The proceedings began with the oath taking ceremony reminding all HR professionals of their commitment and integrity towards their profession.The esteemed members were then apprised of the membership program through referral, aimed at widening the horizons of National HRD Network.

The main program began with moderator Mr. Bansal, secretary NHRDN, taking charge of the deliberations following which speakers joined him on the dias.

Mr. Bansal described the session plan and apprised the audience with the three sub- sections planned for the evening.

The opening sub- section focused on the “Business Partnering Role Of HR in Contemporary perspective”

Mr. Bimal Rath emphasized the long term plan which CEO’s stress on. These plans are critical to organizational growth in adverse situations. He also talked about the vision of CEO’s to be permeated into the organization’s HR function.

Mr. Shankar talked about the significance of unarticulated needs of the CEOs, which the HR must understand and put to practice. He emphasized that it is this that would convert HR into a “great business partner”.

Mr. Praveen Sinha gave a new perspective wherein he talked of HR as a medium of communicating the broad term organizational perspective to all the stakeholders. He also talked about the delineation of HR from line function and importance to bridge this gap.

This first round culminated with audience questions being answered by the speakers to the audience’s satisfaction. While answering one of the questions, Mr. Sinha talked about the shift of HR from “responsiveness role to the proactive role”.

The second round focused on sustainable development using the HR function which includes both transactional and transformational work.

Mr. Krish brought about the concept of empowering line functionaries to take ownership of the HR initiatives. Mr. Sinha deliberated on the same issue and explained how they achieved line function alignment with HR initiatives in his organization. Mr. Rath talked of bringing about business perspective to this issue so as to involve line managers into the HR initiatives. The moderator Mr. Bansal then asked speakers to rate themselves both in their capacity as line functionaries and HR professionals for their respective organizations. All the speakers more or less ranked their HR functions viz-a- vie line functions perspectives equally.  Second round cumulated withy the question and answer session adding value to the whole discussion.

This was how the session for the day came to an end with Mr. Bansal thanking the speakers followed by the memento delivery ceremony by Mr. Rajan, the National HRD Network President.