The document summarizes the launch of the first HR calendar depicting various work seasons and the role of HR in achieving success. Key details: - The calendar uses poetry, illustrations and a story to describe different moods and perspectives in the workplace across seasons. - Distinguished HR leaders attended the launch and praised the innovative concept of portraying how work situations change across the year. - The calendar aims to show that HR plays a significant role in managing daily workplace situations through customized approaches for each season. - It tells the story of "Zoobie" who succeeds at his new job by overcoming challenges with the help of effective HR management.

1. Launch of First of its kind….The Human Resource Calendar
…….The ZOOBIE DO Calendar
Date: 3rd March 2012
Time: 6.00 PM
Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi
Greeting Seasons!
“HR is not a profession of one season but a profession of all seasons”
It was the launch of first HR calendar depicting various seasons of work life and the significant role
played by HR towards achieving success beyond imagination. The conceptual calendar is an amalgam
of poetry, illustrations and a story describing various moods and perspectives of work life with the
emergence of HR as the main driver for success.
It was the day when I took the first step towards my vision of creating an era of success through
creativity and innovation in Human resource Management.
It was a warm and a pleasant evening that witnessed
various experiences and emotions of being anxious,
excited, afraid, happy, and delighted.
The day witnessed the arrival of distinguished leaders
in the field of Human Resource Management.
Dignitaries who graced the occasion with their
presence at the launch
Ms. Deepa, Chief People officer, Group Head HR, SMC Group
Mr. Devashish Banerji, Country Manager, Crown Agents
Mr. Sumit Chaudhuri, Chairman and MD, Third Millennium
Business Resource Associates Private Limited
Mr. Sushil Baveja, Head - Corporate HR, DSCL Launch of First HR calendar
Mr. Manmohan Bhutani,Vice President,people&ops,Fiserv
Date: 3rd March 2012
Mr. R.P Ojha, Senior consultant, Ex- Executive Director (HR),
Time: 6.00 PM
Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd,
Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi
Colonel D.P. Dimri, ED & Chief Executive, Delhi Management
Association
Ms Chandni Sahai, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation
Mr Debasis Satapathy, Head HR, Bharti Foundation

2. The event started with the brief introduction to the concept of work seasons and the formal launch of
the First HR calendar with the support from Ms Deepa, Mr Devashish Banerji, Mr. Sumit Chaudhuri,
Mr Sushil Baveja and Mr Manmohan Bhutani .
It was followed by the detailed introduction to all the work seasons captured every month laying the
significance of customized seasoned approach.
IDEA BEHIND THE CALENDAR
I wondered why seasons are only associated with weather conditions or temperature or the
atmospheric pressure and why not the situations that we face everyday at workplace.
There are days when we are extremely happy and feel like on the top the world at work while some
days we are overloaded. There are days when we are anxious about our career growth or the
performance review and some days we observe change in our perspectives and the strategies at
workplace. That was how the idea of describing various work seasons or situations at work came to
my mind and I developed the First of its kind...the HR calendar.
It looks like a calendar ……..
When you take it closer, you see illustrations
When you read, you find poetry
When you relate...its Human resource Management
When you turn the sheets, you unfold work seasons
When you flip the calendar other side, it’s a story of a new hire
When you finish reading it, it’s a success story….
The “Zoobie Do” calendar
Our work life visualizes various seasons, situations and perspectives throughout the year and to
achieve the organizational success, we need to win each day in every season. Human Resource
Management has a significant role to play in terms of managing the daily work situations via
customized seasoned approach.
There is no single magical Human resource management universal strategy that can be applied in all
situations to engage the employees and taste the flavor of success and infact the magic lies in the
“seasoned approach”

3. The character Zoobie was introduced.
The Story…….
It’s the journey of a new hire
“ Zoobie” who enters the
organization of his dreams “The
employer of choice” and explores
the way to succeed beyond
imagination overcoming mental
barriers and challenges through
his sharp eyes, strive for value
addition and influencing power.
During his journey he discovers
the extraordinary power of
Human Resource Management.
We have a vast resource of talent within the organization and tapping the hidden resource requires
connecting with the hearts of employees. To achieve the goal, the human resource unit has to play
additional role in meeting the expectations of new hire by laying a strong path, connecting the hearts
of employee and the leader, adopting encouraging leadership style , providing space and freedom to
employees and act as a boost to their growth leading to the growth of organization.
A deeper understanding requires description of work situations as closer to reality as possible,
capturing the emotions as well. There are many situations which can be best described through
illustrations than words, through poetry than story and through story than illustrations. The calendar
is a unique combination of all three that makes it interesting and effectively communicates the
message.
The development of HR calendar is the first step towards creating an era where the role of Human
resource management is not only operational, but seasonal.

