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Experienced Commercial Leadership Program, GE Power & Water “I knew a lot about sales, but GE's leadership program has taught me a lot about the science behind the art.”

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[My wife is a professional herself.]

[She understands this. ]

[She's very supportive as far as my career goes.]

[It's a mutual thing, so we can manage. ]

[We have a lot of family support in India, so we could manage our family, our kids. ]

[She's okay with it. ]

[As long as it's working for me she's happy with it. ]

[And she's busy too, so she's doing her thing.]

[She's got a lot of work on her plate already. ]

[I knew a lot about sales. ]

[That's what I thought. ]

[But the program has just given me a completely new perspective about ]

[the science behind the art.]

[All of us salesmen think that sales is an art]

[and it's the art of talking and convincing people. ]

[But GE and this ECLP program has taught me about]

[the science behind that art and I really appreciate it and value it and]

[I think I'm going to be a better sales guy when I get back.]

[At least I'll know what to do and what not to do.]

[Maximize my efforts, right.]

[That's how I look at it.]

[I'll be able to align and maximize myself better than what ]

[I was doing before I took up the program.]

[It's a big, inclusive group of people from all geographies, ]

[religions, creeds, people I would never ]

[have met otherwise in my life. ]

[And it maybe increases our tolerance towards people.]

[You have to talk to different people.]

[English is not necessarily the common language here. ]

[There are some people who converse well, people who don't. ]

[You start being tolerant towards them. ]

[You learn a lot of stuff. ]

[It's a melting pot for GE. ]

[People from diverse cultures, diverse ethnicities, it's amazing.]

[It's an amazing experience, if you ask me. ]

[This is the best of the best,]

[so you have competent people, you have a lot of pressure, but I]

[think this is a mature group. ]

[This is an experienced commercial leadership program. ]

[Everybody here knows why they are here,]

[they know what they are doing, so there is competition, which is good. ]

[You need to be competitive to bring out the best in you. ]

[But I think it's a great group of people, very inclusive, very diverse. ]

[It's all about performance. ]

[This is just the beginning. ]

[They are getting us ready for the big things]

[in the future. ]

[And for me, this is like a stepping stone, where]

[I'm going to use this opportunity, this platform, ]

[to maximize my GE experience in the future and deliver. ]