"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

The feeling of gratification and accomplishment

My first major event in my PG program was "HR SYMPHONY" and it was based on theme of HR trends in 2010 and the chief guest for the evnt was Dr.Kanimozhi Karunanidhi the evnt started of slowly and was actually pretty dim and there was a tea break for which people were craving for it. I think the tea had the magic in it the session after that was enthralling to say the least the panel discussion was amazing with Mr.Muthukumar Thanu(VP)as moderator who livened up the whole crowd with his anecdotes and quirky jokes and the highlight of the day for me was Mr. G.Udaykumar of coremind i think i should thank my classmate Madhumitha Soundarajan for bringing him his points and views were like a tracer bullet he hit the nail on the head when he spoke and any budding HR practitioner should have listened to it i have jus three words for him. "TAKE A BOW" sir it was so eye opening and then it was our event the corporate event me and my partner Upasika had practiced our lines for about 5-6 times and were so much tense cause we were behind schedule and many corporates started to leave but we spoke with a few of them and ensured they stay back and i was so scared cause during the practice i was putting all sorts of accents and i dint know what to do. But there was some divine intervention thanks to which i was able to do really well and i was commended by all for my performance and you know that feeling was so nice to be said that it was done really well and i felt i had the crowd in my controls they would laugh to my jokes and empathize my feelings of appreciation and that was a moment of glory i was basking in that moments of glory and what a feeling it was !!!!!!!!!

But the came the dark moment when the vote of thanks was announced i felt i had done so much work and thought it will be acknowledged but it dint happen and it was bad but the feeling sulked in and i jus took the positives in it ................ :)

HR sangam

A lazy Sunday afternoon as it was put was the time for the august gathering of HR sangam an informal forum for people from industry and students to discuss on various issues and also to build contacts.

This was the first time i was attending a conference of this nature and as expected i was a little bit apprehensive on meeting with industy people and knowing about them but i later came to terms that if i have to break out and talk with people this is the chance i met with quite a few industry people and then there was a session on "employee misconduct and disciplinary problems from a HR perspective" which was the most interactive corporate session and topic i had sat for a long time people were questioning and answering them randomly but that was the best part people were ready to share their ideas with everyone hope this goes to the next level till then adios