1. Anupama A Sarkar
Mob No-9899967931
anupama.sarkar84@gmail.com
DOB: August 7, 1984
Professional summary
I am a certified British Council Master Trainer and Common European Framework (CEF)
assessor with over 12 years of experience in the fields of ITES, Healthcare, Telecom and finance.
I have worked in India and Overseas. My core competency areas have been – Training delivery
(Soft skills, Behavioral, Sales, Business Communication, Voice & Accent Language and UK
Culture trainings), Training Need Identification, Content Development, Curriculum designing,
Employee development, New hire Induction, Internal audit and compliance and Project
Management.
Educational Qualification
Bachelor of Arts from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce (Delhi University) in
Industrial relations and Personnel Management with Economics in 2005
Professional Qualifications and Certifications
British Council Certified Master Trainer in language, facilitation and instructional design
with Merit
British council Certified Language Trainer with merit.
Certified on the advanced Train the Trainer workshop conducted by Barclays Talent
Academy
British Council accredited assessor on Common European framework
MDI certified trainer on Managing self and others for higher performance
Six Sigma white belt certification
Certified Induction Facilitator by Barclays Talent Academy
Some of the key training programs delivered so far –
Advanced Train the trainer workshops for developing facilitation and content delivery
skills of new trainers
End to End Voice and Accent sensitization
English language enhancement (Spoken and Written)
Business communication
Presentation skills
Sales enhancement Skills
Selling for sure
To Sell or to up sell
Soft skills
Leadership skills
2. Customer service skills
Feedback, coaching and mentoring skills
Public speaking
Objection handling skills
High impact communication
Email writing skills
Report writing and commentary writing skills
Inter - personal skills
Conflict management
Handling sarcasm
E- conferencing skills and Meeting etiquette
Business continuity management and
Information Security
Employment history
1) Freelancer (June 2014 – till now) – Training and development
Conducting freelance training sessions for Barclays, Maruti Suzuki, Dale Carnegie, Tata
Consultancy Services, HCL, Wipro, VMART, SHELL and Tata SKY, SKF Bangalore,
Neucleus Software, Tata motors on various behavioral and Language driven topics such as –
Coaching skills
Presentation Skills
Role clarity and appraisals
Interview Skills
Email writing skills
Objection handling
Personality Development
Public Speaking,
Assertive communication
Motivational skill
Leadership skills
End to End to Communication and culture training including Accent neutralization,
building rapport strategies, Grammar and language enhancement
Induction workshops
I have been extensively involved in designing and customizing the content for all the
above training programs
Designing and developing the end to end Online New hire training content for PepsiCo,
some of the key topics covered are –
Role clarity
Planning
Coaching
Track and review
Induction
3. Conducted TNI and created the training center for VMART Pvt ltd
2) Barclays shared Services (March 2007 – June 2014)
Assistant Manager (secondment)– communications and culture
Work profile
Responsible for all the Training and Development activities in the team
Line Management – direct reporting of 5 trainers and 1 training coordinator and
responsible for their overall development
Manage the end to end induction program for new hires.
Estimation of demand & supply of human resources, hiring of resources as per
requirement.
Managing all the Audit and compliance related activities of the team
Conducting Training Need Identification
Vendor Management
Responsible for running Common European Framework Assessment centers for hiring
Accrediting the recruitment assessors and Internal language assessors on CEF
framework.
Content Development
Language Training
Voice & Accent Training
Soft skills Training
Continuous client interaction to create cordial working relationships thus enabling
smoother resolution of issues.
Developing Training plans as per the requirement of various departments.
Conduct Review and audit for trainers & Mentors.
High level understanding of the procedures and SLA defined by the client.
Ensuring availability of appropriate infrastructure for the projects assigned.
Reviewing the Knowledge Transfer plans, providing inputs to training and mentoring
progress.
Making recommendations to the client on process improvements and service standards.
Conducting Training Audits
Conducting intensive Train the Trainer for the entire training team on various soft skills
module.
Projects Handled
Six sigma project based on the success of the Transport No Call No Show project
Increase in Customer Satisfaction score through department focused trainings
End to end management of New Hire website
Middle to senior management training project to improve their people management skill.
Developed at team of accredited language assessor
4. 3. Tech Mahindra, Ltd. (Aug 2006- March 2007)
Sr. Trainer
Work profile
Conducting training on soft skills and behavioral module.
To act as main contact point and support customers/colleagues to resolve
internal/external escalations.
Conducting TNI/TNA for the operations team
Conduct Interviews for trainers and analysts
Maintain the training calendar and the reports
Content Development - Prepare modules, Questionnaire, and presentations
To Ensure Successful Deployment of Training
Managing client expectations, review work performed with the client, provide
suggestions to optimize the end-to-end process from training perspective.
Responsible for the documentation of training and OJT.
Content Development
4. Astron BPO, Leicester, U.K. (Nov 2005 - May 2006)
Customer Service Specialist & in-house trainer for a project with the Readers Digest.
Work profile
Imparted sessions on soft skills.
Behavioral Training
Designing modules for in house refresher trainings.
Handling subscribers of the Readers Digest all across the UK.
Sales accomplishments (target driven).
Maintaining track record for the customer’s account and MIS generation.
Maintaining customer satisfaction index.
5. GE Capitals India, Gurgaon (Jan 2004 - Aug - 2005)
Process Associate for project GE medical systems
Work profile
Handling customer grievances and act as a solution provider.
Appointing Engineer for an in house service at the site.
5. Guiding the engineers about the whereabouts of their job.
Placing services with the vendors like Kodak, Agfa etc whose CT scanners or x-rays are
installed by GE at various sites across USA.
Verification of customer information.
Following up with the engineer for delayed service at site.
Imparted various sessions for American accent.
Assisted in training and Quality
Anupama A Sarkar