LEAD Leadership Program: June 2014 Batch
Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by LEAD
A program
was organized for 28 undergraduates from 10 colleges of Hubli/ Dharwad/ Chikodi/ Sirsi/ Bijapur/ Jamkhandi
region. From June 7th to June 16th, 2014 students participated in the Deshpande
Foundation’s LEAD Leadership Program. LLP aims to help students become
strong leaders through practical exposure to an array of subjects, site visits,
and guest speaker sessions. The Program began with sharing expectations from
LLP, framing committees, grouping, ice breaking and self introduction of
participants.
Yoga Session
Day
use to begin with Warming up exercise and Yoga
session in the morning by 6'0 Clock by Mr.Chandrashekar,Facilitator. On 16th June Mr. Vivek Pawar, CEO, Sankalp Semi Conductor engaged
session on Yoga and interacted with young minds which inspired them about his
perspective success and leadership.
Creative thinking
Students
have prepared 3 D model on rain water harvesting ,protection of historical
monuments, LEAD tower during the ice breaking session. In next session a
platform was created to Students to think out of box, be creative
and present using stage. Students were themselves amazed for idea presenting in
the form of skit, drama and mime by given key words like Clock, water, pen,
Bullock cart, cat and Newspaper. The sessions were continued by business
plan presentation in KSV. Students were given divided into teams and asked to
present their innovative and creative product launch like cooling cap, insect
trapper, organic farming, multi solar device etc. At the end of the program
students made best of waste models like paintings on used glass bottles, warli
art, pictures,craft out of reuse plastic bottles etc and displayed them in
creative corner in closing ceremony.
Most
excited part was My story sharing by Rajan Patel, Stanford University,
this gave a platform for exchange of thoughts on education, culture, life
style, passion and motivation. At Stanford, he founded and led several student
groups on design, engineering, and innovation in addition to being an active
tutor to students in the community. His passion to build things and empower
people to be makers and problem solvers themselves has persisted and grown ever
since.
First session was handled by Mrs. Neelam
Maheshwari, Director of GRANTS, Deshpande Foundation shared her experience
and expressed about working on things which really makes us happy. Her
motivational words made release about Gender. Madam is the real role model
for youths to prove their ability. She inspired girl students to work
equally to men.
Next
Most exciting part was interactive session with Mr. Naveen, CEO, Deshpande
Foundation. He expressed students to be a positive thinker, double up
energy with new thoughts everyday. His view on Leadership - Leadership is a
initiative to start up an idea with value based, then it builds leadership
quality step by step which will lead to move ahead in venture.
Leaders
also interacted with Jenelle Sobey, Social Innovation Manager, Pond Deshpande
Centre Canada about Social Innovation and Pond Deshpande Centre
activities.
Development
Dialogue speaker, Mr Shankar Gouda created a good platform to have a
interactive session on organic farming. Micro Entrepreneur Mr. Irranna
Hombalemath engaged a session on Business development. And shared his story
of successful business.
Media
content writing
session was handled by Sanjeev Kulkarni, Program Manager he shared procedure of
Press release and letter to editor. Media and Digital Photography
workshop was handled by Gaurav Pandey.Knowing myself by doing something topic
was covered by Mr.Prashant Deshpande and students enjoyed group activities.
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Master
Leaders sharing
Active
leaders shared their LEAD journey–Mr.Aarya ,YS 2014 Project awardee
,Social Media Intern expressed his personal and his team growth and Leader Asha sharing her Entrepreneur
journey of Asha Enterprises.The day ended by leader sharing from
Naveen, YS 2014 awardee of Ground water recharge project.
Modules
on Creative Leadership
Mr.Vikram Patil engaged session on Leadership students got
to know Who is Leader? Where Leadership starts?
What is Leadership? Mental model from DAC module, activities and 6 LEADership approaches i.e Affiliative,
Visionary, Coaching,
Directive, Collaborative, Pacesetting.Miss.Geeta
Hegde engaged session on Social identity and at last with team
building activities to understand the individual behavior/Team behavior.
Communication and IT Sessions
Sessions started with
activities on communication skills by Mrs Aditi and followed
by IT Session. Students were given an opportunity to create Email
id ,effective email. Dos and Donts of email writing. Resume writing and its
importance. The sessions ended in submitting resume in soft copy
through the same email which was created in the morning. She stressed more on
body of email content and effective resume writing. Students learned and
practiced many important skills that will benefit them in their personal and
professional development. In their IT sessions, students learned how to
create accounts and effectively use sites such as Facebook and Gmail.
Students also learned about important computer programs like as Microsoft Word ,
Flyer designing.
Experiential learning
During
the camp, students encounter a variety of hands-on activities, in-depth
readings, personal reflections, group discussions, and opportunities to have
your own adventurous experiences. At the end of the camp.They were able to Understand how groups develop and what you could do when,
in order to make experiences more meaningful and Know more about what drives
learning, the elements that support it, and what you could do to make
experiences more joyful, and managing emotions – the gateway to learning. Students
tasted the energizer like passing the baloon and Juguja. Birthday line up
and Key punch, Pipe and Marble,The big
puzzle and Structure -Team Building activities were engaged by Mrs.Deepashree
Ram Mohan,Program Manager and Mr.Vikram Patil,Program Co ordinator.
Exposure visits
LEADers
visited Akshay Patra and witnessed Asia’s Biggest kitchen and they were
given an opportunity to taste the food prepared. Then later moved their
visit to Agasyta International Foundation,that made them really
inspire by sparking creativity in preparing low cost science models.Next
visited BAIF. Both the farmers explained their achievements with BAIF
support about the processes involved in changing the dry and unproductive land
into lush green and productive wadi. Visitors are much impressed with the tree
based farming system. They understood the concept of soil and water
conservation, incorporation of trees with crops, fodder on bunds and
integration of livestock to increase the land fertility and income through
milk. Visitors are convinced about the recycling of nutrients in wadi mode.On the way to
Deshpande foundation campus leaders visited Rain water harvesting model
near Shiggoon.
Closing ceremony
The
program began by 5:00 PM on 16th June in presence of Mr.Rajan Patel,
Stanford University and Mr. Ajay Suman Shukla, Functional Head,LEAD .Leader
Bhagyashree welcomed the gathering followed by welcome song by Laxmi. During
the program students shared their learning experience. Students performed
Bharatnatyam ,Kathakalli and Sitar Musical instrument which they have learn't
during their visit to Kalakeri Sangeeth Vidyalaya. At last program ended by
certificate distribution and cake cutting ceremony.MOC was handled by
Priyanshi and Rohit.
Leader Akshatha
of Sirsi says she is inspired by sessions and exposure visits which have made
her open up and increase her confidence level. She wanted to take many more
projects in LEAD and prove her LEAD journey.
The first participant Bhagyashree says "Today is a most exciting day to meet new friends, learn new things and to explore LEAD program".A leader who never opened at college was able to deliver welcome speech in closing ceremony.
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