Shobana Sharma
Director, operations.
- Shobana Sharma comes with 25 years of comprehensive human resource experience including talent acquisition, talent management and talent transformation.
- Effective communicator with excellent stakeholder management skills
Functional Experience
- Design skill development programs for fresher and institutions to create a talent pool of industry ready work force.
- Major role in:
- Curriculum design and development
- Execution of programs at the corporate and educational institutions.
- Putting in place a framework for different levels of up skilling.
- Involved creation & management of training solutions to support different levels of employees, Trainers and Coaches
- Recruit and Manage Learning and Development professionals for a L&OD team
- Streamline operations in Chennai, and align the business objectives
to client training needs. - Identify & Analyze the needs of trainers at all levels and align trainers for the training programs to business objectives . Created the HR policy for two S&M enterprises
- As Learning and Development Manager in Aircel was involved in creation & management of training solutions to support recruitment up to middle level management of employees with, Trainers and Coaches reporting in
- Initially Managed Learning and Development for 3 locations Chennai, ROTN, Kerala
- Streamlined training in Chennai, ROTN, Kerala Aircel circles and aligned training to the business objectives.
- Assigned the task of capability building in Karnataka circle and manage the training based on organizational needs for the circle.
- Successfully rolled out capability building structure for the sales and distribution team.
- Identified & Analyzed the training needs of the circle for all levels and aligned training programs to business objectives
- Next Gen Managers(Frontline& Up line), In partnership with Harvard Business school
- Managers as Coach and trainers ,Negotiation skills, Influencing Success, Consultative selling skills
- Happy at work& Happy at life, Creative problem solving skills
- Cross functional training on up skilling mangers and regional managers on all aspects of business with a focus on finance for non finance managers (IFRS certification conducted by Ernst &Young)
- In Scope international was assigned the backward integration project
- Increasing the employability skills of the graduates of the Madras University
- This was from the resourcing perspective .Developed curriculum and content for the Madras University which has introduced soft skills as a mandatory course for all the students from this year 2008
- Conducted TTT (Train the Trainers) workshop at the colleges affiliated to the University under the consortium for CII
- Conducted Master TT trainer sessions for the trainers identified by CII to take the project forward at the districts in the state of Tamilnadu.
- Showcased this project at the Vice Chancellors meet in April 2008 and the project is being replicated in other Universities of the State.
- Corporate Social Responsibility Champion for the Education Initiative.
- As a Member of the HCL BPO HR Central Recruitment Team handled the complete recruitment & training needs of the retail center in Chennai
- Recruited and trained the entry level Agents for the retail processes in center 1
- Stream Lined voice process and implemented a quality monitoring system across the retail center.
- Initiated behavioral training for the employees who have more than three months of service
- Prepared the training requirements for COPC and IBMS Certifications,
- Developed content for “Team leaders and mentors development program”
- Certified by the British council for Teaching Knowledge test Under the ESOL by the Cambridge University
- Awarded the certificate of Excellence for completing a quality certification project (IBMS) Integrated Business management system
- As Training manager (Capri Mgmt Services and Consultants)
- She took up the assignment as HR consultant in the consultancy for a period of one year
- Designed the recruitment & Training plans for the Two Outbound Call centers in Kochi and Pondicherry
- Recruited and Trained five teams at Kochi and two teams at Pondicherry for the U.S, U.K and Australian campaigns
Certificates in Human Resources
- Certificate of Excellence for enhancement of training in the Center of learning.
Sutherland Global Services 2003 - Certified by the British council for Teaching Knowledge test Module
under the University of Cambridge curriculum 2005 - Certified L&D Manager from the Carlton Institute Of management 2006
- Certified Recruitment Analyst from the Carlton institute of Management. 2007
- Certified as a Master trainer for Manager as Coach and Trainer (Aircel).2009
- Certified Master trainer for conducting T T Ts by the Aircel Academy. 2010
- Certified Master TTT L2&3 for Apple products training (Aircel.) 2010
- CPP (APAC) certified MBTI assessor and distributor certified in Nov 2012.