Happy 8th Anniversary Bluesky!

Dear Skiers

I feel very pleased, proud and elated to see Bluesky completing its 8th Anniversary.

Every year that goes by, not only strengthens the organization like the roots of a tree but also morphs it to becoming more matured and resilient.

I believe that any organizational anniversary symbolizes the deeper characteristics of the team and people within-with respect to Determination, Commitment, Passion and Excellence. Every passing year adds a new layer of knowledge, expertise, new processes and innovation. Every year an organization is expected to move a distance towards its outer orbit and prepare itself to escape into another higher orbit..

If we feel that this year was better than the last in terms of our delivery, processes, expertise, people and exemplifying our core values then we have all reasons to celebrate!

Celebrating an anniversary in such sustained unstable and volatile times itself is prized and a true test of a company's character. Today is the time when we look back and celebrate the distance traversed. After all "Making this Happen" is a contribution from each of You and collectively as a team.

I feel extremely excited to be leading such talented set of individuals in a very different type of organization system that we have crafted and most of them being women.

I also would like to thank all our clients, partners, vendors, service providers and stake holders who have contributed to this milestone.

We have many challenges ahead of us which I had outlined on 1st Jan and won't repeat them, however Bluesky must strive towards greater excellence and success in the coming months and years

Thank you for staying in love with Bluesky.


Regards and Best wishes

Don

Bluesky Anniversary!!!!

Hello Skiers,

As you all are aware, BLUESKY would be celebrating its 8th Anniversary on 31st January.

On this Great Occasion, Lets celebrate... Have fun... Enjoy!!!!!

I would request everyone to come up with some good ideas for this event.......

One of the Option available is- Firangi Pani

Kindly let me know, who all are Interested to Join.

Welcome Aboard Chandni

Dear Members, 

I extend my warm Welcome to our new member, Chandni Bhagwane to our Bluesky Family (She Joined us today, 27th January 2014).

·     Chandni, joined as Executive - HR and will be deployed at Nidhaan and would be Reporting to Swati.

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Welcome Aboard Chandni

All the best for your journey with us!!!

Skiers can contact her on email id chandni@bluesky-hr.com

skype id:-  chandni.bluesky

Kudos to Sreeja...

There are those who talk and there are those who talk and follow it with Doing...

I remember a couple of months when I met Sreeja she wanted to live her dream and I readily chucked the ball to her like I did with many others in the past, knowing well through my experience that such euphoria is short lived.

While I had the confidence in her I knew that the activation would take longer. But I must say she has pleasantly surprised me and yesterday she accomplished a team activity for the Piramal Group single handedly and earned her first cheque. Isko bolta hai Dhanda...

Now let me tell you why I feel this effort was distinguished..I conveyed this a few days back to her that this inquiry was there and given her lack of experience had the option to decline. Moreover there were senior people involved and it was Bluesky's reputation besides the person who referred us being related to me. However Sreeja readily jumped into it with no hesitation and eventually did a remarkable job and achievement. My involvement almost 0.

She designed, she developed, she executed and she got the money.

This is something that I wish I could see consistently across Bluesky and her performance is a role model for others. She has also epitomized Excellence at Bluesky

Well done Sreeja-I wish you all the best for your efforts and plans on L&D function at Bluesky

Our Franchisee Partner in Gujarat

Dear Members

I wish to welcome our Franchisee INTOS, located in Baroda but will represent Bluesky across the entire state of Gujarat. Hence any client requirements in Gujarat can be handled by the INTOS team

INTOS is lead by Sagar who is himself an HR professional having worked in the hospitality industry. Sagar is assisted by two other colleagues,  Divya Parmar and Mrutyunjay.

Sagar, Divya and Mrutyunjay welcome to the Bluesky fold and do hope you will find the association most rewarding

In Bluesky most of our communication is done on the blog www.bluesky-hr.blogspot.in feel free to follow us there

In addition we have a Bluesky page on Facebook and also on LinkedIn

Members-Please extend a warm welcome to our Franchisee partners and provide them with all the support they need

Congratulation Jagpreet!!!

Dear Jagpreet,

We extend our best wishes to you on your 1 Year of service with Blue Sky HR Solution.

We've always taken great pleasure to see your enthusiasm for work you do.

Achievement During the Year

- Good Quality hire resources.

- Implementation of our Recruitment Partnership model.

It’s been wonderful working with you and your contribution and commitment to work is commendable.

Keep up the good work and we wish you success in the years to come.

Welcome Aboard Sukanya

Dear Members, 

I extend my warm Welcome to our new member, Sukanya Varma to our Bluesky Family.

·     Sukanya, joined as an Executive and will be Reporting to Leha.

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Welcome Aboard Sukanya

All the best for your journey with us!!!

Skiers can contact her on email id sukanya@bluesky-hr.com

skype id:-  sukanya.bluesky

Happy Birthday Hemal

Dear Hemal,

Many Many Happy Returns of the Day!

On your Birthday We all wish you much pleasure

and joy and hope all of your wishes come true.

May each hour and minute be filled with delight,

And your birthday be perfect for you.

