National Development Bank PLC was felicitated as the “Company with Great Managers” 2020 as ten individuals of the senior management of the bank won awards under various categories at the Great Manager Awards 2020 hosted by the Colombo Leadership Academy for Leadership Excellence.
The awards ceremony graced by Guest of Honour Krishan Balendra, Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC took place at the Bank’s Nawam Mawatha Headquarters.
NDB’s Managers were felicitated with ten awards under four categories – Driving Results and Execution, Aligning Organization Vision, Team Effectiveness and Collaboration as well as an exclusive recognition of one single award under the category Leadership Integrality.
Balasubramanium Aingaran, Brinthapan Selvanayakam and Damitha Silva were awarded the Great Manager award for Driving Results and Execution. Dilshan Lankathilaka was among the managers felicitated with the Great Manager for Aligning Organization Vision while Christopher Flemming, Sameera Senarath, Melody Wickramanayke, Chandima Alwis and Indika Ranaweera were awarded the Great Manager for Team Effectiveness and Collaboration.
NDB was also the only organization recognized with the Great Manager for Leadership Integrality & Holistic Approach awarded to Manique Bandara during 2020.
NDB Director/Group CEO Dimantha Seneviratne, commenting on the awards, said “Being recognized as the organisation with the highest number of great managers for two consecutive years, shows that NDB has laid a platform to develop these managers to become true leaders and has continued to do that through talent identification by giving them opportunities to showcase these talents.”
The Company with Great Manager award recognizes the organization for its credibility and best practices in nurturing great managers through a culture of high performance where career paths and road maps for growth are provided with great clarity, Alignment of learning & development to drive performance and execute strategy, a culture to challenge the status quo and instigate creativity and innovation and where more managers are nurtured through a well-structured programme that ensures sustainability.
‘The Companies with Great Managers and ‘The Great Managers Awards’ is an initiative taken towards identifying, assessing and recognizing organizations with ‘Great Managers’ benchmarking with the best of best in the arena.
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