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| Leadership Development Programme (LDP) |
On joining, all students go through the LDP, which is a unique programme based on 360-degree feedback and introspection. It inculcates a spirit of team play and leadership through a series of lectures, discussions, workshops and group practice sessions. Essential skills for leadership like effective listening and communication, presentation, team building, assertiveness and problem solving are developed. Students learn the technical skills, emotional intelligence and cognitive abilities required of a leader.
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The LDP focuses on individual growth through a three-fold approach of self-reflection, peer evaluation and facilitator intervention. Leadership development is most effective when change is backed by assessment and support. And change itself is to come out of your comfort zone and learn from new experiences. The programme has been carefully designed with these goals in mind. Its four main features are:
- A 360-degree assessment
- An opportunity to review 360-degree feedback with a designated facilitator, and develop individual plans for leadership development
- A series of experiential skill-building workshops in small groups on different themes: Working in Teams; Business Presentations; Interpersonal Skills; Influencing Skills; and Business Problem Solving
- Follow-up 360-degree review after about six months – based on feedback from fellow students
All these are facilitator-intensive to maximise feedback and support.
360-degree assessment
360-degree or multi-rater feedback uses carefully structured questionnaires to systematically collect opinions about a person’s behaviour/ performance from 6 or 7 people- like workplace superiors, colleagues and subordinates- who have valuable perspectives on the person's strengths and areas of development. The feedback is ready by the start of the programme for distribution to the individual students during the session. The feedback is directly sent by the rater to a central source and the individual receives an overall summary only. The feedback is not used for any evaluative purpose and the questionnaire is so designed that resistance to seeking and giving feedback is minimised.
The students are assigned to small learning groups with one designated coach. The coaches help students explore their feedback; develop personal goals based on the feedback they have received; and plan to take up challenges to strengthen their leadership capability.
After summarising the strengths and developmental areas, the individual is ready to move towards evolving a developmental plan. Usually one or two strengths and one or two developmental areas are chosen to work on. When these developmental plans are based on SMART objectives (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time based) and in writing, they are more likely to achieve the desired results.
Workshops
Students are offered experiential skill-building workshops during the week-ends over the first four terms. The themes include: Interpersonal Skills; Working Effectively in Teams; Presentation/ Communication Skills and Business Problem-Solving.
In these workshops, students learn skills such as, listening, asserting a point of view, presenting and facilitating, leading others and building personal assets.
As the groups go through a number of sessions and experiences together, the 360-degree feedback is repeated after four terms by obtaining feedback from the other members of the group. This helps the students in understanding how they are progressing with respect to their individual leadership development agenda.
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