Siva is a senior trainer with vast experience in the learning and development arena. His key responsibility is to facilitate programs for various clients and help them improve their life skills and thereby be useful to themselves and the society.
A bright, fast thinking trainer, Siva is well accepted across all of the interventions he facilitates. Be it frontline, middle managers or senior managers, his calm and soothing approach makes his sessions lively and impactful. He is very creative and humorous and believes that there is always something to learn from the participants.
Siva has a strong and valuable experience in sales and sales training since he worked in sales for 25 years with Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Healthcare across the country and abroad. Siva has been facilitating for the last 18 years with extensive experience across varied segments of learning and development such as content development, training, facilitation and coaching. He has been instrumental in designing and implementing various initiatives across verticals like FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, IT, Banking, Automobile, Engineering, Consumer Durables, Agriculture, Telecommunication and colleges.
He brings various skills to the table, ranging from his selling skills through his sales background to his human touch from his experience and cultural background. Over the last few years, he has been influential in associating with organizations like Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Healthcare Ltd (sales), Centum Learning Ltd, NIS Sparta, Hero Mindmine, SGSA, Deeksha, where he was responsible for strategizing and implementing the best practices in Training and Development.
Siva has always strived to aid business development through behavior mapping, training need identification and consulting, instructional designing, facilitating, guiding, and coaching. He designed differentiators to add value to the entire customer service chain: direct, flexible, creative, capable and responsive throughout. This involved learning through outbound training methodology, consisting of activities and real-life scenarios. His training programmes involve high energy and enthusiasm which is not only influential but also contagious. His experiential training has been instrumental in connecting learning to the everyday situations they need to handle.
His key areas of expertise in Training are Sales, Service, Personality Development, Interpersonal, Team Effectiveness, Leadership, Strategic Orientation, on the job coaching for the sales team, Communication, Analytical, DISC, Johari Window, Team building, Conflict Management, Change Management and Presentation Skills. He has created his own program for sales called “Be a Winner”, which was well received by Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers. Over the last 10 years as a Training consultant he has trained around 2000 days for Organizations in India.
He has actively consulted and trained for HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, City Union Bank, Standard Chart Bank, Maruti, Hyundai, Hero, Yamaha, TVS, Eicher, Mahindra & Mahindra Tractors, Airtel, LG, Sony, Videocon, Glaxo Smithkline Consumer Healthcare Ltd, Anabond, Con Agra Foods, Shivasakthi Fertilizers, Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mafoi, Dominos, Café Coffee Day, Suzlon, Take Solutions, Capgemini, Godrej Boyce, Gati KWE, Kurlon and Engineering college students of around 15 colleges in Tamil Nadu and Andhra. Siva also delivers speech in public programs and motivational speech for college students and corporate employees.
Siva’s Professional Strengths are Selling skills, Territory management, Merchandising, Customer management, Product training, Managerial Skills, Behaviour programs, Lateral thinking, On the job coaching for sales team, New outlet opening, and Need Analysis.
Languages Known: English and Tamil
