Vandana has close to 20 years of work experience in the field of Human Resources predominantly in the software industry out of which 11 years plus has been freelancing in HR, Training & Development of the entry, middle and senior levels for several corporate and educational institutions, having trained over 800 personnel till now and ongoing.
Having started her career with Mafoi Management Consultants as a Recruiter quickly allowed her to learn and implement the other various aspects of HR that included Corporate Induction, Learning & development, Training & Employee engagement, Talent management, Performance Appraisals, Manpower planning, Employee welfare, Grievance handling, Communication and involvement, Management information systems, General HR systems, Policy handling, Statutory requirements and foreign desk. Her functional expertise broadened to working for other corporate software giants such as Kumaran Systems and Barco Software Ltd as well.
Freelancing empowered Vandana to work with clients from various backgrounds thereby giving her an opportunity to broaden her horizons. Her client list ranges from the construction, pharmaceutical, ITES, IT, BPO, Analytics, Insurance and education sectors. She was in the front end to deliver right from freshers to senior management level.
As a senior training consultant with Mindskillz she has been primarily responsible for providing customized end-to-end soft skills training and providing development solutions through interactive and experiential learning workshops. She has a deep sense of research orientation, which helps in developing content, and need / gap analysis. Also, to created design documents, develop content and deliver the modules. She is also involved in creating audio – visual training tools for clients. Client interaction has given her the opportunity to develop a business model, which begins with Competency mapping at the start and concludes with module delivery, which is the process of making a sales pitch to the client, costing until the cheque collection has enriched her marketing abilities as well.
Vandana’s core competent training areas include Delivery Management, People Management, Customer Management, Performance Coaching, Effective & Assertive Communication, Team Building, Professional Skills, Time and Stress Management, Design thinking, Conflict Management, Collaboration, Creative Thinking, Retail & Sales training, Etiquette training, Business Communication, Cross cultural training and Outbound Training.
Her professional strengths are strong business acumen, organization abilities, empathy, understanding the needs of the client, and to deliver accordingly. She is primarily responsible for the entire Content development and deployment of the content to the target audience. She has the ability to handle huge teams, multi task and adhere to stringent deadlines for the deliverables.
Some of the clients that she has trained for include Accenture, Cognizant, TCS, Multivision, Dotcom Info way, L & G InfoTech, Titan Company Ltd, Quess Corp, HDFC Ergo, Pepsi India Ltd, Apollo hospitals, Park Sheraton and Taj group of hotels, ICIS software, Groupon, Airtel, Landmark constructions.
Sales Training and workshops on the same, role-plays, on the job situations related to sales and product selling for clients such as Herbal life, Avon, Oriflame and Insurance selling for ING Vysa Life and their products is also being handled by her.
Vandana has also worked with Story trails India Pvt Ltd as a Storyteller for the trails…this involved dealing with expats, foreign and Indian tourists, accompanying and orienting them about our south Indian and north Indian varied culture, food, customs, festivals, attire, etc.
Currently Vandana, along with the corporate wellness provider– Physically, suggests, organizes, assimilates, coordinates and conducts several wellness events and workshops such as health awareness camps, self-defense workshops, nutrition and fitness products, counselling services related to health and general well-being, and such wellness related issues to clients such as FedEx, Bank of America, Polaris, Citibank and many more.
Languages known Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi and German.
