Allianz sweeps all categories at Great Manager Awards 2020

Left: The team from Allianz Insurance Lanka who were present at the award ceremony. Right: Allianz Insurance Lanka CEO Gany Subramaniam receiving the coveted award, ‘A Company with Great Managers’ from Colombo Leadership Academy Director Riaz Hassen 

Allianz Insurance Lanka Ltd. was recently recognised as ‘A Company with Great Managers’ at the ‘Great Managers Awards 2020’ by the Colombo Leadership Academy (CLA) for Leadership Excellence, in strategic partnership with People Business. 

In addition to winning the main award, the company emerged as the winner in five key categories, namely, Driving Results and Execution Excellence, Aligning Organisational Vision, Coaching Others for Growth, Team Effectiveness and Collaboration, and Leadership Integrality and Holistic Approach. 

Malaka Mihindukulasuriya was awarded an exclusive recognition in the category of Leadership Integrity and Holistic Approach, this award is unique as it is not awarded annually. Thimira Manamendra and Nirosha Perera were awarded the Great Manager for Driving Results and Execution Excellence while Pasindu Malinga and Kumarika Amarasighe were awarded the Great Manager for Aligning Organisational Vision. In the category of Coaching Others for Growth, S. Sivanarenthiran was awarded the Great Manager and Y Kumareswaran was awarded the Great Manager for Team Effectiveness and Collaboration. 

During the culture scan conducted, Allianz demonstrated an ecosystem of nurturing great managers, where the clarity of career paths, succession planning, leadership accessibility, learning and development, challenging the status quo, instigating creativity and innovation and high engagement were observed to be built into the organisation’s DNA and culture. The company has placed its people strategy on par with its business strategy, thus providing a strong foundation to its employer brand promise.

The CLA Great Manager Awards measures five spectrums of managerial and leadership quotients through the well-researched battery of competencies using the DACTI – 5X Model such as Drive Results & Execution, Alignment to drive organisational goals, Coaching and mentoring people, Team effectiveness and cross functional collaboration and Integrality.

Commenting on the award, Allianz Insurance Lanka Ltd. CEO/Director Gany Subramaniam said: “We are pleased to be recognised as a company with great managers at the Great Manager Awards – Sri Lanka yet again. This is a further validation of the calibre of our world-class team who go the extra mile to ensure that the needs of our customers are met consistently. Their hard work and determination has been instrumental in helping us emerge as one of the strongest players in this market.”

Allianz Insurance Lanka Chief Human Resource Officer Ishani Senaweera said: “We have continuously demonstrated valuing its employees through well-structured coaching, learning and development initiatives along with employee recognition programs. We are very happy to see these initiatives being recognized and appreciated through these awards.” 

The senior leadership team members and other employees of Allianz Insurance were present at the momentous occasion where their peers were conferred the coveted CLA Great Managers title.