Second Runner-Up | HRKatha Rising Star Leadership Award 2025 Long before Aaron Trevor Dsouza had a job title in HR, he had a habit that hinted at where he might eventually end up. He was curious about how people made…
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When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new capability is required. The instinctive organisational response is to identify a programme, put people through it and hope performance improves. But what if the problem…
When Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer at Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about capability building, he does not begin with training programmes. He begins with culture. “If it is not consciously anchored,” he says, invoking a Rajiv Gandhi quote on corruption to make his point,…