Exciting Beginning for Elabram Systems

Hi Peeps!

We are already at the end of the 2nd month of 2016 - and we already can feel the positive vibes in the Company. We started well with many activities and accolades at our side. 

For a start, our Total Project Manager, Anildip Singh, won the best Project Manager at the Huawei Malaysia Annual Dinner held last month at the prestigious Grand Hyatt Hotel Kuala Lumpur. This award is a recognition from Huawei to us for our excellent service and project management in Malaysia. Kudos to Anil and his team from NPO for a job well done. 

We started our L&D this year with a marketing course on Social Media for Business. The Group MD, Mikel Yaw wanted the team, especially the senior managers and also those involved in the social media platforms of the Company to be 'social savvy' with the tools and implications of social media in our business. The one day program on 15 Feb was held at Palm Garden Hotel Putrajaya and 12 of us spent the day together grasping some insights from the facilitator Abdul Awaal from Charlesman Training & Consultancy. 

We had for the first time the lion dance for the lunar new year at our business premises. The staffs were so excited with the arrival of the lions. Firecracker was lit off and the lions danced away blessing all the offices in the Company. After the event, the Group MD Mikel Yaw gave us a short speech thanking the staffs commitment and contribution to the Company last year and he hoped we will continue to be diligent this year to keep the company moving towards greater revenue, profitability and recognition. And we said thank you for the red packet 'angpau' given by the GMD at the end of his speech. 

The Group MD Mikel Yaw with his beloved family members and his extended family @ the HQ

The good cheers of the lunar new year continues with our participation in JobsCentral career fair at the KL Convention Centre on 20-21 Feb. Talent Acquisition and Deployment teams were there to promote both Elabram and Xremo brands. Xremo is created by Mikel, is a new job portal in the market with a twist, and this time we have collaborated with Camp 5 - a corporate team building event organizer specialized in climbing activities. Get to know more about Xremo in their website at www.xremo.com. Overall, the fair gave us the opportunity to create awareness of our products and services besides getting more job seekers, students and other industry players to know us in the market.  

Mikel and TAD Senior Manager Shirley with Kevin

The TAD team at their booth 

The Deployment team all happy to promote Xremo 

Mikel and Camp 5 representative at Xremo booth 

GMD Mikel Yaw gave a talk to the job seekers at the career fair

We end our Jan & Feb 2016 activities with Movie Day. Sixteen of us converged Golden Screen Cinema at IOI City Mall on Friday, 26 Feb watching 'Hail Caesar' by George Clooney and Scarlett Johansson. The staffs had some good bonding time together in this event. 

Some of us at the Movie Day 

So what's next? I am not going to let the cat out of the bag just yet. Stay tune and catch up soon. Until then, keep grounded while reaching for the stars. 

Ericsson praised Elabram Systems Indonesia for the Job well done

16th February is not just another ordinary day for Elabram Systems Indonesia but has been remarkable for Elabram Systems Group as a whole. Elabram Systems Indonesia is being honored by Ericsson as one of their suppliers & partners that support them for the year of 2015 at Sheraton Hotel, Jakarta. The event was attended of course by the Group Deputy Managing Director of Elabram, Mr. Sunny Yaw.

Year 2015 has been a challenging year for both Ericsson and Elabram, we are glad that we managed to stick up to Ericsson standard and remain being their approved supplier until now. During the session, Mr. Thomas the president director of Ericsson Indonesia has expressed gratitude and appreciation to all suppliers that has supported Ericsson in 2015. The success of Ericsson will not be happening without good support from suppliers. He emphasized that year 2016 is going to be more challenging and we should take 2015 as a good learning curve for us to progress better in 2016. ‪

Elabram Systems Group has branches in Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand with these services; Network Planning and Optimization, Business Process Outsourcing, Knowledge Process Outsourcing and talent Acquisition and Deployment. The company is composed of more than 7000 manpower and getting bigger yearly. For more information, please send your inquiry to mariagracia.n@elabram.com 

Closing the year with goodies .....

Howdy peeps!

In the midst of drawing the curtain of 2015, we have had some activities. Just two week ago, we had our top management meeting facilitated by our Group MD, Mr Mikel Yaw, and on the same week itself, we also had our year end staff gathering. This time around, the HR Dept organized two activities in parallel; a story-telling contest and the ever-famous gift exchange to usher the yuletide and also to refresh our camaraderie amongst the staff members.

Let's start with the contest - creation of an object based on our core values 'ISTARS" and telling the story of the object created by the respective team. This is a departmental effort, where they were given about a month to plan the creation and then prepare the script of the story. ISTARS stands for Innovative, Sincerity, Teamwork, Adaptable, Respect and Simplicity. It is our belief system, and our Group MD has always reminded all of us on this abbreviation.

The teams squeezed their creative juices, and each team came out with their masterpieces. From something simple, to something extensive - we just let it flow. After the Monday's top management meeting, the Group MD was having a week of hectic schedule where in his planner, he is also required to judge the creations from the teams on Wednesday afternoon. It was held 'over two days' due to time constraint. First, he judged the object creation itself. He was looking for a representation of the core values. He gave his scoring and excused himself for the second day. On Thursday morning, we had the story-telling contest. The teams were called one at a time, for them to tell us the story behind the object which is supposedly to represent the core values.