2014-Marketing, Marketing, Marketing...

Dear Skiers

It gives me immense joy to address you on the threshold of the new year 2014. In advance, I and the family would like to wish each of you and your families a very Happy and Joyful year.

As we are just a few hours from the new year I can exclaim, PHEW! Thank God the year is over. Unfortunately, the year for business in general reached its abyss and engulfed most companies including many of our client in all sorts of crisis. Government inaction, corruption, appreciation of the dollar, spiralling inflation, interest rates and unemployment have taken a very heavy toll on business and pushed the economy to sluggishness with all corporate now waiting in anticipation for the general elections. This had its own rub off and implications on Bluesky and immensely slowed things down. However I am quite optimistic of the year ahead and genuinely believe that things would improve…fingers crossed

Keeping this in mind we need to adequately prepare and equip ourselves for the road ahead. But before we go into next year and delve into its finer elements lets look back and see how we did last year in relative comparison to the theme that we had envisaged at the start. Please refer to trail mail. 2013 year was punctuated with Repair, Revitalize and Reposition especially in the areas of Sales and Marketing, Internal HR and Talent Acquisition.

Internal HR had seen considerable traction with Leha taking the responsibility for it initially and later handed it over to Jagpreet. Both have done a fine job to take this a level up and the most remarkable achievement of HR was to hire some quality Managerial talent like Trunali, Neha, Swati and recently, Sreeja. I also believe that internal HR has now been able to build a reasonable pipeline of candidates with a high velocity of candidates showing interest in Bluesky. Another commendable initiative that has taken roots in Bluesky is our communication systems whether through the blog, skype, whatsapp, Kanban etc. The use of drop box effectively has also been a step in that direction and one thing I must commend all skiers is their ability to change on a dime and embrace new technologies. Well done Jagpreet and Leha for these initiatives and keep pushing the envelope on DIGITIZATION. We must always be ahead in this game.

Another game changing initiative which is truly sterling and exemplary is the revitalization of Recruitment. While initially we struggled a lot on getting this fixed we have now found a new method of recruitment by changing the rules of the Game. We have outsourced our recruitment and through this mechanism have closed more than 8-9 positions in last 4 months and has yielded a very high return on investment. Literally our costs are extremely low while the return is excessively high. Moreover the success has been across the client cross section with delivery from more than 4-5 consultants. However these are early days and I do hope this sustains in 2014

On the Marketing side it has been mixed and there is nothing to rant and rave of our efforts. Yes we did get the Microsoft Boss Award and got some PR coverage but the bigger achievement has been in us enrolling a franchisee for Gujarat. The name of the partner is INTOS and we are in the process of getting the partner activated. Bluecherry has seen some traction on marketing and I am confident to see greater success in this product offering as it gets revised to Revision 3.0. Efforts on Linked In, Facebook, SMB blog have been heartening and subtly enhances the marketing experience. However on the whole we didn’t do well in this area and we need to reorient ourselves on this aspect.

Introduction of the automated Program Tracker and Maturity on bluebuddy has improved our client delivery and with the introduction of Allonhr, I believe the repositioning of Bluesky shall be complete. Strategic quarterly reviews with clients and even our own quarterly reviews are a positive step towards impeccable Execution. I am also quite excited to see the levels of collaboration that have dramatically incremented in the company.

The biggest disappointment for 2013 was in us not being able to host the BCL for 2013 because of the recession and economic conditions faced by clients.

Next year-2014 would be exclusively dedicated to aggressive Sales and Marketing and with Rajni rearing to take on the responsibility, I hope to see Bluesky differently at the end of 2014. I wish her all the best..I would be designing a blue print to tame this bull and ensure that we attain success in this eluding challenge. Trust me there will be no bigger and singular initiative than Marketing, Marketing and Marketing in 2014. Each members support and alignment in this direction is what I sincerely request.

Lastly, special appreciation to all the contributors and one can’t miss Dipti in the list who has fervently lead the operations team and created many delightful experiences. Special thanks to Trunali for being a great support and architect of allonhr and also the process initiatives. Her managing the Red Chillies Entertainment account is also highly appreciable. Neha-the TAT on the block is also a great new revelation that brings strength to the BS-team. Her stabilizing ETC is indeed heartening... Leha deserves her own recognition for being the fire diffuser and initially handling HR splendidly and later process. Her saving the Phonetics account is also a remarkable achievement. I have already appreciated Jagpreet above and another individual that has made a remarkable difference has been Supriya who has managed to ensure a smooth and trouble free payroll process month on month.

Seema, Milind, Vijay thanks for your continuous loyalty and dedication. Best wishes to Swati, Sreeja and Sraboni and do hope you would be the movers and shakers in the present year.

All the best guys and lets make Bluesky rock in 2014

Happy New Year 2014

Happy New Year to all  skiers.

Warm wishes for a prosperous and satisfying 2014.

This year let's resolve to scale greater heights of success. Let's unleash the real potential in us to Make It Happen. We should be proactive and inventive in identifying the What Next and be persistent in our efforts to achieve it. Let's make 2014 an inspiring milestone.

All the best, have a great 2014.