Organized by domestic consortium of companies, the ‘Senior Leaders Program' is a platform for the Senior Managers of the respective companies wherein they learn from eminent faculty from around the world and through interacting with each other. This interface thus equips them with multiple business perspectives to meet the global business challenges.
The program comprised of two modules, scheduled for six days each after a gap of about 3 months for the participants to put in to practice the learning of the module.
Global Leaders Program
Global Leaders Program is organized by an International consortium of companies. The target audience of the program is Senior Executives who are on the threshold of taking up strategic roles. The focus of this program is to enhance the global perspective, develop appropriate frameworks or maps for crafting global growth strategies, explore current global organizational capability to achieve business objectives, reflect on individual leadership roles and contribution of the consortium companies in a broader context, identify common challenges and opportunities across the member companies and their various businesses, staff functions and operating practices.
The goal of the program is three-fold
Develop an analysis framework for understanding complex
systems like global markets and organizations.
Apply the analysis towards a strategy building process to create
breakthrough performance.
Examine effective leadership strategies to support global
operational excellence.
Leadership Lifecycle Programs
We have taken a strategic long-term view, to strengthen leadership capabilities within the Group. In partnership with the Centre for Creative Leadership, we conduct a 3-tiered program for leadership development. This program is specially customized for the Mahindra Group to meet its needs, purpose, culture and values, and ensure consistency across leadership levels to achieve coherent long-term impacts.
At the Leadership Lifecycle Program, international faculty offer expert knowledge on leadership and behaviours.
Three tiered program
Early Leaders
Emerging Leaders
Senior Leaders
Harvard Manage Mentor
Harvard Manage Mentor is a group-wide initiative offered in partnership
with Harvard Business Publishing. Under this program, various e-modules are designed that can help new as well as experienced managers to address a spectrum of challenges. These modules are practical and engaging resources that foster management skills. Being interactive in nature, it helps garner attentive participation. The participants can also practice new skills with ease and privately assess personal understanding of the concepts presented.
Other unique features of Harvard Manage Mentor are various tools &
models coupled in each module, HBR cases, resources and videos of
Harvard Professors.
Unnti - Hr Upskilling Program
The HR Upskilling program ‘Unnati’ was initiated in FY 2008-09 with an objective to sharpen the skill sets of HR management professionals and to keep up with the global trends in HR management. Encouraged by the success of this program organized last year, we rolled out a second batch of employees, training them in different aspects and activities of HR, enhancing their knowledge and competence.
The program is designed to provide exposure of the fundamentals of Human Resource Management from a strategic perspective for the middle and senior managers. The emphasis of the program is on application of concepts and principles to help HR functionaries to improve their contribution to the business thus adding value.
The program includes seven modules and is spread over a period of one year.
Pragati - F&A Upskilling Program
At Mahindra, we realize that the function of Finance and Accounts (F&A) plays a vital role in today's fast-changing and complex business environment. Towards this, we instituted ‘F&A Pragati', an initiative that focused on providing specific functional training for Finance and Accounts professionals over and above the generic behavioral programs.
The aim is to not only upskill employees but also create a second tier of talent within the function, encourage job rotation and enrichment, address attrition issues and reduce the ratio of professionals vis-à-vis graduates.
Aligning Hr to Business Strategy
Held under the aegis of Professor Wayne Brockbank, the program was instituted to usher in the next rung of HR Leadership in the organization. It inculcated a strategic need for the integration and alignment of organizational HR strategy with business strategy.
Global Program of Management Development
Conducted in association with the University of Michigan , the Global Program of Management Development (GPMD) has been specifically designed to develop the perspective and skills which are imperative to excel in the global market. It aims to enhance the knowledge and management skills among senior management executives and particularly valuable for those who are involved in globalizing their business.
The focus areas of the program comprises of creating global strategies, organizing for outsourcing, developing global products, as well as managing joint ventures and alliances.
The program enables participants to
Create more powerful business and corporate strategies
Understand foundational and state-of-the-art practices of major business functional areas such as finance, marketing, information systems and
human resource management.
Adapt and leverage global and local best practices and move quickly
to “Next Practices”
Develop integrated action plans that move your company to the next
level of success
In the reporting year, the illustrious panel of faculty of the program included various international experts such as Late Prof. C. K. Prahalad, Prof. Wayne Brockbank and Prof. Gautam Ahuja.
