Empowering the youth

The key idea behind this transformational initiative was to connect with SBU Heads / ExCo's to engage, energize and generate ideas / suggestions around key themes such as Management in Place and Business Vision, Volume & Cost, HSE, CSR and Community Relations, People Development, Technology & Digitalization, Innovation & Benchmarking, Quality, Security & Housekeeping etc. Through this structured initiative, we have covered all SBUs and have engaged with over 2000 executives. The businesses have acknowledged that the Vice Chairman's Engagement helped them in: (a) moving in the right direction; (b) each SBU has already started working on the key action points which emerged from the engagement; (c) since the workshops happened during the current COVID times it helped build employees morale and performance focus; (d) engagement with business partners helped in quality assessment.

We concluded the largest ever exercise of Leadership Succession Planning. The initiative aims to create a three-level succession slate for the COOs for key businesses in the Group. The objective was to identify COOs three level successors for each COO through IJP and handpicking high-quality leaders. This is a continuous process, as we continue to identify successors for other CXO positions such as deputy for CHRO and CFO positions for each business.

This initiative was launched to get a comprehensive assessment of the organisation's key leaders. It will help the leaders in identifying strengths and improvement areas for effective leadership and address the improvement areas through a comprehensive developmental plan. The key leaders from Group ManCom to ManCom and ExCo members of each business will undergo the same leadership development journey.