Bajaj Allianz Wins Dale Carnegie Global Leadership Award

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has won the prestigious Dale Carnegie Global Leadership Award 2018. While Infosys BPM received the first runner-up award, Cisco Systems bagged the second runner-up award. The Lalit, L&T Technology Services and Hindustan Petroleum Capital Limited were among the top six nominees shortlisted for the award.

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance got this award for leveraging imaginative learning to create a future-ready workforce. They made re-skilling and upskilling an exciting activity that engaged employees at every level, through state-of-the-art formats like gaming and comic strips.

It may be mentioned here that in 1985, Dale Carnegie & Associates came up with the idea of an award that celebrated organizations that were ahead of the pack when it came to human capital management. This year, Dale Carnegie of India held the fourth edition of their annual award program ‘Global Leadership Award’ and received over 40 outstanding applications from some of India’s most esteemed companies. The initiative succeeded in bringing together HR professionals of India’s foremost organizations, honoring them for their significant achievements, and celebrating the success of their people development.  

Mark Marone, director-research & thought leadership at Dale Carnegie & Associates, Jonathan Vehar, vice president, product at Dale Carnegie & Associates, Ercell Charles, vice president-training, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Sanjay Jha, executive director, Dale Carnegie of India and Pallavi Jha, chairperson and managing director, Dale Carnegie of India were amongst the distinguished jury members.

The event began with an introduction and welcome speech by Pallavi Jha, followed by the launch of the brand new Dale Carnegie Book on L&D Best Practices. The book articulates the vision of HR and business leaders who are at the cutting edge of innovation and disruption with regards to L&D initiatives being practiced within their organizations.

Immediately after the unveiling of the book, there was a fascinating panel discussion on Trust-Based Relationships: A Business Imperative, based on a new original whitepaper by Dale Carnegie & Associates. The original whitepaper explains why long-term customer loyalty is still driven by trusted relationships.

The panel comprised of industry stalwarts like Kashmira Mewawala, Head - Business Development & Chief Ethics Counselor, Tata Capital; Vikram Sakhuja, Group CEO Madison Media & OOH, Madison World; Ercell Charles, Vice President of Training, Dale Carnegie Training; Pallavi Jha - Chairperson & Managing Director, Dale Carnegie of India. Jha moderated the session.

Pallavi Jha, Chairperson & Managing Director, Dale Carnegie of India said that they are extremely happy to announce Bajaj Alliance General Insurance as the winner of this year’s Global Leadership Award, because the latter’s efforts toward people development are at the forefront of today’s L&D landscape. She said that the aim of the Global Leadership Award has always been to recognize the efforts put in by organizations toward the advancement of their most important stakeholders – the employees.

Ganesh Nair, Head of Learning & Development, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance said that one of the biggest initiatives they undertook this year was gamifying insurance so that everyone could understand and sell it. To do that, they built a gaming simulation that replicated various customer scenarios in terms of how to pitch the product, and that was one of the reasons they looked at learning in a different way. They’ve been building ‘transparency and trust’ into their learning and development practices for the past couple of years, and this award is a culmination of that journey. He would like to thank all 8000 employees back at their organization, as this is for each and every one of them, he said.

Axis Bank got the award last year in recognition of their advanced people development initiatives, which were backed by proven statistics, highlighted their cutting-edge efforts towards L&D with measurable business results. The first runner-up prize was presented to Capegemini, and IL&FS Financial Services won the second runner-up award.