I want to record the path-breaking results obtained at L&T Komatsu (LTK) as a fall-out of the "Synergy & Team Building" excercise conducted by you through the year 2007. The senior management team have given a good feed back & have been working as better team players in various crossfunctional team activities at LTK. Our learnings from your interesting and new approach of introspection has added life to our thinking process.
Thanking you once again.
M.N.Prasad
Head- Technical Services
L&T-Komatsu Limited, Bangalore
"Krishna Kumar or KK as he is fondly known , has been associated with us as a Facilitator for many of our Sr Management at Oracle India for the past three years.
Having been involved with Business Leaders and Senior Managers, I know he makes the session very business focused and value adding to the organization and participants too.
I have personally attended many sessions by him and found the sessions insightful, interesting and humorous too. KK to me is a great facilitator and coach at the Top/Senior Management level."
Dr Gopal P Mahapatra Director Organization & Talent Development, Oracle India Pvt Ltd.
"I have known Krishna Kumar for over 15 years during which he has been my immediate boss/supervisor, an informal mentor/guide and a good friend. Our association began in late 1992 when I was transfered in from Europe to his team in Coats Viyella, Middle East. We worked togeather in a start up business for 2 years before I moved on to another assignment with Coats and then pursued a career in Consumer Marketing and subsequently Financial Services.
Krishna Kumar has exceptional commercial acumen combined with an excellent read of people and situations. Thanks to his networking skills he forges deep, lifelong relationships that outlive professional interactions. My greatest learning from working with Krishna Kumar has been in terms of negotiation skills. I learnt various nuances of sizing up people and situations from Krishna Kumar which is vital to any marketing pitch or negotiation. Krishna Kumar also taught me few basic aspects of managing and motivating people which has stood me in good stead through my career. I firmly believe that Krishna Kumar's soft management skills and unquestioned professional and personal integrity make him an excellent executive coach and consultant."
Sandeep Ghosh Managing Director Head, India -Global Commercial Bank
"It was my privilege to work with Krishna Kumar on the Directorial Board of my previous company "Connexxions Business Support Services", Though his role was that of an executive coach in the company, Krishna Kumar or KK as he is affectionately called, was also a mentor to me as I tried to scale up from a middle level manager to a manager empowered to take corporate-level decisions. His ability to quickly grasp the swings and roundabouts of a corporate dilemma and coach me towards conclusions instead of providing them as his contribution to the decision ensured that I used my abilities instead of using him as a shortcut.
Krishna Kumar's ability to understand human nature and individual human strengths and frailties makes him an ideal coach as he never tries to impose his will on you. At the end of the day, if one feels that KK's role in one's development as a manager and an individual has been negligible, that is something that this genial yet tough teacher had intended. For, he makes it clear in the first instance itself that his role is only to help you find a solution and never to thrust it upon you or even suggest it.
Though it was my misfortune that I got to work with him for just a year in my previous company, I managed to turn my misfortune around by shifting closer to him in Bangalore (from Mumbai), a decision that now helps me partake in several thought-provoking discussions and e-mail trails with my mentor and coach. His understanding of management philosophies combined with his sporting side made KK the best person to turn to in times of organizational duress. "
RAJNARAYAN C.S Managing Editor, MSN, India.
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