Solid start to the season

It's that time of the year when I analyze the performance of Valencia and we have made solid but not a spectacular start to the season sitting on 4th but as usual all the action is off the field with the David’s being linked to man utd. Now this season is crucial minimum targets

1) Top 3 finish
2) Later stages or win of Copa Del Rey
3) Later stages or win of Europa Liga

If these are not happening or things are not on the right path I think the worst would have come then and we would have to see our stars leave
Hope it does not happen
Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

"Walking in the fire"

Being in the firing line is pretty common but walking between two lines of fire?? To clear up am not blabbering but this was the fire walk activity conducted by priya Kumar at the MTHR SHRM event in Chennai on Saturday and her session was a breath of fresh air for the following reasons
1) She did not talk and motivate like others
2) She was very genuine and was talking about fears what everyone has gone through
3) She did not make herself a larger than life image which trainers normally do

Normally people will just start leaving towards the final session of a daylong event but no one dared to walk out she had every single person's attention fixed on her and man she was good

Then we had the fire walk exercise where initially it appeared it was like the Tamil movies where you had to walk on a bed of coals but later when i mustered up the courage to walk I realized it was just grass and mud and the path was surrounded by flames.

Then I wanted to do it again and I did it!!! But the important thing was to break out of the fear and go in it. So many people shied away from it but only those walked on fire will be the one who can face the barrage!!!

Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

Thank you saikat saha

Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
Without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell
Reflecting back on a hectic day of activity i think it is essential to thank people who helped you. i used to blog but in my old blog I only thought of making money it was never even an idea to express your thoughts and views till I met Saikat Saha my senior at MHRM in Madras School Of Social Work who told me about blogging and how he has taken to it and how it has helped him and now I can realize how it has helped me !!! I think the poem on top reflects for that

Thanks a lot brother
Cheers
Arvind

Human Relations and Media

When you talk about people and perception the biggest contributor to it is media and this has a profound impact. How?? Being in a profession which deals with humans and which ask people not to make judgment of people based on appearance ironically I am blessed to be in an environment which exactly does not do that. I was talking with my friend and she was talking about her family and she was commenting how harsh her mother and how bad she is and that a mother should not be like that and all. I thought how does a person know how a mother is supposed to behave??? The following are the major sources
1) Surroundings
2) Neighbors and friends
3) Media

Now why do I highlight media is that in an environment where social interaction is lowering day by day the electronic media is rampaging and portrayals of mothers as larger than life who will sacrifice everything for their kids but I just would reality to be as true as that and it is not ??? Why because every individual is different with different characteristics and they behave different the portrayal of a Chinese to be a martial arts expert or a German to an engineer won’t take us anywhere and the Biggest contributor to it the cinema is bad in India and horrible in Tamilnadu. It is a simple deal you make a good movie which is logical and good we will ensure you don't make a movie again and that is the sorry state of affairs we are forced to cope with unless our people grow over and make their own judgments stand back Sardars you are the butt of jokes stand back blonds you are brains are not given and everyone else

Cheers

Arvind Srikantan

Attitude

Well this is one of my most favorite video's where you can listen to Zig Ziglar one of the top motivators of all time and this is to all my friends who want to think negative and eradicate the negative mindset.

Lack Of Commitment

how do you ensure u get the best satisfaction from an event ?? You do so much and at the end of the day we are humans and would expect some recognition for it. Well there is a great way for you to satisfy yourself i was speaking with my senior Saikat saha the famous blogger on this and he gave me two tips to get the best out of any event

1)Show your full passion for the event in the prepration
2)And jus before the event show a tinge of dispassion in a sense don't be so involved mentally but do all the work you are supposed to do properly and dont worry on other aspects this will ensure that you get the ideal recognition for the work done by you

Cheers
Arvind Srikantan

Ethics And Human relations a look into it

The perennial question and the moderate answer Ethics and Human Relations can it go Hand in Hand ? Now why am i bringing this topic is of recent developments.

This issue popped up in my class when my good friend Tanvir put forward a question that in terms of a conflict between Management and Workers whose side should we as HR be and this boiled down to Ethics and HR and thus from an impromptu discussion it became into a fracas with people aligning them with Ethical or Unethical and this threw open some serious questions and it was a brilliant session.

Important Questions which came up
1)Isn't ethical practice for one company become unethical ?(ERP and raiding)
2)How do you stamp your authority with respect to being ethical
3)Will being Ethical reward me in short run and Long Run
4)Should Ethics be a facade am putting to distance myself
5)Who am i loyal to the Organization or Myself

Now these Questions drew varied answers from varied people but something people are not aware of is rating companies by what they have heard of them and not trying to find into it.

People consider Infy to be a great company (Even i do) and Satyam to be a fraud company but lets be honest has Satyam done anything wrong with its employees or had any sort of major case by employees against it ???? It was only their CEO who made the mistake and it had nothing to do with work of employees and he came out and accepted the mistake it was not discovered.

So i just hope people do not classify anything based on face value

Cheers

Arvind Srikantan

Is attrition good for a company ???

The first thoughts of anybody on reading this topic would be ensure if am sober or not gone mad. As a HR professional even the mere thought of a high attrition can cause madness to a person more than Rakhi Sawant stunts. But i was discussing with my cousin Satish Salivati (Head Services Delivery, Asses people) and i was discussing enthusiastically about exit interviews and attrition when he put forward a nice idea which he said was shared by quite a few in the HR community that an attrition is like an inflation to a moderate extent like 20-25 % its actually good. Why?? well the potential answers can be
1)Brings fresh employees and freshness into the organisation.
2)Ensures the burden of promotion job increase is removed.
3)No use of trying stop people from leaving not all people can be same
4)Ensure you use his help to find an adequate requirement

It does not matter which people are leaving even if the highest performers are leaving take it for good after all the organisation is bigger than the individual and then it will open chances for others

Let us take an instance of employee D who is winning the best employee award and has been outstanding in contribution for five years and when he decides to move on this will create for someone else to come into this space and ensure they step up so that is the whole deal

Cheers
Arvind