PIM develops John Keells managers

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The middle-management staff of the John Keells Hodings PLC., who perform key functions in their respective business sectors underwent an executive development program over 15 weeks, from May to August, 2011. As the participants represented different functional areas, the company envisaged that by making them follow a common development program, a cross-functional approach would be adopted by the participants.

In today’s rapidly changing competitive environment the organisations demand multi-disciplinary and cross-functional roles from their executives. Today’s executives must, therefore, be adept at moving quickly out of their comfort zones to build new capabilities as business leaders.

The PIM’s Executive Development Program (EDP), in fact, facilitated the participants to prepare themselves for fast-track development by making them move from the mastery of one area to broader multi-dimensional roles, so as to achieve high levels of performance. The program aimed at building specific knowledge and competencies to address immediate and longer-term challenges-such as innovations, strategy, leadership impact, building new businesses and profiting in competitive markets. Also to introduce relevant managerial tools and techniques to improve business strategy and performance, and to meet competitor-challenges and draw upon fresh perspectives from outside the company and industry in developing creative solutions through the application of best management practices adopted both locally and internationally. The modules comprised the following key aspects: achieving personal excellence, leadership development and leading teams, service marketing and building a quality customer service, productivity enhancement practices, costing, cost-analysis and cost management and creative decision-making and different thinking styles. another unique feature of the program was the adoption of the learning-diary which help internalise the learning process by the participants.