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In January 2002, Godrej Industries Ltd. (GIL) bought a 26% stake in "Personalitree Academy Ltd." Personalitree provided interactive soft skills training programmers online to corporates. Personalitree's training modules have since been a part of Godrej's training and development initiatives. It all started in 1996 with the break-up of the joint venture between Godrej Soaps Ltd (GSL) and Proctor and Gamble (P&G). Post break-up, GSL was bereft of a distribution system and had to start from scratch. As part of the rebuilding exercise, GSL recruited about 250 new employees who had to be aligned with its corporate culture. In 1997, GSL conducted a Total Quality Management (TQM) workshop for all its 5000 employees to help them connect to their job. Parivartan 2 was launched in September 2000 in GSL to train new as well as existing employees on various aspects of the business and to motivate them. In 2001, new initiatives like Young Entrepreneurs Board (YEB), Red and Blue Teams, Mentoring and Reverse Mentoring were introduced in the Godrej Group, (Godrej) to encourage the involvement of youth in strategic decision-making. In early 2002, a need was felt among the top brass of Godrej to instil a performance- driven culture in the company. In addition to upgrading the talents of existing employees, Godrej had to train new recruits. Thus, Godrej developed a comprehensive and innovative training programme for management trainees and named it Godrej Accelerated Learning Leadership and Orientation Programme (GALLOP). The objective of GALLOP was to develop a newcomer into a professional by giving him or her exposure to various departments and inculcate in him or her, a sense of belonging. Later, in September 2002, GIL introduced Spark, a training programme for managers to help them become effective coaches. Towards the end of 2002, E-gyan was introduced in GIL to increase the learning potential of employees. In January 2003, a special HR programme on honing the interpersonal and negotiation skills of officer- level employees was launched in GIL. Further, in October 2003, an English language training programme was held for floor workers of Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd (GBML), so that they could follow all instructions issued in that language independently.