The Cutting Edge

For Subhasis Das, Vice President, Sales Area – India Of Sandvik Mining And Rock Technology, The Key To India’s Engineering Industry Is Not Only Technology, But A Better Trained, United Workforce.

- Oliver Featherston

For Subhasis Das, Vice President, Sales Area – India of Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology, delivering on business targets is important – and in the past 65 years, the Swedish engineering giant has been doing exactly that within its Indian division. But as far as Subhasis is concerned, his most crucial tasks are training and supporting a skilled, passionate workforce.

“I’m happy to see the numbers are there,” he says. “That’s important, but I also see an organisation that’s educated and filled with good people. The core is good, and what we need to do is make our team even better. The business revenue is one part of it, but I personally take pride in seeing people develop, in terms of competency and leadership skills, in terms of growing in their roles.

We’re creating value for them. That’s what keeps me going. We invest a lot into our employees – in training and coaching them. We conduct a very extensive training program starting from the technical/product specific side to the mine academy, and also to the behavioural and leadership development business – this includes communication and emotional intelligence. Other areas of training are our specially designed programs on value selling, as well as our in-house designed program on competency development, which is based on a blended learning approach.”