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Walk in dates : 23/03/2013 – 24/03/2013
Tag: Cogzidel
Interesting Days Ahead
Interesting part of entrepreneurship is the thrill… It is like riding a roller-coaster in life…
I’m fortunate to be a part of this rare species and the experience it gave me is phenomenal… Many times I take better decisions and offer better solutions than my parents…
The latest challenge is the collapse of the sales team and it is time to building a vibrant and energetic sales team… Also it has to be done on a war foot basis…
We have to be quick and agile in our execution… This week is going to be spent on aggressive on job training, learning quickly from failures, choice of best sales tools like VoIP connection, Group email tools, CRM and more…
Yesterday was the first day and already it has been a challenging and a busy day…
- Had to read and scan through all emails…
- Micro managing entire process…
- Work very closely with the team…
So far it has satisfied… It is going to be interesting days ahead and its double bonanza for me as I’m fond of Sales…
Some People Create a Mark
Human Resource at Cogzidel has always been a challenge… First four HR concentrated more on recruitment and was not up to expectation… Faced many challenges with them like;
– They were too much aligned towards management or with the employees…
– They failed to carry management point to employee and didn’t carry employees grievances to management…
– Were not aggressive or innovative when it came to recruitment…
– Some misused power and became abusive…
– Didn’t understand the expectations of the role…
After failing four times we moved our SEO as HR…To my surprise he understood the dynamics of HR… He managed well between management and employees… He helped solve lot of challenges… Most important thing was he successfully executed things said by his superior… He was with us for year and half… As an HR he served for 7 months…
He called me on 2nd Jan and I thought he has called me to wish for the new year… As expected he wished me and slowly came to the topic… He said he was planning to quit… Without me asking he said he is planning to go abroad and he has taken a call… He said he can give notice as we expected…
All we told him is to give 45 day notice, find a replacement, train him and give Knowledge Transfer… He never shows the exit mood and he worked with same enthusiasm… He fulfilled all our expectations…
Yesterday was his last day and I couldn’t believe we are going to miss him…
I’ve never blogged about the relieving of many core people who had a descent exit… But this guy deserved more and he will always have a special place in our heart and Cogzidel… He has set a new benchmark for the role and for his successor…
I take this opportunity to wish Mr.Senthil Ganesh best luck for a successful career and future….
Had meeting with Bala Murugan
It was long time since I’ve spent time with Bala… Finally it ended to be a productive and fulfilling meeting…
– I had asked him to help me on insurance refunds for my dad and to get it done..
– Discussed about PF…
– Discussed about Group MediClaim…
– Discussed about gratuity…
– About sales team building…
Then it was in-depth discussion on Sales strategy and I covered most of the places where I failed when I was handling the sales team…
We have jotted the points for a 2 week intense training program… And their one month pilot sales project…
Have the training program scheduled by 11 am today… Am rushing to office and will post a separate blog on the experience….
One memorable year for our CTO
Yesterday(31/01/2013) it was a day to remember for two reasons… First it happens to be my dads birthday and second our COGZIDEL CTO Sam alies Mr.SwamiNathan completes his first year…
It all looks as if it happened yesterday…. After a month long meetings with coffees Sam reported to service surprisingly… Yes I call it a surprise because he asked for a year to complete his notice….
If he stood by his word he must have reported only yesterday….
I think he must have got his dream run in this year… We planned a lot of things and visions like;
– Make it a 250 members company in a year…
– Strengthen our products portfolio…
– Build a Business Analyst team…
– Strengthen the cold-calling team…
– Add a service line called Testing…
– Implement measurable process…
Those were core agenda for first year… We started with a bang and start looked good… But to our surprise there were lots of undercurrents, myths, resistance and acceptance for change… Infact we haven’t accomplished any of the above listed things….
But we had a great run as we complimented each other, we broke myths, overcame criticism, shared grievances, lived a life of poor, walked long, we learned to unlearned and we did a lot….
Inspite of all odds we ran with hope and energy… Finally there started the light at the end of the tunnel… We started taking control over the situation and slowly we are able to implement things which we wanted to implement last year…
Overall it was enjoyable year and I wish and thank Swami for all the support…. I wish him good luck for the years to come….
Sangeetha’s Bachelorette Party @ Courtyard Marriott Chennai
This was my first Bachelorette party and thanks to Sangeetha for extending an invite… Unlike many Bachelors party which is synonymous to Booze Party; this is a different one which had only Tea & Coffee… As always there was mockery and bullying the host and Sangeetha played it smart and avoided every request from the guest ;)…
For me this is an outing after a long while and a good opportunity to meet friends & colleagues…
Wanted Pre-Sales & Business Analyst
Cogzidel Technologies Pvt Ltd is looking Pre-Sales & Business Analyst for itz Chennai office with following Skills;
Desired Skills:
- Engineering or Graduates – with min 1year experience in Presales or business analyst roles…
- Excellent interpersonal relationship building skills & Analytical skills…
- Advanced computer knowledge – PPT, MPP & other Microsoft tools. Exposure in using CRM tools…
Job Description:
- Ability to understand and capture business & technical requirements…
- To respond to RFP and RFI…
- Ability to Make quick online research and respond to client’s questions over the call…
- Responsible to prepare for meetings and tailoring communications to address business needs of potential clients…
- Responsible for providing feedback from the customer to the development team on any project related queries…
- Liaison with Customers and Development team to understand details of project requirement & design and communicate information back to sales organization…
- Production of responses to Requests for Information and Requests for Pricing…
Please email your resumes / reference to anand@cogzidel.com…
Forsee a need for leaders in Cogzidel
A lot of our initiatives are slowly yielding dividends and with my gut intuition if everything’s well we might need to expand our team drastically…
For now we are well placed in filling slots with freshers but with experienced we really slog it out… If things catch up we might have to triple our operations team size…
But such a drastic growth will create a huge imbalance until we start working on our people’s leadership skills… We must even work hard with our existing leaders to enhance their skills…
So, what is it that is expected out of a LEADER???
- Must be a risk taker….
- Must be a decision maker and take hard decisions during tough situations…
- Must be communicative with his team, managers, client and support departments…
- Love failure and must quickly take lessons and fix them or take control over situation…
- Good in team building…
- Speed in executing new things, in learning…
- Ability to take control over situations…
- Must be a good Learner…
It is time to look for talents who has the zeal to become a leader… From then have a herculian task in the training process and am expecting the support of my HR to make things a success…
Busy Monday
Got up by 8 AM and immediately stung into routine and got ready by 9.30AM… Then started the day by receiving a call from my BDE team leader Senthil and from then I wound me calls by 6.30 in the evening with a 20 min lunch break… So, who all I spoke to?? Let me list for my records;
1.) Senthil – Business Development Team Lead CT
2.) Ramesh – Products Team Head CT
3.) BalaKrishnan – VP Marketing CT
4.) BalaMurugan – CEO CCS
5.) Major Karthik – Head Of Operations Madurai CT
6.) Vaidegi – SMM CCS
7.) Sangeetha – Delivery Head CCS
8.) Meena – HR CT
And by the time it was evening and checked my email, FB and made some calls to friends… Then again it ws calling time with night shift folks for assigning task and collection updates… Overall the day ran without any stress or strain…
Financial Digest Interviews Cogzidel Consultancy Services CEO
Financial Digest a famous magazine from Sri Lanka interviews Mr.Bala Murugan – CEO, Cogzidel Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd… I’m proud to be working along Bala as he has put our brand Go Global… Here is the scanned copy of his interview…
AnandNataraj 