Friday, September 14, 2007

LIFE LEARNING LESSONS

--- 361dm META TRAINING ---

I had been a part of the Meta Training, organized by Covansys and conducted by a small company called 361degree (www.361dm.com).

The pricipal facilitator, was Gopi, The coordinator was Ram, and the Guide and book creations were from Ritu.


(In the picture on left, you can find Ram, Ritu and Gopi).





Look at them...

Gopi, Ritu and Ram are batchmates from BITS Pilani, Class of 1991. A natural TEAM - they are friends since they met in 1987, have complementary skill sets, and have come together at 361° minds™. They aspire to make it a Preferred Partner for Corporates worldwide in the areas of learning and evaluation of employees and organizations. 'The Best, not the Biggest', is what they want to be.Gopi and Ritu majored in Management, and Ram in Pharma. After college, the three of them worked in completely diverse areas - Gopi in training, consulting and business; Ritu in research & creation, and business; and Ram in business development, sales, marketing and customer / partner relations. In terms of geographical markets, Gopi and Ritu have worked across organizations in India, while Ram, in addition to India, has worked for close to 10 years in the Middle East. In various capacities, the trio has worked across a broad span of products and services companies.Experiences that will help them at 361° minds™

Gopi as a keynote speaker has contributed on many occasions in corporates, research institutions, universities, colleges and schools. These include addressing top-30 scientists of India at NIAS (IISc Bangalore) on 'leading technocrats' ; speaking as a guest of honour on landmark celebrations of organizations and conferences.
Gopi as a trainer and facilitator has worked with senior leaders, managers and executives across more than 100 organizations.
Ritu as a learning content creator has designed many learning simulations, psychometrics, activity based psychometrics and practice exercises that have become a part of many training programs across companies.

Ritu has designed many workshops for corporate executives and other groups of adults like parents of school going children. She has also done extensive research on adult learning.
Gopi and Ritu, as a team, are also consulting India's leading education company in their visioning, strategic planning, new projects evaluation and organization development.
As a part of learning and research, Gopi personally mentors corporate executives and college students who aspire for higher education in India and abroad.
Ram specializes in product / services management that in
volves intensive training, coaching and mentoring of medical experts, healthcare leaders, senior executives and staff.
Ram has set up business units and run them hands-on for the 'critical' periods. As a part of their expansion, he has set up international franchise / dealer networks.

My experience with the training were fasinating to a great extent, 40 days of training not all 8 hours, but gives us a great working action oriented activies that really help you have a different way of looking at life. Gopi, is a single trainer, who can deliver the content right, has a great training experience and perfect to the core of deliver. Ritu's works on the guide are really great. Ram was wonderfully coordinating even though they werent their majors. (The difference between the first snap in the group and the second snap, was Ritu missing and found)




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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The SQL Party

We at SQL Star, joined for a 3 day tour, to Kodaikannal, Amazing party, Rizwan had his birthday on the second day.

List of things that we cannot forget and i remember are these:
We started in the afternoon from SQL Star.
We went up a steep where the waterfall started. Someone nearby said, there were snakes and we had to return back. Ramki and myself, even Rizwan were trying to play fool with our peers.
We drank and drank on the birthday of Rizwan, We applied Cake all over his face.
We had a single lover pairing, that bonded more than fevicol.
The unforgettable Skatting learning. Remember Madhu Rani for this.
The side pool of no waterfall and we had a great time with the 2nd and the 3rd snaps.
The journey, I was always with Madhu.
The chocolates and the fruits that we bought while returning. I dint have cash, so i used my credit card to get cash from one of the store.


This snap is all about 3 friends, dear to each other, Uma the ACS Guy, Me and Ramki.

This is the side pool with no waterfall, but we found a bit of stream to dive in, the whole gang.

Sexy snap morphed.

The Van and the tour.

Rememberance are a great way to relax, I found today after many years to blog on them.
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