LEAD LEadership Program_2015
Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2015 by LEAD
LEAD LEadership Program_2015
The LEAD Leadership
Program (LLP) is a ten days long unique residential Camp, it emphasizes
practical exposure over classroom learning. The Leadership Program combines
hands on learning experience in understanding practically leadership, team
building, critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurial mindset through
inspiring guest speaker sessions, individual mentorship, activities, leadership
actions and live exposure visits to industries and community based
organizations in order to foster practical, critical and creative thinking
ability within the students.
We know that the
Leadership Program has the potential to not only educate, but to transform
students which has touched around. LLP aims to help students become strong leaders through practical
exposure to an array of subjects, site visits, and guest speaker sessions.
Yoga
Sessions
Yoga is an ancient art based on a
harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit. The continued
practice of yoga will lead you to a sense of peace and well-being, and also a
feeling of being at one with their environment. Each day of LLP use to begin
with warming up exercise and a yoga session in the morning from 6'0 Clock
to 7:30 from various mentors like Mr. Ajay Suman Shukla – Team Leader for LEAD
and one session in each batch by Mr. Vivek Pawar – CEO of Sankalp Semi Conductors
which was followed by the session on questioning and answering which encourages
students to ask all the silly questions that they have without any hesitation
and fear.
Kalkeri Sangeeta Vidyalaya (KSV)
KSV provides an academic and musical education, in
addition to food, accommodation, health and care for 300+ underprivileged
children. LLP LEaders had different activities in KSV like eco walk, community
activities, and walk through the school to know the system of music, team
building activities, interaction with the kids, performances by kids and many
more.
LEaders have truly enjoyed the stay at KSV especially the love and affection by children. The LEaders realised that adjusting with what we have and being happy with what we get will lead us to happy life.
Guest Speaker sessions
Anuradha Raghavendra Rao: Smt. Anuradh is a
traditional painter of Warli and Madhumani painting. She started her business
in the year of 2000; initially, she did warli painting on dresses receiving a
good response from customers. With this she earned more than Rs.2000/- a month.
Gradually, she started to make Warli and Madhumani painting on stoles, kurthis,
silk and cotton sarees. Her customers increased from 200 to 2000 customers.
Hemavati: is a B.Sc graduate, has been producing highly
nutritious and tasty food products using millets, ragi, and sugar substitutes since 2005. Geared towards providing
diabetics and health conscious individuals with delicious treats, Hemavati faces competition against
branded companies and has a limited supply of millet-based products to meet her
business's high demand. In order to expand into a thriving enterprise, Hemavati required business
mentorship and marketing training which Navodyami provided. She has already invested some
amount in her business and plans to invest more in technology.
Mike Kellmen: Mike is a PR specialist at Deshpande
Foundation he is responsible for new, innovative media, PR strategy creation as
well as implementation. Also he does web/graphic design, content writing and
event organization. He has completed his education in film studies, cinema,
film analysis, cinematography as well as communication and PR management at
Latvia, Boston, London. He has worked in various European countries (Italy,
Latvia, UK), as well as in Uganda, Africa and in India.
Dhairya Pujara: Dhairya Pujara is the Founder, CEO
for Ycenter - a higher education social innovation enterprise. With Ycenter, he
is creating community centered projects in Africa and India in the fields of
healthcare and education. He started his first e-commerce company in India at
the age of 19. Dhairya is a "Global Shaper" chosen by World Economic
Forum's Philadelphia Hub Community. He has been a global TEDx organizer,
blogger at Huffington Post and a public speaker on entrepreneurship and
international development. Dhairya has been invited as a speaker at Wharton,
Drexel, Temple, Rutgers, Social Innovation World Forum and more.
Manjunath Pujar: Mannjunath Pujar is a Propritor of Shree Matha Nutrifoods
manufacturing Ragi based Supplementary and Nutritious food since 2002. He is
mentoring budding entrepreneurs on Marketing, quality management also giving
strategic information about business development.
Vidya Gurav: Vidya Gurav is a Proprietor, completed
B.sc and started her pickle manufacturing business 7yrs and she named it as JB
Pickles, the monthly turnover is nearby 2 Lakh rupees.
Vivek Pawar: Vivek is the founder and architect of
Sankalp. He founded Sankalp in 2005 and has led the company as CEO through its
start-up phase and transitioned the leadership at the scale-up mode. He enjoys
industry thought leadership for his visionary approach, leadership skills and
for his Analog-Mixed Signal technology leadership. 
Sharing by Aarya Vishwanath Hallikeri
Active leaders shared their LEAD journey– Mr. Aarya, social media intern and Yuva Summit 2014 awardee expressed his personal and his team growth and Leaders like Akhilesh from Laxmeshwar, Makaranda from Hubli, Rohan of Belagaum location and Mamta from Davangere location and several others shared their journey with LEAD which made them feel the platform that LEAD is giving to the young students.
Gender Module session
Gender word seems so simple but in reality it is so
complicated at certain situations in day to day life, to sensitize the
participants of the issues relating to gender and to enhance their capacity to
understand, analyse and utilise gender dimensions session was engaged to the
LLP students by Ajay Suman Shukla Functional Head of LEAD with the purpose to
Promote gender as a priority concern in development planning and
implementation, to raise participants’ awareness on how gender plays a key role
in the way women and men participate in social, political and economic
activities. LEaders had various activities like answering the questionnaire,
group discussions, debate on the topic whether it a boy or a girl who plays an
important role which helped them to participate actively and also made them
realize the importance of both as per the situations and different walks of
life.Community activities:
LEaders were given the challenge to utilise the
leadership qualities that they had learnt. The group of every batch was divided
into several groups and were asked to collect the grains to support Akshaya
Patra which helped them in understanding the mindset of various people and how
as a LEader they need to act and plan the strategies to achieve the outcome.
