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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Intervention-IV: The Senior Management Citizenship Visioning Programme

The Senior Management Citizenship Visioning Programme

Intervention-IV, the Senior Management Citizenship Visioning Programme aims to bring about recognition of the critical changes required in SBI by way of policies/processes/practices in order to create a fertile and friendly environment for the citizenship ideals to flourish. 


The Intervention is in design stage.  

Intervention – III: Market Engagement Programme


Intervention-III is about Market Engagement

The Market is a network of ecosystems and each ecosystem in turn consists of several communities. At one level Intervention-III is about spotting opportunities and leveraging them in a systematic manner. It operates in an invest-harvest cycle, where invest is done at present and the harvest in the form of business follows as a matter of course in the short, medium and long term.

At another deeper level, the Market Engagement Programme is about identifying opportunities for contribution, partnering for development of the ecosystem which in turn will help in building "trust surplus" and "sustainable insidership" for the Bank in that ecosystem. Intervention-III programmes have been conducted in all the circles and the workshop to impart skills comprises of two phases. Phase-I introduces the concepts of Ecosystems and Insidership. Phase-II provides a four step toolkit for attaining insidership in various ecosystems. The participants in these workshops are CMC, CCFO, CDO, BU Heads, RMs and other LHO functionaries. 

Friday, April 1, 2011

World Laughter Day 2011




Laughter may be the best medicine but how can we laugh at a time like this? Some people think that the tensions and conflicts in the world make it no laughing matter but  those in the new laughter movement disagree and believe that together we can lead the world to health, happiness, and peace through laughter.

World Laughter Day is customarily celebrated on the first Sunday of May every year. This year on the 1st of May, the world will once again come together to laugh and spread the word of happiness and joy.

The Laughter Clubs movement is a global initiative to unite entire mankind through unconditional love and laughter. It is a non-religious, non-racial and non-profit organization committed to generate good health, joy and world peace through laughter. This revolutionary idea has changed the lives of hundreds and thousands of people around the world and has helped them to attain a state of complete wellness.

Nowadays, people face enormous stress and are at war with themselves. Laughter is a positive and powerful emotion which helps people to change themselves and to change the world in a peaceful and positive way. Laughter is a universal language which has the potential to unite humanity.

World Laughter Day was first observed on 11th January, 1998 in Mumbai, India. Twelve thousand members from local and international laughter clubs joined together in a mega laughter session led by Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of laughter clubs movement.

‘Happy-demic’ was the first World Laughter Day gathering outside India. It took place in the year 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark where more than 10,000 people gathered at Town Hall Square. It was the largest ever gathering that laughed and bonded together and the event went into the Guinness Book of World Records. 


The usual format of world laughter day celebration is the congregation of laughter club members, their families and friends at some important landmark in their city like big squares, public parks or auditoriums and laugh collectively.


CoolBisht / Indore