Making leaders

B-SCHOOL: ZONE

IIM Calcutta will hold a programme on "Leadership in the 21st Century". The programme will explore leadership dimensions that are result oriented, customer centric, entrepreneurial and innovative to help leaders to analyse their own performance with practical insights, new cases, concepts and action steps.

The workshop will enable participants develop a confident and self aware leadership style that is genuine and in accordance with their own capacities, personality, style and organisation.

Coach: C. Panduranga Bhatta
Players: Senior and middle level executives in public and private sector industries, multinational companies who have leadership responsibilities over either people or processes or are in line for promotion to such positions.

CEOs of family-owned business houses and consultants in the area of human resource management and organisational development, administrators and executives in responsible positions.

The programme will be held at the IIM-C campus from August 21-24, and fee is Rs 24,000 per participant.

Sensitising companies

IIM Indore will organise a programme in 'Corporate Social Responsibility'. The programme aims to sensitise participants to wards issues related to CSR, to apprise the participants of the dynamics of the projects and to expose the participants to the models on the ground.

Coach: Prof. Abha Chatterjee
Players: Senior Executives from corporates and institutions which have responsibilities or would be expected to take charge of CSR activities in their respective organisations.

The programme will be held at the IIM-I campus from July 19-20 and the fee is Rs 8,000 (residential) per participant.

Financial decisions

IIM Lucknow will hold a programme on 'Financial Decision Making' to update managers about the recent thinking in financial management so that they can improve their ability in making financial decisions in today's complex financial environment.

The programme aims at building understanding of the central ideas and theories of modern finance, to develop familiarity with the analytical techniques helpful in financial decision making, to develop a skill to understand, analyse and interpret financial problems and data to make good financial decision.

Coach: Prof. Madhusudan Karmakar
Players: Executives, middle level managers in corporate sector, finance managers.

The programme will be held at IIM-L campus from August 21-25. Fees: Rs 30,250 per person.

Leadership for techies

IIM Bangalore will hold a programme on 'Leadership Training for Software Professionals'.

The programme is specifically designed for software professionals to sensitise them to their surroundings and make them aware of their aspirations, values and vision and the impact of their interpersonal behaviour on their managerial effectiveness.

It will further help in developing skills in effective team working and group decision-making and will also focus on issues involved in creating a culture to facilitate knowledge management.

Coach: Profs. Narendra M. Agrawal / Vasanthi Srinivasan
The programme will be held at IIM-B campus from July 05-07, 2006.
Fees: Rs. 30,000 (residential) and Rs 22,000 (non- residential).

Marketing strategy for competition

I SB, Hyderabad will conduct a programme on 'Marketing Strategies in Competitive Environment' to develop competitive marketing strategies and create superior customer value .

Coach: Dipak Jain and Jagmohan Raju
Players: CEOs, senior marketing executives.

The programme will be held at the ISB campus from June 28"�July 1 and the fee is Rs 1,50,000 or US $ equivalent.