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CAUTION: High Stress Levels Can Cause Higher Attrition Rates.

This `was' one warning note that big cooperates had learned to live with. But now they do not have to care about this warning anymore. With help coming in from success coaching institutes like RDI (Resource Development International), companies that saw attrition rates rocketing to about 40 per cent have now come down to a mere seven per cent. "It is no rocket science that we practice, we try to establish an interpersonal relation with the employee, by listening to their problems and guiding them through it," says Rajeev Gupta, Managing Director RDI.

RDI is a UK-based company that has more than 30 international centres. It was established in Delhi in 2000. RDI is a firm specialising in success coaching that helps individuals to self-examine themselves and set realistic goals and helps them to achieve it.

Holistic development

Asked as to what is unique about RDI as compared to others, he says "It's the holistic development of an individual that we strive for and not just the training and development and that's the area where we are unique." The information they get out of the interaction with the employee is then analysed and is generalised to make sure that the policy makers don't treat the employee as a mass but deal with each one's problem at an individual level. But we keep the information secret and don't even reveal it to the employer," maintains Gupta. an engineer who is also a Graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Ghaziabad. His team consists of management practitioners, behavioural scientists communication professionals who design training programmes that aims at bringing about attitudinal and behavioural changes.

Answering to the question as to what are the things that he keeps in mind while recruiting anyone? He says "the first thing that I keep in mind is the competency level that the organisation expects from the person to be recruited."

RDI also provides management training and is planning to open a management institute.

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