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MDG 2011 FEEDBACK REPORT FOR Romesh Gupta (M -07 to M -06 Transition, ESSAR Shipping)

Dear Romesh, Thank you for participating in the MDG process; an assessment process that is designed to evaluate your proficiency on the 12 Essar Anchor Competencies that are integral to your growth and development as a leader in Essar. We hope it was an interesting learning experience for you. As you know, the final outcome of the MDG process is a combination of (a) your on-the-job performance over 2/3 performance cycles (with a 50-60% weightage) and (b) your performance in the MDG assessment process (with a 40-50% weightage). This Feedback Report captures your performance in the MDG assessment process, providing feedback and developmental inputs for your growth within the Essar Group. As you go through the report, we are confident you will find sufficient data and plans to help guide you in your personal and professional development. We wish you the very best in your pursuit of Excellence! Best regards, Sujaya

KEY TO UNDERSTANDING & USING THIS REPORT

P P1 Planning &Organising P2 Result Orientation

E E1 Calculated Risk Taking E2 Initiative

N Ng1 Interpersonal Ability Ng2 Closure Skills

N Nu1 Developing Self / Others Nu2 Enhancing & Sustaining Performance

O O1 Quality Orientation O2 Commercial Acumen

C C1 Need Identification C2 Establishing Strategic Relationships

RATING SCALE DESCRIPTOR

Between 4 – 5 SD- Strongly displayed

Between 3 – 3.9 AD-Adequately displayed

Between 2 – 2.9 PD-Poorly displayed

Between 1 – 1.9 ND- Not displayed

PENNOC and the 12 Anchor Competencies INTERPRETING YOUR SCORE

3.73.8

3.3 3.33.6

3.83.8

3.3 3.33.5 3.5 3.5

0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

3.0

3.5

4.0

4.5

5.0

P1 P2AD AD

E1 E2AD AD

Ng1 Ng2AD AD

Nu1 Nu2AD AD

O1 O2AD AD

C1 C2AD AD

PENNOC SCORES

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MDG EXERCISE

EXERCISE-WISE FEEDBACK ON YOUR PERFORMANCE IN MDG 2011

Personal Interview (PI)

You have come across as a hardworking and sincere individual. Your commitment has also been demonstrated. However working on your leadership skills, showing greater assertiveness and enhanced clarity of thought while presenting are areas for improvement.

E-Fit

You strongly demonstrate the ability to prioritize activities, mobilize & leverage resources, stay focused & prepare for contingencies. You also possess leadership qualities like effective decision making & goal orientation to a high degree.

You demonstrate a high level of commitment & the ability to innovate, ingenious problem solving, recognize & capitalize on opportunities, handle ambiguity & take calculated risks when required.

You adequately demonstrate a facilitative, knowledge sharing, supportive & nurturing attitude. You show potential in the areas of delegation, coaching/mentoring, developing self & others & for creating an open healthy work environment.

Your scores indicate adequate closure & rapport building skills, a good grasp of the business environment, a win-win attitude & good interpersonal & communication skills. You are fairly approachable, sensitive, a good listener & possess adequate levels of emotional maturity

Your scores demonstrate quality orientation & commercial acumen to a very high degree. You are able to effectively leverage technology to deliver high quality, efficient products, services & work processes. You are usually meticulous, strategically aware with a sound understanding of the financial aspects of business

Your scores show a customer orientation with the ability to establish strategic relationships, relate well with business partners & be able to identify their needs. You firmly believe in using customer information to enhance products & services

Written Test NA

Group Discussion

You have been perceived to be a good listener, appreciating and supporting your colleagues. Your Project Management, Nurturing and Negotiating skills are also adequate. However, Operational Excellence and Entrepreneurial Orientation have emerged as areas for improvement.

Case Study Group

Discussion NA

Case Study Presentation

NA

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COMPETENCY COMPETENCY-WISE FEEDBACK ON YOUR PERFORMANCE

IN MDG 2011

P1 -Planning &

Organising

AD- You are perceived to generally plan and organize your work well. You also seem to adequately plan and

organize projects well by establishing course of action, plan for resources required, use them optimally and

build efficiency in the team. You prioritize activities reasonably well in order to achieve the goals set. You

seem to achieve moderate success in understanding the big picture and details of an assignment. You

adequately maintain focus, track progress, adhere to agreed milestones and manage time and material

well within the approved budgets.

