Of creative solutions & lessons in leadership

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 15

To brush up with the changing facets of leadership, Col Neelam, a training officer, NCC Group, Chandigarh, has registered for ‘Leadership 4.0-A retreat for high potential leaders’.

The workshop, designed and steered by IIM-Kozhikode Director Debashis Chatterjee, aims at equipping potential leaders with lessons that could empower them in the world bombarded with information. More than 100 professionals from various spheres — from doctors to armed forces — attended the session, organised by IIM-Amritsar, in Chandigarh on Saturday.

Prof Chatterjee used story-based moral building tools to stress that self awareness and emotional resonance were the hallmarks of a great leader. Planning to take the event to another 20 cities, he said the idea was to bring Indian leadership values to the centre stage of global management practice. “I advise the potential leaders to focus on their strength and the practice of undoing (disruptions). Let’s not cry over the past, we should drive (positives) from it.”

He said IIM-Amritsar will get a full-time director in three months.

For Col Neelam, the main takeaway from the exercise was how to align your life with your purpose and priorities and learn to innovate in the present, rather than chasing arbitrary targets and regretting failures.

Monica Sodhi, an HR head in an IT company, said the session was helpful as it underscored the importance of churning out multiple solutions to a problem in this machine world. “Prof Chatterjee rightly points out that technology only guarantees speed, it’s human thinking that governs action,” she said.