Value Added Programmes
The Value Added Programs at Essae Chandran Institute represent a comprehensive suite of specialized services designed to provide sustained organizational development and transformation. These programs go beyond traditional training to offer customized solutions that address specific organizational challenges and opportunities. Through Post Cluster Engagement Programs, organizations can maintain continuous connection with institute anchors, ensuring implementation support and guidance long after their initial engagement ends.
The suite includes Advisory Services that provide expert consultation for strategic planning, operational excellence, and organizational growth. These services are complemented by carefully structured Calendar Programs that offer regular skill enhancement and knowledge updating opportunities throughout the year. This systematic approach ensures that organizations can access professional development resources when they need them most, while maintaining flexibility in engagement formats and duration.
After successfully completing our Clusters on Wealth From Waste, Finance, People Practices, 360-Degree Marketing, and Business Planning, our Post Cluster Engagement program ensures that the learnings gained by organizations remain sustainable and continue to deliver value over the long term. This initiative is designed to help businesses implement actionable insights, address evolving challenges, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. By participating in the Post Cluster Engagement, organizations can bridge the gap between learning and execution, creating a roadmap for sustainable growth and success.
Benefits of Post Cluster Engagement:
- Sustainability of Learnings
Helps organizations integrate cluster learnings into their core processes, ensuring long-term impact.
- Customized Follow-ups
Provides tailored solutions to address specific challenges faced by individual organizations post-cluster.
- Knowledge Reinforcement
Reinforces best practices and frameworks learned during the cluster through workshops, discussions, and reviews.
- Enhanced ROI
Ensures the investments made in the clusters yield tangible, measurable outcomes.
- Proactive Problem-Solving
Addresses unforeseen challenges or gaps in implementation to maintain momentum and achieve desired outcomes.
- Future-Ready Business Practices
Prepares organizations to adapt to changing market conditions and leverage opportunities effectively
The Advisory Services program offers specialized consultation designed to address complex organizational challenges and unlock growth potential. Aligned with the principle that "Knowledge is power only when shared," this service delivers tailored solutions to foster sustainable business success.
Key Organizational Limitations:
Based on focused group discussions with 40 CEOs, the following factors prevent organizations from scaling up and meeting their aspirations:
- CEO Style: 28%
- HR Practices: 16%
- Strategy: 10%
- Execution: 10%
- Financial: 8%
- Direct Reports: 8%
- Customer: 4%
- Others: 16%
Context of Emerging Enterprises
- The Board usually consists of Father/Mother, Son and Co., Family Members & Partners
- The Governance Standards are weak. Only Board Minutes are updated with no formal review.
- No Regular Independent assessment of the business
- No trusted advisor to seek counsel. Business Proposals (investments / initiatives) may not be tested for its validity.
- Poor accountability of the Promoter / Managing Director
ECI Offers:
- 14 Members empanelled to offer advisory services
- Company can choose from these empanelled members
- Initial one-year contract with subsequent renewal based on need and benefit
- Minimum requirement of two members from the panel
What to Expect from Board of Advisors:
- Understanding complete business context and expectations
- Establishing interaction and review framework
- Physical meetings twice a quarter for half a day
- Available for inputs and conversation on need basis
- Specific short-duration activities based on mutual agreement
What Board of Advisors Will Not Do
- Not formally join the board
- Provide inputs only - decisions and outcomes remain with you
- Not responsible for business, statutory, and fiduciary outcomes
- Will not conduct training or consultancy
- Not bound to provide business connections
The Process
- Decide to have an advisory board
- Identify areas needing Focus/Improvement
- Prepare company briefing
- Identify potential advisors from panel
- ECI-facilitated meeting with potential advisors
- Mutual agreement between Client and Advisor
- Sign the Contract
Expected Benefits
- Structure and Systems at the Top for Business Review
- Outside-in view of business
- Clarity of thought process for senior management
- Higher accountability for promoter/Managing Director
- Better business results with proper utilization of advisory services
The Calendar Programmes offer a year-round schedule of training sessions aimed at addressing diverse organizational needs. These initiatives provide consistent opportunities for skill enhancement, professional growth, and leadership development.
Core Offerings:
- Skill Development Modules
- Technical training
- Soft skills development
- Leadership enhancement
- Knowledge Update Sessions
- Industry trends
- Best practices
- Innovation insights
Key Areas of Focus:
- Professional development
- Skill enhancement
- Knowledge updating
- Industry awareness
- Leadership capabilities
- Performance improvement
- Team building
- Process optimization
- Best practice adoption
Program Benefits:
- Regular learning opportunities
- Structured development path
- Network building
- Skill enhancement
- Knowledge updating
- Performance improvement
- Career growth
- Professional development
- Industry insights
About the Program :
These programmes are structured to provide professionals across all organizational levels with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive in an evolving business environment. Whether focusing on technical mastery, leadership growth, or industry updates, the Calendar Programmes offer a flexible, structured learning path that aligns with career aspirations and organizational objectives.
