Social activities, such as confereces,dinner parties or sports, help teammates collaborate outside the work environment. Team activities such as badminton instill team spirit and encourage loyalty. Interacting in less stressful atmospheres allow them to express their personalities and feel comfortable around each other. When team members are enthusiastic about being a part of the group, they are likely to put in more effort and work harder, earning the respect and trust of coworkers. A common enthusiasm amongst team members will increase efficiency and morale in a healthy manner.

Celebrating the strengths of team members: Celebrating the strengths and skills of individual team members and rewarding overall teamwork will build respect for each other and for the team. It is also informative for team members to understand each others’ expertise so expectations are not kept too low or too high.
eConnoisseur is committed to professional growth of it’s employees and diversity within the Company. Every opportunity is given to all employees to participate and provide inputs in the business and strategic decisions via active interaction and internal surveys.

Promoting fairness: Defined goals which are communicated uniformly to the team will help build trust. If there is more interaction between superiors and one person of the team (unless a team leader), the team will feel unfairly represented and respected. Contact with superiors (which aren’t personal in nature) and rewards should be a team experience, not individual.

eConnoisseur was started with a team of handful energetic people . As the time passed on the Organization grew in terms of financial as well as team size. With increase of the team size need of a new premises better infrastructure was generated . So in order to fulfill this need the eConn family shifted to a new premises on 3^rd December 2010

The new premises is located in IT park Mohali with more space, meeting rooms and conference hall , better facilities and 24 hour connectivity with the main City beautiful Chandigarh. All the things are here well set and organized. The new premises is more secure and attractive with beautiful locality and lot of IT companies around.

Mr Vinay Johar (CEO - eConnoisseur Infotech ) & Mrs Sneh Johar inaugurated the new premises by the ribbon & cake cutting ceremony

The whole team enjoyed a lot and is much happy in the new place. These were the unforgettable moments for whole of the eConn family members. Office was well decorated with balloons, flowers etc . & also welcomed the employees with greeting cards. We have enjoyed a lot with fun game activities, quiz competition related to our company at last announced the winners & distributed prizes. After that had lunch together as well as the tea with snacks.

Its really a Great Place to Work With…………………

We spend together 50 or more hours at work each week. Many of us spend more time with those we work with than we do our families. For us to be content and fulfilled people, that time must be valuable for more than a dollar.

We want to be engaged in our work. We yearn for work that is enjoyable, meaningful and engaging. When we are engaged we are safer on the job, more productive and more willing and able to delight Customers.

It is for these basic reasons that organizational culture matters. It is the right thing for an organization to do - to think about the work environment, working relationships and “how we do things here.”

Focusing on building and sustaining an organizational culture is one way of showing that people are the organization’s most valuable asset.

There are of course many other bottom line business reasons to focus on and build organizational culture. Here are some reasons which are discuss today.

The number of fun team building activities you can utilize to improve productivity at work are limited only by the imagination. From more simple and traditional games and sport-related activities, to more elaborate adventures drawing inspiration from popular reality TV shows, there are many ways to have fun while learning to work together as a team.

Creative and critical thinking, trust-building, problem solving, conflict resolution, and more are involved in many of these activities that give you and your team a chance to get to know and appreciate one another better as people outside of your typical environment, and help strengthen and revitalize work relationships. Some popular ideas include scavenger hunts, music and rhythm exercises, and other physical activities or games that require people to interact, work together, and have fun.

Some of the essentials to building an effective team include:

• Helping each individual feel like a valuable member of the team with a unique purpose to fulfill that contributes to a common goal.
• Encouraging open, non-threatening communication
• Overcoming any barriers to group cohesiveness
• Providing safe ways to manage conflict
• Facilitating group interaction

Conclusion

A strong culture is a talent-attractor. Your organizational culture is part of the package that prospective employees look at when assessing your organization. Gone are the days of selecting the person you want from a large eager pool. The talent market is tighter and those looking for a new organization are more selective than ever. The best people want more than a salary and good benefits. They want an environment they can enjoy and succeed in.

A strong culture creates energy and momentum. Build a culture that is vibrant and allows people to be valued and express themselves and you will create a very real energy. That positive energy will permeate the organization and create a new momentum for success. Energy is contagious and will build on itself, reinforcing the culture and the attractiveness of the organization.

The recent quarterly Summer summit of eConn family held on May 29, 2009 and all the members of eConn family showed enthusiastic participation in the summit by making timely arrival on venue of summit.