4. The dignitaries shared their views on the calendar.
Ms. Deepa Mohamed
Chief People officer, Group Head (HR), SMC Group
Ms Deepa expressed her views first. “The concept of the HR Calendar is very good in the sense that
something is happening in the field of Human Resource Management otherwise HR is a thankless job
but the way Garima has come up, one can see a rosy picture in her eyes. She firmly believes that HR
should be there all the way so that at the end of the day when we talk about productivity or a
productive employee, HR supports all the way and employee also grabbed it”, Ms Deepa says
She summarised the whole concept and said “It was a symbiotic and a synergistic harmonious
relationship which led to the final culmination in December. Although I liked the entire Calendar, her
concept for the months of March and October has appealed to me the most”.
She turned the calendar pages and while referring to the March Month’s illustration, she read, “I am
the only leader left here as i didn’t develop any”. She further explains, “The way we learn from our
seniors we should also share the same with our juniors, otherwise the baton will not be passed on to
the next generation. It will encourage people to share new ideas. I think the old timers must learn
from it because unless we share our ideas with our juniors the baton will not be passed.”
She further referred the October month, “See talent, speak talent and let the talent speak. How many
of us are really encouraged people to share their ideas contrary to what the Supervisor or the boss is
saying so that at times talent also gets very claustrophobic or we just don’t let our talent speak , so
the interpretation of three monkeys is a very good one, an excellent thought. Overall I am very much
impressed.”

5. Mr. Devashish Banerji
Country Manager, Crown Agents (India) Pvt Ltd
“I am not a core HR person but I have been at better end of HR always. This Calendar reminds me if
not seasons but of my various stages in life in my whole career. I definitely remember HR persons
who have been hand holders and seen talent in us and nurtured us. Earlier, it was the Personnel
Department which was dominating but over the years HR has gained importance in the Industry. It is
really fortunate that so early on in your life you are able to think so innovatively which speaks
volumes why Indians are called Innovative these days. It is a wonderful effort” Mr Devashish says.
Mr. Sumit Chaudhuri, Chairman and MD,
Third Millennium Business Resource Associates Pvt Ltd
“I am delighted to be here today . When Garima was explaining the significance of each month in her
HR Calendar, She reminded me of my day one, first class of HRM in the Faculty of Management
Sciences at University of Delhi where the Late Professor Mr Ghosh told that in his view HRM means
womb to Tomb ie just as a mother takes care of the child in the womb till the time child grows it is
the HRD which takes care of an employee right from his entering the organisation till his resignation
or retirement”.
Today’s HR has become strategic function, every CEO has to rely on HR and this transition I have seen
with my own eyes. So far today what Garima has said I would like to summarise by saying that HR
Profession of today is the whole field of strategic HRM which has come up. This means to align your
policies and practices with business objectives which is the basic intent of strategic HRM. Start with
the business objectives and then say what you can do in HR to help. So 5 or 6 qualities that an HR
Professional of today must , have been beautifully summed up through one way or the other in the
calendar.

6. First quality refers to the negotiating skills of Mahatma Gandhi. Second quality refers to Care and
Compassion of Mother Teresa. This is reflected beautifully by Garima in some of the months. Third
quality refers to the Big Picture Mentality- Do you think big and encourage others to think big? Fourth
quality refers to Brain – We need to be sharp, we need to be data based , We should have
brainpower .Fifth- you must also have charm and Charisma like Saina Nehwal who at such a young
age has done so well for herself and the last quality refers to the hide of rhinoceros , the reason is
that the first five characters are needed to deal with others and when you are dealing with others
you need to negotiate , you need to have care and compassion and also need big picture mentality of
the brain , you need to have charm and charisma but at the end of the day it is a thankless function ,
therefore you have to have the hide of a rhinoceros.
My last sentence would be that we need to have flexible approach. To me a CEO has to be Chief
Ethical Officer. Ethics is very important, although in today’s world it may sound funny but I am a
strong votary of Ethics, so flexible mind with Ethics that has again got reflected in some of the
months. It is a wonderful creation.
Mr. Sushil Baveja
Head, HR ,DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd
“It is a Great occasion, Great effort, great initiative. I don’t think personnel of such young age with
such little experience in the corporate world can... put together such a brilliant effort full of
imagination, full inspiration, full of ideas and thoughts. I must appreciate the passion and
commitment with which Garima has come out about the whole concept. This Calendar in a way
connects to me in a very nice manner. My take away from this Calendar would be that HR is not a
profession of one season rather HR is a profession of all seasons and secondly HR is a end to end
solution provider . All HR professionals need to keep in mind when we are working at our work place
in various organisations we have seen, HR playing the role of a power Centre”
Today the time has changed. HR has to project itself as a strong business partner Many times in many
forums we get to know that HR professionals are treated as service providers and treated as
secondary to business matters.

