• GIIS bags its 31st award, this time for Innovative Product/Service for Nine Gems - Multi Dimensional Identity of a Holistic Teaching Methodology) at the Golden Peacock Awards Ceremony on May 23, 2014 in Trivandrum, India

• Globally-reputed organisations honoured at the award ceremony. These included Tata Motors Ltd Customer Support, CVBU, Mumbai, Deutsche Bank AG (Private and Business Clients) for Banking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, ICICI Bank Ltd, Mumbai, Tech Mahindra Ltd (Business Services Group) and Nestle India Ltd to name a few.

Strengthening its international footprints with glowing recognitions, GIIS has been declared winner of Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award (GPIPSA) 2014 by the Institute of Directors. The Award was presented at a specially organised Golden Peacock Awards Ceremony on May 23, 2014 in Trivandrum, India in the presence of a distinguished gathering of business leaders, jurists, academics, environmentalists, economists, legislators and policy makers from varied industries and verticals during the 24th World Congress on Total Quality & Leadership.

(From L to R) The Award being presented by Lt Gen
J. S. Ahluwalia, PVSM (Retd), H E Smt. Sheila Dikshit,
Hon’ble Governor of Kerala and Mr S Chakraborty,
Chief Executive, Innovative Financial Advisors, to
Mr K Bodhankar and Mr BG Shenoy

A letter by the Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat conveys, “Global Indian International School Pte Ltd has been declared as the winner of Golden Peacock Innovative Product/ Service Award for the year 2014 (for Nine Gems - Multi Dimensional Identity of a Holistic Teaching Methodology) by the Awards Jury under the Chairmanship of Justice P N Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Co-Chairmanship of Justice (Dr) Arjit Pasayat, Chairman, Authority for Advance Ruling (Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax) & former judge, Supreme Court of India & Former Chairman, Competition Appellate Tribunal of India”.

GPIPSA is designed to encourage systemic innovation in organisations, in order to offer products and services required for the 21st century. The award was presented to Mr Kaustubh Bodhankar, Deputy CEO, GSF, and Mr B G Shenoy, Director, GCEE, by Her Excellency Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Hon’ble Governor of Kerala in the presence of Mr S. Chakraborty, Chief Executive, Innovative Financial Advisors and Lt Gen J S Ahluwalia, PVSM (Retd), President, Institute of Directors, Lt Gen Surinder Nath, PVSM, AVSM, (Retd), former Chairman, UPSC and Vice Chairman, Institute of Directors and Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas, Chairman of Adaptation Ltd, Policy Publications Ltd, Bryok Systems and Cotoco Ltd, UK.

Mr Kaustubh Bodhankar was applauded for his presentation at a plenary session on ‘The Role of Leadership in Driving Excellence & Sustainability’. His address outlined “how a leader must institutionalise excellence in his organisation by Giving Direction through formulating the Vision, Mission and Values; by stating High Performance Expectations of himself and the entire organization and by being a Role Model himself, so as to create a sustainable organization”. He communicated how Global Schools has devised multiple communication approaches for the different set of stakeholders and expounded upon the attributes of the organisation’s Culture Statement and how the leadership has linked it to the Core Values. “Leadership must respond to the continued changes in the industry dynamics and competitive landscape,” he stressed. “Leadership needs to continuously challenge the status quo and explore opportunities for innovation and creativity. For example at Global Schools, we have created Innovation Champions to promote Creativity amongst our teachers and students.”

In conclusion, he expressed, “At Global Schools we have won 31 international and national quality awards, a strong testimony for our leadership of having institutionalized excellence”.

The Golden Peacock Awards were initiated by Institute of Directors, an apex association of Directors, in 1991. The Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat receives over 1000 entries each year for various awards, from over 25 countries worldwide. 

The Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat invited applications for the following Institutional awards for the year 2014 from the corporate sector including SMEs, Public Private and Government Enterprises:

1. Golden Peacock National Quality Award (GPNQA)
2. Golden Peacock National Training Award (GPNTA)
3. Golden Peacock Innovative Product/ Service Award (GPIPSA)

Total 204 applications were shortlisted after critical scrutiny for final selection through a 3-tier Assessment Process from over 455 responses for the Annual Golden Peacock Award.

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