The team at Aidha was impacted by the insights gathered from the Emergenetics Profile, which revealed each individual’s thinking and behavioural preferences. The understanding of each other’s preferences has helped opened the door to improvement, and build a base for cultivating mutual understanding, communication and teamwork. The workshop was held to help the organisation achieve better employee communication and enhance their performance and efficiency at an individual and organisational level, with the aim to help prepare their managers to meet the organisation’s changing needs and challenges.

With this understanding, there are now opportunities to have more meaningful and effective conversations with not only each other, but also with the women they help on a day-to-day basis.

“…this has truly helped us adopt a more collaborative approach and use each other’s strengths effectively.”

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Sharda Vishwanathan, Volunteer & HR Manager

Ruchika is passionate about developing programmes that create synergistic success – through the alignment of people’s potential with business strategy. With her previous experiences spanning consulting and corporate roles in Human Resource and Business Development, Ruchika brings an understanding of business and its cross functional interfaces in her programme design and coaching conversations.

She has worked with Xander Investment Management, Hilton Hotels, The Taj Group of Hotels, Hewitt in India and Towers Watson in Singapore, as well as provide consultancy in industries such as Banking and Financial services, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG and the Public and Governmental sector.

Ruchika holds an MBA with specializations in Human Resource and Marketing from IMT, Ghaziabad in India. Prior to that, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics with Honors from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She is also accredited in a range of psychometric tools.

Aidha was formed in 2006 and has impacted over 2,700 foreign domestic workers and lower-income women in Singapore.

The organisation provides training programmes in financial literacy and self-development skills, such money management, computer literacy, leadership and entrepreneurial skills, so as to enable women to have more opsportunities and make better choices in the future. This has helped many of their students set up their own businesses and make productive investments in their home countries, providing more sustainable options for themselves, their families and their communities.

Their classes are run by a pool of over 200 volunteers who generously share their time and talents. They are highly skilled and talented professionals from many different cultures and backgrounds but are united with the common aim of doing good and giving back to society. With the skills-based volunteering opportunities created at Aidha, they can use the experience they already have to make a direct impact in a woman’s life.