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Sankar Radhakrishnan

"Many Indian entrepreneurs face challenges when it comes to finding and attracting the right people, managing their performance and rewarding them."

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Jan. 8

TOTUS Consulting, the Chennai-based human resources (HR) consultancy, has unveiled a new initiative specially designed to meet the HR management needs of entrepreneurs.

Called the `People Project', this programme is a "unique group learning experience" that seeks to help entrepreneurs lay the foundation for developing the HR function in their organisation, says Mr Ganesh Chella, CEO, Totus Consulting. The first such programme will begin in February, he adds.

Many Indian entrepreneurs face challenges when it comes to finding and attracting the right people, managing their performance, rewarding them, institutionalising key HR processes and so on, says Mr Chella. The `People Project' is intended to help the professional entrepreneur come to grips with these issues, he adds. Entrepreneurs will get an opportunity to share their `people management' experiences with peers and will gain access to the company's proprietary HR tools and techniques, he points out.

Participation in the programme will enable an entrepreneur to appreciate the critical linkage between HR processes and business survival and success, he says. In addition, participants will get an idea of how their current beliefs and practices impact the organisation and its people processes and will also be able to familiarise themselves with key HR tools, techniques and processes, Mr Chella adds.

Each programme will have four distinct phases, spread over a three-month period, including a three-day learning laboratory, he says. During the preparatory phase participants will have to do some `home work' including preparation of a statement outlining the issues they wish to address during the course of the project and completion of a 360-degree leadership assessment tool. All those participating in the programme will then meet for a learning laboratory where they will receive technical inputs on key HR processes, he explains. These inputs will be customised to suit the requirements of each participant, he declares.

An eight-week implementation phase will follow the learning laboratory. During this period, participants are expected to start applying what they have learnt, says Mr Chella. And while the project will formally end with a follow-up workshop, the process of learning will continue, he adds.

While the programme is open to entrepreneurs from any industry, the size of each project is being restricted to 12 participants, says Mr Chella. This, he says, is to maintain the intensity and quality of the interaction and the learning.

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