WOMEN INLEADERSHIPProgramme DirectorVasanthi Srinivasan

09-11 January, 2012

In the last decade, Corporate India has witnessed a growing number of women in the middle and senior levels. Many of these women are at positions in the leadership hierarchy where they may require support to be able to move into the top management roles. During this period of career advancement, women experience challenges that are personal, organizational or societal. It is during this phase that women’s identity, her career orientations and the organizational policy enable her to stay in the workforce. Ensuring that senior women create meaningful opportunities for themselves and their organizations is one of the key drivers of this program.

Objectives• Strengthen the capacities of women

in their roles as professionals in organizations

• Build strong support and coaching networks that they can leverage later on in their lives

• Strategies for managing change and new initiatives effectively within organizations

• Enable women to develop a personal roadmap for themselves as they progress in their careers

At the end of the programme, the participants will be asked to commit to one personal change agenda which will be tracked for a period of 6 months post the programme.

Contents• On being a leader

• Discovering oneself: theatre in action

• Mentoring and women

• Decision making and leadership

• Execution: the heart of leadership

• Developing a personal vision

PedagogyConceptual inputs on leadership, women and influence in organizations will be provided. The programme will be in workshop format consisting of theatre exercises, cases, inventory and discussions.

Target Participants’ ProfileSenior women leaders holding senior managerial positions in organizations with professional life experience of about 15 years and above.

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

Vasanthi SrinivasanOrganizational Behaviour & Human Resources Management

Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan is a Fellow in Management from IIM Bangalore and Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur. Prior to joining IIMB, she worked at Wipro Ltd. and The P&P Group, a consulting firm. Her research interests are in the field of Career and Performance Management, International Human Resource Management and Women Professionals in the IT sector. She has been involved in designing and delivering leadership development programmes for senior leaders in India and abroad.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMMESIIMB

EXECUTIVEEDUCATION PROGRAMME

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has been recognized as the No. 1 Business School in Central Asia by Eduniversal, a French Consultancy Group for three consecutive years. IIMB has obtained the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation awarded by the European Founda-tion for Management Education (EFMD). Established in 1973, IIMB today offers a range of post-graduate and doctoral level courses as well as executive education programmes. With a faculty body from amongst the best universities worldwide, IIMB is fast emerg-ing as a leader in the area of management research, education and consulting. IIMB’s distinctive feature is the strong focus on leader-ship and entrepreneurial skills that are necessary to succeed in today’s dynamic business environment.

Executive Education at IIMBExecutive Education at IIMB is designed to offer “Next Generation” programmes focused on the development of practicing managers and professionals. Our programmes seek to enhance competence in critical thinking, analysis, decision making and communication in a global business environment. In order to provide sharp focus, IIMB Executive Education Programmes are consciously designed only for executives and managers in senior and middle level management. A certificate of participation will be awarded by IIMB to participants attending these programmes.

To cater to the needs of industry and practicing managers, IIMB offers a variety of programmes:

Open Programmes, which are a mix of general management and specialized programmes based on faculty research and expertise across various disciplines. These are open to participants from different organizations. General management open programmes are designed to integrate knowledge from diverse functional areas

into overall organizational strategy and develop the participant’s general management skills. Specialized programmes focus on updating and refining the skills of functional specialists. In open programmes, participant diversity contributes significantly to cross-learning and provides continuing networking opportunities beyond the classroom. These programmes are held at IIMB campus.

For more information on IIMB Open Programmes, please write to openpro@iimb.ernet.in

Customized Programmes offered by the Institute are designed to meet the specific training needs of client organizations. The Institute partners with client organizations to understand their needs and designs courses specific to them. ‘Action Learning’ is one of the distinctive elements of the programmes we design and conduct for corporate partners, in which company personnel study live challenges facing the company and generate solutions under the guidance of the institute faculty. The purpose of Action Learn-ing is to achieve simultaneous individual as well as organizational learning with a view to make things happen post-training.

For more information on IIMB CustomizedProgrammes, please write to edp@iimb.ernet.in

International Programmes are open / customized programmes that provide a platform for experiential learning and interaction in a global milieu. These programmes are offered by IIMB in partnership with leading international schools and many provide the opportunity to study abroad, providing diversity as well as access to global manag-ers.

For more information on our InternationalProgrammes, please write to us atedp@iimb.ernet.in

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