Reliance Industries has been declared the OVERALL CHAMPION CORPORATE TEAM in the CORPORATE GAMES 2012 conducted at Goregaon Sports complex between 6th to 21st Oct,2012 where 55 Corporates and 700 athletes participated.
RIL got this trophy in its second year of participation itself. We had secured 4th place last year with a small contingent.
This trophy is given based on the points received in various events. In the 10 -year history of this tournament, “Reliance Industries” has become the first corporate team to cross 2000+ points.
ament award” – Sreenivas Vemulapalli , the captain of Reliance team.
Mr.Vemulapalli also took the intiative of co-ordinating internally to get budget approvals, team selections, nominations, conducting practice matches and assembling a WINNING RELIANCE team.
Now, how did the team deliver this result?
We at Reliance believe that Talent is hidden & not absent!!
Tus, in all earnestness we started to scout for the talent…
1) Inclusive participation – this involved co-ordinating with various sites viz Jamnagar, Baroda, Nagothane apart from RCP. The best of the talent available needed to be chosen. Result - A contingent of 50+ athletes from RIL!!
2) Women Power – This was a foregone conclusion.We wanted the women from our company to participate in various sports disciplines because this would allow us to remain competitive in the tournament.This year, we had a total of 5 women particpiants against 0 last year which still is a low figure. We need to get more women to participate.
3) Going beyond Badminton – We wanted to get into other disciplines where we not only participated but made a WINNING impact.This involved identifying the RIGHT talent and choosing the RIGHT mix and combination of athletes
4) Organising Qualification matches – WE started the process of identifying the athletes by conducting the qualification matches for various disciplines and also shortlisting the athletes based on their past achievements. This allowed us to create a pool of accomplished athletes across various disciplines and thus increased our chances of finishing on the podium.
It is very heartening to submit to you that what started as Passion for Sports is now becoming a CULTURE - the impact of this is already seen in the Intra –Site RCP sports meet being conducted from 28/10/12 to 4/11/2012
All this would not have been possible without the support of the management(in recognising the need for participation, passing the budget), the respective managers of the athletes (without their approval, the athletes could not have made it )
A big THANK YOU to all
Congratulations to all the athletes who WON and who Participated – both of these MADE IT HAPPEN
