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Corporate
responsibility - Competence through training
by L. S. A. Wedarachchi The consensus among CEOs of high performing companies is that corporate responsibility of the companies is to help their employees to grow by developing their competence through training. The companies which have achieved their goals through best management practices have paid more emphasis on human resource development and career advancement programs. Gihan Talgodapitiya, a leading Sri Lankan corporate trainer, outlining his views on human resource development activities and training says that training must be linked to specific and accessible goals or else it would be a waste of time and money. Talgodapitiya based in Singapore, is a leading Sri Lankan Corporate Trainer with a track record of presenting 2,000 seminars during the last twenty years and retained by over three-hundred private sector enterprises including the Singapore Ministry of Defence, Land Transport Authority Singapore, Sri Lanka Army and Airforce, Airport and Aviation, Aitken Spence Group, Unilever Ceylon, Bank of Ceylon, John Keells and many other local and multinational enterprises in the region. He holds a masters in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and is a Doctoral candidate at the Mastricht School of Management in The Netherlands. With twenty years' experience in the field Talgodapitiya says that every in-house program presented by Gihan Talgodapitiya Associates at Elvitigala Mawatha, Narahenpita, was tied up with initiatives and projects that helped to ensure that the participants translate their learning into action. "We offer a wide range of customerised training solutions designed to meet the needs of senior and middle management executives and supervisory and other levels of staff. All our programs are presented in English, Sinhala and a mixed medium considering the levels of the audience. We use totally interactive training techniques including experimental exercise, management games, films and role plays. "We usually do not refer to management theories, instead we quote hundreds of real life examples, cases and personal initiatives which make our programs distinctively different. Our multi-disciplinary follow up team has extensive hands-on experience in facilitating clients to translate learning into action, he said. The GTA programs could be broadly classified into five areas, namely creativity-innovation and thinking, productivity development, customer care and service quality improvement, personality and performance enhancement and management development. Graduates under the age of twenty-eight and GCE (O/L) students who obtained good passes with five credits including English, Sinhala and Mathematics are eligible to follow the course at the Garment industry management Institute. CGIM which is also headed by Gihan has completed seventy-nine intake programs and eighty programs will commence next month. The trainees of the CGIM program will be able to obtain a comprehensive theoretical and practical exposure including ten weeks of in factory training, study areas of production management, work study, quality management, import-export procedures, merchandising, sewing floor management, pattern making and H. R. practices. Commending the development achieved by Singapore and China during the
last two decades, Talgodapitiya said one of the main facts behind the
success of those countries is the proper training and management of the
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