Participants will:
- Gain insights into industry advancements
- Enhance leadership and technical skills
- Develop strategic and operational competencies
- Engage in continuous learning and professional networking
About Calendar Programmes :
About the Program :
Aim
"Life is one indivisible whole" - Mahatma Gandhi.
The course on 'Quality of Life', aims at understanding the different personalities of life and integrating the personalities. It enables one to enrich and empower oneself to enhance the quality of life.
Course Outcome
On successful completion of the course, the participant will be in a position to discover oneself, the direction that one would like to take for leading a meaningful and self-fulfilling life.
Course objective:
- Bringing Courage
- Self Confidence
- Self Belief
- Skill enhancement
- Positivity
- Analysing Inner Potential
- Enhancing Self Esteem
Course content:
- Why Know yourself?
- What is Quality of Life ?
- Integration of personalities and balancing of roles
- Time management matrix
- Human Relations Principles
- Empowerment from inside-out
- The personal mission statement
- 6 steps - personal mission statement
- 6 steps - implementation of personal mission statement
- Knowing - Doing gap
Participant Profile: Supervisors, Entry and Middle level Executives
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 2 Days
Timing: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 5,900/- Inclusive of all taxes
About the Program :
Aim
The Course aims to strengthen the HR functional capabilities and to enable the Executives & Leaders to manage Human Capital effectively. Two differentiators for an enterprise to SCALE-UP are the leadership ability and the ability to manage its Human capital. To facilitate appropriate learning and awareness in the area of Human Capital Management (HCM), the certification program has been designed and developed to bring the practitioner's perspective to HCM practice.
Course Outcome
After undergoing this program, the participants will be able to -
- Gain insights about the HR domain in a holistic manner
- Participants will be able to strengthen the HR team
- Gain confidence to take-up additional responsibilities in HR
- Understand practitioner's perspective and tips for implementing best HR practices
Course content:
- Human Capital Planning
- Talent Acquisition
- Learning & Development
- Employee Development
- Managing Diversity, Employee Engagement, Welfare, Motivation
Participant Profile: Managers and Executives (HR)
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 1 session/ Month Over 12 Months
Timing: 9:30 am to 12.30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 30,000/- Inclusive of all taxes
About the Program :
Aim
The course aims to enable participants to understand and apply the fundamental concepts, practices and tools in creating, sharing and applying knowledge to enhance organizational productivity ,quality and growth.
Course Outcome
On Successful Completion of this Program, the Organizations can learn to increase the customer's satisfaction. Using Productivity and quality management system techniques the Organizations can achieve regular improvement in all the work-flow processes. This program will also help to learn about reducing defects, delays and costs.
Course content:
- 7 QC Tools
- Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Quality Control Circles
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Kaizen
- Mistake Proofing (Poka-Yoke)
- KANBAN Techniques
Participant Profile: Managers, Executives & Supervisors (From Production and Quality)
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 2 days / Month Over 7 Months
Timing: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 14,160/- Inclusive of all taxes
About the Program :
Aim
To equip participants with advanced knowledge and tools in productivity and quality management, enabling them to optimize processes, reduce costs, and implement world-class practices for sustained operational excellence.
Course Outcome
Develop expertise in Total Quality Management (TQM) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) to enhance process reliability and efficiency. Understand and apply Quality Cost and Activity-Based Costing methods for better financial decision-making. Gain insights into the Toyota Production System to drive lean practices and continuous improvement.
Course content:
- 7 QC Tools
- Quality Cost
- TQM
- Statistical Process Control
- Activity Based Costing
- Toyota Production System
Participant Profile: Managers and Assistant Managers (Quality and Production)
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 2 days / Month Over 7 Months
Timing: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 21,240/- Inclusive of all taxes
About the Program :
Aim
The aim of the program is to make the Participants to Excel their Microsoft Excel Skills. MS Excel is an important tool to analyse the Data for Decision Making.
Course Outcome
On Successful completion of this program, the participants will be able to store, organize, and update data easier. The participants can also perform calculations on data using built-in functions and formulas.
