conversation and debate on Urgent and Important work . After that discussion I am able to make out that many of us has not clearly understood for what the discussion was going on. I have noticed a lot of confusion by many of us and not sharing with others and not coming out with questions .

I want to tell you friends that do not keep any apprehension in your mind and please clear it out by sharing it with everyone , other wise you may live in some wrong assumption about a particular topic and will explain the same to someone else . So friends we are here to gain and share right information and knowledge towards life which will help us in professional , personal and social environment .

There were many thing which I understood after that debate and discussion I had with everyone . This blog is an added advantage to all of us to share our thoughts after each such sessions .

Do not miss it and share your experiences of life related to this Habit .

Your understanding about the Habit 4 .

Your views on the long hour discussion .

Your anxiety to know more about Seven habits .

Your plans after seven habits session gets over .

I have a habit of sharing the points discussed with few of my selected friends . Hope many of us would be having . Do inform everyone .

Am eagerly waiting for the next session ……………. HABIT 5: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD

Dear Friends ,

For this awesome interaction we had on last Saturday on the 3^rd habit of the Seven Habits I feel we will be short of words to demonstrate and express our views on this .

But it would be a good knowledge sharing session on this blog too if we all put our views and thoughts as soon as possible after the session .

Many of us write their views or share some points a day before the next session . If you all notice we tend to forget or it becomes difficult for us to recollect what we discussed a week back in the session and we may tend to miss our few special thoughts & views which comes to our mind immediately after the session, it may skip from our mind after a day or two.

I suggest to all my dear colleagues to take some very short time from your busy schedule and put your valuable comment on it ASAP .

These points will help you as well as others who may not remember that mentioned by you and vice versa .

Thank you to all of you for your kind cooperation and being an interactive participant in this session .

We will keep on continuing such sessions in future too. Suggestions will be welcomed .

Will keep you posted for the next session of Seven Habits where we will discuss the 4^th Habit .

Hope none of us miss the next session .

ERA is amongst the association formed to support recruitment fraternity in India.
ERA a non profit chamber of commerce is registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960.

Here an article about ERA – 7th Annual Convention 2010

15th Jan 2010
Nimmee Upadhyay

ERA in its 7th Annual Convention 2010 had a theme of MAGNETIC INDIA HARNESSING ENTERPRISING TALENT.
Well known personalities , Business icons , HR Professionals, Political Leaders were among the list of speakers to speak about the topics pertaining the above theme.
This session was anchored by Anokhee Parikh , a Professor at Aditya Birla College.
Her anchoring made the session even more interesting due to her elegant way of speaking.

The summit started in a traditional stytle with a Ganesh stuti sung by a play back singer. It was followed by lighting of lamp by Mr. Sri Prakash Jaiswal, Union Minister of State.
In an inaugural address, Mr. Jaiswal insisted , recruiters to accept the responsibility of being a responsible citizen of a democratic India. Where every responsibility is forced on government. He has humbly asked recruiters to see to it that unemployed should not be exploited. And provide them with better opportunities & thus contribute to the economic growth of India.
He also emphasized that he will make suggestion in the parliament to recruitment fraternity to be given industrial status.

ENTERPRISING INDIAN TALENT :
A mesmerizing speech & presentation given by Mr. R. N. Makhija, Director, L &T, laid emphasis on young leaders
Mr. Makhija himself is a classic example of stability & a role model for all loyal employees who stay in their organization for a long term. Well job hoppers can also be inspired by him if at all convinced by his idea.. He has spent around 44 years in L & T and plans to continue till he gets self satisfaction that he will be remembered as the BEST EMPLOYEE in his organization.
Being involved into CSR activities along with other responsibilities , he has set unique example as to how to absorb unqualified or unskilled laborer , school drop outs by engaging them into educational training program mes initiated by L & T and thus making them qualified by giving requisite training and educations. Thereby creating cost saving and reducing unskilled employment at global level.

Couple of more topics covered under this summit viz —-

IDENTIFYING & DEVELOPING LEADERS , with an idea supporting women leadership.

HOW TO BE AN EMPLOYER O CHOICE : ROLE OF BRANDING
In today’s cut throat competition every organization is having a bull fight to survive in a global market and want to be a employer of choice. And have big time investment into PR , branding etc to promote themselves. BE IT EMPLOYER OR EMPLOYEE , EVERYBODY WANTS THE BEST.
Same is explained very humorously by Mr. H. R. Shashikant emphasing on KRA.
If u took KRA as Key Result Area then you got him wrong. Its rather “ KYU RAKHU AAPKO “ in his dictionary. “Yes”, an employer will always think as to why he should hire and retail a particular employee. It still continue with the employee perception why should I (employee) join You (organization) or why should I stay with you. If all these 3 factors work in co-ordination there is an auto – mechanism of branding of both employer and employee. As both will be happy with each other and work for mutual benefit. Again an ex-employee also play an important role in branding.

