Coach profile
Venkat Raju comes with over 25 years of experience in the industry. In his last job with British Telecom (BT) he led the GTM (Go To Market) initiatives in the Global Sourcing- Center of Excellence (COE), which is responsible for the overall management of the outsourced work, worth over $ 1 billion annually. In addition he has been running global sales across sectors with revenues in excess of $ 2 Billion annually.
Prior to BT, he held leadership positions in BPO/ITeS/IT companies, both in third party and captive environments, over a range of service offerings. He has experience in BPO, Call center, KPO, IMS and IT outsourcing, across multiple geographies and in verticals like Telecom, Retail, BFSI, Automotive, Technology and Utilities sectors.
Additionally, he brings his people, process and relationship management skills to the company with a strong quality focus.
Note: Mentoring, Coaching & Counseling support to CEOs /senior management personnel is conducted in confidential setting & kept confidential within & outside the client organizations.
typical session outline
The interventions are carried out with a view to enhance CEO’s capabilities
Venkat Raju, through the sessions underlined below will bring out leadership & winning behavior in CEOs
A typical assignment entails:
- Understanding the role requirements of the CEO in the given organization setting
- Understanding the CEO-skills set & mindset
- Gap analysis between the role requirements & CEO skills set/mindset
- Varied interventions to make the CEO come to terms with the role requirements & exhibit leadership & winning behavior.
INTERvention sessions
Mentoring
Counseling
Mentoring
CEO Mentoring focuses on CEO’s skills/mindset & the mentor facilitates thru intuition & analysis. Mentoring is power free with beneficial learning situation for those mentored.
The number of participants is limited to 1--2, flexible -time-frame interventions are carried on-site as well as offsite for 2-6 months or longer.
Coaching
Counseling
Mentoring
CEO Coaching focuses on CEO’s task-related performance, behavior & issues. Venkat Raju relies on analysis & intuition and strategically monitors & assesses the progress and gives advice for effectiveness and efficiency.
The number of participants is generally 3 to 5 involving 2-3 sessions of 2-4 hours each per month, carried usually on-site for 4-6 months.
Counseling
Counseling
Counseling
CEO Counseling session entails an interaction between CEO & Venkat Raju (1-on-1 basis) to discuss a specific issue.
The sessions are off-site & last 2-3 hours. (usually 4 sessions)