P2 -Result orientation AD- You seem to take ownership of the task assigned to you and don’t give up till its completed most of the

time. You are a self-starter and actively achieve goals and objectives in line with the expectations set. You

assess situation in depth and generally take decisions if required. You usually persevere even when faced

with challenging tasks or setbacks. You seem to make efforts to originate action and strive for achieving the

target set for yourself and your team. You are focused on the bottom line results and are able to get the

work done most of the time effectively and deliver quality products and services in a timely manner.

E1 - Calculated risk

Taking

AD- You are seen to demonstrate calculated risk taking at an adequate level of proficiency. You are

generally able to do SWOT analysis for risks and identify original, imaginative and optimal solutions to the

problems faced. When faced with ambiguous and uncertain situations, you most of the times handle it

well.

E2 - Initiative AD- You demonstrate initiative taking abilities adequately. You take the initiative to act independently or

take charge of the situation as and when required. You are committed to achieving the objectives set and

sometimes also are willing to take up the challenges of achieving difficult targets . You frequently seek

opportunities to work on new assignments and projects.

Ng1 -Interpersonal ability AD- You seem to work harmoniously and efficiently with the people around you whether internal or

external most of the time. You seek to understand other peoples' needs and motives. You are easy to

approach and people feel a comfort in your presence. Most people find you pleasant, warm and gracious.

You listen adequately and try to put your own self into the shoes of the others in order to understand their

need and desire. You try to build a rapport with others and are moderately successful in doing so.

Ng2 -Closure skills AD- You are perceived to be moderately successful in reaching consensus and agreement when faced with

difficult situations. Depending on the need of the situation you are diplomatic and at times direct as well

and strive to arrive at a common ground. You have been reasonably successful in maintaining a healthy

relationship with parties involved in situations that required you to make tough decisions.

Nu1-Developing

self/others

AD- You have a satisfactory level of commitment towards developing self and the team, and this is an

improvement opportunity. You are aware of the developmental needs of your team members and provide

them with the requisite support. You do not hesitate in delegating challenging and stretching tasks,

coaching team members, holding frequent developmental discussions, providing constructive feedback and

providing challenging tasks as some of the initiatives that help your team members in their development.

You are perceived as someone who is approachable and constantly strives to improve self and team.

Nu2 -Enhancing and

sustaining Performance

AD- You seem to be able to get the best out of many of your people most of the time and also take the

initiative to prepare some of them to take up current and future responsibilities. You are perceived to be

reasonably open to empower your team members, seek their inputs and share ownership for performance

enhancements. You make your team members feel like they are part of the business and not merely hired

hands. You seem to be able to build this as one of your strengths by providing support to your team

members to develop the required skills and abilities. You generally create a climate of positivity that would

effectively push people to deliver their best.

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O 1 -Quality orientation

AD- You seem to adequately deliver products and services that meet the expectations of internal as well as

external customers. You tend to ensure adherence to processes for a high standard of quality in the

output. You generally explore the possibility of leveraging technology that would have positive impact on

the quality. You adequately ensure efficiently and effective work processes. You tend to encourage your

team further to come up with ideas and suggestions to improve work processes that would create a

learning environment in the organization.

O2 -Commercial acumen

AD- You adequately keep yourself aware with most of the market trends of your industry. You reasonably

understand your business, revenue and profitability model. You use such available information for decision

making that would be useful to the organization in long term with moderate success. You have a fair

understanding of how business works, current and future policies and practices, trends, technology and

information affecting your business and organization.

C1 - Need Identification AD- You seem to generally act with the customer in mind. You make adequate attempts to understand their

requirements both expressed and unexpressed. You take initiatives to reach out to your customers on a

regular basis to understand developments at their end to respond accordingly by making changes in your

offerings. You stay in touch with your customers short and long term needs and set realistic expectations

and ensure delivery as schedule. You generally meet the expectations and requirements of the customers.

C2 - Establishing

Strategic relationships

AD- You are seen to be generally good at building and maintaining strategic relationships with professionals

to partner with them for achieving the organizational business goals. You seem to take adequate initiatives

and do not hesitate to make use of most of the opportunities you come across to build professional

relationships. You are reasonably successful in leveraging these professional networks and relationships for

the benefit of the organization.