Followership : A Leadership Workshop @ MindTree

Conducted a Leadership Workshop at MindTree Limited
Initiative of Dept. of Comp Sc. Christ University and Data Warehousing Practice, MindTree
Date : 21 - Jan -2010
Participants : 18 Employees with 2+ years of experience
Agenda

• Followership
• Self Belief
• IPS
• Getting Buy In / Selling Ideas
• Leadership Traits
• Career Plan / Organisation Alignment

Conducted some different kind of activities to make participants realise the importance of many of these areas.
One question which was raised by Bragga was that can leadership can actually be trained ? A very good question , I feel that my one day workshop is not meant to teach you leadership but make you appreciate the importance of it and make one see where they stand currently on the different expected traits.

Coming back to the question asked, yes I feel leadership can be trained but like most skills it needs to be honed, a mentor to guide and experiences and time to actually ripen

Dipanjan M faciltated the Career Planning / Growth Session. His frank and clear point of view was very refreshing. He highlighted the need for individuals to align to organisation goals on the same hand he shared that anybody in the DWH leadership team would be more than willing to help individuals to reach their career goals.

Sincere thanks to Pavan, Lijosh in helping to organise it.

I will post any feedbacks I get on this blog

Big Enough

Lyrics by Chris Rice

Context : One of my favorite hymns

None of us knows and this makes it a mystery

If life is a comedy, then why all the tragedy?
Three and a half pounds of brain try to figure out
What this world is all about
And is there an eternity Is there an eternity?

God if You're there I wish You'd show me
And God if You care then I need You to know me
I hope You don't mind me asking the questions
But I figure You're big enough
I figure You're big enough


Lying on pillows we're haunted and half-awake
Does anyone hear us pray "If I die before I wake?"
Then the morning comes and the mirror's another place
Where we wrestle face-to-face
With the image of deity
The image of deity

When I imagine the size of the Universe
And I wonder what's out past the edges
Then I discover inside me a space as big
And believe that I'm meant to be filled up
With more than just questions