Post Graduate Programme in Management

AY 2019-20 TERM: I - III

TITLE OF THE COURSE: LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP

CREDITS: 2
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Faculty Coordinators – a total of 12 faculty members will be needed to run the workshop

Name of the Faculty Faculty Block/ Room Email Telephone Number

No.
Prof. Shrihari Sohani C 110 shriharis@iimidr.ac.in +91-731-2439498
Prof. Amitabh Kodwani A 206 amitabhk@iimidr.ac.in +91-731-2439529

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This workshop is designed to develop essential Leadership skills among the participants of PGP-I.
Extant literature on leadership theories is diffuse with both “trait” and “state” approaches finding
support. In practice however, there exist certain universally accepted leadership qualities, like self-
awareness, interpersonal effectiveness, motivational abilities and crisis management among
others. The workshop will focus on some of these qualities and sensitize participants on essentials
of leadership. The workshop will adopt an experiential approach emphasizing participant-centric
pedagogies and will involve mentors selected from among PGP-II students.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The workshop aims to develop essential leadership skills among the participants and will focus on
emerging challenges of leaders in business organizations. The leadership development process
involves evaluating one’s own interpersonal skills and this course will allow participants to reflect
on their own styles and preferences and learn through a process of self-awareness. Essential
qualities of leaders that will be covered through this workshop include interpersonal skills,
communication (presentation / oratory) skills, audience captivation, emotional intelligence, crisis
management, and motivating team members. The workshop concludes by enabling participants to
put together a personal development plan.

Expected Learning Outcomes and Associated Measures

At the end of the course student is expected to accomplish the following learning outcomes (CLO).
Alignment of CLO with the Programme Level Goals & Objectives and Assessment of the learning
outcomes of the course is presented below.
PEDAGOGY/TEACHING METHOD:
The workshop will adopt an experiential approach emphasizing participant-centric pedagogies and
will involve mentors selected from among PGP-II students. Sessions can happen in the classroom or
in the field depending on the activities involved.

Mentors
The PGP office will invite applications from PGP-II participants who will take up mentorship roles in
the workshop. A committee constituted by the Director / Chair (PGP) will select mentors from
among the applications received.

Each PGP-II participant who is selected will be assigned one group of 12-13 (divided into 3 groups
of 4/5 participants each for a few activities) participants as his/her mentee group. The mentor will
guide the group through the various activities in the workshop. Each mentor will conduct 10
sessions with the mentee group allotted to him / her. The 10 sessions will be spread through the
course of the academic year and will be scheduled by the PGP office. The mentors will also grade
the assignments conducted during the workshop and give a detailed written feedback to each
mentee on several pre-decided parameters like communication skills, crisis handling, motivational
abilities etc. The mentor is expected to maintain notes with the performance and development
areas of each mentee. These notes and report will be shared with the faculty supervisor. Mentors
are expected to observe the behavior of mentees in and outside the classroom.

Each mentor will be awarded 2 credits (workshop type) in the 6th term of the PGP.

Faculty Supervisor/Guide
Each faculty supervisor will be allotted upto 5 mentors (PGP-II) and hence can be supervising upto
60-65 PGP-I participants. The faculty supervisors will conduct 4 to 5 meetings with the mentors and
respective mentee group in which they will review progress of the participants and provide
feedback to the mentors. The faculty supervisor will be required to attend at least one class room
session with each mentor group. The faculty supervisors will award the grades at the end of the
workshop to the mentors as well as mentee group.

EVALUATION WEIGHTAGE
Review paper 50%
Crisis management assignment 50%
Total 100%

SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS

MODULE I Basics of leadership

MODULE OBJECTIVE
Understand the various perspectives of leadership and explore one’s own leadership preferences.

SESSIONS AND OBJECTIVE

Sessions 1 : Leadership theories and styles
Objective: To discuss different leadership theories
Case discussion : A tale of two managers
Session 2: Self awareness
Objective: To enable the participants to understand their own preferences with respect to
leadership styles
Inventory / activity: LEAD

MODULE II Essential Leadership skills

MODULE OBJECTIVE
To discuss essential leadership qualities like presentation and oratory skills, crisis management,
motivational abilities, giving and receiving feedback

SESSIONS AND OBJECTIVE

Session 3 : Oratory skills and audience captivation
Objective : To enable the participants to gauge their own abilities in engaging audiences
Extempore presentation: Each participant will make a 5 minute extempore on a topic that is
assigned in the class

Session 4: Crisis management

Objective : To involve the participants in a situation of crisis and seek appropriate responses
Case / Activity : Crisis situation (Nestle, Malaysia Air, Cipla etc.)

Session # 5: The Dos and Don'ts of leadership

Objective: Discuss various facets of leadership
Group discussion: on "What a leader should not do"

Session # 6: Motivating a team

Objective: Experience the challenges of motivating people
Exercise / Inventory: Group exercises

MODULE III Learning from Leaders

MODULE OBJECTIVE
To discuss leadership qualities through discussion about exemplary illustrations. A variety of
pedagogical tools like book reviews, group-led discussions, interactive debates and summary
discussions.

Session 7: Seven habits of highly effective people

Objective: To understand qualities of effective people management and leadership
Presentation: by Group # 1 on the book

Session 8: Building great organizations

Objective : To understand how leaders build great organizations through a discussion of the book
Maverick
Presentation by Group # 2 on the book Maverick

Sessions 9: Learning from successful leaders

Objective: Understanding what makes great leaders through different success stories
Presentation by Group # 3 on the Autobiography of Lee Iacoca
Session 10 : Learning from successful leaders
Objective: Understanding what makes great leaders through different success stories
Presentation: by each group on the Leadership qualities of any one business leader (Jeff Bezos,
Howard Schultz, Larry Page, Warren Buffet, Ratan Tata, Rahul Bajaj, N R Narayanamurthy)

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