7. The fact of the matter is that HR has evolved and transformed itself. I feel that HR has to step away
from the normal administrative role and evolve itself playing a more strategic role. There is need to
do a lot of retrospection and when we talk of developing people in other functions and in business as
a whole ,Attention has to be paid in terms of one zone ie Self development . HR has to lead from the
front. When you are able to pay attention to competency building I am sure everyone else will follow
the same path. So again I will say it has been a great occasion, very inspiring to see a youngster like
Garima coming with such brilliant ideas.”
Mr. Manmohan Bhutani
Vice President, People and Operations, Fiserv India
“Congratulations Garima, This is an innovative concept. We should all appreciate Gen Y . It is not
easy coming out with such concept and making it Public. It requires guts and confidence as well. So
from the HR perspective we find that many people are having lot of ideas but how to convert these
ideas and bring it out and run with it is what makes the difference between success and failure most
of the times. So I think you have the next step how your ideas can be converted into business ideas
today it is the business part which is very critical because , if HR does not understand business I think
you are not able to make the right decision . So that is where Garima you have a good sense there ,
what you have brought out and converting it and now running it as business , you have to think
about. If you are able to make proper convergence, you can go places.
We were talking about the transformation of HR particularly till the journey is on going. In India
companies are still struggling , we have the service Industry and the manufacturing Industry and you
see there is big difference , how the HR behaves , how HR is treated and how people perceive it. I
have always been in service Industry and seen HR as very responsive and those days have gone when
people talked about HR in a humorous way . Things are changing, we are dealing with young crowd
like Garima and those people are having a totally different attitude and the way they expect things to
happen and the way they derive things, we have seen that change. if we have to manage Gen Y , it
requires a different mindset and you can’t change them, Gen X has to change and that is what we are
trying to do and understand how GenY behaves , what are their aspirations and challenges and
accordingly make changes in Company culture or policies so that we are able to adapt to their line of
thinking and channelize their energy in a positive way .

8. Mr. Bhutani while quoting a Professor from IIM Bangalore, said, “It is easier said than done, we are
doing 100 things for each and every employee so that company engages with them but if they decide
not to engage with the Company then what will you do”.
He further says, “Company makes lot of efforts come out with unique programmes but the
employees are not reacting. They still do not take interest and they do not come forward. So the
Professor advised that 50% of your efforts should go into how you involve the employee in terms of
reacting to your programmes and it depends more on the individuals. So when you are hiring people
ensure that they have the positive attitude or the right attitude. So spend lot of time interviewing
only for attitude rather than skills or knowledge and if you find such persons who do not bring out
positive energy or enthusiasm into job , don’t hire”.
Explaining about the implementation, he further explains, “ Delegate powers down to certain level
and over a period of time ensure that these decisions are taken at a lower level. They might make
certain mistakes .Live with it Give them feedback , they will understand and you will see they are
taking better decisions than the management. Just give them the idea and they will come out with
the programmes much better in terms of design because they bring innovative energy into it . You
will find that they will take care of the implementation issues once you decide to implement that
programme. So empowering, involving and letting them do it help the organization take care of issues
when we try to push these programmes from Top to bottom. This is where we are realizing the power
of Gen Y on some of these aspects that their involvement , thinking and the approach which Garima
has adopted will surely benefit the Organisation.

