Last week we had an exhibition stand at CIPD’s HRD 2011 at Olympia London – our very first ‘outing’ in the UK. It turned out to be a great show for us with executives from several blue chip companies visiting our stand to discuss their performance and learning challenges.
I suppose a lot of meetings are to follow in next few weeks. This is a good beginning for our new Europe office which started a few months back.
2011 seems to be really big on events for us.
After a huge success at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011, April will see us participating in CIPD HRD 2011, an HRD conference and exhibition. Scheduled to take place on the 6th and 7th of April 2011 in Olympia, London, this event will see leading learning and organization development suppliers in a range of disciplines including training, L&D, OD, leadership, coaching and more, come together under one roof.
Over the past 6 odd years, we have gained much more than experience and knowledge. We have grown quite well, from a 6 member team to 150+ professionals, today; from being just another provider of eLearning solutions to being a global leader in Custom eLearning Development, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions; and becoming a consistent performer with over 12 awards and recognitions.
It’s the time of the year when the air carries the happy jingle of Santa’s bells and the world celebrates the dawn of a new year! For us at Upside Learning, it marks a time to look back on the days gone by and celebrate the awards we won, heights we scaled and hurdles we overcame. But more than these, it marks a time to celebrate the relationship we share with you – our readers. It is a celebration that goes beyond the professional ties and the business conversations; beyond departments and designations; beyond regions and religions.
Upside has always prided ourselves on being tech and web-savvy. Our capabilities in both spheres reflect in our website. Our revamped website was recently featured in a CSS mania gallery.
Welcome to our new look blog!
If you have been a regular reader of our blog, you would have noticed that we’ve changed our identity!
As a dynamic and innovative organization, we have always kept pace with the changing times, evolving with technology, and customer requirements. Today, we have changed our corporate identity to reflect our ‘you-centric’ approach and our focus on growth.
This quarter, our Social Welfare Group embarked upon its first activity: a blood donation camp, conducted in association with Ruby Hall Clinic’s Blood Bank.
Saturday morning saw a flurry of preparations, and come 9:00 A.M., all was ready for the first donor.
It’s been a year since we started blogging (March 03, 2009) and we are raring to go another notch high. With 142 posts, over 75,500 page views, and 600+ subscriber base, it’s been an enjoyable journey so far. A big thanks to all our loyal readers for taking the time to read and for leaving your valuable comments. We sincerely appreciate your continued patronage. We look forward to a great 2010!
A large blank white wall is an invitation for creative individuals to express themselves. Some call it graffiti, some call it art, all in all its great fun. We had just such a wall at our offices in Pune.
We decided to make the best of it and let graphic designers and artists from the team have a go at it.
The results speak for themselves.
Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, the chief guest at the CLO Summit India earlier this month, spoke that mistakes should be part of a learning organization’s culture. That resonated strongly with me. I have written about how we all learn more from mistakes. At Upside Learning do ask all our employees to not be afraid of making mistakes.
Upside Learning sponsored the inaugural CLO Summit India at the end of last week. My partner Amit Gautam and I attended the summit and came back satisfied with the level of participation seen at this inaugural summit. Overall we felt it was a great inaugural event that pulled in some respected names to speak. There were some equally respected names in the audience too. We feel the CLO Summit has the potential to grow into a premier HR event in India focused around L&D. If the organizers can build a community around this , it will be even more wonderful. We of course, are happy to have assisted the first edition in our little way.
When new employees join at Upside Learning, I tell them – “Making mistakes is ok because you learn from them and that’s the real value of a mistake as it gets you ready for success. So go ahead, work with a free mind, give your best, and everything else would be fine”. Note that it’s not a license to make mistakes it is the freedom to try your best and be ok when you make mistakes. I also tell them “while committing mistakes is ok, repeating them is not, as then the mistake is really costly – to them and to the company, as we did not get anything (hoping for some learning there) out of it”
