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Leadership and Talent Transformation

A changing world like ours demands more than just great talent. In the midst of rapid technological advancements impacting industries, how can you prepare your leaders, teams and organization to meet evolving talent needs?

With the aim of future-proofing your organization, we empower your talent with the right skills and mindset needed to thrive in today’s complex landscape.

Our services include:

  • In-depth leadership assessment
  • Succession planning
  • Leadership development programs and journeys
  • First-time & experienced manager programs
  • Women leadership development program
  • Coaching by ICF-accredited coaches
  • Customized programs for specific needs

Take the next step towards transforming your talent.

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Case Studies

Crafted successful leadership development journeys for top 30 leaders

For one of the largest Indian IT/ITES MNC

Overview

Our client is the BPS division of one of the largest Indian IT and ITES services multinationals.

The challenge

Against the backdrop of an ever-changing external environment, our client was undergoing a significant internal change; witnessing a generational shift in the leadership team. As a result, they wanted to develop its top leadership team to drive long-term success.

The solution

To assist our clients, we built and delivered a plan in four phases:

  •   Phase 1: Assessment
    We conducted an in-depth assessment of all leaders which involved the Hogan Assessment and 3600 feedback survey to gather inputs on their strengths, drivers, and blind spots from all possible directions
  •   Phase 2: De-brief and IDP creation
    We then de-briefed all participants on the survey results and guided them to create their IDPs, ensuring they follow a structured approach to their development journey
  •   Phase 3: Team workshop
    In the next phase, we conducted a day-long team workshop, based on ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’. The goal was to bring all participants together as one team
  •   Phase 4: Individual coaching
    Finally, each participant was taken through a 5-month coaching journey to iron out their blind spots and be more effective as leaders

Developed, engaged, and retained a team of high-performing women leaders

For the APAC team of a US-headquartered renewable energy startup

Overview

Our client is a renewable energy startup headquartered in the US. Over the last two years, it has been growing at a great pace across APAC. The client’s goal was to have a diverse team in the region but they had been facing challenges in retaining women leaders in a predominantly male-centric industry that typically lacks diversity.

The challenge

Our client wanted to ensure that the high-performing women leaders are in a position to overcome existing challenges and succeed as leaders. The desired impact of the program was to increase the engagement of these leaders and thus boost retention. The project was especially focused on APAC – specifically Australia, India, and the Philippines.

The solution

We took on the challenge by gaining a solid understanding of the present situation by engaging in one-on-one and focused group discussions with the selected leaders and their managers. Our findings led us to design an intervention that was conducted in two paths running simultaneously:

  •   Path 1: We conducted workshops to build leadership skills that address the challenges these leaders were facing.
    The workshops were divided into three modules:
    Module 1: Discovering Self
    Module 2: Leading with Power and Confidence
    Module 3: Building Positive Relationships
  •   The workshop used various methods, including Gallup Strengths Finder Assessment, and Improv theatre to enable our participants to understand themselves better and subsequently, charter a path for success.
  •   Path 2: Individual coaching to address individual challenges
    We took each of our participants through a journey of 5 individual coaching sessions where they were coached to address the unique challenges that they were facing

Built people manager capabilities in first-time people managers

For the GCC of a US-based digital platform

Overview

Our client is the India-based support center for one of the fastest-growing digital homeownership platforms in the U.S. Given the rapid growth of the India center, the company saw a huge number of people being shifted or hired laterally as people managers for the first time.

The challenge

Given the large number of first-time people managers, our client was looking at building strong people management capabilities and skills for these new managers.

The solution

We began by understanding the desired and current state of skills needed as per the organization's competency framework. Based on our findings, we identified gaps we needed to fill and created a 9-week journey which we further broke down as 3-hour long weekly sessions. The journey was crafted as per the following structure:

  •   Managing Self
    Week 1: Developing Emotional Intelligence
    Week 2: Effective Communication
    Week 3: Influencing Skills
    Week 4: Critical Thinking
    Week 5: Personal Branding
  •   Managing Others
    Week 6: Leading with Trust
    Week 7: Effective Delegation
    Week 8: Coaching Conversations
    Week 9: Giving Effective Feedback

Empowered a culture of trust and collaboration

For a listed Indian tech firm

Overview

Our client is a listed Indian firm that offers customers transformational solutions to automate the content supply chain and digitally mediate enterprise workflows to manage the business of content. In the recent past, the firm has grown both organically and inorganically leading to many internal shifts.

The challenge

Our client was experiencing trust and collaboration issues in its leadership team. They wanted to take the leadership team through a session to acknowledge, accept and address the issues being faced and work towards resolving them.

The solution

Through one-on-one sessions with the team, we familiarized ourselves with the on-ground challenges they were facing. We then proceeded to design an intervention that was conducted in two phases:

  •   Phase 1: Workshop to acknowledge, accept and address issues
    The workshop used various methods, including Improv theatre and Prisoner’s Dilemma, to help the participants understand and acknowledge the elephant in the room. Participants then collaborated to articulate the actions that they would take to address these challenges within the group
  •   Phase 2: Post-workshop coaching
    All participants were taken through 30 to 60-day group coaching sessions where they presented the status of the actions that they had signed off on at the end of Phase 1. They then discussed the challenges that they were still facing and were coached to arrive at concrete actions they can take to address them

Developed consulting skills in campus and lateral hires

For one of the largest consulting companies in the world

Overview

Our client is one of the largest and most recognized consulting companies in the world.

The challenge

As a globally recognized company, our client has always been on a high growth trajectory. To fulfill their continuous demand for talent, they hired talent from reputed institutions and across the industry. As a result, they also needed to ensure these new hires were appropriately trained.

The solution

To address this challenge, we built a continuous training program, that is running successfully for the last decade, for all campus and lateral hires across levels. It is a mandatory training program that has been calendarized. The modules covered in the 2-day in-person training involve a deep dive into:

  •   Structured thinking and problem solving
  •   Structured communication skills
  •   High impact presentations
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