Removing the Veil on the Bell Curve in Managing Performance

Our mandate - help the leadership team at IBS understand and crystallise learnings from the experience of other large technology organisations in both the product and services space like SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, CISCO, Accenture, and Deloitte who have implemented fundamental changes in performance and its management and recomend way forward for IBS. #performance #articulatechange #framework

Creating the People Management Framework

Lay the foundations to position Tresata India as an Employer of Choice . Client speak " You prepared us so well on the HR front that we haven't needed anything "

Harmonising Roles, Grades and Pay of its Executive Employees

Designing a Future Focussed Organisation Structure

A complex and challenging intervention , having at its core a smooth and seamless succession and growth plan , given that sixteen members of the family over three generations worked and lived together . An unique and enriching experience indeed over a two year period.

Assessing and Developing Behaviours

As a lead assessor , led the team of internal and external assessors in assessing and establising competency gaps and development plans for leadership competencies for around 100 middle and senior level executives at the bank.

Assessing and Developing Behaviours through Assessment Centres

"I have participated in one of the Developmental Centres that Sriram had conducted for my company.He facilitated the workshop with aplomb. Recommend him for any Coaching and facilitation work where he can add tremendous value " currently CMD BEML

Aligning the New Product Development Team for Growth

Foundations laid through a robust process designed and anchored by us has ensured that the new product development group (NPD)is well on its way to fulfiiling its mission of - " 20 percent of annual organisational revenues from New products created " We have been reengaged over the years for more advisory work .

Driving Execution Focus: Strategy Deployment, Cascade and Performance Measurement

We worked with the Chief People Officer and Investment Partners of True North ( Formerly India Value Fund Advisors) and the Managing Directors of the companies True North had invested in to ensure cascade of strategy and goals to all key leadership role holders and team members.

Driving Execution Focus: Strategy Deployment, Cascade and Performance Measurement

Client Speak " We have benefited from Sriram's and his teams deep expertise in Balanced Scorecard(BSC) implementation. Sriram comes across as a thorough professional with a drive to show results . He drove the entire BSC implementation programme with deep commitment which has lead to immense role clarity and have made the role holders realise the 'big rocks' for the role. Sriram's service is recommended highly for organizations grappling with similar issues and wanting to bring about transformational changes "

Design and institutionalise a Performance Measurement Framework

Client Speak " Sriram was instrumental in setting up the framework for us at Cloudnine as we had to manage growth and accountability without loosing focus on positive productivity improvement. His experience laid the foundation for us in our ability to scale our key human resource management and KRA crafting. I would recommend Sriram for his expertise "

Strategy Deployment , Cascade and Performance Management

The assignment was complex and challenging given the geographical spread ( within India and GCC ) , the uniqeness of the cultures in each of these locations and individual hospitals and the varied level of acceptance to the proposed changes . It covered 14 locations and 135 leaders.

Re-articulation of Vision, Mission and Core Values

Facilitated the leadership team of the Catalyst manufacturing major re-articulate their vision, mission and core values.

Facilitating Constructive Employee Relations

Creating a transition road-map that focused on transforming the relationship between the management and the employees (both teaching and non-teaching staff) and strengthening their engagement with the organization, and reducing their reliance on unions and its leaders

Strengthening Leadership Capabilities

Interventions at the board level to strengthen synergies among the board and the executive leadership and at the emerging leadership level to build leadership capabilities and competencies

Internalising the Process for Achieving & Delivering High Performance

The CEO who also happened to be a Co-founder wanted to bridge the gap between the organisations potential and actual performance . Our mandate was to develop a framework that will align key employees towards this goal.

Club Millionaire “A happy Team that Consistently Delivers Performance Beyond Committed Levels"

An advisory relationship that has supported the growth of the company for more than a decade during which the company has grown from an AUM of 25 Cr to 3000 Cr .

Define and Institutionalise the Desired Culture

A strong belief that culture systematically build and values embedded into the fabric of the organisation will either make or break an organisation. Always a delight to work with clients who believe in this from their core .

Aligning the Organisation for High Performance

Client Speak " We engaged with Sriram @Merisis to help formulate the linkage from Vision and Strategy to Profits for the co and Bonuses for the employees. His conceptual clarity and objectivity helped us achieve a framework that we continue to follow and which has been very well accepted by all the employees. It also speaks strongly about his personal value system that all the employees have implicit faith his judgement even though he happens to be my batch mate from XLRI. Highly recommend him "

Co-Creation of Vision , Mission and Growth Strategy

We were engaged to address the complexities that arose from passionate family members across two generations and ambitious professionals from high performance environments working together.

Articulating and Coding their Unique Culture

The belief that the key to their continued success and growth was the unique organisational culture they had created and the need to ensure it was understood and lived on a day in-day out basis by all employees current and prospective was the core of our mandate.

Creation of a Wealth Sharing Model - ESOP

Translating desire into reality :Enabled the founder of Srijan develop a model that drove entrepreneurship amongst all employees and resulted in wealth sharing within the organisation to promote a sense of ownership.

Moving Past the Bell Curve in Performance Management

Client Speak " Sriram helped us at Glenmark to move the needle forward on performance management. The focus was taking a core idea and then helping translate that into simple, actionable steps. This allowed for a similar understanding to be created across 50-60 champions, amplification of this understanding across thousands of employees, through continents and different talent streams and an execution process which delivered. He has the rare gift of not walking in with a preconceived notion and yet, his experience across many multiple clients allows him to build a very specific point of view that works in the context he’s in"

Development of Key Leadership Behaviours

The goal of our engagament was to help many of the key frontline leaders see through their limitations and false belief that " they had the requisite proficiency in all the desired competencies ( as per the organizational competency model ) " .

Enabling Individuals Deliver High Performance

We worked with 36 high performers in the organisation, at the level of Sr. Vice presidents and Vice presidents in charting out their development paths.

Enabling Managers “Internalise the People Agenda”

This project brought to fore our skills in converting an esoteric thought shared by the client, into a real time-bound action plan with tangible results that could be measured.

Partnering in Growth

An award winning client where we started with a specific set of functional deliverables in 2011, transformed to a 10 year relationship where we became valued as a trusted advisor to the leadership team on critical people challenges.