Implementing Excellence At Each Level

As newer work styles/skills emerge with unprecedented & unpredictable speed of innovation, the need to expand business footprint to leverage emerging global growth opportunities, newer work roles/geographies is now more important than ever before. Passionate employees are the soul of any progressive organization & scaling up innate intrapreneurship motivation with greater self-pride is key to our CHRO’s L &D focus on building enterprise-wide, long term ‘skills-success-sustainability to leverage ‘new normal opportunities intelligently. This is made possible with his trusted 4Es approach Engage with compassion, Empower with equality of opportunities, Enable with inclusivity & custom support, and Elevate with newfound self-pride & work-zeal translating into a more engaged, productive & new-normal agile workforce.

Hence, it doesn’t come as a surprise for Shrikant Lonikar, CHRO, Pernord Ricard, India to have been awarded as CHRO Leader in L&D at BW HR L&D Excellence Summit and Awards 2021, on the 31st of March. The management claims that Lonikar has upgraded the organizational L&D approach with the future of business & work innovation insights mapped to regular upskilling initiatives based on employees appraisal reports. This has grown employee work passion consistently with better work culture and acceptance of PRI performance with purpose work culture & values. Being a trendsetting talent management pioneer their CHRO is forever raising the bar in talent readiness, work-competence and people empowerment. PRI-HR delivers all this and more under his stewardship through a unique mix of business analytics, process innovations, people-management transformations and an unstinted †̃talent-necessity-supremacy focus.

Lonikar has also actively helped elevate PRI L&D team performance, by devising its people sensitive & business savvy LISTEN approach. This unique L.I.S.T.E.N approach comprises of Learn, Innovate, Support, Transform, Energize and (using) Next-Gen tools to proactively address emerging business challenges and evolving people-issues with equal finesse. 

Further, Lonikar himself states that, “under my HR & organization transformation stewardship, HR department has thrived with a humane albeit targeted transformation approach. For over 35 years, I have practiced and perfected market proven people & organizational transformation successes by aligning people attitude & aptitude with emerging & inescapable new normal norms In both good and bad times our CHRO has succeeded by enabling enterprise-wide talent resurrection with diverse departmental heads & their process champions becoming HR team committed people intrapreneurship messiahs."