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About totus Founded by Ganesh Chella, totus consulting is a boutique strategic HR consulting firm that has been busy building organisations around great ideas since June 2000. Ganesh leverages his expertise in Organisation Development, Leader development, Human Resources and Executive Coaching as well as his deep insight into Business, Human and Organisation Behaviour to help his clients convert their great ideas into profitable businesses by building organisations which are effective and sustainable. In a world flooded with super specialist HR consulting firms that deal with one fragment of the organsiation's reality, totus has been able to establish a holistic approach to understanding and solving its clients problems. For one, totus does not offer off the shelf products and solutions. It insists on having the opportunity to dialogue, sense and diagnose issues and co-create solutions in partnership with its clients. totus chooses to work on mandates that are broad enough to help address its clients needs in a holistic and comprehensive manner. Good consulting is the result of quality conversations and such quality conversations call for the face time of experienced consultants. To this end, Ganesh or one of his senior colleagues lead and manage every single engagement. Good consulting is the result of sound thought about the issues we grapple with and totus is proud about its demonstrated commitment to this thought leadership process through its research and publication efforts. This has helped us challenge our own pet theories and offer solutions that are relevant and well researched. Through our research and industry perspectives, we ensure that each of our client interactions is an educative and insightful experience. We strive to make every meeting worth the while. Little wonder then that almost all our clients have come to us through referrals and positive word of mouth! So, what does totus mean? totus in Latin means complete! Since its inception totus has completed over 260 client engagements for over 135 clients across several industry verticals. totus consulting is headquartered in Chennai
Offerings Thanks to the breadth and depth of client engagements handled in the past 14 years, Ganesh and his colleagues are in a position to address a wide range of business needs and solve a wide range of organisational problems. totus consulting's work covers two broad areas: 1. End to end HR and Organisation Development support for high growth organisations. 2. Bespoke HR &OD support for a wide range of client organisations 1. End to end HR and Organisational development support for high growth organisations. totus consulting's core purpose of building organisations around great ideas is truly demonstrated in its end-to-end HR & OD practice. This practice is specifically designed to meet the needs of startups, high growth entrepreneurial businesses and other mid-sized organisations looking for help to manage their challenges of growth. Over the last 14 years totus has had the opportunity to work with a large number of such organisations in designing and implementing HR & Organisation Development solutions that have helped them manage their growth. In a typical end to end engagement we are retained to address our client's emerging needs and build organisational capabilities over a 12 24 month period. During this period we work closely with the Founder / CEO to address all aspects of his people and organisation agenda. Here is a quick look at some of the solutions we had developed for our clients in our end to end engagements. 1. Helping startups evolve HR and ER blue prints addressing things like people value proposition, ER strategies, Staffing strategies, policy formulation, setting up the internal HR function and so on.
2. Designing the right organisation based on business strategy and implementing the same. 3. Build the right leadership processes and leader capabilities. 4. Establishing work levels, pay grades and preparing the ground for internal and external parity. 5. Solving problems of poor job design to ensure clear accountability and performance focus. 6. Designing and implementing performance management systems including integration to pay and rewards. 7. Evolving career development road maps to address the needs of the organisation and the aspirations of employees. 8. Developing the HR organisation by defining the HR agenda, bringing on Board the right talent and mentoring them. 2. Bespoke HR & OD practice totus consulting has worked on over a hundred bespoke engagements to address some of it's client's unique and specific needs. This covers among other things the following specific practice areas: a. Leadership effectiveness b. Leader development c. Employee Relations d. Talent management
a. Leadership effectiveness Ganesh Chella uses his Organisation Development and change facilitation skills to help leaders enhance the quality of their leadership processes in specific areas like: a. Facilitating conversations around vision, common purpose and direction setting. b. Helping leaders achieve alignment by designing the right organisation and establishing clear accountabilities through robust planning and review processes. c. Helping leaders promote trust and collaboration within their leadership team to facilitate greater commitment. b. Leader Development Ganesh has worked with several organisations on a wide range of leader development interventions. These have helped him develop very deep insights and understanding about how leaders actually develop. Using these insights, he can help organisations build leaders through a combination of interventions like: Defining leadership capabilities Distilling and defining leadership capabilities keeping in mind the Organisation's unique DNA as well as its compelling business imperatives. Facilitating assessment and feedback and development planning Providing leaders with assessment data and following it up with effective development planning in the most sensitive and comprehensive manner. Facilitating developmental interventions Helping Organisations design and implement developmental interventions that are integrated with workplace realities. Offering executive coaching support Ganesh Chella offers executive coaching support to CEOs and CXOs to enhance performance and development.