Mikel was overwhelmed with the creativity, and the talent of our staff members, especially the junior or new staff members who stood and vowed him with their rendition of the ISTARS stories. Each teams were trying to outdo each other, to win the heart of the judge. The Group MD was very pleased with the outcome of this activity, and when the last team finished their story, he invited all of us for lunch at a restaurant in town. Yeah, it has been a stressful day for the teams and, yes, the 'makan' at the restaurant was a de-stressor, and everyone had a good time rejoicing.

So, do you want to know the winners?

It was a tough fight - the scores were very close to each other especially for the top three placing. But let's put it on hold as we have other goodies to reveal too. On the next day, Friday 18th Dec, we had our year end staff gathering which we aptly called Year End Suka-suka (YESS) at 4pm. The theme was of course, 'world peace'. So we have some food and dessert, and the birthday cake for babies in August, September, October, November and December. Yes, HR bad, we have skipped the 3rd Q gathering and combined it with this event. We also gave out presents to the birthdays' babies. So some of us practically received 3 gift items on the same afternoon - the birthday gift, the Christmas gift and the contest prize! And that's not all - we even announced that the Company will be off on 31 Dec as the replacement of the state public holiday which was on 14 Dec for winning the Malaysia football cup. Happy faces aplenty with food, gifts and one extra off day on a long weekend over the new year. Imagine, for just two week, we only work for 6 days, but off for 8 days! Now as a HR, I have to vouch, such privilege doesn't happen everywhere but it happens in Elabram - well it doesn't happen often, but it sure did this time.

Ahhh .... it has been a long write this time - good things are meant to be shared. Let's join us in this journey of closing 2015 with positive mind and work towards a better tomorrow.

Creations dressed the glass walls of the Office

Artistic creation from International Business team - 'seasons of change'

Simplicity rules - object from Finance team

HR / Deployment / IT came up with a 'starry tree' 

Talent Acquisition with Christmas landscape 

NPO on 'battlefields'

Regine Lee represented NPO telling the story about battlefield

Stella Tan of IB telling the story of seasonal change 

Muhd Iqbal of TAD talked about not conforming to the norm 

Tharshaan representing Finance with star bright starlight  

Jaslyn Loo of HR/Deply/IT begins with 'Once upon a time ..... '
 



Birthday Babies 

Gifts came in a sleigh by Secret Santas

Crowd anticipating the goodies 

And the winners are:

3rd Placing - IB Dept represented by Regine
 

2nd Place - Finance

Yes, the 1st Prize - HR, Deployment  & IT team
 

Winners received Ringgit 100 for 3rd prize, Ringgit 200 for 2nd prize and Ringgit 350 for 1st prize. TAD Senior Manager, Shirley Kok gave out the cash prizes just before the end of the event. Even the 4th and 5th placing received a token each. The HR team didn't expect to win as the contest is quite competitive. The  creation in a form of a tree with solid trunk representing the company, surrounded by leafs of staff names in between the stars with two birds nestling for the future captured the MD's heart and represented the overall ISTARS spirit.

The contest received favorable vibes as besides fostering goodwill, it also elevates team bonding, communication, innovation and 'esprit de corps'. The event ended with the gift exchange program, and International Business team even came out with a year end gift of a self-made bookmark. Now that's four gifts in the afternoon.

That's how Elabram Systems draw the curtain of 2015. Here humbly wishing all readers a peaceful and fantastic 2016!

Till we meet again in a brand new year, stay peace.

XOXO

 

Breakthrough to Excellence 2016 Workshop

Dear readers,

The Group MD gathered some managers and senior management team for a workshop facilitated by himself on 15th Dec 2015. It was held at the Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya. A total of 10 of us attended this workshop with the aim of preparing us for 2016.

The workshop comprises of knowledge sharing, discussion, activities and also some brain-storming session of what we want to achieve next year. Mr Mikel Yaw shared with us on the topics of leadership, communication, EQ, E-colors (Personality Diversity Indicator), team alignment, SWOT analysis and goal setting.

At the end of the workshop, the team came out with some critical issues to be addressed in 2016, and it also includes L&D initiatives for the employees. Both the Group and Deputy MD hoped to iron-out some of the challenges we faced, be it at the HQ or the branches, and hope to sustain the Company growth amidst the turmoil surrounding the world economy and Asean countries.

Overall the workshop went very well and we all had a great time opening up our mind and gaining some insights from the Group MD and learning from everyone. The Group MD reminded everyone about the core values of the Company which is ISTARS, and emphasize on the importance of teamwork, respect for each other and also keeping things simple. All of us in the Company must be innovative and adaptable to changes, and must be sincere in our work.

The Group MD wants such workshop to take place at least half yearly so that all of us can discuss and resolve some issues together as a team.

Here are some takes from the workshop.

Team Presentation

The Deputy Group MD, Mr Sunny Yaw sharing his points



 

Team having a light moment

 

The Group MD in focus of what is being presented

 

Mikel clarifying some points

 

Wish list

Work in progress



Let's achieve this

Group MD wants us to be the best