Sanjeev and Kumar join hands to empower ‘The Hands-On Corporate’

Veteran corporate trainers Sanjeev Jayaratnam and Kumar de Silva will combine forces once again to present their new product offering ‘The Hands-On Corporate’, a sequel to their previous year’s sell-out program ‘The Smart Professional’. 

This full-day motivational, skills development and corporate etiquette session will be held on Wednesday, 15 March at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo. It will help participants to learn, relearn and unlearn as they elevate their corporate brand equity to stand out from their peers. 

Interactive and practical applications enliven the sessions and help them communicate better and enhance their overall corporate personality as they too become a hands-on corporate.

Sanjeev and Kumar have conducted a large number of successful sessions, both independently and jointly, and once again share their experiences and tips about what it takes to constantly be under scrutiny in the public eye while at the same time being a source of inspiration to the people around them. 

“This program will immensely help participants build their professional image by learning key aspects that contribute to how they look, communicate with others, how they behave in society, how their personality comes across to others,” the duo stated. 

The day’s program covers a vast array of areas such as ‘Why do we get stressed and how do we reduce and eliminate it’; ‘General Corporate Etiquette - Business card etiquette’, ‘Successful networking in office’, ‘Smoking in company’, ‘Proper usage of toilets’, ‘Telephone etiquette’, ‘Managing elevators’, ‘Email etiquette’, ‘Handling difficult customers’, ‘Managing your Facebook image, etc.’; ‘How to work with your ‘boss’ for win-win outcomes’; ‘Building better relationships’; ‘Effective focusing on being informed’; ‘Commonly mispronounced English words’, ‘Getting rid of phoney accents’, ‘Self-introductions’, ‘Self-presentations’, ‘Introducing one to another, correct pronunciation of names, titles, salutations and handling smalltalk’; and ‘Working smarter and getting more done in the day’.

Sanjeev is a transformational coach, motivational speaker, lecturer, choral conductor, singer and actor, and has inspired over 10,000 people to unleash their true potential. Formerly Consulting Services Director for South Asia at IFS R&D Ltd., Services Head at Microsoft in Sri Lanka, he has also worked in senior management positions at Unilever and MIT.

Sanjeev lectures at the Moratuwa University and the Postgraduate Institute of Management (Sri Jayawardenepura University). He has conducted programs in Brunei, Malaysia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. He has led the Revelations, Methodist and Visakha Vidyalaya school choirs and the Revelations Academy to win and bring back the most number of international awards in choral music to Sri Lanka. He holds a CITP, MBA (Sri.J), CEng (UK), BSc (Hons) 1st Class (UK), MBCS (UK) and Dip.M (CIM).

Kumar counts 30-plus years of experience working and interacting with hundreds of people from different organisations across Sri Lanka’s multi-disciplined corporate sector. He now shares his experiences (gained both in Sri Lanka and France) and a wide range of soft skills, with Sri Lankan corporates to help them gain confidence, enhance their brand equity and social performance levels, and navigate their personal role in a corporate journey to success. 

An English Honours and French graduate of the University of Kelaniya, he is a Paris-trained television producer and presenter. Also a photographer and author, he was knighted by the Government of France as Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. A former journalist, multilingual Kumar is also a veteran Public Relations and Media Consultant and an award-winning television personality. 

Kumar and Sanjeev can be emailed at [email protected]. They can also be contacted on 0777 346 806 (Sanjeev) and 0777 379 973 (Kumar).