by Gargi Banerjee | Feb 24, 2015 | Company
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“Startup to sustainable excellence” was the theme of TIEcon 2015. It’s one of the biggest professional networking seminars for business owners and a premium entrepreneurial ecosystem in South Asia. The Global Entrepreneurial Report of Oracle Capital Group considered India to be one of the premium entrepreneurial countries in the world in terms of experience, self funding, low failure rates and feasibility. Last year over 600 entrepreneurs participated in TiEcon 2014 Kolkata at the Ball Room of The Oberoi Grand. TiEcon is the annual conference of entrepreneurs – small and mid-level business startups to eminent business owners from diverse domains like IT, Education, Retail, Health Sector, and Financial firms. TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs is a nonprofit organization, devoted to encouraging entrepreneurship. From fresh pass outs with promising ideas to people heading startups and even established companies, it brings them all together under one roof annually. It is also a meeting point for angel investors, Business Gurus, and related service providers to assist and guide a wannabe entrepreneur in the right direction. In short, TiE plays an instrumental role in global innovation and entrepreneurship. The inception of TiE took place back in the year 1992 at a lunch meet of Silicon Valley business owners and professionals. TiE became an official organization by 1994. The small organization soon attracted more and more members, representatives, charter members and participants. Today it’s the largest organization promoting entrepreneurship in 18+ countries in 5 continents, 61+ chapters with over 12000+ members. TiEcon Kolkata 2015 was held at Hyatt Regency on the 20th of February 2015. As the largest assemblage of entrepreneurs from eastern India,...
by Gargi Banerjee | Dec 29, 2014 | Company, Search Engine Optimization
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Holiday parties are meant to be special and exciting! When we are talking about corporate parties and holidays, it has to be electric! Are you planning to induce some thrill to your company Christmas celebration this year? During this time of the year shortly after the Thanksgiving/Halloween, employees generally go on leave. So here are ways to engage and keep your staff committed during the festivities. The trick is to make the workplace fun-filled, exclusively for this part of the year. Official festive celebrations should be interesting, entertaining as well focus on attendance. Corporate holiday soiree is just a way to bring all the employees together, engage them in an enjoyable and fun-filled atmosphere, and enhance their attachment with the company. It should be a perfect way to do away with all the work related stress and allow the employees to have fun! Here are few ways to make a memorable office celebration this season. Office Party: One of the most popular ways of festive celebration at work, there are options galore to make it a memorable corporate event. Venue, budget and attendees are specifically important in office parties. You can organize the party in a posh condominium or simply in your office premises. Often companies hire party planners or the HR of the company organizes it. Both in-house parties as well as those arranged at popular city venues are popular. Office party themes are very appealing. Themes which instantly add thrill to the holiday mood are the white Christmas, masquerade ball, the chocolate factory, Christmas around the world, High School prom, to name a few. Costume parties are...
by Gargi Banerjee | Dec 12, 2014 | Careers, Company
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An equal treatment at work place, irrespective of gender, refers to gender equality or gender egalitarianism. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a declaration of United Nations is eager to create parity in government activities and equal pay structure for equal work. This condition is attainable only when people get equal opportunities, remuneration, appreciation and resources regardless of being a male or a female employee in a workplace. Equal outcome is the main intention of gender equality in workplace. This signifies: Equal compensation for men and women for work of equal value. Engaging more women folks in places of work. Accessibility to all types works, including administrative positions. Gender equality affects the crux of a business and the output of a nation to a great extent. Consider the benefits of gender equality in a workplace: If we want to attract workforce with a higher aptitude, gender equality is a must. We need to make the working environment conducive for women and stop losing on talented women employees. As per the recent global statistics published in Yale Global, women have outperformed men in achieving higher degrees by a ratio of 93:100 which was 160:100 women in 1970. It’s believed that top level management with diversity does well. A gender equality firm is a better performer any time as both are correlated to each other. With diversity, companies get varied aspects of an issue allowing a healthy discussion and analysis, and results in better efforts at taking decisions to solve crises. For a nation, gender equality helps in economic prosperity and an increased productivity. As per the World Economic Forum, contesting ability...