CUMI underwent a transition in training- From Training to Learning.
This was facilitated through

• Job rotation
• Team work to resolve issues - in the form of TQM initiatives
• Sharing breakthroughs and learnings
• Flexibility / Multiskilling
• SHE initiatives
• Career Planning
• Development of Change Agents

This has enabled in creating a team of involved, responsive and innovative people.

From 2000 to 2002, CUMI switched over from the “Target on Training Mandays” concept to Training for Business requirement approach.

“Employee Learning through Instructor Led Learning to Business Driven on the job training resulting in job enrichment.”

The employee learning plans are:

• Business Driven
• Personalised
• On the job / job specific

As per the HR strategy, the input for the training need identification is obtained from :

• Business Requirements
• Skill matrix / Competency requirements
• Quality System Procedure-requirements
• Environment System Procedure requirements
• Performance Appraisal.

The needs identified are consolidated in the form of a training calendar. The program deliverables are met by finding the suitable internal or external faculty.

Individual Learning:

• Fast trackers are trained through B’School and ACME.
• Business Leadership Programme is a programme developed by Murugappa Group in strategic alliance with IIM, Bangalore. The potential managers below the age of 45 are identified to undergo this process. CUMI has to its credit 4 of its management staff among a select list of 26 for the year 2003.
• HR policy on higher education encourages employees for expanding their learning horizon in India and abroad.

CUMI Learning Centre (CLC) The ability to learn purposefully from our past and from our work and to work and to foster the learning of one another have become critical business skills. These skills are shared and developed across all levels of the organisation. With this objective CUMI Learning Centre was established. This facility is used extensively for team learning activities like CFT, SGA, seminars and conventions.

Company wide training for initiatives like TQM, Business Excellence Model, TPM, Lean Manufacturing was imparted from 1999 onwards.

Employee industrial visit to companies with best practices with a view to implement the learnings. Employees have been sent to key customers like MICO, SKF, Maruti Udyog Ltd., Tata Motors, IP Rings and Rane to understand customer expectations and our product application.

CUMI took the first step in conceptualising and activating the Train the Trainer concept. The Functional Heads of the Abrasives Division were identified and were taken through a 4 day rolling out process. The trainers were given inputs on essentials of training through NIS-Sparta and were facilitated by an external agency.