Highlights of Quarterly Summit

Most of the presentations that were given during summit were related to internal products of eConn and were presented by senior members of eConn family. The members of eConn family listened to the speakers with great attention and they also had a lot of fun during other events of Quarterly Summit. The summit kick started after the group photo of members of eConn family and key events during quarterly presentation were as follows:

• Presentation on eConn B2B: The post breakfast session of presentations started with the dazzling presentation of Mr Atul and the presentation of Mr Atul, the project manager of eConnbB2B was related to basic concept of eConnB2B, the latest software of eConn.
• Presentation on Parsing Products: The presentation on eConn b2b was followed by the presentation of Mr. Navjot, the Head of parsing division. During his presentation, Mr Navjot gave a detail description of all the parsing products of eConn in an interesting and interactive manner.
• Presentation on Value Chain System: The presentation on value chain system was given by the Project Manager, Mr Kamaldeep and he discussed about the framework of value chain system that should be followed strictly in an organization to generate value and competitive advantage.
• Presentation on Marketing: Mr Sameer, the Marketing Manager of eConn family presented his ideas on the subject, ‘Tools, Tactics and Ideas of Marketing in Recession’
• Presentation on eConn as a Business organization: Mrs. Sneh, the CEO of eConn family, provided factual detail regarding various aspects of eConn as a business organization. During her presentation, Mrs. Sneh talked on the subjects such as Future overview of eConn, Success Points, External and internal departments related to eConn, New Targets, Member strength, Average salary year wise etc. in a remarkable and interactive way.
• Presentation on 3D: The Presentation on forthcoming products of eConn related to 3D was given by Mr. Pardeep, the Senior Designer of eConn family.
• Keynote Speech: Mr. Vinay, the founder member of eConn, gave a keynote speech during quarterly summit and told eConn family members about the core values, products, achievements and future goals of eConn. He also extended heartiest thanks to the eConn family members for helping him in bringing eConn up to its present level.



• Recreational Activities during Quarterly Summit: The controller of Party, had kept provision of some stress buster games such as ‘Guess my Job’, ‘Tambola’ and ‘Musical Chair’ etc. and eConn family members take huge delight during particiipation in the events of games. The recreational activities were part of post lunch events and these activities provided great fun to all the members of eConn family. A quiz competition also took place during summit before lunch time and all the members of eConn participated in the competition. In the evening, the members of eConn family shook their bodies on dance floors for almost half an hour during dance session.
• Prize Distribution Session: The winners of various events of games and quiz competition were awarded with colorful prizes and some members of eConn family (Mr Ram, Mr. Kaushal, and Miss Gurpreet Pandher) with highest rating points in HR were also given rewards.

Mrs Sneh the CEO of eConn family made an important statement during Quarterly summit and she said, “We have already recognized all our strengths very well and now we need to ascertain that we are concentrating on areas and issues which are most important to utilize our strengths in best possible manner for helping our organization in touching new and greater heights”

Mr Kamadeep, the project manager in eConn family member gave his statement during Quarterly summit and said, “The Quarterly Summit provides wonderful opportunity to evaluate ambitious goals which are set forth by an organization for achieving success in its endeavors”

Mr Shyam, the Senior Project Manager of eConn family made a statement regarding relevance of occurrence of quarterly summit and he said, “The summits provide an opportunity to grasp future plan of action”.

eConn is all set to come up with special discount offer next month and this time the offer of discount will be limited to only one product of eConn and that is Resume Parser, an innovative HR software created by eConn. eConn declared its last discount offer during month of April this year and this offer was given on the occasion of successful completion of one full year of launch of Resume Parser.

About Upcoming Discount Offer

Buoyed up by success of last offer of discount, eConn is going to declare another discount offer soon and this time eConn is using a focused approach for offering discount. With a focused approach, eConn will keep the upcoming offer of discount limited to only one product, the innovative software, Resume Parser.

Main Feature of Forthcoming Discount Offer

Under Forthcoming Discount offer, a buyer will get a Resume Manager free with the purchase of Resume Parser.

Key Features of Last Discount Offer

Last time eConn gave a discount of 75% discount on all products and this discount offer remained open during celebration of ‘Resume Parser Week’.

• The process of registration for getting discount coupons for buying products of eConn began during first week of April and continued till May 1, 2009.
• The offer of discount remained active from April 27, 2009 to May 1, 2009.
• The list of products which were on which discount was offered is as follows:
  1. Resume Parser
  2. PostNuke Modules
  3. Joomla 1.5
  4. Lead Generator
  5. php MySQL scripts
  6. Diamond Inventory

Launching of Resume Parser by eConn

Resume Parser was taken out by eConn on April 27, 2009 and the launching of this innovative software helped in great way in polishing image of eConn as Software Company. This software is structured to meet the core challenges of HR department such as increase in cost of management and consumption of lot of time in handling large number of resumes due to fast increase in job loss due to recession.

