CII meet urges for a better banking structure
By James Paul | 14 Sep 2002
Inaugurating a two-day training programme on Redefining Business Paradigm in the Era of Globalisation How to Become a Successful banker, Honing Marketing, Communication, Objection Handling and Negotiation Skills, Customised for Banks and Financial Institutions, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry here (CII), he said the four main challenges faced by the banking sector are the emergence of the buyers market, integration of technology, increased competition and high growth in customer expectation.
These challenges have necessitated the training and retraining of banking personnel in honing skills in attitudinal traits of agility and creating positive attitude in improving quality of customer service. He further said the new opportunities have created new pressures in the banking sector and banks are now focusing on recruitments of specialised personnel for effective product marketing for sustainable growth.
He said CII customised training programme in the vital areas of honing, marketing, communication, objection handling and negotiation will enable one to edge out competition. The banking personnel should be harbingers of change in transforming the traditional function of lending money to that of selling money.
T R Ramakrishnan, international consultant and trainer, said bankers in India have been sitting on the chair of the arrogant giver all these years. But times have changed and they are no more lenders but receivers of customers. The key takeaways of the two-day training programme will be creating empathy towards customers and focus on attitudinal traits of banking personnel.
CII chairperson (Kerala) Pamela Anna Mathew said along with the paradigm shift, multi-skilling and effective communication is key to sustainable growth.
