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Manford has partnered with us for over a year focused on organization development and training intervention. They have conducted over 20 workshops beginning with the top management, cascading down to the supervisory levels.
For the record the changes that they have been able to facilitate within the organization have resulted in significantly superior relationships and improvement in task orientation.
Manford as a team brings with them great insight of the human element in a business organization. Their knowledge of business processes seems to be definitely research based, showing a astute sense of business which resulted in great impact. We have noticed with amazement, Anand David and team shows intense commitment to transformation of people measurable through improved top and bottom lines. Their follow-up with our people and organization to ensure implementation is indeed exemplary. In fact, we believe that as an organization, Manford should be renamed as “Transformation Unlimited”!!
We hope that they will continue to deliver excellent results to a large number of employees in various organizations and help Corporate India as a whole show better results. Years from now, if India’s GDP continues to grow, Anand David and team can perhaps stake a claim of their contribution!
Wishing Manford team all the best in their future endeavors.
~Narayan B Gad
President – Mktg. & Org. Dev.
Nicholas Piramal
We at Onward Novell would like to place on record our recent partnering with
Manford where you delivered a four-day workshop for our senior
leadership team and managers. The amazing four day corporate breakthrough
workshop has now become very much part of the way we think and act both at
our work place and in our personal lives. Every single participant was unanimous
that the workshop touched them deeply and was something they have never
before experienced in their entire lives.
We are amazed at the depth of knowledge & competence Manford brings
to a truly world class workshop like this. Infact I have attended a number of
workshops all over the world but this four-day experience was truly outstanding.
Frankly I'd be glad to attend it all over again just to experience all those beautiful
emotions my colleagues and I experienced all of those 4 days.
We were extremely pleased at the research effort of Manford even before you
delivered the workshop. Your deep understanding of our industry and quick
grasp of our business and people issues impressed us tremendously. For me the most impressive and unique aspect about Manford was the amount of
pressure you put on yourselves by constantly promising to deliver above
expectations. Not many consultants I have come across both in India and
overseas do this.
Amongst the various workshops that my colleagues and I have attended in the
past, none have brought tangible business results like this one and that too so
very quickly.
We exceeded our Q3 numbers and are on track to meet our revised Q4 numbers
frozen during this amazing workshop!
I have to confess I was a bit skeptical when I first read your company vision" Transforming Nations " and also whether four days really can make a difference.
Having had the experience of attending a truly world class event I am in complete
agreement and absolutely buy in to your vision and our entire management team
now speak a different language!
Thank you for making a huge difference to each individual who had the privilege
to attend and to our company. All the very best in your quest of transforming the
world in your own very unique and special way.
~Anil Noronha
Chief Human Resources Officer
Indian Subcontinent
Onward Novell Software ( I ) Ltd.
We had asked Manford to help Talisma transform the leadership capability of not
only the senior management, but across the leads in all functions. The program
received outstanding ratings from 100% of the participants since most felt it
touched their lives extremely deeply - both personally and professionally. Many
realized, their true potential and how so far they were not living up to it, and in
some cases preventing others from achieving it. Amongst the feedback that I
received about the workshop, this stuck me as being most representative.
" In all my years have not undergone a workshop like yours. Has shown up my
blind spots, cleansed the muck built up over the years, validated or invalidated
my doubts, provided a vision of the possibilities that exists and a glimpse of
the road to tread. Truly Powerful! Thanks for all you have done for me."
I would therefore recommend the Breakthrough and Empowered leadership
workshop to any organization that wishes to increase leadership capability
across the organization that help drive superior performance and reduced
attrition in the organization.
~Anurag Srivastava,
HR Head, Talisma
Not being able to change quickly is shipwrecking many companies. Do people resist change? Or is it the way that change is managed that creates the barriers & roadblocks.
In 2002, Jetking was showing de-growth on account of various factors such as slow down in the economy, Gujarat situation; infighting amongst Franchisees. Top Management had become complacent & almost rudderless.
The question was how to put the company back on a fast growth track & get the support of Franchisees because 85% business was coming from them.
There came a fresh breath of the programme, aptly known as "Corporate Breakthrough" by Manford.
We met over four days at Lonavla to discuss our problems threadbare. The processes & interventions were amazing. The feedback given by participants to our Management team was so revealing & constructive that anybody could see what are our strengths & weakness were. Transformation came instantly which normally takes months & years to come by. Within the next 3 months, there was an excellent feedback mechanism between Franchisees and the management. Managers started working closely with Franchisees. This ultimately resulted in 20% growth in turnover of Jetking.
Thanking you
With regards
For Jetking Infotrain Ltd
~Suresh G. Bharwani
Chairman & M.D
I wish to thank you for having conducted the Transformational Leadership Programs for the Bank. I was impressed by your deft handling of the various groups on issues which were sensitive and had the potential of being counterproductive. You established a report with the participants in a short time which enabled them to open up and come up with the “reds” about their team members which was taken positively by the teams. Your high energy levels while conducting the sessions sends positive vibes to the participants which makes the learning process very interesting. The overall feedback from the participants has been very positive.
We plan to have two more sessions for the two teams that could not participate last your in October this year. I will revert with the proposed dates shortly.
~Anand Singh
Head-Human Resources
The World Bank
Exceptional behavior is a reality and is one of the key differentiators that determine whether organizations will win or lose in their pursuit of becoming a Great Company. To instill this philosophy in our belief system, transformation becomes a key factor. It is proven by behavioral scientists that a breakthrough experience must precede transformation. As an organization poised to make giant strides, eFunds has an important responsibility to transform our people FIRST in order to go from a Good to a Great Company.
As a result we have had multiple sessions of Corporate Breakthrough Labs at SDC and followed through with coaching clinics for key leaders. After a year of intense work done by Manford, our ‘people transformation’ partners, we have done a survey to measure progress made.
While I thank you whole-heartedly for your valuable, candid feedback, I would also like to take this opportunity to share some of the highlights of that survey. I am sure you will be thrilled as I was, in seeing clear, visible and positive signs of turnaround and transformation. I am confident we are now on the right track that the SDC will make a major Contribution to eFunds becoming a Great company.
Survey Highlights:
“There is a substantial shift in the scores on the Leadership Dimensions as seen by respondents above the Team Lead level.”
“Significant reduction in attrition from 35% to single digits.”
“Everyone thinks they are here for a common purpose.”
“If you are not delivering, you don’t have a place here – message has reached everyone including the top.”
“Engagement has grown. Commitment gone up. If I have to survive, I need to deliver.”
“Previously everything was based on experience (no. of years); there is now a shift in
recognition of performance.”
Now we realize from the above, results of the survey and subsequent analysis there is still a need for the transformation to cascade down further into our organization in our endeavor to build the company bottoms up, I am pleased to communicate that we are planning to launch activities around the action items to get wider coverage in the organization. I am sure to count on your support in making these investments on you effective and successful.
With best wishes
~Monte Harris
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