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CEO Speak
Hello everyone and welcome to another jubilating edition of Progressive Times . At Progressive, we have helped our customers to use technology effectively and hence in furthering their business interests, for over 12 years now. These years have been filled with extraordinary achievement, growth and satisfaction at seeing our clients grow their businesses based on our solutions, and leverage their technology investments in an ever-changing business landscape. And, sure, we have grown as well in this time both in scale as well as in the quality of work we do. Stretching, Delivering, Always...Progressive is stretching its' canvas wider by reaching out to global markets and enlarging solutions and capabilities across the gamut of ICT spectrum.Delivering persistently to our customer's satisfaction has been the foundation of Progressive's Business Delivery Model. Our premise of Assured Reliability finds its roots in the tenet of offering the right service at an affordable price. Change is constant and so is the need to grow and continually evolve to offer not just 24*reactive support but also the tools and methodologies to support & managing an adaptable organization. Our promise and commitment to stretch more, deliver more to partners to help them grow is the covenant that enshrines our growth. At the center of our strategy are our people brilliant, innovative and raring to go! Progressive hires, trains and retains the best of the best in every sphere of its operations, and this is the competitive advantage that sets us apart. It gives us the courage to compete effectively with much larger organizations and makes us the preferred solution provider for numerous clients in India and abroad. Let's continue to stretch deliver alwaysto our valued customers. Warm regards and best wishes!

Events
Progressive Event with Microsoft on "Discover more with Cloud Power" for Customers Progressive organized an event on Cloud on Thursday, May 19th 2011 at Leela Palace Delhi In the event Mr. Santanu Ghose Country Head, CI Solutions, HP India explained the "Journey to Private Cloud" .He shared his experiences of why companies are moving towards Cloud? And How migration towards cloud can help in reduction in IT cost. Ms.Pallavi Kathuria, Director, Microsoft India gave her views on "Building Efficient Data Centers for Private Cloud". She shared her thoughts on why and how data centers building are efficient for private cloud. Also explained the data centers act as a back bone for private clouds. The Event on Cloud was Knowledge gaining Prof. Sorav Bansal, IIT Delhi shared his thoughts on "Bringing Cloud to Earth". He explained how a small business considering cloud services or an enterprise contemplating public or private cloud services. Cloud computing is a game changer, and it may also pay to Mr. Prateek Garg with know who Ms. Pallavi Kathuria could win or lose as IT services are decoupled from Mr. Vineet Kumar with specialized Mr. Shantanu Ghose hardware in specific locations. Lastly, the event was concluded by Mr. Gulshan Kharbanda at Gulshan Kharbanda, VP Global Cloud event Services, Progressive Infotech by sharing his experiences on "Road to My Cloud. He Explained how Cloud computing aims to improve business processes, accelerate innovation, and will increase the effectiveness of the workforce.

Prateek Garg MD & CEO

Progressive organized an Annual Business Meet for their Associates

Progressive organized an Annual Business Meet on 16th April 2011 at Stellar Gymkhana. In this meet the business plans for the year was planned and Consulting was given to our associated by professionals regarding business growth. The event was carried on 17th April 2011 followed by Various Game and enjoyable activities.

Category : Performance
Star Award

Reward & Recognition Award distribution of Jan-Feb-Mar'2011 quarter.

Team Player Client Satisfaction

Mr. Dependable

: Vikas Kumar Chaubey, ITC (Managed Services Organization - Noida) : Virender Singh, EIH (Managed Services Organization - Noida : Samarth Saxena, Dabur (Managed Services Organization Noida) : Rajeesh R , Gabriel (Managed Services Organization Bangalore) : Gaurav Dixit, Fidelity (Managed Services Organization Noida) : Babita Vijan, AFL (Managed Services Organization Mumbai) : Rohit Kumar, Headquarters (People Excellence Organization - Noida)

Rohit Kumar

Category : Motivation
: Sumit Awasthi, Avaya Global Connect (Managed Services Organization - Ahmedabad) : Sunil Kumar Vargotra, Headquarters (Managed Services Organization - Noida) : Surendra Kumar Rana, Market Rx (Managed Services Organization - Noida) : Arvind Sharma, Baring Equity (Managed Services Organization - Noida) : Urvashi Arora, ITC (Managed Services Organization Noida) : Ashish Kumar Gupta, Anand Corporate Services (Managed Services Organization - Noida) : Lalit Kumar, HNSI (Managed Services Organization - Noida) : Nimit Sharma, Market Rx (Managed Services Organization Noida), : Ravinder Kumar Verma, NTPC (Managed Services Organization - Noida)

Certificate of Appreciation

Category : Most Consistent

Sandeep Khanna
received Panel Award

: Seetharaman S., Field (Managed Services Organization Chennai) : Sanjay Kumar Singh, GAIL (Managed Services Organization Noida)

Category : Retention
Loyalty Award
Ratan Dargan

: It is being given to all those associates who have completed 2 to 13 years with Progressive in Quarter JFM 2011. Following are the categories under this: 36 Builders: Completion of 2-4 years with Progressive 1 8 Achievers: Completion of 5-9 years with Progressive 2 Masters: Completion of 10+ years with Progressive

received Loyalty Award for completeing 9 year

Leadership
The Way to Life

Leaders are born not made, but can be supported otherwise. It is the experiences, lessons taught throughout that makes a leader and polishes him. Once a leader, which is not the end of the road or the zenith point, the way is too hard uphill rather. As a good old quote says, a new generation leader takes people along with him to the zenith. When IQ, EQ, SQ, is being surpassed by so many other quotients, its not easy to excel in this competing world, where everyone seems to better than the other, yet, some people emerge, they rise amidst the crowd and create their own excellence. There are various schools of leadership, but those are updated as often as research findings conclude. What are the habits of leaders, or their traits, attitude, etc. becomes a source to study for several other followers and prospective leaders. But a true leader is unique in his manner, he discovers himself more than an average person would. So the hint lies in loving and knowing oneself. With the importance of personal branding on a rise, people find solace in reading some of the myriad of books available, for that matter, net is full of such advises, stories, case studies, etc. But will reading alone help? Right direction is obviously important, but at the end of the day, a good leader has his own intuitions, observation skills, and decision making abilities. Many academic programs, including MBA, promise to build the leader. But underlying those lucrative promises is hidden the clause that might still land up being bad, or unsuccessful. Again, management and leadership become associated as if they always coexisted happily and efffectively, but that is not the case. May be the nature of our system- education to profession, is not equipped enough to as many good leaders as the world needs today.

But a leader is not God, it is not necessary for a leader to know and do everything. Living invigorated lives, to motivate others, and take command of things to be done at the right moment defines a leader. This statement is of course, not exhaustive, but the definitions of leadership change so much, that everything seems to be coming under the umbrella of leadership. This makes the usability of leader and his requirements case to case basis. A nation leader is different from an Army leader, so is he from a spiritual leader. Self-reinvention is ever needed with the changing facets of lives, if a leader wants to be known forever, or at least his lifetime. We cannot make a leader out of our lives, not everyone can climb mountains, or swim across oceans. But an inspiring life and to set a benchmark for others to learn from would really be a thing everyone wishes from his life. Get on board, live your life.. and discover it yourself at times.

Sanchita Sharma
Executive-People Excellence

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