Course content:
- Cell Reference
- Mathematical Functions
- String Functions
- Conditional Formatting
- Basic Charts
- Date Functions & Workbook protection
Participant Profile: Supervisors, Executives and Managers
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 1 Session /Week - 4 Sessions
Timing: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 7,080/- Inclusive of all taxes
About the Program :
Aim
The course on 'Quality of Life', aims at understanding the different personalities of life and integrating the personalities. It enables one to enrich and empower oneself to enhance the quality of life.
Course Outcome
On successful completion of the course, the participant will be in a position to discover oneself, the direction that one would like to take for leading a meaningful and self-fulfilling life.
Course content:
- IF Functions
- Lookup Functions
- Arrays
- Pivot
- Tables and Pivot Charts
- Create and manage
- Dropdown list
- Dynamic list and charts
- What IF Analysis & Solver
- Time Functions
- Consolidating Multiple Workbooks & Macro Recording
Participant Profile: Supervisors, Executives and Managers
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 1 Session /Week- 10 Sessions
Timing: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 11,800/- Inclusive of all taxes
About the Program :
Aim
The course on 'Quality of Life', aims at understanding the different personalities of life and integrating the personalities. It enables one to enrich and empower oneself to enhance the quality of life.
Course Outcome
On successful completion of the course, the participant will be in a position to discover oneself, the direction that one would like to take for leading a meaningful and self-fulfilling life.
Course content:
- Understanding Communication-coventional way
- Speech Purpose & Listening
- Audience Analysis
- Magic of Story Telling & Art of Evaluation
- Impromptu Speaking & PSI
- Bringing credibility to your speeches
- Structured speeches
- Building credible speeches
Participant Profile: Managers and Assistant Managers (Quality and Production)
Venue: Essae Chandran Institute, Bangalore
Program Plan: 1 Session/Week- 8 Sessions
Timing: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Investment (Per Participant): Rs. 5,900/-Rs. 30,000/- Inclusive of all taxes
Our Organizational Development (OD) Program is a comprehensive, long-term initiative designed to enhance organizational performance by aligning structure, strategy, and people. The intervention begins with Building a Shared Vision—a critical step where every employee is engaged to understand the organization's larger vision and their individual roles in achieving it. This ensures that all members of the organization are aligned and motivated to work towards common goals.
Building a Shared Vision
The foundation of our OD program lies in creating a unified understanding of the organization’s mission,values and aspirations. By fostering this alignment:
- Employees gain clarity about the organization's strategic direction.
- Individuals see how their contributions directly impact the larger vision.
- Teams become more cohesive and purpose-driven.
Why Organizational Development Matters
OD programs focus on continuous improvement by addressing core areas such as leadership effectiveness, cultural alignment, and operational efficiency. By aligning internal systems and processes with the organization’s goals, we help businesses stay competitive and adaptable in a rapidly changing environment.
Key Benefits of Our Organizational Development Program
- Enhanced Employee Alignment
Ensures that all employees clearly understand and are committed to the organization’s vision, fostering a sense of purpose and ownership.
- Improved Collaboration
Breaks down silos and encourages cross-functional teamwork, leading to more cohesive efforts across departments.
- Stronger Leadership
Develops leaders who can drive change, communicate the vision effectively, and inspire their teams to achieve strategic goals.
- Sustainable Growth
Focuses on long-term improvements, creating a robust framework for continuous development and adaptability.
- Enhanced Organizational Culture
Builds a culture of transparency, inclusivity, and shared responsibility, making the workplace more engaging and fulfilling for employees.
- Better Decision-Making
Aligning structure and strategy enables data-driven decisions that support the organization’s long-term success.
The Breakfast Boosters Program combines professional development with networking opportunities. This program is designed to boost knowledge and connections before the workday begins, offering a unique way to start the day with valuable insights and relationships.
Core Experience Offerings:
- Knowledge Boost Sessions
- Expert-led discussions
- Industry trend updates
- Best practice sharing
- Networking Platform
- Professional connections
- Experience sharing
- Collaborative learning
Key Areas of Focus:
- Current business trends
- Industry insights
- Leadership perspectives
- Success stories
- Best practices
- Innovation updates
- Problem-solving approaches
- Professional networking
- Peer learning
Program Benefits:
- Early morning productivity
- Expert knowledge sharing
- Professional networking
- Industry insights
- Practical solutions
- Time-efficient learning
- Peer group interaction
- Business relationship building
- Continuous development
This unique morning program helps professionals start their day with fresh insights and valuable connections, maximizing the productive morning hours for learning and development. The informal breakfast setting creates an ideal environment for open discussion and relationship building.
Participants will:
- Engage in expert-led discussions on business trends and leadership
- Expand their network through professional connections
- Gain industry insights and best practices
- Collaborate with peers to solve common business challenges
- Build lasting business relationships