Body Language : Self Assessment Test

http://www.positive-way.com/body_language_quiz.htm

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IBM Successfully Carrying Out The Blue Opportunities Programme

In a bid to help employees take advantage of a range of experience-based learning opportunities, IBM has launched ‘The Blue Opportunities’ programme. The programme draws on the in-house talent to solve regular business and technology issues. Thus, employees get a chance to enhance their career and expertise in the long term by trying diverse prospects such as stretch assignments, cross-unit projects, job rotations, publications, patents, and more. Currently, IBM has deployed over 1,200 Indian employees to countries like Austria, Finland, Denmark, Costa Rica, under the Blue Opportunities programme. They are working across domains like petrochemicals. The programme has also helped check attrition to a certain extent. IBM will also launch a project across emerging markets to develop global leadership in the third quarter of FY09

20,000-Seat TCS Centre Coming Up At Pune

Tata Consultancy Services has announced the construction of its 20,000-seat development centre located at Hinjewadi in Pune. The centre - TCS Sahyadri Park – will be the largest for TCS so far. The centre will be developed over 50 acres with the first phase with 7,000 seats expected to be completed by March 2009. Skilled professionals and students from in and around Pune will be hired for the centre. TCS started its first R&D centre in Pune over two decades ago.

Watch Out Before Boosting Your Employees’

Self EsteemPraising your employees and giving them a positive feedback in a bid to extract better performance from them could actually backfire, suggests a new study. Researchers at the American Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the London Business School have found that some types of positive feedback lead employees to develop a false sense of self-worth. Thus, they develop a tendency to justify and recommit to poor decisions, wasting additional time and resources and creating even worse outcomes. They become inept to handle criticism and try to validate a poor decision if their sense of worth revolves around it. The study is set to be published in the journal ‘Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes’ and provides a framework for how organisations might most effectively strengthen their employees' self-esteem.

My Favorate Poem

On October 27, 1980 Kalpana Chawla wrote a poem to her friend, which she titled 'Toward the Goal'. rediff.com reproduces the poem as a tribute to brave astronaut.

Dive deep down

An aim awaits

Pearls peep

For your hands to reach Just yoursFor years,

decades and agesA door lies locked

A pearl in the shell

A secret in the brain

Open it Break it Reveal it !!!