FUTURE OF COMPENSATION & REWARDS
This discussion summarizes the idea of equitable designing of compensation and benefits among SENIORS AND JUNIORS. And in the coming years it is more likely that the idea of compensation will get completely replaced by REWARDS as discussed by the panelist Ms Saagarika Rai CPO , Reliance Big Entertainment , Mr. Dhananjay Bansod CPO , Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd. , Mr. Yugesh Goutam VP – HR , KEC International Pvt. Ltd

ENGAGEMENT & RETENTION STRATEGIES :
Mr. Manuel D’souza , CPO illustrated with the help of statistics how he has implemented engagement & retention strategies and how its has helped improved overall productivity in his organization .
A very important message from this presentation is that , it is very important to keep employee engage which help to increase productivity and also have better work environment.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES :
Mr. Aashu Calapa , EVP HR, First Source Solutions Ltd., Says often an image of CEO is reflected in the image of an organizations
According to Mr. Calapa , better organization culture should involve following steps

1)GETTING RIGHT CEO
2)RECRUITING RIGHT TEAM
3)MODELING RIGHT BEHAVIOUR
4)CREATING POLICIES THAT DON’T DIFFERENTIATE AMONG LEVELS
5)TAKE TOUGH ACTIONS AGAINST ERRANT BEHAVIOUR IRRESPECTIVE OF LEVEL
6)GOOD CORPORATE KNOWLEDGE
Justified the above points by a famous quotes given by Larry Bossidy
“I AM CONVINCED THAT NOTHING WE DO IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIRING & DEVELOPING PEOPLE. AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU BET ON PEOPLE , NOT ON STRATEGIES”,

Last presentation was given by Mr. Sanjay jog HR Head – Pantaloon Retails India Limited about NURTURING INTRAPRENEURS – THE FUTURE GROUP WAY..

Towards the end of the session there was a lucky draw winner , Mr. Karan Kapoor , a HR Manager at S R Corporate Services Pvt.

Its was a nice and interactive session . But it is can be improvised and have better opportunites for job seekers and recruiters by providing myriad of other opportunities related to recruitment ethics at corporate level and individual level.

We have way to go with ERA!!

Compiled by Nimmee Upadhyay

Any suggestions or thoughts related to the above written article is welcomed

Recruitment industry’s forex earnings on the rise

Bangalore , Jan. 6

WHILE about 4.25 lakh Indians flew out of the country last year with overseas offer letters in their pockets, the Indian recruitment industry had to tailor deeper pockets for its foreign exchange earnings.

With 12-15 per cent of a recruitment firm’s revenues coming from overseas placements, the Rs 2,000-crore Indian recruitment industry estimates that about Rs 150 crore worth of foreign exchange flowed into the country last year.

Mr K. Pandia Rajan, Managing Director, Ma Foi Consultants, says, “This shows the growing acceptance of not only Indian candidates but also Indian consultants.” About 12 per cent of Ma Foi’s 2005 earnings (estimated to be about Rs 212 crore) can be attributed to foreign placement billings. This year, Ma Foi is eyeing revenues of Rs 350 crore and Mr Rajan expects about 20 per cent of this to come from candidates getting placed abroad.

TeamLease Services is recruiting for companies based in Nepal, Nairobi, South Africa, Nigeria and South Korea apart from servicing mandates from US- and UK-based companies. “About 15 per cent of our earnings come from overseas placements,” says Ms Nirupama V.G., Associate Director, TeamLease Services.

Sectors that are looking at Indian employees are software, hardware, power, pharma, textiles and BPOs. Forex remittances are also increasing because immigration is becoming easier in countries such as Australia, the UK and Singapore. Says Mr Anjan Dutta, Principal Consultant, Career Graph: “The UK earlier only offered short stints for Indian workers but now it is for longer periods.” On an average, Career Graph earns about $2,000 per candidate placed abroad.

Mr Kris Lakshmikanth, CEO and Managing Director, Headhunters India, says that the boom in the garment industry has enhanced his company’s forex earnings. Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong and Singapore are sourcing textile industry talent through this Bangalore-based company.

Mr Lakshmikanth envisages that about 25 per cent of his company’s revenues (estimated to clock Rs 13 crore) to come from Indians getting placed overseas.
by Anjali Prayag reference http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/01/07/stories/2006010703250500.htm

Challenges Faced while recruiting candidates Abroad !!!
27/1/2010
“Although this article reflects the growing forex earnings flowing in India , yet there are great challenges faced by Indian recruiters while placing them abroad”.
There are few merits and demerits let discusss them here.
And will this year , we will have higher forex earning compare to last year or not !!
let discuss here

By Nimmee Upadhyay