c. Employee relations totus consulting offers strategic ER support to help organisations deal with the ever increasing turbulence in employer-employee relationships. With ER issues like fair employment practices, compliance to law, safety, discipline, productivity and so on gaining importance beyond manufacturing and affecting all service businesses, more and more organsiation's are seeing the need for strengthening their ER capabilities. Two of its specific services include: a. Strategic ER Audit ER issues and risks are seldom apparent. After brewing for a while, they tend to take dysfunctional turns. To help our clients assess their risk and exposure from an ER perspective and also gauge the state of health of their ER processes and practices totus can undertake a comprehensive and strategic ER audit covering areas such as strategic compliance, climate and the fairness and effectiveness of various workforce practices and processes. b. Employee Sensing support For organisations large and small, morale and climate are quite often impacted not so much by large issues like career development and learning opportunities but by every day moments of truth, basic hygiene issues and issues of fair treatment by the manager or by the organisation. This has been our recurrent experience in many of our engagements. totus has demonstrated competence in using the power of qualitative research to understand the ER climate in organisations. This can provide organisations with valuable insights to build people programs for improving employee morale and build a healthy ER climate. d. Talent management More and more Organisations are seeing the need for specific solutions to address their unique talent management needs. totus has worked with organisations to address a range of talent management needs covering areas like: 1. Preparing the ground for talent management 2. Adopting a segmented approach to talent management 3. Talent identification 4. Talent development 5. Governance
Clients we have worked with Accel Partners Aditya Birla Management Corporation Allsec Technologies APIDC Ventureast Apple Computers Areva T&D Ashok Leyland Asian Paints Aspire Systems Aurobindo pharma Aviva Offshore Services AXA Asia Pacific Holding Baring Private Equity Partners (India) and its portfolio companies Bharti AXA Blue Star BOC India Cairn Energy India Cetex Petrochemicals Chemplast Sanmar Choice Solutions Cholamandalam Distribution Services Club Mahindra Cosystems India Cybernet SlashSupport Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Danfoss Industries DHL DNV India Dovetail Furniture e4e ELGI Equipments Elite Group EMRI First Source Flint Group Fourth Dimension Technologies George Oakes G R Thangamaaligai G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital HCL Technologies Hexaware Technologies Hindustan Unilever HP BPO ICICI Prudential Indokem Overseas Indus Teqsite ING Vysya Bank Integra Software Services Intek Tapes isoft India ITC Jasmin Infotech Lakshmi Electrical Control Systems Lakshmi Machine Works Lakshmi Ring Travellers Lanxess India Larsen and Toubro - E&C Larsen and Toubro Infotech Lotte Confectionery Madura Garments Mafoi Management Consultants Maini Precision Products MaxRange Retail MeritTrac Metro Cash n Carry Mind Select Consultants More. Aditya Birla Retail Murugappa Group Network Solutions New Silk Route Advisors Nokia India
Clients we have worked with Oman Trading Opus Software Solutions Oracle India Perfint Healthcare Prasad EFX Prasad Media Corporation Prasad Productions Real Image Media Technologies Reliance Retail Rieter-LMW Machinery Royal Park RPG Cellular S2S Consultants Sadolin Paints Saksoft Sankara Eye Hospital Sankara Nethralaya Servion Global Solutions Shanthi Enterprises Shasun Drugs and Chemicals SICAL Sify Sree Ramcides Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. Stahl India STI Sanoh Sugal & Damani Enterprises (P) Limited Sundaram Medical Foundation Suzlon Energy Symrise India Tamil Nadu Road Development Corporation Tanishq Tata Communications (Formerly known as VSNL) Tata Management Training Centre Tata Steel Taylor Rubber Thinksoft Global Services Titan Industries Turbo Energy TVS Capital Funds Limited TVS Electronics Limited Veda Corporate Advisors Victory Electricals Viveks Wipro Technologies Witco YLG (part of the R&R Salons Private Limited)
about Ganesh Chella In a career spanning almost three decades, Ganesh has come to be respected and acknowledged for his contributions as a practitioner, consultant, coach and thought leader in the field of Organisation Development, Human Resources Management and Executive Coaching. Ganesh Chella is the founder of totus consulting, a strategic Human Resource Consulting firm that has addressed the Organisation Development and HR needs of over 135 clients across 260 client engagements. (www.totusconsulting.com). While he has worked with wide range of client organisation, he has worked with high growth entrepreneurial organisations to supports their needs of managing growth deserves special mention. He pioneered the use of executive coaching for leader development in India. In his role as co-founder & Vice Chairman, he has helped CFI (Coaching Foundation India Limited) become a highly respected education, accreditation, research and consulting organisation for Executive Coaching in India. (www.cfi.co.in). Ganesh is also a respected and sort after Executive Coach. Ganesh has also pioneered the concept of continuing professional development for HR practitioners in India through the launch of totus HR School. (www.totushrschool.com) His book Creating a Helping Organisation 5 engaging ways to promote employee performance growth and well being provides path breaking insights into the helping needs of Indian employees and the place of various helping relationships to address these needs. He is currently co-authoring a book that will be the first ever systematic effort to establish the efficacy of executive coaching in an Indian context through 25 Indian executive coaching cases. He has over 100 published articles to his credit.
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