Monday, December 19, 2011

IFMR Manifest'11

On 8th December 2011, the summit was inaugurated by Prof.Bobby.S.Srinivasan, President of IFMR. He set off the stage by providing information on major achievements of IFMR and lighting the lamp along with Mr.Kaushik Gopalan(Director, Senior HR Leader Symphony Service Corporation). Following this Kaushik Gopalan set the stage off by providing key insights on HR in a changing world and how to move over the change. He told about the different generations we can see in today’s organization, the role revolution, and transformation and berlin wall competencies.
Mr. V.Mohan (Director, AVITA HR Solutions) started his lecture on “Learning and Development” in organization. He gave his inputs on the learning triangle, the difference between education and training, types of training, employment gap and Job oriented education. He also told how the “Internet Age” has affected today’s training and development in organization and the evolution of Virtual corporation.
Next Mr.Ramkumar(Recruitment Head, TCS) delivered his speech on “Gen Z Perspectives”. He explained in detail about how today organizations have changed to be in line with Gen Z who comprises the major percentage of the employees in organization. He also told the various measures TCS has taken to fight the “different world”. Following this session there was a lunch break.
Post lunch session started off with an enthusiastic and inspiring talk by Mr. Madhu (Strategist, TVS) on “Role of young leader in changing world”. His session was filled with many short stories and analogies.
The next session for the day was delivered by Mr.G.D.Sharma  ( Principal, Beeline HR Advisory).  He delivered his speech on the topic “Emerging Trends in HR”. It was an informative as well as a fun filled session with lot of interactions from student’s side as well. He provided a 360 degree view of different trends speaking right from the “gazelle and lion” story of Africa and how to get an employee engaged to the organization.
This was followed by a panel discussion on the topic “First job- Dream vs. Reality, Young Leaders and Business HR ”. The panellists included Mr G.D.Sharma  ,Principal, Beeline HR Advisory , Mr Rajesh, Director, Entier Consultants Mr Madhu, Strategist, TVS Mr.Hari Hara mahadevan, Mind Quest Management Consultants and Professor Raghu Raman,IFMR. The  discussion was mainly focussed on attributes like commitment, responsibility and modesty.The panel discussion was moderated by Prof. Raghu Raman and was followed by a question session from the audience.
Prof  Balasubramanian , Dean of IFMR  rendered the vote of thanks. As a token of  our gratitude and appreciation the guests for the day were felicitated with mementos for presiding the summit.

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