Canon India Successfully Concludes Fifth Year of 'Gurukul'

Canon India Pvt Ltd. has announced the successful completion of a two day residential program ‘Gurukul’ designed specially for its Channel partner’s sales team. Organized successfully for the last five years, this year’s theme was ‘Big Step Bigger Future” with a big focus on building strong relationship with channel partner’s  sales team and providing them with opportunities which will help them to grow beyond ordinance of regular expectations and possibilities.

Gurukul, an annual property of Canon is aimed at equipping sales team of channel partner’s across the country with technical skill sets, better sales tools, product training and is also focused at enhancing their soft skills. The two day session acts as a platform for the channel partner’s sales team to build relationship with Canon senior leadership team. This year the program was attended by authorized partners from across 11 states from western and southern belts of the country, covering sales team of 75 people across 53 channel partners from 34 cities.

Commenting on this, K Bhaskhar, Senior Director, OIS Division, Canon India said, “Gurukul is a platform which has gained strength by adding more and more participants year on year. This forum, over the years has witnessed many participants attending the event consecutively for 3 to 4 years, which itself is a proof of Channel Partners retention of their sales team.  We are primarily focusing on equipping the channel partner’s sales teams with better sales tools and product training and enhancing  their soft skills by encouraging collective working and bonding amongst each other in this two days annual event.

As a moral boosting activity, Gurukul brings to fore success stories and the hard work of channel partner’s sales team along with rewarding high achievers for outperforming their targets which would in return give more confidence to the other participants. This event is also targeted at making the sales teams feel a part of Canon at large and create a sense of mutual pride and confidence. The nuances of the programme aim towards further helping sales people to leverage their relationships with the end customers.”

This years’ program was spanned across two days and the first day focused on training sessions, interactive modules and discussion on contemporary trends in technology along with the year’s solution selling concept. The second day was more of a motivational platform with Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Senior V.P, Canon India and K Bhaskhar, Senior Director, OIS Division, Canon India, encouraging and motivating the Channel partner’s sales team with their thoughts. The training helped in aligning them with Canon’s current ideology and will help them create opportunities to perform more effectively in the coming times.