Performance of Resume Parser

In a limited time of one year Resume Parser has attracted 50+ paid clients and has received 200+ unpaid downloads. Moreover 17+ clients of resume parser have renewed their contract for next year also. During last discount offer many new clients have hired services of resume parser and this software remained key attraction of last offer of Discount.

eConn family has adopted the concept of Gemba in the October, 2008 to bring highest level of simplicity in the performance of organization and to create healthy atmosphere with in organization where every individual can give his or her best to organization. The First Gemba Event was “Laughter Session” and it was held on 4 October 2008.

About Gemba

The Gemba Kaizen is a term which is used very commonly in Japan and the concept of Gemba Kaizen became popular all over the world with publication of famous book, “A Commonsense Low-cost Approach to Management” and this book was written by Masaaki Imai. The English meaning of word Gemba is “Shop Floor” and Kaizen stands for “Continuous Improvement”

Events Under Gemba Within Econn Family

Gemba team has organized many events within eConn family since its inception and active members of Gemba team are Navjot, Reena, Kunal, Ankush, Deepti and Gurpreet. The key events organized by Gemba team are Laughter Session, Joint Lunch, Most Creative Desktop, Puzzle of the Month, Table Tennis Tournaments, Ludo Tournament, Carom Tournament, Fifth Saturday Meeting, Diwali Celebration, Christmas and New Year Celebration, Lohri Celebration, eConn Foundation Day Celebration, Holi Celebration. The winners of sports events are given prizes on fifth Saturday meeting of eConn family.

The Goals of Gemba Team within eConn Family

The activities of Gemba team are directed towards achievement of some specific goals and key goals of Gemba team are as follows:

• The most important goal of Gemba Group will involve the arrangement of the essential items of the organization in proper manner after categorization of essential and non essential items.
• Maintenance of cleanliness at working place is also the important goal of Gemba Team.
• The prevention of wastage of time, money, material and time within organization is very significant Goal of Gemba Team.
• To bring improvement in health, environment or safety performance such as working budgets to be tightened.
• To bring improvement in the performance of every individual within organization to meet organizational goals is most important goal of Gemba Group.

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Jubilant over the amazing success of Resume Parser, eConn is going to offer huge discount of 75% on its all products from April 27, 2009 to May 1, 2009 and eConn has selected this particular week to offer this wonderful opportunity as the anniversary of Resume Parser falls in this week on April 27, 2009.

About Resume Parser

Resume Parser is innovative, accurate and dynamic HR software which was launched by eConn on April 27, 2008 and it has proved to be a revolutionary breakthrough in today’s Human Capital Management industry which is looking for cost cutting and efficient systems during recession.

Development in Resume Parser: The original version of eConn Resume Parser was 2.2 and in a short span of one year, eConn has come up with two updated versions of Resume Parser, version 2.6 and version 2.8 and scope of its service is enhancing with every new version.

Performance of Resume Analyzer or Parser:

• An increase in number of jobless due to loss of jobs during recession has increased burden of HR Professionals and Resume Parser can help in reducing the burden of staff of HR professionals by handling large number of resumes.
• In a span of one year, 50+ paid registrations and 200+ unpaid downloads have been made by people all over the world for Resume parser and 17 clients have already renewed their contract for next year as well.

About Lead Generator

The lead Generator software can be considered another feather in the cap of eConn and this desktop application helps in decreasing the complexity of process of lead generation.

Performance of Lead Generator: Lead Generator or eConn YP Parser helps in saving money and time spent in doing market efforts during phase of recession by generating approximately 4000 leads on daily basis.

Other Innovative Products of eConn

The List of some more pioneering products of eConn for which discount coupon can be acquired during celebration of Resume Parser week are as follows:

• PHP MySQL
• PostNuke Modules
• Diamond inventry
• Joomla 1.5

Important Information for Acquiring Discount Coupon

To celebrate the success of Resume Parser and to commemorate its launching date, eConn has decided to celebrate Resume Parser week from April 27, 2009 to May 1, 2009. The registration for enjoying wonderful offer of discount and for getting discount coupon on all the products of eConn will continue till May 1, 2009. Just be ready to grab the attractive offer of eConn as this option of discount will be valid for only one month and it will not include any freebies or updating service. While Talking about Discount option, Mr. Navjot, Head of Parsing Division, said, “We are offering great option of discount to the customers by keeping their needs in mind during ongoing recession and we are sure to attract many customers through this offer of discount”

eConn family members took huge delight in celebrating holi with blast of colors , music , water and sweets and festival of holi was celebrated with in premises of Connoisseur Infotech Pvt. Ltd. on 9 March,2009 in evening. The members of Gemba team organized the event of Holi celebration and message to all the members of eConn family for joining Holi celebrations was floated through email. All the eConn family members gathered at one point to be part of event of Holi celebration and to share the joy of festival of colors along with other colleagues. The members smeared one another’s face with colors and their joyful faces became unrecognizable under the impression of different colors. The event of Holi celebration continued till late evening and memories of this colorful event can never fade away from minds of eConn family members.

eConn family celebrated its foundation day on 17February,2009 and this significant event was celebrated within the premises of eConn with great enthusiasm. Ms Sneh, Director, Connoisseur Infotech Pvt Ltd presided over the event and thanked all the members of eConn family for their significant contribution in bringing the organization to its present level. Speaking on the foundation day of eConn, Ms Sneh said, “I attribute the success of eConn to its family members, eConn has laid an important milestone and will scale new heights of success in coming years”. While presiding over this important event, Ms Sneh also said that he expects the present eConn family members to be with organization even after next ten years.

The updated version of video on ‘Journey of eConn’ was shown to eConn family members to remind them of core values of eConn and a cake cutting ceremony also held to celebrate this significant event. The leaders of eConn family Neha, Gurpreet, Navjot, Anshul were awarded with appreciation letters and other eConn family members Ram(for Highest points in HR rating), Megha( for solving tricky question), Pardeep( for designing video of JOE) also received appreciation letters on the occasion of foundation day. A question answer session about the information related to company was organized and this activity was arranged only for new comers to enhance their knowledge about organization.

eConn family gathered under one roof for annual review of their performance and assertion of their core values on Jan 31, 2009, and the theme of this quarterly meeting was ‘The Journey of eConn’. In the beginning of this event, a comic video about making of journey of eConn sent the members of eConn family members into peals of laughter.

The most significant thing about this quarterly meeting was the video on ‘The Journey of eConn” which is a brilliant work of Pardeep, the creative head of eConn family. The testimonials of clients about their experience with eConn were recorded in video and core values of eConn were explained by members of eConn family in the same video. The highlights of achievements of eConn since its inception were also recorded in the video related to ‘journey of eConn’

The leaders of eConn Ankush, Gurpreet, Neha, Anshul, Navjot, Rajwinder, and Vinay used this exclusive opportunity to present their ideas on different innovative subjects such as Competency Matrix, Kaizen identification and execution Method, and updates on preparing for audit of Great Place to Work with (www.greatplacetowork.in), Internal Technology Cluster formations, Core Values of Organization, and Change of process of Internal Audit.

During quarterly meeting, everyone got a clear understanding about the core values of econn through a practical example related to importance of core values in life of every individual and they pledged to work together for achievement of core values of organization. eConn has maintained seven core values to make it a larger and stronger organization and it has made it flexible enough to keep them updated.

Miss Gurpreet gave a detail description about activities, budget, and achievements of Gemba, a group that provides the atmosphere of home away from home to eConn family members during their presence in the workplace, through a small presentation. An open feedback session about activities held after the presentation on Gemba and members of eConn family gave their beneficial feedback and ideas in that.

To cultivate values of team spirit and cooperation among team members, the controllers of party Mr Jitender and Miss Reena made provision for several team building games such as dog and bone, tambola, musical chair, pass the parser, tongue twister for whole team. Mr. Kamaldeep, Sr. Project Manager asserted that the annual meeting for review of performance of company provides a platform for realizing our weaknesses and mistakes and for thinking about the ways to amend them.

Mr. Atul, Senior Project Manager of eConn family said that the event of annual meeting is helpful for increasing communication, instituting clear expectations, strengthening good performance, correcting unsatisfactory performance, and promoting a spirit of cooperation and teamwork.”   Mr. Navjot appraised that this gives us time to do major get together and know each other.

Moreover with open and transparent results shown, every one feel connected and work with same target and vision in coming days. More colors were added to the quarterly meet when eConn family members shake their bodies on dance floor and meeting continued till evening. Complete eConn family resolved following targets for coming one year as long term target.

• Implementation of all core values into culture of eConn. As most of them are already present but we will emphasize more on Customer Delight for coming four months.
• eConn will undergo a audit of Great Place to work with by end of this year.
• Starting more leadership opportunities in coming days and this must be propagated to every one at all levels.