Genesis

Training Alternatives was formed in 1998 in a one room office that was part of Santhosh’s residence on the 7th floor of a Noida apartment complex. The initial workshops and interventions focused more on motivation and attitudinal change and the first set of workshops were for the Sales team of Nestle and second was a two day workshop for the senior management of LG Electronics where the “fire walk” was used for the first time.

The pet snake Santhosh used for belief and mindset change, the “fire walk” and the hypnosis demonstration are some of the things participants still remember about those workshops. It was in 2000, we helped Bharti Telesoft with their Vision and Mission workshops and a number of outbound workshops aiming at team effectiveness and leadership. Since then we have done workshops on Vision, Mission and Values, Leadership, Team Effectiveness, Creativity and Innovation, Managerial Effectiveness, Positive Attitude and Motivation, Managing Change, Coaching and Mentoring skills and Conflict Resolution.

With a deep understanding of System Behavior and expertise in Large System Interventions, Training Alternatives then moved on to become ODA (Organization Development Alternatives) focusing on Whole System Change and Transformation, using behavioral skills knowledge.

People who have been a part of this journey are many. Some of them whom we would like to mention are Sukhdeepak Malvai, who now runs a successful training company; Tathagat and Rohini, who moved on to start their own training outfit; Subhashis, who still works with us as a freelancer; Sanjay Pandey, who has his own training company and Seema Middya, who is an independent training professional now.