Chennai Beach.......KOVALAM......Lovely Beach

Visited a beach in Chennai, Kovalam Beach, situated near the southern part of Chennai, away from the human traffic. It's very clean and small beach compare to the others. 

This beach is also known as Covelong Beach and popular as fishing village or surfing beach of Chennai...

This beach has better connectivity with two major roads OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road) and ECR (East Coast Road) to have easy access from the city.

Corporate Training Program @ NCS

We had a Leadership Development Program - Part 2 at Novotel-Ibis Chennai Sipcot for our selected employees to have their career advancement. It is a fantastic system which Accor Hotels do for all its hotels across the Globe. It helps employees to have defined career path and also the proper direction in future.

We had a dynamic trainer of Accor Academie who came and trained the employees on LDP 2. Our Employees were much benefited and excited to follow and implement the learnings of their leadership program.

I am sure that the implementation will be visible at their daily work.

Post the program, we had a bit of fun celebration with our beloved trainer.

Employee Engagement Activity @ NCS

On 15 April, I have conducted few fun based activities for our employees in staff dining area during their tea breaks. Those were the 'Minutes to Win It' games, which refresh the minds of our employees at work.
Funny, Silly, sometimes weird.....but at the end those are enjoyable..

Earth Day Celebration: Beach Clean-up Drive in Chennai

On occassion of Earth Day, to celebrate in happening way we involved our employees to have Beach Clean-up drive at Kovalam Beach in Chennai.

We started at 6:30 am in the morning and covered almost a kilometer cleaning the Kovalam Beach. 

It was a great and successful effort we took to make our mother Earth clean. In fact I urge all the human kind to join hands to protect our mother Earth from pollution and let us be alert and correct them who are not aware off.

Here are some moments of spirit showcased by our team....

Cleaning Drive at one Govt. School Campus in Chennai

Another initiative towards Planet 21 drive was Cleaning up the campus of a local Government School near to our Hotel. We, the team of NCS and ICS together initiated with cleaning of premises of a primary government school along with Cake Cutting and snack distribution to the school kids.

The school has been adopted by the Sipcot teams and many more initiaves like painting of schools, better toilet facility, water plumbing works, fencing for the school etc. are also taken care by our hotels in near future.

We have experienced and analysed the need of that primary school and we will try to help them out for their betterment at our best.

Planet 21 Theme lunch at staff cafeteria

To keep the Planet 21 celebration continued and to make it's impact on our employees we arranged a theme lunch for the employees in the staff cafeteria, where garden fresh salads were offered to our employees along with nutritionally balanced foods.

A continental array of salad bar was the highlight of the theme, which was much appreciated by our employees. An awareness poster of nutritionally enriched foods were displayed on every dining table.

HR Initiative..... Special Lunch for HOPE FOUNDATION KIDS

On occasion of Planet 21 and social initiative, our hotel organized a theme lunch for the kids and employees of HOPE FOUNDATION, Chennai. 

Hope Foundation is an organization which has socially backward people with less or no support from the society. We organized a full course theme lunch for all of the children by inviting them to our hotel. They were welcomed by HODs and General Manager and to embark the celebration we had a cake cutting with the HOPE children.

Food services were done by the Managers and HODs to the children.

Post lunch, the children were taken around for the property round to make them known about the hotel industry and the facilities.

Here are some moments of the event...

Dental Check-up Camp @ NCS

We have organized a Dental Check-up Camp in our hotel campus on 19 April 2016, the camp was conducted by VASAN DENTAL CARE, Chennai Division for our employees, vendors and suppliers.

Oral Care is most important in our Hotel Industry, as we interact with our guests most of the time hence it is very important to keep our mouth clean and odor free, which most of the time occurs due to bad gum or dental problem.

Employees were very happy to utilize this facility.

Planet 21 Initiative.... Jacquline Builds

PLANET 21, a Sustainable Development Program driven by Accor Hotels across the Globe. It is an initiative with certain commitments towards the society at large by the hotels. Every year 21 April is celebrated as Planet 21 Day in all Accor Hotels.

This year we at NCS and ICS have taken several initiatives to celebrate Planet 21.

On 9th April, we the employees of NCS and ICS together helped the organizer of Jacquline Builds to re-build the houses of flood affected people in Chennai Flood Days of November 2015.

The initiative was taken by the popular actress Jacquline Farnendez and we all joined hands to make her effort successful. Not only "Shramadana" we rendered to the local people also we donates a nominal fund amount to them to complete the buildings.

Here are some moments of the activity...

My new place of work...Novotel-Ibis, Chennai, Sipcot

It was my dream to work with Accor Hotels and that comes to be true today. It was not that easy how it is today. However, after the wealth of experiences and with my parent's blessings finally I am in Accor Hotels. 

I have joined Novotel-Ibis Chennai Sipcot as Learning and Development Manager in Talent and Culture Department since 15th February 2016. 

Novotel having 180 keys and Ibis having 180 keys both situated in same campus just opposite to the IT Park Entrance of SIPCOT Siruseri. 

In every step here I am learning the procedures and deliverable of my position. The people here are the best, the culture here are appreciated, the leaders are well experineced, overall a great place to work..

I am sure I shall excel my knowledge and experience here in Novotel-Ibis Chennai Sipcot and will grow further in my career.

My Farewell @ Radisson HITEC City Hyderabad

After a long 3.8 years of successful journey at Radisson HITEC City it was the time when I had to say Good Bye to the work place on 12 February 2016.

In Radisson I have learnt how to be mature in terms of dealing with colleagues, learnt how a busy hotel should run when it successively does full house month after month, learnt the man management, and also various sides of training process which should be implemented.

The man behind my maturity at Radisson is none other than the General Manager, Mr. Subrata Banerjee, a well experienced and seasoned expert of Hospitality Professional, who guided me in each and every step in Bossy way as well as Friendly way. I have learnt from him a typical style of leadership, a highly inspirational one.

Most of the times I was counselled by a Man who has been there for me whenever I felt to be guided, he is Mr. Venugopal, Financial Controller. During my journey he taught me how to differentiate between good and bad at work and also the priorities in life.

It was very much successful journey at Radisson, the more I think the more I feel to write those experineces down, but then I may miss most of it.

Thanks to each and every one for making me proud that I have worked in Radisson, but here after I need to grow further in career....