LEaders also collected clothes and also raised funds which will be handed over
to the KSV students.
Leadership Module
Session on Leadership module is engaged for the students in order to make them understand; who is Leader? Where Leadership starts? What is Leadership? Etc. To give them a deep sense of categorising a LEader, the students were given with the pictures of great personality and were asked to rank them as per the Leadership qualities after which they were questioned the reasons and were then told that every individual has a different leadership qualities and each leader has his or her own unique approach.
The Leadership module also helped them in
understanding self and understanding others which is important for them to
handle different people at their respective college. There were different set of activities through which they realized the true meaning of leadership. Students are super excited and are confident enough in achieving the action plan that they had prepared. Media Session:
Photography is a passion for most of the youngsters
as it treasures the memories and the moments that are gone. Shashi from Media
team first asked them to throw questions on photography which made them open up
and then explained them about various cameras, settings, effects and the ways
of using camera. The students were given with the live examples about each and
everything that was taught due to which students actively participated in the
session.
Creativity:
The creativity is within you. Looking differently is
creativity. Doing something new is creativity. Exposing what is within you is
creativity. LEaders were amazed with the activities that were planned for them as it was a new ball game to them. Abhishek from LEAD Davangere introduced to them about creativity and then engaged them in making the normal articles like wood pieces, pine cones, lids of the bottle, wood pieces and many more to creative materials after which the students were asked to sell the materials in order to have them experience the convincing skills and to increase their confidence level by selling their own created articles. Each and every individual were amazed and surprised after they got to know about their own hidden talents.
Design Thinking workshop:
The session was introduced to the third batch LLP
by Niranjan as most of them were graduates from engineering field. With the
intention to create a mindset of becoming entrepreneurs the workshop was
engaged for two days where the students understood the process of knowing the
people and then designing a prototype. The students were then divided into 5
groups and were asked to visit Hospital, Bus transportation, Means of
Transportation, Railway station and food cafeterias to identify the problems as
per the method taught to them which students successfully completed it and
presented them with the solutions.
Communication and IT Sessions:
Communication is very important in the present
generation. The sessions started with activities on communication skills
by Mrs Aditi on Presentation skills, importance and means of communication,
email drafting and resume writing. Students were given an opportunity to create
Email id, importance of effective emailing, resume writing and its importance.
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 IT sessions, they learnt
how to create accounts and effectively use sites such as facebook and
Gmail. Students also learnt about important computer programs like
Microsoft Word, excel and PPT.
Team Building activities
During the camp, students encountered a variety of hands-on activities, in-depth readings, personal reflections, group discussions, and opportunities to have your own adventurous experiences. 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 balloon and Juguja, Birthday line up, Queen of Sheeba, Series of numbers, identifying each other’s names and lot more activities were engaged by Guru Siddayya, Sunil Bargundi, Bhargavi, Sanmati from LEAD Team.
Exposure visits
LEADers visited Akshay Patra and witnessed Asia’s biggest kitchen and they were given an opportunity to taste the food prepared. The system of cooking food in large quantity was witnessed by them. The students later travelled to Agastya Foundation at Akshaya Plaza and studied about low cost science based models and their system of reaching out to students in order to teach kids about science very easily. The students later visited Navodyami store and purchased the handicrafts also understood how the entrepreneurs from small scale industries have grown up with all the ups and downs and are stable with their business now.
Graduation ceremony
The
celebration to remark the success of LLP on the last day of every batch is a
combination of joy, sadness and pride feeling of learning new things and a
fresh start. The students executed their talents by performing them the last
day like dancing, mimicry, enactment, sharing and the award ceremony for the
successful completion of LLP with the hope of fresh beginning, new start and
promises to become an able leader in imparting the knowledge gained with others
and also in achieving new heights as a LEader.
Achievements:
- LEaders after the visit to KSV were touched and moved by the affection and the urge to learn more and more so the students decided to collect the funds and through which they have raised Rupees 11,385/- and have given it to the administration at KSV.
- The collective amount that was earned after selling out the materials of creativity was amounted to rupees 14,341/- which will be utilised for further activities of LEaders.
- 2023 Kgs of Grains were collected during the community activities which is being given to Akshaya Patra and also to KSV.
LEader Akhilesh from Laxmeshwar shares his feeling after attending the camp.
"Finally the day had come where I had the opportunity of
being a part of LLP – 15 camp. For which I had been waiting since a long period
of time. As I had heard number of experiences and learning from my senior
leaders about this most awaited camp, I was pretty excited and full of fervour
for the camp to commence.
LEader Chandana Abhisha from Davangere sharing her feelings about LLP.
"Learning happens in schools too but in LEAD its quite
unique.Things here are taught practically, that too in simple routine
activities. It is remarkable that,transformations were awarded and
appreciated. The greatest learning from the camp was, don't ever run in the race
of life, just go where your passion lies and it will never let you fall. Life is all about being happy"
157 LEaders from 5 states were trained and mentored in four different batches of LLP 2015 who will be the leading examples to the other youngsters of their respective locations and would take LEAD to the next level with their zeal and passion in creating more leaders with a bigger impact.
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