Many of you would have contemplated having a mentor for yourself at various stages of your career or even in personal life and many of you may have actually had one or a few. Most mentorship programs that don’t go through to completion are those where there is a fundamental mismatch between the Mentor and the Mentee. It is always important that, the Mentee chooses the Mentor, and not the other way around. And it is important that the Mentee sets expectations very clearly with the Mentor, right at the beginning and gain unequivocal acceptance and confidence before embarking on the program. This ensures that the relationship is a win-win and value-add for both.
When we speak of Personal Development and Mentorship, a few meanings cross our mind viz. Advice, Guidance, Trust, Role Model, Experience and more. A Mentor has multiple roles to play i.e. Teacher, Sponsor, Advisor, Agent, Role Model, Coach, and Confidante. A Mentor need not play all the roles in a particular Mentor-Mentee relationship. For example a Mentor could be Teacher for a particular Mentee and a Confidante for another Mentee. More often than not it is more than one role but not every role. Infact it is based on the role required, that a Mentee must choose the Mentor. The Mentee may be looking for a Master of the craft or a Champion of your cause or a Co-pilot or an Anchor. A good Mentor would always customize each role to match the characteristics and needs of the Mentee.
Sai Narain CDK
Founder & Chief Experience Officer
I have passed through a 30 year career, almost all of which has been in Banking where I have had the opportunity to work with teams ranging from a few people to upto 3000 people across multiple cultures in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe and across 3 International Brands. I have had a few mentors in my career and have mentored many individuals and teams. I have had many ups and downs myself, excellent bosses and bad bosses, excellent peers and toxic peers, great team members most often and difficult team members sometimes. I have developed the scars as I learnt the do’s and don’ts over time. I am a Practitioner. If you would like practical, real-life, real-time support and solution to your challenges and your path to progress, I would be happy to bring all my 3 decades of experience to you through this portal. In the process I will not restrict myself to soft skills but also support in career options and guidance, solving any technical and subject matter issues in areas where I have experience and expertise. These areas are listed below:
Retail & Wealth Franchise Leadership | Retail & Wealth Distribution | Digital and Mobile Banking | Contact Centers | Priority and Affluent Segment Banking | International & Cross Border banking | Alliances & Partnerships | Global Transformation Programs | Franchise Building Growth Strategies | Retail Bank Operations and Technology | | Customer Experience | People Experience | AML, CDD, Sanctions Implementation |Card Operations | Credit Underwriting | Cards Authorization and Settlement | Cards Retention and Loyalty Management | Cards Marketing & Data Sciences | Cards Product and Portfolio Management | Cards Merchant Acquisition | CRM Design/Implementation | Project Management |Employee Payroll Banking | Partnerships | Business Transformation & Optimisation | Change Management Programs |Strategic Business Development
Lastly, I am a Founder of a Startup that will go to market in August 2022 and our Management Services company HUVABUVA also incubates other Startups. Therefore I bring this entrepreneurial, agile, futuristic thinking into our conversations and also support with further tools and resources to support your growth including developing your business idea, helping build your business model, guidance on investors, support to setup your Startup and more.
Emotional Intelligence is the single most significant differentiator of Leadership and is important to baseline and set benchmarks for improvement where appropriate for Senior Execs and their Top teams. I am a EQ-i2.0 and EQ360 OKA certified consultant (www.oka-online.com). As part of the Personal Development Program, you will go through the EQ assessment, both Self-Assessment and a EQ 360 if you choose, followed by support through the Developmental actions.
We have limited seats as we would like to onboard a few candidates and really make them all succeed. Look forward to working with you.