9. How will the calendar benefit the employees and the organization
• Design effective strategies : The calendar will motivate the human resource Team to think
differently and understand emotions of employees with every passing work season and with
every fold of the calendar month to devise effective strategies .
• Training Tool: The calendar may be used as training tool to understand various seasons of
work life to impart appropriate training towards organizational efficiency
• Instill self responsibility : It will motivate the internal employees to meet the targets beyond
expectations and work efficiently by inculcating the feeling of self responsibility that prevails
throughout
• Motivational Object: It can be used as a motivational object that can be kept on the
workstations of all the employees to be constantly put in front of the eyes that propels every
employee to think differently and work efficiently. Every change in work season or the month
brings fresh perspective towards organizational efficiency.
• Springboard for creativity and Innovation : It will also motivate the employees to think
beyond the ordinary shells and use creativity and innovation as yardsticks for future growth
and development

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FEEDBACK
“Very Imaginative and Innovative concept. Simply impressive and inspiring”
Sushil Baveja
Head, HR ,DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd
To come out with such an innovative concept at such a young age is really
remarkable. Wonderful thinking augmented beautifully by creative illustrations.
Deepa
Chief People officer
Group Head HR,SMC Group of companies
Excellent effort. Infinite Congrats. Keep it up actively and spread the message..
Sumit Chaudhuri
Chairman and MD
Third Millennium Business Resource Associates Pvt Ltd
*Innovative concept *Brings positive energy *Might choose different themes for
each year going forward* Convert this to business idea
Manmohan Bhutani
Vice President, People and Operations,Fiserv India
Eye Opener . Very wonderful effort. Try selling this to a big corporate as an internal
Calendar
Devashish Banerji
Country Manager,Crown Agents (India) Pvt Ltd

11. A very innovative method to create the story and explaining the HR theory so far
sought in million of pages
R.P. Ojha
Senior consultant
Ex- Executive Director (HR), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd
Excellent! Keep it up. All the best .You have great future as CEO someday.
Colonel D.P. Dimri, ED & Chief Executive, Delhi Management Association
I am delighted and honoured that I was present here today. Your Calendar form is yet
one more wonderful concept of reminding the geniuses of being an HR throughout
the year. I drew from it that if we treat each human in our firm as an individual ,
recognise his uniqueness , give him the encouragement and fearless and doubt free
environment to apply his strengths , not only the firm will touch new heights but it
will ride on the wings of each of its employee.
Chandni Sahai
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation
I think it is a very good and innovative idea to capture a new hire journey into an
organisation and how he completes his development journey
Nitin
American Express
I personally feel that the calendar overcomes different thoughts and barriers which
an organisation has . It is a wonderful approach and is very influencing
Divya
Nutrihealth Systems Pvt Ltd

12. It is a unique and wonderful idea of depicting that HR people are also creative. Best
way of showing Corporate Culture
SACHIN
Cannon India Pvt Ltd
It is very excellent and innovative endeavour in the field of HR.
Pramod Kumar Samal
Ministry of Home Affairs , Govt of India
Presently I am preparing for M Tech but this concept has made me change my mind
to go for MBA in HR
MAYANK
Engineering Institute ,Noida
A novel concept. Pl market it in organisations. It gave different insights towards HR
function
Gaurav
ST Microelectronics
A novel idea beautifully transformed into a practical tool, one can keep it at his desk
to be reminded of motivational points throughout the year everyday
Rohit Tawakley
Rabo Bank
The conceptual calendar is very inspiring and motivational. It has actually changed
my way of thinking about HR
Soumya
Ozone Group

13. A very innovative concept .Well presented and can be easily related to our
professional life
Gauri
Educom Raffles
Really appreciated the concept of presenting an employee’s work life into various
seasons I especially liked creativity of July month where employee rated himself as 5
SONALI ,
Citi Bank
For me it was a very wonderful & more precious moment than any other
professionals there, as we been a colleague i also had come across several thought &
stage of HR activities / approaches but have never been able to portrait it the way
you have today, but to an extend i felt & feel that i also did something today as
someone from the same vintage, especially a colleague have did it so beautifully & i
also feel honored from the depth of my heart.
Lijo Joseph
Really glad to see an innovation of this sort would love to place it on my table top.
Monika Lohani
Iris software
It was a great learning experience and Iam extremely glad to learn about the HR
calendar. I am sure this will be a game changer in the field of HR.
KARTIK
Deloitte

14. If one self responsible, innovative and creative employee
(represented by the character “Zoobie” ) can gift the organization
with revenue , customer delight Ideas, innovation …………………
Imagine the effect of all the employees or colleagues in your
organization turning into Zoobies……
I took the first little step
Would you like to join hands and take big leaps forward by gifting
this calendar to all the employees…
Lets Do
The ZOOBIE DO
Garima Mathur